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By Steve Marcus · May 1, 2009 · 3:50 p.m.

Vegas slump hits Station Casinos
LOOKING IN ON: GAMING: With operations concentrated here, its fate closely tied to local economy
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
By Liz Benston
Station Casinos has historically reaped impressive gains by putting most of its eggs in one basket: Las Vegas. But the housing slump appears to be hurting Station more than companies that own casinos outside of the Vegas.
Despite slowdown, casino giant spending big
MGM Mirage is investing beyond the $8 billion it’s paying to build CityCenter
Monday, May 12, 2008
By Liz Benston
Even as gamblers, shoppers and diners are clutching to their dollars and Las Vegas reels from the worst economic slowdown since Sept. 11, MGM Mirage is spending billions of dollars on itself.
CityCenter signals a change in the very nature of development on the Strip
BIZ BUZZ:
Monday, May 12, 2008
By Jeff Simpson
It is amazing how easy it is for those of us who live in Las Vegas to fail to appreciate the tremendous changes under way on the Strip.
CityCenter still selling condos despite slowdown
LOOKING IN ON: GAMING:
Friday, May 9, 2008
By Liz Benston
While some Las Vegas condos are in foreclosure as buyers walk away from purchase contracts, MGM Mirage — defending a lawsuit filed by unhappy Signature condo-hotel owners — says no buyers have canceled purchases at CityCenter despite the housing slump.
Something we didn’t plan for
Something we didn’t plan for
Infrastructure: Vegas draws strong reactions during a national planners’ conference
Thursday, May 8, 2008
By Patrick Wirtz
Learning from Las Vegas is the title of an iconic book that first gave some positive recognition to the cultural significance of our market-driven landscape.
Slot makers pull together
Slot makers pull together
New way of controlling machines forces competitors to cooperate
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
By Liz Benston
As steel girders and shimmering glass define the exterior of the rising CityCenter, slot machine engineers and computer techies behind the scene are trying to figure out how to wire the casino of the future. Their new slot machines will behave like a network of personal computers with high-speed Internet access, linked to a computer server in a back office that will give players and the house alike unprecedented control over the slots.
Mystery surrounds CityCenter fatality
Investigation under way in electrician’s fall — fifth death at project
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
By Alexandra Berzon
Electrician Mark Wescoat, 47, of New Jersey fell to his death at MGM Mirage’s CityCenter work site Saturday. Nine other workers have died in construction accidents in Strip building projects, including four at CityCenter, over the past 17 months.
Harold "Rusty" Billingsley's hard hat and work boots are reminders of the job that led to the ironworker's death Oct. 5 while working on CityCenter.
Pace is the new peril
Construction Worker Deaths on the Strip: Amid pressure to finish massive projects, 9 men have died in 16 months
Sunday, March 30, 2008
By Alexandra Berzon
In the shadows of the cranes, steel and concrete upon which Las Vegas has pinned its addiction to growth, a body count has emerged. Nine construction workers have died in eight accidents since the end of 2006 at the towers that are redefining the Las Vegas skyline — Trump, CityCenter, Cosmopolitan, Fontainebleau and Palazzo. That’s as many deaths in 16 months as were reported during the entire 1990s building boom on the Strip.
Tourist Melony McCarrell of Victoria, Texas, watches a public art demonstration on the Fremont Street canopy of a work by artist Jenny Holzer, “For Las Vegas.” Holzer’s piece for CityCenter features phrases scrolled on a giant LED screen.
CityCenter: ‘Only in Vegas’ works for the art world, too
MGM Mirage putting $40 million into contemporary works for its city within a city on the Strip
Monday, March 10, 2008
By Kristen Peterson
The $40 million that CityCenter is spending on art not only creates a permanent collection on a scale unseen in Las Vegas, it also perpetuates the oft-used phrase, “only in Vegas.”
Student’s plan illustrates quirk in local job market
Looking in on: Higher Education: She may spend years working on Strip before using degree
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
By Charlotte Hsu
Felicia Hersh, a junior at UNLV and an aspiring museum curator, says she will probably pursue a master’s degree in history after she finishes her undergraduate studies.
The $1.9 billion Palazzo, at left, opened in December 2007, boasting 3,068 rooms. The resort is shown here in February 2008.
How many new rooms? Let’s just say, a lot
Some projects on lists promoting Vegas might get built later — or never
Saturday, February 16, 2008
By Liz Benston
Before the financial markets sputtered and the economy soured, the folks paid to promote Las Vegas boasted that within a few years, more than 40,000 new hotel rooms would sprout on the horizon. But a Strip executive doubts even half that many will be built.
A model of the CityCenter Las Vegas project on display at their sales office off Las Vegas Boulevard South in Las Vegas.
Behold, the tiny, beguiling future
CityCenter sells a dream that everyone can glide through, if not afford
Friday, February 15, 2008
By Joe Brown
I have seen the future of Las Vegas and it smells good. You can walk right into it. It’s surprisingly close, just behind New York-New York and the Monte Carlo. This is the CityCenter Sales Pavilion, boasting a suite of architectural models the size of dump trucks.
‘Green’ building brings hotshot firm to Vegas
Looking in on: Gaming: L.A. legal shop will help projects get green A-OKs — and save
Friday, February 8, 2008
By Liz Benston
A high-profile Los Angeles law firm to movie studios, record companies and Kirk Kerkorian is opening a Las Vegas practice specializing in real estate, corporate law — and shepherding clients through the cumbersome but ultimately lucrative process of being declared environmentally friendly.
Construction continues on MGM Mirage’s $7.8 billion CityCenter project between the Monte Carlo and the Bellagio on the Las Vegas Strip. Executives say they are not sweating the roughly 1,300 condo units yet to be sold, largely because of the strong market for international tourism, which they plan to tap with a sales office in the United Arab Emirates.
As market gets tougher, CityCenter to sell in Dubai
Thursday, January 24, 2008
By Liz Benston
Six months ago, Dubai’s government-owned conglomerate hot to invest on the Las Vegas Strip and enthralled by MGM Mirage’s CityCenter development came knocking with an offer to buy a half-interest in the project and acquire a 9.5 percent stake in the gaming giant.