City of Rock

MGM Resorts > Wynn + Caesars + Venetian + Palazzo

August 15, 2014 by Marc Leave a Comment

I was reading news last night and found an interesting bit of information about Las Vegas that I never thought about before. MGM Resorts owns as much property in Las Vegas as Las Vegas Sands (Venetian and Palazzo), Wynn (Wynn and Encore) and Caesars Entertainment (10 hotels + The Linq) combined.

Las Vegas Sands – 82 acres
Wynn – 240 acres
Caesars – 414 acres
MGM Resorts – 742 acres

I can’t say that I’ve ever thought about how much property any of the casino operators in Las Vegas owns. I find the fact that MGM Resorts covers so much space interesting considering Wynn has a golf course and Caesars has a mall with a big ferris wheel that occupies a lot of space.

I think many of us forget that MGM owns a massive amount of land on the north end of the Vegas Strip (City of Rock) that nobody thinks about since it’s still undeveloped.

If nothing else it will provide more useless Las Vegas knowledge that I can wow people with.

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City Of Rock Sounds Cool

April 22, 2014 by Marc 2 Comments

City Of Rock Las Vegas Strip — City Of Rock

It feels as if there have been rumors of Rock in Rio festival coming to Las Vegas for a couple of years. It looks like those rumors may finally be true. Yesterday the Rock in Rio festival was announced to make its Vegas debut in May of 2015.

SCREAM FOR ME BRAZIL!

More interesting is that this isn’t an idea for a one-off festival. Rock in Rio seems to be the anchor for building the City of Rock – a permanent city and tribute to rock music with 5 concert stages and multiple attractions including a ferris wheel and zipline. City of Rock will be built next to Circus Circus and across the street from SLS Las Vegas.

The concept sounds really cool but unrealistic and it certainly won’t look like their promo video below. Las Vegas can barely support its existing concert venues adding 5 more stages to fill won’t be easy. Additionally MGM Resorts is building an arena that seats another 20,000 people behind Monte Carlo and New York New York.

I love the concept of City of Rock but don’t see it quite coming out the way they envision. Vegas Chatter has more details on City of Rock if you’re curious about specifics and more details.

Iron Maiden – Rock in Rio (Buy DVD)