The resort originally wanted to attract families with comical pirate features and icons like a large video arcade, the death’s head strip marquee and staged pirate fights every night in Buccaneer Bay at the entrance of the casino on the Las Vegas Strip. The original plan required a tower to be added to The Mirage but this later evolved and became a completely established separate hotel casino resort. The cost of opening the resort was 450 million dollars. In 1993, Mirage Resorts opened TI under the direction of Atlandia Design (a subsidiary of Mirage Resorts) and Stephen Alan Wynn (an art collector as well as a real estate businessman).
The resort is located on The Strip in Paradise, and it’s connected by a pedestrian bridge to the shopping center called Fashion Show Mall as well as a tram to The Mirage. Treasure Island Las Vegas (TI) is a hotel plus casino owned as well as operated by Phil Ruffin.
