MGM MIRAGE TO ADD NEW CONDO TO MANDALAY BAY

Sales on MGM Mirage’s trio of 38-story Signature at MGM Grand condo towers are booming, enough that MGM Mirage has decided it needs more, more, more.

Already 1,650 units are planned for their Project CityCenter, and now MGM Mirage is seeking approval for two more towers at the south end of the Las Vegas Strip, adding 2,500 condo units.

But that old MGM Grand theme park where Signature sits was only so big, so where else to put more towers?

A new 520-foot tower of 1,344 units are in development as part of Mandalay Bay and situated steps from Luxor, to begin construction next year.

That would mean residents of the tower would look down upon the Luxor pyramid, which itself stands at 350 feet. Let’s hope the rooms come with heavy-duty blinds or sunglasses to shield from the Luxor sky beam (which even the Space Shuttle astronauts can see). We’ll bet dimes to doughnuts that no other room will boast free tanning from that beam.

We’re still not used to saying or typing the uninspired name of THEHotel (Mandalay Bay’s high-end casino-hotel tower), but now Mandalay’s stuck with the THE brand and is expected to call the new tower of condo-hotels The Place.

Or maybe THEPlace.

Time to go eat THEBuffet.