MGM Grand has broken ground on an expansion to its convention center that will give the Las Vegas Strip resort more than 850,000 square feet of meeting and exhibition space.
The project, totaling 250,000 square feet, is scheduled to open next November with facilities that include two ballrooms of 49,000 and 32,000 square feet, three smaller ballrooms, 11 breakout rooms and a 5,500-square-foot outdoor courtyard for private events.
The expansion will give parent company MGM Resorts International more than 4 million square feet of space to market in one of the top convention cities in the United States. It’s the largest amalgam of privately owned convention space in Las Vegas.
It includes: Mandalay Bay, which features more than 2 million square feet; Aria with 500,000 (counting a 200,000-square-foot expansion scheduled to open next February); Bellagio with 200,000; The Mirage with 170,000; and Monte Carlo, Circus Circus, New York-New York, Luxor, Excalibur and Vdara contributing another 86,000 square feet.
Las Vegas Sands owns the second largest with 2.3 million square feet (including the Sands Expo and Convention Center), followed by Caesars Entertainment with just over 1 million, Wynn Resorts with approximately 290,000, and The Cosmopolitan with 190,000.
