The theater will go from 3,278 theater seats to 6,265 and 18 food and beverage outlets to 21.Īllen said Hard Rock will replace one iconic feature - The Mirage volcano - with another - an all-suites tower in the shape of a guitar. The casino will be enlarged from 94,000 square feet to 174,000 square feet while the convention space will grow from 200,000 square feet to 283,000 square feet. When the resort expands, Allen said, it will go from 3,044 rooms as The Mirage to 3,640 rooms as the Hard Rock 836 slot machines to 2,000 and 51 table games to 212. “From that time, it will take three to four months to bid the drawings.” “Our design and construction should be done sometime next summer, in that July or maybe August period,” he said. 7 to the Nevada Gaming Control Board, Allen said Hard Rock doesn’t expect to begin renovations on The Mirage until 2024. In a two-hour hearing that duplicated much of the testimony presented Dec. “We are eager to finalize the purchase of The Mirage and look forward to welcoming the 3,500 team members to the Hard Rock family soon,” Allen said in a statement issued after the unanimous vote of approval. The transaction is expected to close Monday. The last thing that we want is for 3,500 employees to have uncertainty and as a matter of fact, as I testified in the previous hearing, we’ve actually extended the Beatles ‘Love’ show,” Allen added.įriday’s special meeting of the gaming commission was requested by Hard Rock to accommodate next week’s planned closing of the $1.08 billion sale of The Mirage from MGM Resorts International to the Florida-based Seminole Indian tribe, the owner of Hard Rock.

“But I want to go on the record, there is no closure. We will look at the construction schedule, we will look at the economy, whether there is or is not a recession and a year and a half from now or so probably would be the timeframe that we would evaluate what makes the most sense.

“There’s no intention at this time to close the building,” Allen said. 1, it’s important for us to go on the record, 100 percent, we are not closing the building,” Hard Rock International President and CEO James Allen said in testimony Friday to the Nevada Gaming Commission, which approved the licensing of Hard Rock International to operate The Mirage. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal) chief executive of Hard Rock International vowed Friday that the company will not close The Mirage as it guts the entire three-wing resort and invests billions of dollars to expand and upgrade the property.

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