From the company’s perspective and the community’s perspective, we knew it was something we wanted to participate in." "The MGM Grand Garden has been wonderful, and when we started talking about big-scale events, the community needed and wanted something exciting and new. "This is a vision we started about seven years ago," MGM President Bill Hornbuckle said. It was planned and built by MGM Resorts International and Los Angeles-based AEG, the company that developed the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles. The 20,000-seat, $375 million, privately funded venue opens April 6. That list doesn’t even count the much larger stadium proposals that have come and gone and come again. The Las Vegas National Sports Center complex, which included a football stadium, a baseball park and an arena in downtown Las Vegas.įormer University of Nevada, Las Vegas basketball star Jackie Robinson’s retractable-roof arena at the old Wet ‘n’ Wild site. The Silver State Arena at the site formerly occupied by the old Wet ‘n’ Wild water park on the Strip. The Caesars Entertainment-Anschutz Entertainment Group arena proposal east of Bally’s and Paris Las Vegas.
Until the plan for the new T-Mobile Arena bore fruit, Southern Nevadans needed a scorecard to keep up with the comings and goings of proposals. Las Vegas for years was long on promises for new arenas and short on projects. Catering to VIPs, T-Mobile Arena has 550 club seats with membership benefits, 44 luxury boxes and eight fully-furnished event-level suites.īy RICHARD N. Hyde Lounge has locations in LA’s Staples Center and Miami’s AmericanAirlines Arena, so Vegas went with an 18,000-square-foot version spanning the entire back end and overlooking the action. Levy Restaurants, the group behind 36 arenas and 15 entertainment venues around the country, combines the top features of its event spaces here, then makes them Vegas-sized. The new venue seats up to 20,000 and will host concerts, awards shows and sporting events, including a just-announced NHL expansion team. With a 200-foot-wide video mesh wall and telescopic seats to customize sightlines, the $375M T-Mobile Arena incorporates some groundbreaking technology.
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Plus the T-Mobile magenta is kept at bay until you’re inside (at least during the day). The 650,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art structure was designed to blend in seamlessly with the desert on one side and with the Strip on the other. There’s a reason Las Vegas’ first freestanding arena fits right in just off the Strip.
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