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Vegas Arena Offers Options

MGM Resorts International and AEG’s forthcoming Las Vegas arena, scheduled to open April 2016, will provide MGM with more booking options.

The arena is expected to offer flexibility to MGM Resorts, which owns the  and the  arena a few blocks from the arena site.

The 20,000-seat venue is also reportedly in talks with several ownership groups about potentially housing a pro sports franchise in the building.

UFC officials told the Las Vegas Review-Journal they expect to stage six fight events at the arena each year. An opening event has yet to be announced for the building.

Though Vegas was once a gambler’s paradise, more visitors are seeking entertainment outside of casinos and MGM representatives explained the company has started rethinking entertainment by offering festival sites and a park and plaza along the strip, the Review-Journal said.

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