MGM City Center位于 Las Vegas Strip中心，美丽湖赌场酒店和蒙特卡洛景区之间。

这一项目将2700户私人住宅、两栋400客房的非wxd71b108f461928c9式精品酒店、一栋60层高，含4000客房的度假娱乐场，以及大约500000平方英尺的零售娱乐设施融合进单一城市核心。

整个方案由MGM MIRAGE和8位世界顶级建筑师合力完成。

这一项目有望在2009年底完工。

MGM City Center Project
New York City’s Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut & Kuhn Architects, is planning and designing a $7 billion, 18-million-square-foot vertical development called the MGM MIRAGE Project CityCenter for MGM MIRAGE Corporation on the Las Vegas Strip. The 66-acre metropolis will be built between the Bellagio and Monte Carlo hotel casinos and will be a mixed-use cosmopolitan center of hotels, luxury condominiums, and shopping—all within an urban setting.
The mixed-use development will be composed of a “skyline” of two 400-room boutique hotels, one 4,000-room hotel and casino, four towers of 2,500 residential units, and 550,000 square feet of high-end retail, dining, and entertainment space. The total number of buildings will be between 40 and 50, with the tallest buildings 65–70 stories. Construction will begin this summer and completion is expected within five years. The modest Boardwalk Hotel, owned by MGM and known for its Coney Island amusement park faade, currently sits with lot space between Bellagio and Monte Carlo but will close in May 2006.
The ambitious mini-city project will allow people to gamble, shop, dine, walk, and even live—without ever leaving the property. The pedestrian-oriented urban environment will be the first on the Strip to combine private residences with hotels and casinos. Public squares, hidden parking structures, covered passageways, and a boulevard are all part of the urban plan.
Integrated work of architecture
Stanton Eckstut, FAIA, principal-in-charge, points out that MGM MIRAGE is an integrated work of architecture stressing a cosmopolitan design. “MGM came to us with a vision of a city as the next attraction, believing that Las Vegas was maturing and needed more of an urban fabric,” he says. “They were seeking higher density and mixed uses. They were challenging us to accomplish that.”
Peter Cavaluzzi, FAIA, design principal, explains that MGM had an interest in residential. “It’s a big market that they are trying to meet in Las Vegas, and they wanted to create a development right on the Strip that incorporated residential,” he says. “They had a vision of ‘the city of the 22nd century.’ They wanted it to be very contemporary and a reflection of Las Vegas’ new brand of urbanism. This is not a theme development. The theme, if there is one, is city-making.”
Eckstut stresses that the density of parking was one of the biggest challenges. “Parking is free and there is a lot of parking. We were given the opportunity to provide convenient parking and at the same time, through design, make sure you never see the parking. That’s not something any modern city has done, and the absence of visible parkin