How big is MGM's City Center?
I just discovered the blog by local journalist Steve Friess who, among much else, does many of Newsweek's Las Vegas articles. I am hooked. On Friday, Friess focused a paragraph of intelligence on what should be a simple question about City Center, the MGM project that is being called the world's most expensive privately funded construction effort. How big is it? According to all of the information I originally got from MGM (and reported in the press) the construction project was 66 acres. But Friess points out The New York Times in an April 24 article referred to City Center as 67 acres. Finally, a spokesperson for the company tells Friess this masterpiece of confusion (and, yet a third number) from MGM: "Please use 76. There is some technical debate internally, but 76 is in use far and wide and it's not inaccurate." This is now the official "not inaccurate" number on the City Center site, too.



Yeah, Steve and I were discussing this the other day. I checked our blog and we've been publishing 76, which I think we got from MGM:
http://www.ratevegas.com/blog/2007/04/city_center_vis.html
It's funny how this all shakes out though... Someone should go down and add up the parcels...
Posted by: Hunter | May 01, 2007 at 08:49 AM