Located across the street from
Luxor Las Vegas, the property was previously a parking lot owned by
Mandalay Resort Group until
MGM Resorts International purchased the company in 2004. The area became a concert venue and opened in 2013 as MGM Resorts Village, hosting the
iHeartRadio Music Festival's Daytime Village—an outdoor counterpart to the main event—on September 20–21, 2013. The village held the inaugural
Route 91 Harvest music festival, a collaboration between MGM and
Live Nation Entertainment, on October 3–5, 2014. The
Stadium Super Trucks racing series competed on the property in 2014 and 2015 as the final race weekends of each season; the first year was held in conjunction with
SEMA and also featured other racing divisions like
legends cars.
Robby Gordon and
Sheldon Creed won every race in both years. On October 1, 2015, the venue's name was changed to Las Vegas Village to reduce MGM's influence on the site and its marketing potential. During the 2017 Route 91 Harvest on October 1,
Stephen Paddock fired on attendees in the village from the nearby
Mandalay Bay Hotel, killing 60 people and injuring 867 others. The
mass shooting, which was the
deadliest in the United States by an individual, resulted in Route 91 being canceled for 2018 and subsequent years. The iHeartRadio Music Festival was relocated to the
Las Vegas Festival Grounds. The area was fenced off and remained vacant as MGM deliberated plans for the site's future. In 2019, MGM announced the village would be converted into parking space for
Allegiant Stadium and a community center, but this plan was never implemented. Instead, in 2021, MGM donated 2 acres of the site to Clark County for a memorial site, and then sold the remainder in 2022 to a group of Native American tribes, the
Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation. ==See also==