| Sands Cotal Central 金沙城中心 |
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| Opening date | Spring 2012 |
| No. of rooms | 6,000 (Conrad Macao 600 Holiday Inn Macao Cotai Strip 1,400 Sheraton Macao 2,000 Sheraton Towers Macao 2,000) |
| Total gaming space | 106,000 sq ft (9,800 m2) |
| Casino type | Land-based |
| Owner | Las Vegas Sands |
| Previous names | Cotai Strip parcels 5 and 6 |
| Website | Sands China website |
Sands Cotai Central ((traditional Chinese (HK)): 金沙城中心)[1] is a casino resort on the Cotai Strip, Macau. On 5 August 2011, Sands China announced that the $4 billion property[2] long-referred to as parcels five and six is now officially been named Sands Cotai Central. It is scheduled to open in Spring 2012.
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Cotai Central will feature a combination of 6,000 rooms and suites from the Conrad, Sheraton, Sheraton Towers and Holiday Inn brands. It will also have meeting and convention space, two casinos, and retail outlets, entertainment and dining options.
Hilton Worldwide's five-star Conrad Macao, Cotai Strip is expected to open at Cotai Central in the first quarter of 2012 and will have more than 600 rooms and suites.
The four-star Holiday Inn Macao, Cotai Strip by IHG is also scheduled to open late first quarter 2012. It will feature more than 1,200 rooms and suites.[3] When built, the Holiday Inn Macau Cotai Strip will be the world’s largest Holiday Inn.[4]
The five star Sheraton Macao , Cotai Strip, will also have nearly 2,000 of Starwood's Sheraton-branded hotel rooms opening in the third quarter of 2012, and another 2,000 rooms under the Sheraton Towers brand in early 2013, the casino operator said in July 2011.
A later stage plans a St Regis Hotel and branded residences , this will happen after 2013.
The site will include more than 300,000 square feet (28,000 m2) of meeting space, 11 food and beverage establishments and 106,000-square-foot (9,800 m2) of gaming area but also 13,700,000-square-foot (1,270,000 m2) of non-gaming facilities.
The resort will provide thousands of new non-gaming jobs, grow non-gaming revenues and expand a variety of non-gaming business segments, specifically the Meetings, Incentive, Convention and Exhibition industry, Sheldon Adelson stated.[5]
Construction of the project has been slowed and complicated at least in part by government restrictions on the amount of foreign workers companies in the labor-starved territory can hire.
The number of gaming tables at the resort has been a thorny issue as well since the local government imposed a cap on tables until 2013. The company said in early August 2011 that Sands Cotai Central will have up to 530 tables versus the 670 it was planning previously.[6]
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