LAS VEGAS — The Mirage’s expiration date officially has come into view: July 17, 2024. The landmark Strip resort is shutting down that day, to be remade as Hard Rock Las Vegas by spring of 2027. Resort President Joe Lupo informed the hotel’s staff in a town hall-style meeting this month.
Prior to that meeting, Lupo said some 3,300 hotel employees would be laid off, including 140 Day One employees. “We really are encouraged about not only the future of Las Vegas, but how Hard Rock and Seminole Tribe can play a role in helping to develop that and grow the market,” Lupo said. “But today is a tough day for a lot of people.
Our priority is the well being of those individuals.” Lupo said the hotel will close entirely on July 17, and reopen by the end of May 2027. It is to be a full shutdown and reopening, not a “phased-in” restart.
Plans are still in the rendering stage, but will include 25 restaurants (five at the new hotel tower near the Strip) and a 5,000-seat theater. Owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Hard Rock International purchased The Mirage from MGM Resorts International in December 2022, spending more than $1 billion. The signature design of the new Hard Rock will be a 660-foot-tall hotel tower shaped as guitars standing back-to-back.
It is a similar design to Seminole Hard Rock Hotel’s in Hollywood, Florida, Orlando. As with that resort’s design, the Strip structure would feature reflective, floor-to-ceiling glass panes. The tower will be buil.
