MGM Grand Conference Center Expansion Tops Out
January 31, 2018
Las Vegas — Topping out of MGM Grand’s $130 million expansion of its award-winning Conference Center.
The award-winning MGM Grand Conference Center reached an important milestone — the topping out of its 250,000 sf expansion. More than 100 construction workers along with MGM Resorts and MGM Grand executives were onsite to sign the last of nearly 2,700 individual steel beams before it was lifted into place by a 270-foot-tall, 125-ton crane.
The $130 million project, opens the end of 2018. When completed, the conference center will total more than 850,000 sf including a 22,000 sf expansion of Stay Well Meetings, the industry’s first-ever wellness meetings experience.
Expansion Fast Facts
- Groundbreaking: June 20, 2017
- Topping out: January 30, 2018
- Opening: December 2018
- Cost: $130 million
- Expansion: 250,000 sf
- Total upon completion: 850,000 sf
- Owner & General Contractor: MGM Resorts International
- Construction Manager: THOR Construction
- Architect of Record: YWS Design & Architecture
- Interior Design: MGM Resorts Design / YWS Design & Architecture
- New space seamlessly connects to the existing conference center on all three levels
Expansion includes:
- 5,500 sf outdoor courtyard available for private events
- 49,000 sf ballroom
- 32,000 sf ballroom
- Three junior ballrooms
- 11 breakout rooms
- Stay Well Meetings is expanding its footprint by 22,000 sf, encompassing the conference center’s entire second floor.
MGM Grand’s new space comes on the heels of expansions at sister properties Mandalay Bay and ARIA. Mandalay Bay completed a 350,000 sf expansion totaling over two million sf while ARIA is currently adding 200,000 sf to create more than 500,000 sf at the resort (opening February 15, 2018). Upon completion of these projects, MGM Resorts International will offer a total of 4 million sf of leading meeting and convention space within a two-mile stretch on the Las Vegas Strip.