Fred Harvey Company would serve as the operator of the hotel, its restaurants, and other areas of the resort. Southwest Securities planned to renovate the motel structure and add a 14-story addition with 518 rooms. In November 1973, Southwest Securities was planning the Airport Marina Hotel, to be built at the site of the 170-room Golf Club Motel, which was located near the Airport. In 1972, Tom Wiesner co-founded Southwest Securities Development Company, and later founded Wiesner Investment Company. The property was originally the site of the Golf Club Motel during the 1960s. History Marina Hotel and Casino (1975–1990) Instead, the MGM Grand is linked by overhead pedestrian bridges to its neighboring casinos: to the south across Tropicana Avenue, the Tropicana, and to the west across the Strip, New York-New York. Located on the Tropicana – Las Vegas Boulevard intersection, pedestrians are not allowed to cross at street level. It also houses numerous shops, night clubs, restaurants and the largest casino in Clark County, which occupies 171,500 sq ft (15,930 m 2). The property includes five outdoor pools, rivers, and waterfalls that cover 6.6 acres (2.7 ha), a 380,000 sq ft (35,000 m 2) convention center, the MGM Grand Garden Arena, and the Grand Spa. Owned by Vici Properties and operated by MGM Resorts International, the 30-floor main building is 293 ft (89 m) high.

When it opened in 1993, the MGM Grand was the largest hotel complex in the world.

It is also the third-largest hotel complex in the world by number of rooms and second-largest hotel resort complex in the United States behind the combined The Venetian and The Palazzo. The MGM Grand is the largest single hotel in the world with 6,852 rooms. The MGM Grand Las Vegas is a hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada.

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