Draft:Hard Rock hotels and casinos

The American hospitality and entertainment company Hard Rock International (HRI), which is most known for its Hard Rock Cafe brand and has been owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida since 2007, operates dozens of casinos and hotels internationally. In 2016, the tribe consolidated control over the Hard Rock brand by acquiring Hard Rock Hotels & Casinos, which operated 23 hotels and resorts at the time.

History
In 1995, Peter Morton spent $80 million to open the Hard Rock Hotel near the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. A subsequent $100 million expansion in 1999 nearly doubled the hotel's capacity.

In May 2006, Morton sold the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas to Morgans Hotel Group for $770 million, including the rights to the Hard Rock Hotel brand west of the Mississippi, including Texas, California, Australia, and Vancouver, British Columbia. The hotel began another expansion in 2007 at a cost of $750 million. The project added 875 rooms in two towers and expanded meeting space. In March 2011, Morgans surrendered control of the property to partner Brookfield Asset Management, citing the high debt on the property in the face of the economic downturn. In April 2018, the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas was sold to Richard Branson with plans to renovate the property under the Virgin Hotels brand; Virgin Hotels Las Vegas debuted in March 2021.

Today, the Seminole Tribe of Florida owns and operates all units except the Sioux City, Tulsa, Biloxi, and Vancouver properties. In 2004, Hard Rock International and Sol Melia Hotels and Resorts launched Lifestar Hoteles España SL, a joint venture that intended to manage Europe's first Hard Rock Hotel in Madrid, but it was never opened as a Hard Rock property upon the dissolution of the joint venture in 2007. The other joint venture hotels are in Chicago, New York, and San Diego (the San Diego property includes Hard Rock condominiums). Hard Rock also operates hotels and resorts in Orlando, Florida (a joint venture with Loews Hotels); Bali, Indonesia; and Pattaya, Thailand, (a joint venture with Ong Beng Seng/Hotel Properties Limited). Hard Rock International continues to expand internationally (including hotels, casinos, resorts, and condominiums) through several joint ventures (Becker Ventures, Ong Beng Seng/Hotel Properties Limited and Loews Hotels), including hotels in Chicago, Bali, Orlando, Penang, San Diego, Singapore, and planned openings in Abu Dhabi, Cancun, Dubai, Hungary, Panama, Punta Cana and Puerto Vallarta, as well as hotel-casinos in Hollywood, Florida; Tampa, Florida; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Catoosa, Oklahoma, just northeast of Tulsa. (The Hard Rock Casino in Biloxi, MS is owned by Twin River Management Group, Inc.) Opened on 20 January 2010 in Singapore at Sentosa, the Hard Rock Hotel at Resorts World Sentosa is owned by the Genting Group.

The Hotel Zoso in Palm Springs, California was converted into a 160-room Hard Rock Hotel and opened in 2014. It subsequently closed. A location in Atlantic City, New Jersey was planned in 2010, but those plans were canceled in 2012; however, in 2017, they acquired from Icahn Enterprises the closed Trump Taj Mahal, which in 2018 was reopened as Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City. All-inclusive resorts operate under the Hard Rock brand in the Dominican Republic and Mexico. In 2013, the Hard Rock Rocksino Northfield Park opened as a joint slot machine and track venture., near Cleveland, Ohio. Then in early 2019, it was announced that JACK Cincinnati Casino in Cincinnati was sold for $745 million to Vici Properties and Hard Rock International, with Vici acquiring the land and buildings for $558 million and Hard Rock buying the operating business for $187 million. Hard Rock would lease the casino from Vici for $43 million per year, and would rebrand it as Hard Rock Casino Cincinnati.

Canada had numerous restaurants but many of them closed, notably the one at Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto in May 2017, which had been the chain's second location, leaving just two in that country, Niagara Falls, Ontario, and the Hard Rock Casino in Coquitlam, B.C.

In 2015, Hard Rock announced a new hotel in Bogotá, Colombia, which will open in 2019. The company had plans to open in the biggest financial district in Colombia, the Centro Internacional, but it revised those plans. The hotel will be located in the exclusive Zona Rosa de Bogotá, home of luxury boutiques. In July 2019, Hard Rock International announced plans for a casino in Rockford, Illinois, about 75 miles west of Chicago along I-90. Two other proposals were made for the city's lone casino license, but the city council only recommended the Hard Rock proposal to the Illinois Gaming Board, who will decide which site will get the license. The temporary casino, named Rockford Casino-A Hard Rock Opening Act, opened on November 10, 2021. It features a Rock Shop, Hard Rock memorabilia, slots, and two restaurants. The permanent casino is planned to open within two years and feature a Hard Rock Cafe, live music venue, 90 foot tall replica of a Rick Nielson guitar, and will be a full-fledge Hard Rock Casino.

In November 2019, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sacramento at Fire Mountain opened adjacent to the Toyota Amphitheatre near Wheatland, California. Also in November, Hard Rock announced a new hotel in São Paulo, Brazil, in the heart of popular Paulista Avenue.

In January 2021, it was announced that Hard Rock will be opening a new hotel in London, Ontario, Canada, with a 353-room hotel slated to finish construction in 2025. It will be located in the 100 Kellogg Lane complex.

In May 2021, a $300 million Hard Rock Casino location opened in Gary, Indiana about 35 minutes east of Chicago. Branded as Hard Rock Casino Northern Indiana, the location includes memorabilia from local natives Jackson 5 and a 1,950-seat Hard Rock Live performance hall.

In December 2021, Hard Rock purchased a casino on the Las Vegas Strip, The Mirage, from MGM Resorts for $1.075 billion. The deal closed in December 2022. The property will be completely renovated, but is permitted to keep using "The Mirage" name for up to 3 years. A new 36-story hotel tower in the shape of a guitar, like the one at the Seminole Hard Rock, will be added.

Current



 * Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City
 * Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Biloxi
 * Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Bristol
 * Hard Rock Hotel Cancun
 * Hard Rock Hotel Daytona Beach
 * Rocksino by Hard Rock Deadwood
 * Hard Rock Hotel Guadalajara
 * Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood
 * Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Kenosha
 * Hard Rock Hotel Los Cabos
 * The Mirage
 * Hard Rock Hotel New York
 * Hard Rock Casino Northern Indiana
 * Hard Rock Hotel Orlando
 * Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Ottawa
 * Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya
 * Rockford Casino
 * Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sacramento at Fire Mountain
 * Hard Rock Hotel San Diego
 * Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City
 * Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Tampa
 * Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tejon
 * Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa
 * Hard Rock Hotel Vallarta
 * REVERB Downtown Atlanta

Former

 * Golden Nugget Lake Tahoe
 * Hard Rock Hotel and Casino (Las Vegas)
 * Hard Rock Casino Vancouver

Africa, Europe, and Middle East

 * Hard Rock Hotel Davos
 * Hard Rock Hotel Dublin
 * Hard Rock Hotel Ibiza
 * Hard Rock Hotel Madrid
 * Hard Rock Hotel Malta
 * Hard Rock Hotel Marbella
 * Hard Rock Hotel Tenerife
 * REVERB Hamburg

Asia Pacific

 * Hard Rock Hotel Bali
 * Hard Rock Hotel Dalian
 * Hard Rock Hotel Desaru Coast
 * Hard Rock Hotel Goa
 * Hard Rock Hotel Maldives
 * Hard Rock Hotel Pattaya
 * Hard Rock Hotel Penang
 * Hard Rock Hotel Shenzhen

Caribbean, Central and South America

 * Hard Rock Hotel Fortaleza
 * Hard Rock Hotel Gramado
 * Hard Rock Hotel Ilha do Sol
 * Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Punta Cana