A Cosmopolitan with a few surprise ingredients
The 2,995-room resort next to CityCenter is chameleon-like, offering non-gambling areas separate from the gaming crowd, rooms with balconies, digitally up-to-date surroundings, upscale shopping, eight restaurants, artists-in-residence and a few other twists on the Vegas formula.
-- The Los Angeles Times
(December 05, 2010) --
By Jay Jones, Special to the Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Las Vegas
If you take stock of the Vegas landscape, it's no wonder several Las Vegas clubs are hosting "good riddance to 2010" New Year's Eve parties.
The construction cranes atop the flashy but bankrupt Fontainebleau resort, between the Sahara and the Riviera, haven't moved in months. Opposite the Riviera, plywood-covered fences try to hide the foundations for Echelon, a CityCenter wannabe whose owners have pulled the plug, at least temporarily. And at CityCenter, the multi-billion-dollar hotel/retail behemoth that debuted a year ago, the problem-plagued Harmon Hotel will not open this month as expected. Indeed, the owners have even discussed tearing it down.
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