City Center Las Vegas: Sin City Grows Up
From its conception, City Center Las Vegas has been one of the most ambitious projects in the city's history. While every new resort that opens in Vegas is designed to one up those that opened before it, City Center Las Vegas was conceived almost as a challenge to the rest of the developers in Vegas, as if to ask “can you top this?” A massive 76 acre complex made up of seven unique yet connected buildings designed to create nothing less ambitious than a true Vegas Urban center to rival that of a city like Manhattan, it's United States' biggest privately funded construction project ever. City Center features the 4,000 room Aria Hotel and Casino, the 57 story non-gaming hotel and residence Vdara, the 400 room non-gaming boutique Harmon Hotel, the Eastern influenced luxury resort Mandarin Oriental, the architecturally impressive luxury condominium building Veer Towers, and the gorgeous luxury shopping center The Crystals. In addition to the ambitious group of towers, the massive complex also features its own People Mover System to transport visitors between the different buildings, a great collection of public art, and even a tree-lined pocket park... a truly unique feature in Vegas that further evokes the feeling of being in a big city rather than a Vegas resort. The ambitious vision behind City Center Las Vegas NV was to create a true urban center featuring modern architecture that would keep Vegas at pace with some of the great cities in the world... and a tour of the massive complex proves that the creators of City Center have pulled off their dreams with style!
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