The landmark Mirage Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas will close 17 July for a multi-year development project that will include a new Hard Rock Hotel resort that features a nearly 700-foot guitar-shaped hotel.
Once complete, the resort is expected to have 600 hotel rooms, 48,000 square feet of gaming area and 96,000 square feet of retail and restaurants at ground level.
In January 2023, Hard Rock International (HRI) received regulatory approval from the Nevada Gaming Commission for its acquisition of The Mirage Hotel & Casino from MGM Resorts International, for which it then paid over US$1 billion in cash.
The iconic Mirage, located in the middle of ‘the Strip’, was the world’s most expensive resort when it opened in 1989, at a cost of US$630 million, and its construction spurred a building boom throughout the 90s.
