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Marina Bay
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The Marina Bay Sands will
be Singapore's second casino after Resorts World at Sentosa,
being developed by one of the world's biggest gaming
companies, Las Vegas Sands, at Marina South in central
Singapore. Completion of the Integrated Resort is expected for
2010. The casino and one of the hotel towers was expected to
open in December 2009. However, on July 8, 2009, it was
announced that the initial phase of the Marina Bay Sands will
open early 2010.
Las Vegas Sands has committed to invest
S$3.85 billion in the project, not including the fixed $1.2
billion cost of the 6,000,000 square feet (560,000 m2) site
itself. The total cost of the development is placed at S$8.0
billion. In addition to the casino, other key components of
the plan are three hotel towers with 2,600 rooms and suites, a
200,000-square-foot (19,000 m2) arts and sciences museum and a
convention centre with 1,200,000 square feet (111,000 m2) of
space, capable of accommodating over 52,000 people. The
resort, inspired by card decks, was designed by Moshe Safdie.
The company has promised to create 10,400 jobs for the
project, 75 percent of them reserved for Singaporeans. Marina
Bay Sands will feature three 55 storey hotel towers which were
topped out in July 2009. The three towers will be connected
with a 1 hectare sky terrace on the roof.
In front of the
three towers will be a Theatre Block, a Convention and
Exhibition Facilities Block, as well as the Casino Block,
which will have up to 1 000 gaming tables and 1 400 slot
machines. The Art-Science Museum will be constructed next to
the three blocks and will have the shape of a lotus. Its roof
will be retractable, providing a waterfall through the roof of
collected rainwater when closed in the day and treating
audiences to laser shows when opened at night. The Art-Science
Museum will be ready by early-2010. The 55 storeys of the
three towers have been topped out on 8 July 2009 with
outfitting of rooms completed to the 15th to 16th floors (As
of March 2009). Cladding of the towers completed in September
2009.
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| Opening date Casino |
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| Total gaming space |
2,600 rooms and suites |
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| Casino type |
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| Owner |
Genting Group |
| Previous names |
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| Website |
www.marinabaysands.com |
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