LAS VEGAS -- When the 3,800-room, $950 million Mandalay Bay Resort
opens on the Strip in the first quarter of 1999, it will offer much
more than its promised 200,000 square feet of meeting space.
The hotel, known as Project Paradise since its inception, will
also include a 400-room Four Seasons Hotel, an 11-acre tropical
waterfall, a 30,000-square-foot spa and a House of Blues
restaurant, according to Glenn Schaeffer, president of Circus
Circus, the property's developer.
Mandalay Bay will have more than 120,000 square feet of meeting
space in its convention center and another 90,000 square feet of
exhibition space in its arena.
The 12,000-seat arena can also be used for sporting events or
group events, he said.
The Four Seasons at Mandalay Bay will have its own entrance off
the Strip, its own lobby and express elevators as well as 25,000
square feet of meeting space, Schaeffer said.
Mandalay Bay will be just south of the Luxor Hotel on the site
of the former Hacienda Hotel.
Circus Circus still is exploring joint-venture possibilities for
development of its next project, which would be to the south of
Mandalay Bay, Schaeffer said.