The Mirage, probably the most iconic casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, will shut its doorways on July 17 to make method for a more moderen, extra instrument-shaped lodge anticipated to open in 2027.
The megaresort, which was as soon as house to the largest poker video games in Las Vegas, has been a staple of the Strip for many years. The fireplace-erupting volcano out entrance the lodge and Secret Backyard tucked behind the property each made it one of many metropolis’s high sights.
These sights 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 method for the Laborious Rock Lodge & On line casino and Guitar Lodge Las Vegas.
Mirage staff members first realized 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 stay up for 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 instructed workers that they might be supported throughout the transition interval “with a number of for eligible staff members in addition to help with unemployment advantages and publicity to different employment providers.”
Shedding 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 had been regulars within the Nineties, shut down years earlier in 2020, considered one of many Vegas poker rooms that stopped enterprise throughout the COVID pandemic and by no means re-opened.
For the reason that pandemic, quite a few 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 form after the Seminole Laborious Rock Lodge & On line casino that was inbuilt South Florida in 2019. The 700-foot-tall Laborious Rock Lodge & On line casino and Guitar Lodge Las Vegas is predicted to open within the spring of 2027.
*Lead picture courtesy Freeimages.com.
