CityCenter

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The most expensive privately funded construction project in U.S. History.


The first phase of MGM MIRAGE's CityCenter, a gargantuan, $9+-billion, 68-acre project, is completed (on the Las Vegas Strip between Bellagio and Monte Carlo). Phase-two will (maybe) eventually occupy the space behind and between Monte Carlo and New York New York. The Boardwalk Hotel was demolished along with a few local businesses to make room for this immense project. Harmon Road meanders through CityCenter and across I-15 via an already completed bridge.

CityCenter is an ultra modern, urban environment with nicely hidden parking structures. The project has its own fire station, an on-site power plant, and lots of pedestrian space. CityCenter has achieve LEED certification for the project as outlined by the U.S. Green Building Council. Las Vegas is one of the leading cities for incorporating green technology.

With its focus on art, The complex is host to some of the worlds most renowned sculpture artists, including Maya Lin, Jenny Holzer, Claes Oldenburg, Coosje Van Bruggen, Nancy Rubins, Frank Stella, Henry Moore, and Richard Long.


The current inventory (with the respective architect) consists of:

- 4,004-room 61-story ARIA Resort & Casino (Cesar Pelli)
- 165,000-square-foot casino (Pelli)
- 400-room + 227 condos - Mandarin Oriental Hotel/Residences (Pedersen / Tihany)
- 400-room + 207 condos - The Harmon Hotel/Residences (Foster and Partners)
- 1543-unit Vdara Condo/Hotel tower (Rafael Viñoly)
- Twin, 337-unit luxury condo towers Veer (Helmut Jahn)
- 500,000-square-foot retail and entertainment space The Crystals Mall (Daniel Libeskind)
- $40 million worth of modern sculptures and installations by world famous artists
- 225,000 square feet of convention and meeting space
- 900,000 square feet for back-of-house operations
- 2,000-seat theater
- 70,000-square-foot spa
- 7,500-car parking garage
- Fire station
- People movers (trams)
- On-site power plant

CityCenter has a 1/4-mile Las Vegas Strip frontage. The project's center is the 61-story ARIA Resort & Casino with 4,000-rooms, designed by world renowned architect Cesar Pelli. There is plenty of glitz in the form of light shows projected against building facades. A new Cirque du Soleil show, called Elvis, premiered at the Aria Resort on opening day.

8,000 construction workers and 39 cranes were on site at the peak of construction.
The project created 12,000 new permanent positions when it opened.

CityCenter phased it's opening in December of 2009 and is currently the single most expensive privately funded project in the western hemisphere.

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