And for the entire weekend, which included three Tigers games and a Detroit Red Wings home game, the

And for the entire weekend, area hotel select car rental which included area hotel select car rental three Tigers games and a Detroit Red Wings home game, the economic impact for the city was between $13 million and $15 million, according to estimates from the Detroit Metro Convention Visitors Bureau.
A detailed breakdown of the formula used to calculate its estimate area hotel select car rental was not disclosed and may have been driven by what's known to sports economists as the "substitution effect" -- spending that replaces area hotel select car rental other spending in the city versus new spending purely on the Tigers. In other words, money spent on beer and merchandise at Comerica Park is money not being spent elsewhere downtown, area hotel select car rental or in other cities.
The Detroit Buffalo Wild Wings in Greektown marked its first Opening Day, and since the restaurant opened in December it "was the busiest day we've had so far," according to Dave Curtis, managing partner at the largest BWW in the country .
Curtis said Friday's final sales cashed in just shy of $60,000 - the third busiest day ever for BWW across all locations nationwide. The No. 1 single-day sales for the company is about $73,000, Curtis said.
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