Mandalay Bay is a 43-story luxury resort and casino at the south end of the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned by Vici Properties and operated by MGM Resorts International. It was developed by Circus Circus Enterprises and completed at a cost of $950 million. It opened on March 2, 1999, on the former site of the Hacienda hotel-casino. MGM acquired Mandalay Bay in 2005, and The Blackstone Group became a co-owner in 2020. Vici acquired MGM's ownership stake in 2022 Mandalay Bay has a tropical South Seas theme and covers 120 acres (49 ha). It includes a 147,992 sq ft (13,748.9 m2) casino and 3,209 rooms. The 43-story tower includes a Four Seasons hotel, which has rooms on floors 35 through 39. It is managed separately from the Mandalay Bay hotel. In 1999, the Four Seasons became the first Las Vegas hotel to win the AAA Five Diamond Award.
Several additions opened in 2003, including the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, and a second hotel tower, THEhotel at Mandalay Bay. It has 1,117 rooms, and was renamed Delano Las Vegas in 2014. A shopping mall, Mandalay Place, was also added in 2003. Other features include a House of Blues club, the Shark Reef aquatic attraction, and an events center known as Michelob Ultra Arena. The resort also has an 1,800-seat theater, which has hosted several Broadway shows, including Chicago (1999-2000), Mamma Mia! (2003-2009), and The Lion King (2009-2011). Since 2013, the theater has hosted Michael Jackson: One.
In 2017, gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire from the hotel's 32nd floor, killing 60 people in attendance at an outdoor music festival nearby. It is the deadliest shooting by a lone gunman in U.S. history Mandalay Bay was built on the former site of the Hacienda hotel and casino at the southern end of the Las Vegas Strip. In 1995, Circus Circus Enterprises purchased the Hacienda for $80 million and an adjacent 74-acre (30 ha) site, directly south, for $73 million.[1] That June, plans were announced for a new resort project, tentatively known as Millennium, to replace the Hacienda.[2]
The Hacienda closed on December 1, 1996, and was demolished on New Year's Eve.[3][4] Details about its replacement were unveiled on the same day; the tropical-themed resort, now known under the working title "Project Paradise", had an estimated budget of $800 million to $1 billion, with completion expected by the end of 1998. The target clientele would be higher-end compared to Circus' prior resorts,[5][6] competing against The Mirage and new properties such as the Venetian and Paris resorts.[7] It was planned as part of a larger project known as the Masterplan Mile, a complex which would include two other new resorts by Circus,[6][8][9] although these never materialized.
Construction on Project Paradise began in 1997.[10] Problems arose during construction in mid-1998, because of excessive and uneven settling of the soil beneath the resort; the core of the building sank by 17 inches (430 mm), while one of the wings had settled by only 2 inches (51 mm).[11][12] Rumors about the severity of the issues depressed Circus Circus's stock price.[11] The problem was solved by installing 536 micropiles (200-foot-long metal pipes filled with grout, each capped with a hydraulic jack) below the building, at an estimated cost of $8 million to $10 million.[11][13][14] The damage from the settling was limited to minor cracks in the resort's valet parking facility.[15][16][17]
In February 1998, the project was officially named Mandalay Bay,[18] after the city of Mandalay in Myanmar.[19] The name was also chosen to evoke the exotic tropical romanticism of the poem "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling.[20][21] More than a dozen names had been considered for the resort.[22] Mandalay Bay cost $950 million to build,[23] making it the most expensive project to date for Circus Circus.[24] The company expected to spend more than $10 million on a print and television advertising campaign in the months leading up to the resort's opening.[25]
Mandalay Bay opened at 10:00 p.m. on March 2, 1999, following a private opening for VIPs earlier in the day that included numerous celebrities.[26][27][28] Grand opening festivities included the Blues Brothers (Dan Aykroyd, James Belushi, and John Goodman) leading a procession of 200 motorcycles to Mandalay Bay's front doors. Later, they performed at the resort's House of Blues club, as did Bob Dylan.[27][29][30] Mandalay Bay employed 5,000 people, with 30 percent coming from other Circus Circus properties.[25] The company changed its name to Mandalay Resort Group later in 1999, reflecting its flagship property.[31]
In 2002, Mandalay Bay sought approval from the U.S. and Chinese governments to import two panda bears for exhibit at the resort.[32][33][34] The property would build a glass-domed structure for the animals, next to the resort's Shark Reef aquatic attraction and away from the casino floor. #wtedens. mandalaybay.mgmresorts.com/en...
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