Only in Vegas

[KenP]

Holy smokes this is huge!

http://www.citycenter.com/default.aspx
http://www.vegastodayandtomorrow.com/citycenter.htm

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

• 4,000-room 60-story CityCenter Resort and Casino (Cesar Pelli)
• 165,000-square-foot casino (Pelli)
• 400-room Mandarin Oriental Hotel/Residences (Pedersen / Tihany)
• 400-room The Harmon Hotel/Residences (Foster and Partners)
• 1500-unit Vdara Condo/Hotel tower (Rafael Vi?oly)
• Twin, 350-unit luxury condo towers Veer (Helmut Jahn)
• 500,000 square feet of retail and entertainment space (Daniel Libeskind)
• 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 will have a 1/4 mile Strip frontage. The project's center will be 60-story casino/resort with 4,000-rooms, designed by world renowned architect Cesar Pelli.

There will be plenty of glitz in the form of light shows projected against building facades and plenty of Times Square style neon. Preliminary reports from MGM MIRAGE state that a new Cirque du Soleil show, called Elvis, will premiere at the CityCenter Resort on opening day.

CityCenter will have 8,000 construction workers and 39 cranes on site at the peak of construction and create 12,000 new permanent positions once open.