Investors will spend at least $3.2 billion, add 4,758 hotel rooms and 581,000 square feet of meeting and convention space in projects set for completion next year.
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Larry Mullen Jr. said in an interview this week that he “won’t be performing live next year. I don’t know what the band’s plan is.”
U2 is not planning to tour as it preps for MSG Sphere and “something special” in next show.
A former executive at Allegiant Stadium and T-Mobile Arena, Raul Gutierrez, has been named general manager of the MSG Sphere at The Venetian, which opens next year.
There’s no timeline for a spinoff company to be formed, and the Sphere, less than a year from completion, has a new construction cost estimate that has climbed to $2B.
An electrical fire was extinguished from the top of the under-construction MSG Sphere Tuesday afternoon.
Champion Painting Specialty Services Corp. has worked on the George Washington and Verrazano Narrows bridges in New York and two stadiums in Miami.
U2 has frequently headlined in Las Vegas. Their most recent Vegas shows were two dates at T-Mobile Arena in May 2018.
Some are wondering whether the MSG Sphere at The Venetian could be home to a National Basketball Association team. Rest assured, this venue is mostly for entertainment.
The last steel beam of the exosphere of the MSG Sphere at The Venetian was put into place with the massive construction crane Tuesday.
In addition, Madison Square Garden Entertainment executives also announced they are negotiating a partnership with Formula One.
Former Cruise senior vice president Lucas Watson will develop various aspects of MSG Sphere’s commercial strategy when he arrives with the company later this month.
An arched metal support structure, nicknamed after the spiky haircut, reaches 240 feet above the venue floor. It will support LED screens and sound systems.
The $1.9 billion performance venue’s exosphere is about half-completed.
MSG Entertainment Corp. won a competition that will enable the camera creating content for the MSG Sphere at The Venetian to be tested by scientists on the space station.