With the opening of the MGM Grand National Harbor Resort and Casino on Thursday, the glitz of Vegas is coming for the shores of the Potomac.

True to the form, the numbers are staggering: a total cost of $1.4 billion, 125,000 square feet of casino space, a display of 70,000 flowers, nearly 4,000 jobs, a 3,000-seat theater, and 308 hotel rooms spread out over 24 stories.

The resort also boasts that it has a fountain churning two tons of chocolate, Sarah Jessica Parker’s first store, and Bob Dylan’s first permanent artwork.

It will be Maryland’s sixth casino and very likely to offer competition for Maryland Live in Arundel Mills and Baltimore’s Horseshoe casino.

Meanwhile, locals have more pedestrian vehicular concerns. Around 30,000 people are expected to show up on opening day—the resort has just 5,000 parking spaces—and traffic is expected to be a slog in the weeks that follow, too.

“If motorists and area residents think the traffic is bad now, they can expect a 6.2 percent increase in traffic volumes on the interchange near the [site],” said John Townsend, AAA Mid-Atlantic’s manager of public and government affairs. “The MGM Grand is expected to attract 25,000 visitors a day. That is tantamount to 9.1 million visitors yearly and 3.6 million more vehicles in the vicinity each year.”