The enduring Mirage hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip will shut its doorways this summer season, the top of an period for a property credited with serving to remodel Sin Metropolis into an ultra-luxury resort vacation spot.
The July 17 closure will clear the way in which for main renovations and development on the 80-acre property, which is to reopen in 2027 because the Laborious Rock Las Vegas, that includes a lodge tower within the form of a guitar hovering practically 700 ft above the guts of the Strip.
“We’d like to thank the Las Vegas community and team members for warmly welcoming Hard Rock after enjoying 34 years at The Mirage,” Jim Allen, chairman of Laborious Rock Worldwide, stated Wednesday in a press release asserting the closure.
It is going to be the second time this yr {that a} Strip on line casino shutters.
The Tropicana Las Vegas closed in April after 67 years to make room for a $1.5 billion baseball stadium deliberate as the long run house of the relocating Oakland A’s.
Developed by former on line casino mogul Steve Wynn, the Mirage opened with a Polynesian theme because the Strip’s first megaresort in 1989, spurring a constructing growth on the well-known boulevard by means of the Nineteen Nineties.
Its volcano fountain was one of many first sidewalk sights, predating the Venetian’s canals and the Bellagio’s dancing fountains.
It was often known as a venue the place vacationers may see Siegfried and Roy taming white tigers or a Cirque du Soleil act set to a Beatles soundtrack.
The ultimate curtain on the Beatles-themed present, which introduced Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr again collectively for public appearances all through its 18-year run, additionally comes down in July.
Laborious Rock Worldwide stated Wednesday that greater than 3,000 staff might be laid off and it expects to pay out $80 million in severance.
The Culinary Staff Union, which has represented about 1,700 staff on the Mirage because it opened, stated in a press release that the contract it gained final yr ensures laid-off employees will get $2,000 for every year of service.
The contract additionally offers them the choice of being referred to as again to work and sustaining their seniority when the lodge reopens.
“Culinary Union will continue to ensure workers are protected and centered in the property’s future,” the assertion stated.
The Mirage turned the primary Strip property to be run by a Native American tribe in 2022, after Laborious Rock Worldwide, which is owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida, bought it from MGM Resorts in a money deal value practically $1.1 billion.
Laborious Rock stated on the time that the property would stay open and function beneath the Mirage model for a number of years whereas it finalized renovation plans.
The Mirage is accepting no bookings for after July 14 and stated any reservations previous that date might be canceled and refunded.
