Overview
- The singer was celebrated Friday with a Strip parade, a proclamation of “Bruno Mars Day,” and the renaming of Park Avenue as Bruno Mars Drive between Park MGM and T-Mobile Arena.
- Clark County Commissioner Jim Gibson presented a Key to the Las Vegas Strip, and Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo gave Mars a state flag during the ceremony.
- Mars and his band, the Hooligans, played a short set for the crowd before he kicked off his global Romantic tour at Allegiant Stadium later that night.
- He pledged $1 million to local children’s medical and employee relief funds, with MGM Resorts matching the gift during an oversized check presentation.
- MGM Resorts led and financed the spectacle, which CEO Bill Hornbuckle tied to Mars’s 40th birthday and a 15-year Las Vegas run that includes a Dolby Live residency and his Pinky Ring lounge at Bellagio.