Whiting-Turner selected by MGM to build USD 1 billion National Harbor Casino-Resort

The 1 million-square-foot resort — featuring 3,600 slot machines and 160 table games, a 3,000-seat theater, 55,000 square feet of branded retail, 35,000 square feet of meeting space, a 4,700-space parking garage and numerous restaurants from local and national chefs — is scheduled to open in summer 2016.

A national firm with a huge presence in the Baltimore and Washington metropolitan areas, Whiting-Turner will direct, supervise and coordinate construction of MGM National Harbor. It will oversee dozens of subcontractors and roughly 2,000 construction workers. Over the last five years, the company has worked on more than 1,000 projects in Maryland and D.C. valued at nearly US$ 8 billion. The firm is also building the Horseshoe Casino Baltimore.

“We are honored and delighted to have been selected by MGM for this prestigious, landmark project,” Timothy Regan, Whiting-Turner's president, said in a statement.

Whiting-Turner was picked, MGM officials say, because of its national and regional portfolio and because it “shares MGM Resorts’ core values, striving to engage local and minority business operators at every opportunity and in every market the company operates.”

“This is a Maryland-based company with an admirable record and reputation in Prince George’s County,” MGM National Harbor President Lorenzo Creighton said in a statement. “Whiting-Turner has stayed true to its roots and we feel will be the perfect partner to bring to life our vision for MGM National Harbor.”