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FireKeepers Casino Hotel is a 236,000-square-foot (21,900 m²) casino and hotel in Emmett Charter Township, Michigan, between Battle Creek and Marshall. It is owned and operated by the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi. Construction began May 7, 2008,^[2] and the casino opened to the general public on August 5, 2009.^[1] Construction was a joint venture between Shingobee Builders and Clark Construction.^[3] The hotel and other additions opened in December 2012.

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The casino has 2,900 state-of-the art slot machines, and 76 table games, including blackjack, roulette, craps, big six and baccarat. It has five restaurants, including a buffet, and also a sports bar and cabaret. The gaming floor occupies 107,000 square feet (9,900 m²), and there are 3,000 parking spaces, 2,080 of them in a covered garage.^[4] Casino officials had more than 20,000 applicants for 1,500 positions before opening.^[5]

FireKeepers was developed by Gaming Entertainment Michigan (GEM), a joint venture of gaming operator Full House Resorts and real estate developer Robert Mathewson.^[6] From its opening, GEM signed an agreement to manage the casino through August 2016, receiving 26 percent of net income.^[6] The Nottawaseppi Huron Band bought out the agreement four years early for $97.5 million, and took over management in May 2012.^[7]

The casino advertises via a huge electronic sign on the I-94 freeway, the heavily traveled corridor between Detroit and Chicago. The sign is 50 ft (15 m) tall by 30 ft (9.1 m) wide by 8 ft (2.4 m) deep, and the total structure weighs more than 10 short tons (9,100 kg). The electronic display unit on the sign is 15 ft (4.6 m) tall by 22 ft (6.7 m) wide. It is double sided (there is one unit on each side of the sign), and each side has 43,000 full-color pixels. The sign can display 281 trillion colors, significantly more than the human eye can distinguish. Content is sent via wireless broad band communication from the casino marketing office. The sign uses energy-saving LED technology, and the cost of its energy consumption will be about $17.59 per day. More than 47,000 vehicles travel pass the FireKeepers Casino location daily, and the sign is expected to be seen by more than 66,000 persons each day.

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The tribe expanded the complex in 2012, completing construction and opening an eight-story, 243-room hotel in December of that year. The expansion included: a new grand lobby featuring a symbolic light totem, porte cochere, an event center, new restaurant, and smoke-free gaming area.^[8]

The tribe announced that FireKeepers Casino would sponsor the June 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Michigan International Speedway, now called the FireKeepers Casino 400.

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1. ^ ^ab'FireKeepers puts out welcome mat'. Battle Creek Enquirer. August 5, 2009.^{[dead link]}
2. ^'Construction Progress Report'. Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi. June 2008. Archived from the original on August 23, 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-22.
3. ^'Shingobee Builders Website'. Archived from the original on March 8, 2013. Retrieved December 12, 2013.
4. ^FireKeepers press release^{[permanent dead link]}
5. ^Hinkley, Justin A. (January 15, 2009). 'Casino starts taking applications Jan. 22'. Battle Creek Enquirer. Retrieved January 15, 2009.^{[dead link]}
6. ^ ^abFull House Resorts. 'Gaming Entertainment Michigan'. Archived from the original on January 24, 2013. Retrieved March 1, 2012.
7. ^Sieroty, Chris (February 29, 2012). 'Full House Resorts sells management contact for $97.5 million'. Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved March 1, 2012.
8. ^Jones, Al (December 12, 2012). 'FireKeepers Casino Hotel opening is latest step in long-term planning by Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi'. MLive. Retrieved December 14, 2012.

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Coordinates: 42°17′49″N85°04′30″W / 42.29701°N 85.07493°W

Some casinos in Michigan will shut down for three weeks beginning Wednesday due to a new statewide public health order.

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FireKeepers Casino Hotel in Battle Creek won't be among them.

FireKeepers is owned and operated by the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi. As one of 24 American Indian tribal casinos in Michigan owned by federally recognized sovereign nations and governed by the National Indian Gaming Commission, they do not fall under the jurisdiction of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services order announced on Sunday.

Under the new order, all Michigan high schools must move to remote learning, indoor dining has been shut down and people are mandated to work from home unless it's impossible to do so until at least Dec. 9. The order, aimed at limiting indoor social gatherings that health officials say contribute to the spread of COVID-19, also temporarily shuts down Detroit's three casinos.

'FireKeepers focus, since our June 1 reopening, is the protection of our guests and our 1,800 team members,' FireKeepers CEO Kathy George said in a release on Monday. 'We reopened under strict protocols designed to ensure that FireKeepers' business operations are not contributing to the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

'We are confident that the recent significant increase in the number of positive COVID-19 cases is not being influenced by FireKeepers’ operations because of the mitigation steps we have taken and which we continue to rigorously enforce. As a critical infrastructure of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi, FireKeepers will, for the time being, continue to operate under these strict protocols, but we will continue to vigilantly review these protocols in cooperation with health officials and the Tribe’s Gaming Regulators to determine if additional controls or actions are needed to support the effort to slow down the spread of this virus.'

According to the Centers for Disease Control, the virus that causes COVID-19 is primarily spread by respiratory droplets released when an infected person talks, coughs, or sneezes.

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FireKeepers has added a number of protocols including limits on the number of customers to no more than 20% of building occupancy; a ban on smoking on the property; reducing the number of gaming positions; prohibiting patrons from gathering on the gaming floor; and the temporary elimination of valet parking, hand-dealt poker, bingo and buffet dining.

FireKeepers, which has 1,800 employees, voluntarily closed amid the first statewide shutdown from March 16 until June 1. It was recently announced the casino will close to the public on New Year's Eve, from 3 p.m. on Dec. 31 until 7 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2021.

According to a report by the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, FireKeepers Casino Hotel has added $443 million in sales and $65 million in personal income to Calhoun County during the last decade.

Nick Buckley can be reached at nbuckley@battlecreekenquirer.com or 269-966-0652. Follow him on Twitter:@NickJBuckley

This article originally appeared on Battle Creek Enquirer: FireKeepers Casino Hotel to remain open amid state public health order