The Mirage giving out $1.6M in jackpot money before closing

LAS VEGAS (NewsNation) — After much than 3 decades on the Las Vegas Strip, The Mirage Hotel & Casino is closing its doors for good.

As a last hurrah, gamblers volition person a accidental to triumph their stock of than a cardinal dollars.

Last accidental to triumph big

A Nevada gaming argumentation allows casinos that are closing down to make a program to wage retired its progressive jackpots. That means earlier Tuesday, $1.2 cardinal tin beryllium claimed astatine the slots and different $400,000 astatine array games.

The casino has adjacent guaranteed however overmuch volition beryllium fixed distant each time until its closure.

On Friday and Saturday, the casino volition beryllium giving $250,000 distant each day. On Tuesday, the time earlier the casino is scheduled to close, it volition beryllium giving distant $100,000.

What's next?

After the 3,000-plus-room edifice permanently closes, the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino and Guitar Hotel Las Vegas volition instrumentality its place. The caller spot is expected to reopen to the nationalist successful 2027. The spot translation volition see a astir 700-foot-tall guitar-shaped edifice tower.

The recently transitioned Hard Rock edifice is expected to treble the fig of jobs disposable astatine the property, and the renovation is planned to make 2,500 operation jobs, a quality merchandise states. It added that Hard Rock would wage astir $80 cardinal successful severance packages for employees who stay during the renovation.

The Mirage, which opened successful 1989, is champion known for shows specified arsenic Siegfried and Roy’s tiger amusement that debuted successful 1990 and ran until 2003. It was besides location to The Beatles “Love” by Cirque du Soleil.

It volition be the 2nd clip this year that a Strip casino shutters. The Tropicana Las Vegas closed successful April aft 67 years to marque country for a $1.5 billion baseball stadium planned arsenic the aboriginal location of the relocating Oakland Athletics.

NewsNation affiliate KLAS contributed to this report.