MGM Grand Detroit Holiday Season Kick-off

Grand Garden Ushers In The Holiday Season at MGM Grand Detroit

DETROIT – Just in time for Thanksgiving weekend, the holidays have a new home at MGM Grand Detroit where horticulture staff began changing out the property’s Grand Garden display this past Saturday to transform the locale into the season’s newest attraction. The removal of the garden’s inaugural fall display of massive pumpkins and giant glass-fabricated leaves will make room for one giant, dramatic holiday ornament emerging from a blanket of seasonal holly. Framed by two stands of 50-foot Canadian Birch trees aglow with festive lighting, this bold yet simple statement will draw the attention and awe of passersby.

With a distinctive style all its own, the Grand Garden is a joint creation of Stephen Stefanou from Design Solutions, the imaginative artists renowned for holiday masterpieces in Rockefeller Center and the Bellagio Conservatory in Las Vegas; and Hamilton Anderson Associates, a Detroit-based architecture and landscape architecture firm. A burst of color in holiday red, the over-scaled ornament is inspired by the work of renowned sculptor Claes Oldenburg and measures approximately 30 feet in diameter. The single, impressive decoration is constructed of steel-reinforced fiberglass and topped off by a silver-leafed cap, hook and ring. Ilex berries and oversized pinecones complete the garden creating swirls of color throughout the grand display.
MGM Grand Detroit’s Grand Garden is a distinctive environment located at the corner of Third Street and Bagley with dynamic lighting and flourishing plants and serves as a seasonal attraction for guests and the community.