The Grand Sierra Resort is showing off new renderings of its $1 billion project.
The expansion, announced in October, will include a 10,000-seat state-of-the-art indoor sports arena, along with a parking garage, aqua golf, an ice rink, fan zone, and more.
One of the major changes people will notice is change in location of the arena. Originally it was planned to be on the southwest side of the resort but now they have decided to move it on the opposite side.
"The new renderings are exciting," said Christopher Abraham, Chief Marketing Officer for GSR. "We actually moved the arena to the northern side of the property. It makes more sense, it's closer to our new parking garage, and there's more room for everybody to move there. It's extremely important for us to make sure it flows really well with the existing property."
The arena will be the new home for the Nevada men's basketball team, along with concerts, conventions, and other major events.
Abraham says that the new ice rink will be the main location for hockey, but they do not have a team in mind yet.
As far as construction plans go, he says right now they are focusing on the arena and parking garage first, then aqua golf, ice rink, workforce housing, then wrap up everything up with the new 800-room hotel tower.
Abraham tells us the entire project will take about 10 years and so far, everything is going to plan.
"We have wonderful architects, Schinzer Architects, they're great to work with," he said. "University of Nevada has been fantastic to work with. So, we're making a lot of progress on the design elements of the arena, not only the exterior, but lovely interior spaces, VIP clubs."
Abraham says they still have a lot of approvals to get through that will take about six months. They hope to be breaking ground in the spring of next year and hope to be finished with the arena, parking garage, and possibly the aqua golf too, in spring of 2027.
