Arduous Rock’s Guitar Lodge Takes Form on Ashes of Mirage Volcano Over Las Vegas Strip
The form of the underside of an electrical guitar is now clearly recognizable as development of the longer term Arduous Rock’s Guitar Lodge rises above the Las Vegas Strip.
Arduous Rock Worldwide’s Guitar Lodge, which can ultimately embody 36 tales, strikes a defiant chord of optimism towards the tourism downturn affecting surrounding Las Vegas Strip properties. (Picture: Shawn Coomer/Miles to Reminiscences Vegas)
This week, employees could possibly be seen putting in window panes on the construction, which is steadily climbing towards its deliberate 660-foot peak from a basis poured the place the Mirage’s legendary volcano as soon as fake-erupted.
The Guitar Lodge Las Vegas, the centerpiece of the Seminole Tribe of Florida’s bold rebrand of the previous Mirage into the second Las Vegas Arduous Rock on line casino resort, will boast 675 resort rooms. (Picture: Arduous Rock Worldwide)
The enormous guitar strikes a defiant chord of optimism towards the financial strife afflicting neighboring properties.
With Strip visitation plunging 8% year-over-year in Q2 2025, a number of expansions and renovations have confronted delays or cancellations. (Gaming income declined round 2% on common throughout Q2 months.)
But the Seminole Tribe of Florida reportedly pumped a further 7% into the $4.3 billion overhaul, to amp up leisure options together with expanded swimming pools and a revamped on line casino ground.
An indication from Las Vegas’ previous upstages the image of its future. (Picture: Shawn Coomer/Miles to Reminiscences Vegas)
The location, which the tribe acquired for $1.075 billion in late 2022, has been a hive of exercise for the reason that Mirage’s emotional farewell on July 17, 2024. Demolition crews razed the volcano lagoon inside hours, paving the way in which for Penta Constructing Group to put foundations by early 2025.
Latest tweaks — together with the scrapping of a southern pedestrian bridge to Harrah’s — have sparked whispers of cost-cutting.
Nonetheless, a Arduous Rock spokesperson dismissed the chatter in June, calling the changes “strategic refinements” to boost visitor move. (A northern bridge to the Venetian stays within the playing cards.)
The Arduous Rock On line casino and Guitar Lodge Las Vegas is reportedly on schedule to open by the early fourth quarter of 2027. It can function roughly 3,675 resort rooms, 175,000 sq. toes of gaming area, a number of swimming pools, two spas, reside leisure venues, and a wide selection of eating places, lounges and retail shops.
