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Aladdin Hotel and Casino
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The Aladdin Hotel and Casino was acquired by a new owner who determined
that the buildings were antiquated and the property was not being
used efficiently to achieve its full financial value. The original
hotel was built in the 1960s and most of the property was being
used for onsite parking. Today, real estate on the strip is very
expensive and the new owner needed to take financial advantage of
their property by building more hotel/casino space and moving their
parking to an underground facility.
To update the Aladdin property and hotel, it was decided that the
existing structures would be demolished, saving only the performing
arts theater. A new 4.7 million sq. ft. destination resort and mixed-use
development would be built on the space. The new resort will reflect
the new Las Vegas which is becoming a destination resort town. Aladdin
will be comprised of two hotels, a convention area, retail mall,
renovated performing arts theater, casinos and underground parking.
The 2,500 room Aladdin Hotel includes 110,000 sq. ft. of casino
space, a pool and spa, show theater and back of house areas. The
second hotel, the 1,000-room music theme hotel, includes a 50,000
sq. ft. casino, pool, back of house areas, underground parking and
a 625,000 sq. ft. retail promenade. This hotel will funnel events
into the 800 seat show theater and house guests for the performing
arts events.
Aladdin Hotel and Casino
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Syska Hennessy Group developed design criteria for MEP and low
voltage systems for the design/build process for both the hotels,
the convention area and the renovated theater. One challenge to
the project included coordination issues. Both the retail area and
the central plant were being built by separate developers and we
had to keep in close contact with the design teams to ensure that
our criteria would match theirs. Another challenge arose from the
central plant being built, owned, and operated by the developer
who will sell utilities back to Aladdin. We were involved in helping
the owner obtain the best deal on their utilities. We then worked
closely with the developer to ensure that our mechanical systems
would work with the central plant systems and that our proposed
power requirements would not exceed the capacity of the plant.
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