Aria Resort & Casino News - Page 16

The CityCenter mega-complex in Las Vegas was designed by seven different firms with an idea to create a modern urban development, not just another Strip hotel-casino.

MGM Mirage founder Kirk Kerkorian considers CityCenter's opening another historic event for the Strip.

A gaming analyst says that while Strip gaming and non-gaming revenues will increase in 2010, 70 to 90 percent of Citycenter's revenues will come at the expense of other Strip properties.

Wynn's Encore and CityCenter's Aria in Las Vegas are making more use of natural sunlight inside its casinos.

The retail and entertainment complex at CityCenter in Las Vegas will have to face a tough environment for luxury stores.

The Las Vegas mega-resort has dozens of small boardrooms and meeting spaces sprinkled throughout its hotels.

Developers of the $8.5 billion CityCenter project in Las Vegas said they have selected a national mortgage company to finance purchases.

Murren just completed a tumultuous first year as MGM Mirage's chairman and chief executive officer and helped keep the CityCenter mega-project on track.

CityCenter residential officials believe the opening of the $8.5 billion project as well as a price reduction implemented in October, will spur sales in the project's remaining high-rise condominiums.

Visitors to the MGM Mirage megacomplex on the Las Vegas Strip have heaped praise on the project, but say that it might be a little too high-end overall to attract mass appeal.

The new CityCenter hotel is billing itself as a true boutique nongaming hotel on the Las Vegas Strip.

MGM Mirage wants Crystals, the 500,000-square-foot luxury retail and entertainment district at CityCenter, to be the retail "epicenter" of the West.

Nevada gaming regulators are closing watching the financial maneuvers of Dubai World, who received a license to share in revenue from CityCenter's Aria casino.

The nearly 1,500-room nongaming Vdara hotel will welcome its first paying customers on Tuesday night.

MGM Mirage officials are hoping that President Barack Obama will drop by Las Vegas to acknowledge the opening of CityCenter.

The $8.5 billion CityCenter development will open its first hotel, Vdara, on Tuesday. The MGM Mirage project has made a number of headlines in the last 61 months, including coming within hours of filing for bankruptcy in March.

The Nevada Gaming Commission unanimously approved the casino license for Aria, CityCenter's centerpiece resort.

Gaming regulators granted preliminary licensing approval for the CityCenter's casino at Aria.

The Forest Stewardship Council-US has honored CityCenter as the best commercial project of 2009.

The casino giant also reported a revenue decline of 9 percent on the heels of the much-anticipated CityCenter opening.