Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009 | midnight
Ground breaking: April 3, 2006
First opening: Dec. 1, 2009
Final cost: $8.5 billion
Land: Set on 67 acres between the Monte Carlo and Bellagio
Campus size: 18 million square feet
Rooms and residences: About 6,800 hotel rooms and condos
Buildings: Upon completion, four hotels, two residential towers, one casino and one shopping mall
Permanent job: CityCenter hired 12,000 permanent employees from a pool of more than 160,000 applications
Construction jobs: About 9,000 during the development of CityCenter
Project architects: Six
Concrete: More than 1 million cubic yards
Glass: 2.7 million square feet of glass used for the curtain walls in the development
Steel: 78,000 tons of steel
Strip frontage: 1,200 feet of Strip frontage
Public art: $40 million of fine art
Spas: Three. Aria houses an 80,000-square-foot spa, the largest among the MGM Mirage properties
Dining: 27 restaurants and 14 bars and lounges
LEED certified facilities: Six, including Aria's hotel tower, convention center and theater; Veer Towers; Mandarin Oriental; Vdara and Crystals retail district
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