Las Vegas
MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
The MGM Grand Hotel and Casino was a hotel and casino located on
the
Las Vegas Strip at the intersection with Flamingo Road. Built on a
43 acre (174 km²) site, by Kirk Kerkorian, the hotel with 2,084 rooms
opened on December 5, 1973 and was the largest hotel in the world at that time.
The hotel had a movie theme to reflect Kirk Kerkorian's interest in movies
from his ownership of MGM
and the hotels use of MGM in its name.
History
The MGM Grand Hotel fire on
November 21, 1980 killed
87 people.
The site was first occupied by the
Bonanza Hotel and Casino. It was later renamed the New Bonanza Hotel and Casino shortly before construction on the MGM Grand
began.
It suffered a fire that started in a casino
restaurant and traveled up into the hotel, killing 87 guests on November 21,
1980. It was rebuilt in only eight months with the remodel adding a tower which
opened in 1981. See
MGM Grand Hotel Las Vegas hotel fire for more details.
The hotel was sold in
1986 to Bally Entertainment Corporation and reopened as
Bally's Las Vegas.
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