The Mirage now has an official deadline, and it’s arising quick.
The Mirage virtually single-handedly transitioned Las Vegas from its shlocky previous to its five-star current. Now, the enduring on line casino resort is about to bear its personal transition. (Picture: travelnevada.com)
The Seminole Tribe of Florida, which operates the Las Vegas Strip on line casino resort, introduced on Tuesday that may shut the Mirage on July 17. That’s so it may be reworked into the brand new Arduous Rock Lodge & On line casino and Guitar Lodge Las Vegas. The primary Arduous Rock Las Vegas, situated off the Strip, was offered to billionaire Richard Branson and has operated as Virgin Motels Las Vegas since 2021.
The 36-story Arduous Rock guitar tower will dominate the Las Vegas Strip when it debuts. (Picture: Arduous Rock Worldwide through Nevada Gaming Management Board)
The Guitar Lodge might be a 700-foot-tall construction formed like a guitar. Clark County commissioners unanimously accredited of its development final March.
All rooms and present reservations bought for after July 14 might be canceled and refunded, in response to a press launch from the Seminole Tribe, which additionally notes that it’ll pay $80 million in severance packages to all workers who stay in the course of the transition.
The press launch didn’t estimate how lengthy the transition would take.
Astute observers might have estimated The Mirage’s deadline with cheap accuracy, since an inner memo from Cirque du Soleil revealed final month that “The Beatles LOVE” would completely shut on July 7 because of a renovation course of that, in response to the memo, “is about to begin.”
The Mirage might be fully gutted and remade by the Seminole Tribe, which bought the working rights to the enduring Strip on line casino resort from MGM Resorts in December 2022 for $1.1 billion.
It was initially reported that the property would stay open in the course of the transition.
Steve Wynn poses in entrance of The Mirage throughout its development. (Picture: livzey.com)
The Different Mirage Transformation
The Mirage was opened by on line casino mogul Steve Wynn in 1989 and is credited with reworking Las Vegas from a hub for schlocky leisure and cut price buffets right into a vacation spot for celebrity residencies and world-class eating, together with costs to match.
The Mirage turned referred to as the primary resort with a $100-per-ticket headliner, Siegfried & Roy, who additionally lent their model (and animals) to an on-property zoo.
Siegfried & Roy’s Secret Backyard and Dolphin Habitat completely closed final yr. In accordance with an inner memo saying the closure, all its dolphins, white tigers, white lions, and leopards can be positioned within the care of “well-trained, extremely revered animal care professionals and veterinary consultants.”
The particular particulars of most of the animal relocations had been by no means revealed.
Historic Karma
This rendering reveals the present Mirage in white and the Arduous Rock’s proposed guitar lodge in blue. It outlines a number of the many renovations the Arduous Rock is about to make. (Picture: Arduous Rock Worldwide through Nevada Gaming Management Board)
The Guitar Lodge will substitute The Mirage’s beloved volcano, certainly one of solely two remaining main free reveals on the Las Vegas Strip. The opposite is the Bellagio fountains, additionally created by Steve Wynn.
Although many view the volcano’s demolition as an affront to Las Vegas historical past, the attraction was a part of an extended line of historic indignities perpetrated on the identical website.
To construct the volcano, the final remaining Las Vegas Strip residence, a home owned by former vaudevillian actress Grace Hayes, needed to be demolished in 1987, together with a Mobil station constructed on the positioning of the Crimson Rooster, which in 1931 turned the very first licensed on line casino to function on what finally turned the Las Vegas Strip.
In different phrases, the guitar tower will rise from the ashes of the precise website the place the Las Vegas Strip was based.
