The Vegas shrine to corporate greed, arrogance, mismanagement and just plain stupid ideas created by out of touch, over paid committees, opens its doors tomorrow.
City Center. That $9 billion albatross to the Vegas skyline starts to open its doors on Tuesday. Changing Las Vegas forever. The sad thing is that it won’t matter if this project works or fails, we will be stuck looking at this ungodly group of steel and glass structures for generations. As if from a fake Manhattan skyline.
As anyone who has read this blog knows, I am not a big fan of this failure in the making. It’s half owned by some of the people who helped pay for the 9/11 attacks. The other half is owned by one of the largest, most out of touch casino companies in America.
Just goes to show you what happens when you have a management team that looks at spreadsheets instead of customers. If they had any clue to who their customers were, this thing would never have been built.
But it has been built and we now have to deal with the consequences it creates. It can get all the great raves and back slapping “congratulations” from the hypocrite enviro-geeks. But it has been and will continue to be an economy busting project for those of us who must live, work and survive with it.
If I lived in New York or Chicago, I guess I would sit around the fern bar with my friends, drink funny fruity drinks and rave about how this is such an amazing addition to the already clogged skyline of similarly exotic buildings.
It’s ultra modernistic looking metal and glass buildings of various shapes and colors just scream ordinary big city. All of this being built around an over priced shopping and entertainment complex that will be anchored by yet another Cirq show centered on a dead Vegas icon (Elvis).
But this is not Chicago, nor is it New York. This is Las Vegas, Nevada. And it is an ugly addition to the skyline that was doing very well on its own by not being Chicago or Los Angeles.
People don’t come to Las Vegas to get wrapped up in a fantasy about being in another metal structure that looks similar to the ones they just left back home. Vegas tourism is about getting away. Its about NOT being reminded of what you just left.
To add insult to injury, rumors are abound that the two men, the chief architects of this booming economy we are experiencing; senator Harry Reid and president Obama, may come out to slap themselves on the back for making this “dream“ happen.
Vadara opens first. 1,500 suites and penthouse suites. Rooms rates begin at $129 (how bad is that??)
Aria opens its 1,400-room palace later this month and rooms can be had for $159
