MGM Grand & Mandalay Bay Sold to Blackstone Real Estate for $4.6 Billion

Another One Bites the Dust

LAS VEGAS, NV: Another two casinos just exchanged hands on the Las Vegas Strip; the MGM Grand and the Mandalay Bay.  The acquirer of the properties was Blackstone Realestate in a $4.6 billion lease-back deal.

Mandalay Bay Resorts sold to a joint venture between MGM and Blackstone for $4.6 billion plus $150 million in Class A shares of MGP.

The two companies have formed a joint agreement with a subsidiary of MGM Resorts (NYSE: MGM), MGM Growth Properties (NYSE: MGP). Blackstone and MGP will jointly own the MGM Grand and Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas.  This joint agreement will cost Blackstone an investment of $4.6 billion plus $150 million shares of MGP Class A stock. MGP will own 50.1% will Blackstone Real Estate will maintain 49.9% ownership.

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Blackstone acquired The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas in 2014 from Deutsch and bought the Bellagio from MGM Resorts (NYSE: MGM) last summer in 2019.