Elaine Wynn was emotional.

Before Wednesday morning’s closing of The Mirage, Wynn, who is credited with helping develop the Strip resort in 1989 alongside her then-husband, Steve Wynn, admitted she hadn’t visited the property in years.

Elaine Wynn said her two daughters often referred to The Mirage as “their third sibling” because of the family’s attention to the creation of the hotel-casino, which attracted worldwide attention as the Strip’s first all-new resort in 15 years.

“They had to expand the family to let us embrace something else that we love,” Wynn said. The idea behind the design, she added, was to simply ask, “What can we do to make the people go ‘wow?’ What can we do to make them think, well, who would ever think of building that place?’”

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