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“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
Ursula K. LeGuin
Recognizing that diversity in construction can yield greater competition while enhancing quality, cost and performance, MGM MIRAGE has undertaken an aggressive program to ensure that eligible minority-, women- and disadvantaged-business enterprises (MWDBE) will have an opportunity to participate in our building projects. However, at its inception, our Company was challenged to identify potential partners with the ability to perform the size and scope of our projects.
MGM MIRAGE instituted a policy requiring minority participation in all construction bids. With this, Tier One construction firms became engaged to help identify qualified firms with which to work. Our Company’s projects created joint venture opportunities, enabling smaller certified MWDBEs to be partnered with larger companies to gain exposure to all developmental phases of a project, and a share of the construction contract. Mentoring programs ensued which paired qualified minority contractors with majority contractors. These pairings created the participation that MGM MIRAGE was seeking and fostered relationships among companies that otherwise may never have interacted with one another.
MGM MIRAGE Design Group
Through its accelerated recruitment and mentoring initiatives in MGM MIRAGE Design Group (MMDG) attained its greatest MWDBE engagement to date. Including the team’s spectacular reopening of Beau Rivage in Biloxi, Mississippi, on the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, MMDG reached a milestone of over $100 million in expenditures with MWDBEs and a substantial increase in the number of MWDBE contracts over the prior year (72 in 2006 vs. 49 in 2005). |
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In 2006, MGM MIRAGE spent $276 million with MWDBEs — rising from $8 million in 2001 to $79 million in 2004. Our Company has hired three professionals whose work is dedicated to identifying and helping increase MWDBE participation in construction projects.
MGM Grand Resorts Development
Our new $805 million hotel-casino complex in downtown Detroit has been the signature project of our MGM Grand Resorts Development team since 2005. The largest private construction project in Michigan in over three decades, our new complex features a 400-room hotel, an expansive casino floor, a host of restaurants and entertainment amenities, and spa and convention facilities. MWDBEs have been integral to this as well as MGM Grand Resorts Development’s many other projects. |
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MGM MIRAGE is committed to evolving our partnerships with existing MWDBE contractors, enabling these firms to grow and prosper, while providing our Company with quality buildings and amenities that our customers expect. At the same time, in order to keep pace with the Company’s construction demands, we will continue to seek qualified MWDBEs across the country that may serve as general contractors and/or subcontractors on our projects.
CityCenter
CityCenter is a turning point in the evolution of the next generation of Las Vegas – an even more cutting-edge resort destination, with a truly urban core that blends world-class residential, hospitality, retail, gaming, and entertainment elements into a synergistic hub of distinctive character. We likewise aspire to make CityCenter historic for its systematic, multi-faceted assimilation of MWDBEs – one of the most comprehensive MWDBE outreach programs ever undertaken in a large-scale constructing project. |
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