The MGM Grand Las Vegas, which opened in 1993, is a hotel casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Las MGM Grand tickets Vegas, Nevada, United States, as a Hollywood themed resort.
Owned and operated by the MGM Mirage company, the 30-floor main building is 293 feet (89 m) high and MGM Grand tickets features five outdoor pools, rivers, and waterfalls that cover 6.6 acres[1], a 380,000 square foot (35,000 m²) convention center, the MGM Grand Arena, CBS Television City, and the Grand Spa. It also houses MGM Grand tickets numerous shops and night clubs, 16 restaurants, two food courts, and the largest casino in Las Vegas, MGM Grand tickets which occupies 171,500 square feet (16,000 m²).
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In 1990 Kirk Kerkorian bought the Marina Hotel to obtain the site that would become the home of the MGM MGM Grand tickets Grand. During that time, the Marina was known as the MGM-Marina Hotel. The Marina closed on November 30, MGM Grand tickets 1991, and ground was broken on October 7, 1991.
On February 23, 1993, MGM celebrated a "topping off" ceremony with the placement of the last panel of MGM Grand tickets emerald green glass hoisted onto one of the 30-story hotel towers. A total of 5,005 green balloons were MGM Grand tickets released, each containing a gift certificate valid for one complimentary stay in one of the rooms.
When the latest MGM Grand opened on December 18, 1993, it was owned by MGM Grand Inc. At that time it had MGM Grand tickets an extensive Wizard of Oz theme, including the green "Emerald City" color of the building and the MGM Grand tickets decorative use of Wizard of Oz memorabilia.
The MGM Grand was the home of the long-running production show EFX from 1995 until 2002.
Originally, the main entrance on the Strip was inside the mouth of a giant cartoonish lion, but this MGM Grand tickets entrance feature was changed to a more traditional entrance; some Asian gamblers avoided the casino, due MGM Grand tickets to the cultural view that entering the mouth of the lion was "bad luck." A large bronze lion statue was MGM Grand tickets added above the entrance to keep with the MGM Lion theme, while not scaring away their more superstitious MGM Grand tickets guests. The statue weighs 100,000 pounds, and at 45 feet tall, on a 25-foot pedestal, is the largest MGM Grand tickets bronze statue in the U.S.
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