Las Vegas - Project City Center Progress 122007

A Las Vegas QuickShot of the progress of Project City Center as seen yesterday from west of Interstate 15.

Las Vegas - Project City Center - 121207

A quickshot of Project City Center as seen from Las Vegas Boulevard.

Las Vegas - Project City Center - From The West Side

The familiar view of Project City Center is from Las Vegas Boulevard. Here is a shot of the progress of Project City Center from a few blocks west of The Strip. At this location Harmon is closed for construction access only.

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Photo taken Saturday 14 July 2007. No old stuff presented as new here.
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Project City Center has a website at:

http://www.citycenter.com/

Las Vegas - Planet Hollywood - Fully Open Inside

Answer:

Go across the street and attend the Planet Hollywood completion ceremony.

Question:

What are the construction workers at Project City Center going to do, one month after City Center is finished?

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In fairness, let me say that what is done at Planet Hollywood looks good, it is just that it seems to be taking forever. Across the street Project City Center is getting pretty large, pretty fast.

But so what. Planet Hollywood is fully open inside.

Las Vegas - Project City Center - Glass

Las Vegas, Nevada

Project City Center

A look at Project City Center which has begun installing glass in at least one of their buildings. Its an interesting development as seeing the glass provides a greater picture of what is being constructed.

Project City Center is located on Las Vegas Boulevard (actually between Las Vegas Boulevard and Industrial) north of Monte Carlo and south of Bellagio.

Las Vegas - Project City Center - Brighter

That last shot was rather dark. So here is one of Project City Center lightened up a bit. Again, this is from the Industrial side (not The Strip side). To the distant left can be seen Paris on The Strip.

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Las Vegas - Project City Center At Dusk - Security Man

There wasn't going to be a post until much later, but unexpected events have provided this moment of opportunity to make a short post.

Here we see a view of the progress of Project City Center at dusk, as seen from Industrial. (The more commonly viewed perspective is from Las Vegas Boulevard.

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Las Vegas - Project City Center Across The Street

How much longer?

How much longer will the few small things left on The Strip remain?

I can not argue that the small places are that important; anymore, anyway. But I always did like the way they divided up the content of The Strip.

It is almost all gone.

The gas station which had the sign offering free aspirin and tender sympathy is the CVS drugstore near the Monte Carlo.

Fantasia which was across from The Algiers is gone. The Algiers is gone too.

So is the wedding chapel which was just a little south of The Algiers (the Circus Circus - Riviera intersection).

The helicopter landing pad which was across from The Aladdin is now part of the Project City Center construction site. It was always cool to see the helicopter land and take off from a Strip location. It added excitement.

People walking along The Strip could without a reservation walk up and plunk down $49 to take a short helicopter ride to a little past the Stratosphere and back.

Although the helicopter rides are still available at a different location (airport), it was special to walk past it in the course of going from, say, The Monte Carlo to Bellagio.

Variety.

Wet N Wild is gone.

So when I see the small shops across from Project City Center (under construction) I wonder how much longer they will last.

Las Vegas - Planet Hollywood - Mosying Along

If there was a work slowdown at Planet Hollywood, how would you know?

There seems to be a lot of progress as Planet Hollywood is carved out of the former Aladdin. It is just that the progress appears to me to be occurring in a manner characterized by lack of speed.

Across the street, Project City Center is making noticeable growth. The rate of the work being done at PCC, seems to be much quicker than that at PH. I don't get it.

(If you are in the area, as I am, you can not help but compare the two, as both can be seen at the same time.)

On the front of Planet Hollywood (Las Vegas Boulevard side) I noticed what appeared to be a Las Vegas Boulevard side garage entrance, (similar to the taxi entrance which drops to a lower level at the Riviera). Perhaps I am wrong, as it is not done yet. I suppose that this would be a good addition to the Harmon Avenue garage entrance, as long as the sidewalk is not traversed by vehicles as it is at the Riviera.

[See one of the photos I am including and decide for yourself.]

My posts have been much more infrequent lately. Indeed I am keeping on, just slower. Much like Planet Hollywood.

Project City Center - Las Vegas Nevada

Here are two shots I took in the vicinity of Project City Center, as seen from the backside. If the parking garage at Monte Carlo still exists, I do not see it. Later this week I might be at the Monte, so I guess I will find out definitively what the parking situation is like.