City Center's Aria To Open Wed. Night
After 16 days of preliminaries, the main event has arrived.
Aria, the hotel-casino centerpiece of the $8.5 billion CityCenter development, will be unveiled to the public late Wednesday.
The masses won’t get inside the 4,004-room hotel-casino before several last-minute media events, an invitation-only high-end VIP reception and an 11 p.m. fireworks display from atop the 61-story hotel tower, just in time for the local television news broadcasts.
The public is expected to be allowed into Aria sometime before midnight.
Unlike Strip hotel openings from the past 20 years by other companies, MGM Mirage has not kept Aria, or all of CityCenter for that matter, under wraps.
Over the past month, company communications officials and CityCenter’s public relations team have conducted hundreds of media tours of the 18-million-square-foot, 67-acre complex.
On Dec. 1, the 1,500-room, nongaming Vdara opened, followed by the Crystals retail complex on Dec. 3. Two days later, the nongaming, ultra-luxury Mandarin Oriental welcomed the public.
Photos and video of CityCenter’s buildings, designed by world-renowned architects, and the project’s $40 million worth of public art, have been beamed around the world.
With all the images, stories, articles and blogs written and produced about CityCenter in the past several weeks, one would have to be a resident of Pluto — or at least be without an Internet connection — to not know that CityCenter, the largest privately financed development, was opening after five years of construction.
But Aria is the focal point.
It is the only CityCenter element with gaming and was designed to be centerstage.
To read more from Howard Stutz at the Review Journal click the link below:
http://www.lvrj.com/news/breaking_news/CityCenters-Aria-ready-to-open-tonight-79362112.html
Aria, the hotel-casino centerpiece of the $8.5 billion CityCenter development, will be unveiled to the public late Wednesday.
The masses won’t get inside the 4,004-room hotel-casino before several last-minute media events, an invitation-only high-end VIP reception and an 11 p.m. fireworks display from atop the 61-story hotel tower, just in time for the local television news broadcasts.
The public is expected to be allowed into Aria sometime before midnight.
Unlike Strip hotel openings from the past 20 years by other companies, MGM Mirage has not kept Aria, or all of CityCenter for that matter, under wraps.
Over the past month, company communications officials and CityCenter’s public relations team have conducted hundreds of media tours of the 18-million-square-foot, 67-acre complex.
On Dec. 1, the 1,500-room, nongaming Vdara opened, followed by the Crystals retail complex on Dec. 3. Two days later, the nongaming, ultra-luxury Mandarin Oriental welcomed the public.
Photos and video of CityCenter’s buildings, designed by world-renowned architects, and the project’s $40 million worth of public art, have been beamed around the world.
With all the images, stories, articles and blogs written and produced about CityCenter in the past several weeks, one would have to be a resident of Pluto — or at least be without an Internet connection — to not know that CityCenter, the largest privately financed development, was opening after five years of construction.
But Aria is the focal point.
It is the only CityCenter element with gaming and was designed to be centerstage.
To read more from Howard Stutz at the Review Journal click the link below:
http://www.lvrj.com/news/breaking_news/CityCenters-Aria-ready-to-open-tonight-79362112.html
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