The 5.5-million-square-foot integrated resort complex-potentially operated by a “5-star hotel operator you would know well,” teased MWR to the Post-boasts all standard qualities of your typical Las Vegas Strip behemoth: several thousand hotel rooms, a bevy of restaurants, bars, and nightclubs, luxury retail, a plus-sized spa and wellness center, beach club, convention center, a 2,500-seat theater, and a casino larger than two football fields. (By comparison, the MSG Sphere, a globular entertainment venue that is now actually under construction at the Venetian Resort, stands 366-feet-tall.) The ersatz celestial orb would, if completed as envisioned, tower 735 feet over the Strip as the world’s largest sphere at 1/75,000-size of the actual Moon and be the second-tallest structure in Sin City, behind the Strat observation tower and tied with the unfinished, Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed Fontainebleau/JW Marriott project. As recently reported by the New York Post and other outlets, self-described Canadian “architectural design and intellectual property licensor” Moon World Resorts ( MWR) has (again) proposed a $5 billion resort and casino complex for the Las Vegas Strip that would be anchored by, well, the Moon.
