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President and CEO of Mirage Resorts and CityCenter project lead, Bobby Baldwin, has observed that another project in Las Vegas of the scale and nature of CityCenter won’t happen again in our lifetimes. Scale is only the start of the story. To discover what really makes CityCenter tick, it pays to look closer.  

“We’ve compressed incredible variety and appeal into the CityCenter location,” says Dennis. “Key to CityCenter’s attraction is the architectural design, quality of construction, and intuitive service across the board.”

Designing for people and posterity.
Understanding that a great urban place depends on diversity, MGM MIRAGE is upholding a commitment to involve people of varied ages, backgrounds, ethnicities, and beliefs in every aspect of CityCenter’s planning, design, construction, and operation. The company, widely acknowledged for its diversity leadership, views this commitment as one of the keys to creating a truly vital community.

At CityCenter, sustainability is diversity’s counterpart: In a fast-growing city in the middle of the desert, CityCenter’s planners and designers reason it only makes sense to use resources wisely. The very look and feel of the place – dense and vertical versus flat and spread out – suggest the kind of conscious decisions made at every level.

Sustainability has economic dimensions as well as environmental ones: Done right, sustainable buildings consume less energy and residential owners can pay lower utility bills. They might also see tax benefits.

With these concerns top-of-mind, CityCenter aims to be the first project in Nevada – and by far the largest anywhere – to receive LEED™ (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. LEED certification is a benchmark for building performance in the areas of human and environmental health. It will factor in CityCenter’s site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection, and indoor environmental quality.

“Our pursuit of LEED is a leadership statement – a statement of MGM MIRAGE as a company and as a developer,” says Dennis.

Architecture and the art of the possible.
Can a genuine, dynamic and alive destination be created in a single stroke? MGM MIRAGE believes so – as long as the ideal mix of vision, resources and talent are in place. To plan, design and build CityCenter, the company selected world-renowned architects and the country’s foremost builders, Perini Building Company and Tishman Construction. This group, together with an expanded team of top interior architects and designers, started with a dense, yet flowing, master plan developed by New York’s Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut and Kuhn (EEK) Architects. From there, design extended from buildings and infrastructure (including an automated people mover) all the way down to the colors of countertops and the cutlery on the table.