The Mirage closed on July 17, 2024. Demolition started the next morning. Steve Wynn’s $630 million resort had opened in 1989 and set off three decades of Strip megaresort building, and the volcano out front came down within days.
Project Scope
Hard Rock is replacing it with a 42-story guitar-shaped tower rising roughly 660 ft on the volcano’s former site, seated atop an eight-story podium. The final structural beam went up on May 1, 2026. At that height the tower clears The Palazzo, Wynn Las Vegas and Resorts World, though it stays under Fontainebleau’s 729 ft. Hard Rock originally proposed 998 ft; Clark County said no, forcing the redesign.
The finished resort carries roughly 3,700 rooms, including 675 in the guitar tower itself, up from an initial 596 as the design added pool and spa capacity. The casino runs 174,000 sq ft with 2,000 slot machines and 212 table games. Meeting and event space exceeds 200,000 sq ft, alongside two spas and a 5,000-seat Hard Rock Live theater.
The existing 3,000-room Y-shaped Mirage tower has lost its signature gold glass and is being gutted and reconfigured rather than demolished. As of August 2026 blue-glass facade panels are climbing the new tower and the LED guitar-string hardware is going in. Penta Building Group and McCarthy Building Companies were credited as construction partners at the topping-off.
Why It Matters
Hard Rock bought The Mirage from MGM Resorts for $1.075 billion in a deal that closed in December 2022. Vici Properties owns the real estate; Hard Rock leases and operates. Chairman Jim Allen has put the redevelopment in the $4 billion to $5 billion range and structured it conservatively, roughly 60 percent equity with about 30 percent financed. In a market where several recent Strip projects stalled on debt, that capital stack is the reason this one is topping out.
It’s also the second guitar-shaped hotel the company has built. The first, at Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood in Florida, stands 450 ft. Scaling the same form to 660 ft on a constrained Strip parcel, above an occupied podium and beside a tower under full gut renovation, is the harder version of a building Hard Rock already knows how to detail.
Opening is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2027, with up to 6,000 employees. The Hard Rock to Treasure Island tram reopens with it.
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Project Team & Details
| Developer | Hard Rock International (Seminole Tribe of Florida) |
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| Owner / Client | Vici Properties Inc. |
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| General Contractor | The Penta Building Group / McCarthy Building Companies |
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| Status | Topped Out |
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| Funding Source | Private |
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