The hospitality and entertainment chain acquired The Mirage’s operations from casino giant MGM Resorts International in December for more than $1 billion in cash. Hard Rock officials were unavailable for an interview Tuesday, a representative said. It will “forever change the skyline of the Strip,” Lazovich added. The musical instrument-shaped project will be an “engineering masterpiece,” according to a letter to the county from project representative Jennifer Lazovich, land-use attorney with law firm Kaempfer Crowell.Īt 660 feet tall, the high-rise is designed to resemble back-to-back guitars with “brightly lit strings” and would feature floor-to-ceiling glass panes, she wrote in the letter dated March 1. Hard Rock has indicated it will renovate the existing 3,044-room hotel-casino and build a guitar-shaped tower along Las Vegas Boulevard, all part of its plan to turn The Mirage into a Hard Rock-branded resort.

The County Commission is scheduled on March 22 to consider Hard Rock International’s proposed 600-room high-rise at the already-massive resort, county records show. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal) County commissioners are slated this month to vote on a project that would change the landscape of the Strip: replacing The Mirage’s iconic volcano attraction with a guitar-shaped hotel tower. Owner Hard Rock International filed plans for the resort's renovation and new guitar-shaped hotel tower with Clark County. The Mirage on the Strip in Las Vegas Tuesday, March 7, 2023.

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