The Michigan-based owner of The D Las Vegas is spending $20 million to bring the hotel up to Vegas standards, and he's giving the establishment a Detroit theme.
Derk Stevens has signed a deal to install the first American Coney Island outside the state. TVs will be tuned to the games of Detroit's teams.
"If you are from Detroit, you are from the D, and I think it's a very popular name that people are proud of," Derek Stevens, 44, told Ellen Creager of the Free Press.
Stevens came up with the new moniker after buying the faded Fitzgeralds casino-hotel in downtown Las Vegas last September. He purchased the 638-room property from the estate of the late cable mogul Don Barden. Barden, also a Detroiter, had owned it since 2002 and even had a penthouse there.
