New Hotel Casino
The project: Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa encompasses 2.8 million-sf of construction across 25 acres. It includes two 44-story glass-clad hotel towers totaling 3,300 rooms and 2.2 million-sf of cast-in-place concrete construction. The casino entertainment facility is a 1.22 million-sf, four-story steel frame structure with 175,000-sf of casino space and over 500,000-sf of retail, dining and spa facilities, plus the 3,500-seat Music Box Theater, a 50,000- sf event center, a comedy club, seven night-life venues including Premier Nightclub (rated as one of the top nightclubs in America), and a 1.53 million-sf, eight-level garage for 5,300 vehicles.
The goal: The Boyd family and MGM Resorts wanted to build the first new casino in Atlantic City in a generation. When the Borgata was under development in the mid-1990s, the Marina District offered the most open space, so the complex was built overlooking the bay, rather than on the Boardwalk.
MEP challenge: The project was built on a marshy property and the entire property built on piles. Solution: All underground services needed to be supported “hung” from the base slab and piles. Utilities were supplied from a third-party central utility plant more than a half mile from the property; design included routing all utilities from the plant as needed.
Structural challenge: The project was built on a marshy property. Solution: One of the towers is constructed of cast-in-place/post-tensioned flat plate concrete; the other of a special combined cast-in-place and precast concrete system.
Outcome: The project mantra was the Borgata would be “the premier go-to property” in Atlantic City. The property opened in July 2003, and after several expansions and many renovations it has remained a premier venue. The Boyd family sold its shares to MGM Resorts in 2016, and the property continues its transformation into a full MGM Resorts property.
AWARDS:
National Post-tensioning Institute Award of Excellence
American Concrete Institute Cast-in-Place Concrete Frame Grand Prize
DVASE Grand Prize Buildings over $25 Million
New York Construction News Best of 2003 Awards Project of the Year
American Concrete Institute Award of Merit
New Jersey Golden Trowel Awards Best of Interior Projects
American Concrete Institute New Jersey Concrete Awards