The Mirage, one of the iconic casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, will shut its doorways on July 17 to make approach for a more recent, extra instrument-shaped lodge anticipated to open in 2027.
The megaresort, which was as soon as house to the most important poker video games in Las Vegas, has been a staple of the Strip for many years. The hearth-erupting volcano out entrance the lodge and Secret Backyard tucked behind the property each made it one of many metropolis’s high points of interest.
These points of interest will quickly be relics of a previous Vegas. Two years after MGM Resorts Worldwide offered the Mirage to Laborious Rock Worldwide for $1.08 billion in money, the long-lasting lodge will shutter its doorways to make approach for the Laborious Rock Lodge & On line casino and Guitar Lodge Las Vegas.
Mirage workforce members first discovered in regards to the closure throughout a City Corridor assembly on Wednesday and later in a letter from Mirage President Joe Lupo, which was shared on social media.
“We look ahead to the start of an thrilling journey as Laborious Rock Las Vegas will ignite the Strip with leisure, innovation, and world-class hospitality; altering the panorama of the Las Vegas Strip, simply because the Mirage did in 1989,” wrote Lupo.
Lupo advised staff that they’d be supported in the course of the transition interval “with a number of for eligible workforce members in addition to help with unemployment advantages and publicity to different employment providers.”
Dropping an Iconic Poker Location
The closure of the Mirage is definitely a loss for poker gamers who discover themselves oft quoting Rounders and daydreaming about “Vegas and the f***in’ Mirage.”
However the fabled Mirage poker site, the place poker legends like Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, and Mori Eskandani have been regulars within the Nineteen Nineties, shut down years earlier in 2020, one among many Vegas poker rooms that stopped enterprise in the course of the COVID pandemic and by no means re-opened.
Because the pandemic, various Vegas properties have modified possession, together with the Laborious Rock, which turned Virgin Lodge when Richard Branson’s firm bought the resort.
The guitar-themed lodge would be the second of its sort after the Seminole Laborious Rock Lodge & On line casino that was in-built South Florida in 2019. The 700-foot-tall Laborious Rock Lodge & On line casino and Guitar Lodge Las Vegas is anticipated to open within the spring of 2027.
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