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The hotel known as the "MGM Grand" used to be about a mile north of the current location on the Las Vegas Strip, at the site now occupied by Bally. At approximately 07:10 on the morning of November 21, 1980, a fire broke out in a delicatessen at that building, a 26 story resort with over 2,000 hotel rooms. About 5,000 people were in the hotel and casino at the time of the fire. Eighty-seven people died in this fire.
When the MGM Grand opened at its current site in 1993, it included the Grand Adventures theme park on property adjacent to the casino. The plan was to make Las Vegas more "family friendly" by providing activities for children who were too young to gamble. The theme park performed poorly, however, and did not reopen for the 2001 season. On December 5, 20022002 is a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 2002 was the first palindromic year since 1991 and the last until 2112. 2002 was also designated: International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains National Science Year in the United Kingdom, MGM Mirage announced that the former theme park would be developed as a luxury condominiumThere are two meanings of condominium In international law, a condominium is a territory in which two sovereign powers have equal rights. In housing tenure, a condominium is a type of joint ownership of real property in which portions of the property are and hotel complex.
Originally, the MGM Grand was built with an extensive Wizard of Oz theme (hence the green "Emerald City" color of the building) and was decorated extensively with Wizard of OzThe Wizard of Oz is a 1939 musical fantasy film based on L. Frank Baum's turn-of-the-century children's story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in which a resourceful American girl is snatched up by a Kansas tornado and deposited in a fantastic land of witches, memorabilia. In 2000, the hotel underwent a renovation and almost all traces of the "Oz" theme were removed.
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