]The exterior will be, in effect, a huge video screen, fully programmable for advertising and other content.
The spherical performing-arts venue - 360 feet tall, 500 feet across, and encompassing 400,000 square feet - will cost upwards of $2 billion when it's completed sometime in 2023, but will be among the most technologically advanced entertainment centers in the world. (You can read about the curious location in another QoD we wrote on the subject about a year ago.) It will be connected to the Sands Expo Center and Wynn Las Vegas by a 25-foot-wide pedestrian bridge (32 feet above the street level, but under the Monorail track). It's a long-planned 17,500-seat arena that's being built on an 18-acre site south of Sands Avenue and east of Koval Lane on a sort of interface between the Venetian/Palazzo and Wynn/Encore.
The MSG stands for Madison Square Garden (not monosodium glutamate), which is funding the project in a joint venture with Las Vegas Sands and whose subsidiary MSG Entertainment is managing it.
