Sands Cotai Central
| Sands Cotai Central 金沙城中心 |
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| Location | Macau, China |
| Address | Cotai Strip |
| Opening date | 11 April 2012 |
| No. of rooms | 6,000 (Conrad Macao 636 Holiday Inn Macao Cotai Strip 1,224 Sheraton Macao 3,896 St. Regis Macao 400) |
| 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 (Chinese: 金沙城中心) is a casino resort on the Cotai Strip, Macau, China. On 5 August 2011, Sands China announced that the $4 billion property long referred to as parcels five and six is now officially named Sands Cotai Central. It opened on 11 April 2012.
On 24 March 2011, Las Vegas Sands announced it had terminated a hotel-management agreement with Shangri-La International Hotel Management for its new casino resort development being built on plots 5 and 6 in Cotai. Las Vegas Sands was allegedly in talks with InterContinental Hotels Group PLC to manage the two hotel towers at its USD 4.1 billion expansion project.
Sands China also decided to manage the hotel tower on site 5 that was supposed to be operated by Shangri-La. Sands China signed a franchise deal with Hilton Worldwide and InterContinental Hotels to brand over 1,800 rooms at Cotai site 5 and 6. The resort would officially be named Sands Cotai Central, the company announced on 5 August 2011. The site wiould 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.
Architecture firm Aedas were the lead architect for all Las Vegas Sands projects on the Cotai Strip and were responsible for employing all local consultants and for developing, coordinating and implementing the design.
Construction of the project was slowed and complicated at least in part by government restrictions on the amount of foreign workers companies in the labor-starved territory can hire. According to the main contractor: "Work started in 2006 but the project went through a period of suspension due to the global economic crisis. During this period, work on the project came to a complete stop and it was therefore quite a challenge to restart the project. Staff had to be recruited and contractors engaged. Over 130 contractors were involved in the project. The imported labour quota restrictions have also been challenging."
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