LAS VEGAS (AP) — The enduring Mirage hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip will shut its doorways this summer time, the top of an period for a property credited with serving to rework Sin Metropolis into an ultra-luxury resort vacation spot.

The July 17 closure will clear the way in which for main renovations and development on the 80-acre (32-hectare) property, which is to reopen in 2027 because the Laborious Rock Las Vegas, that includes a lodge tower within the form of a guitar hovering practically 700 toes (about 210 meters) above the guts of the Strip.

“We’d prefer to thank the Las Vegas group and workforce members for warmly welcoming Laborious Rock after having fun with 34 years at The Mirage,” Jim Allen, chairman of Laborious Rock Worldwide, stated Wednesday in a press release asserting the closure.

It will likely be the second time this yr {that a} Strip on line casino shutters. The Tropicana Las Vegas closed in April after 67 years to make room for a $1.5 billion baseball stadium deliberate as the long run dwelling of the relocating Oakland A’s.

Developed by former on line casino mogul Steve Wynn, the Mirage opened with a Polynesian theme because the Strip’s first megaresort in 1989, spurring a constructing growth on the well-known boulevard by means of the Nineteen Nineties.

Its volcano fountain was one of many first sidewalk points of interest, predating the Venetian’s canals and the Bellagio’s dancing fountains. It was often called a venue the place vacationers might see Siegfried and Roy taming white tigers or a Cirque du Soleil act set to a Beatles soundtrack.

The last curtain on the Beatles-themed present, which introduced Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr again collectively for public appearances all through its 18-year run, additionally comes down in July.

Laborious Rock Worldwide stated Wednesday that greater than 3,000 staff can be laid off and it expects to pay out $80 million in severance.

The Culinary Employees Union, which has represented about 1,700 staff on the Mirage because it opened, stated in a press release that the contract it gained final yr ensures laid-off employees will get $2,000 for every year of service. The contract additionally provides them the choice of being known as again to work and sustaining their seniority when the lodge reopens.

“Culinary Union will proceed to make sure employees are protected and centered within the property’s future,” the assertion stated.

The Mirage grew to become the primary Strip property to be run by a Native American tribe in 2022, after Laborious Rock Worldwide, which is owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida, bought it from MGM Resorts in a money deal price practically $1.1 billion.

Laborious Rock stated on the time that the property would stay open and function beneath the Mirage model for a number of years whereas it finalized renovation plans.

The Mirage is accepting no bookings for after July 14 and stated any reservations previous that date can be canceled and refunded.