Las Vegas City Center, Largest Environmentally Sustainable Urban Communities

City Center, a green development project coming up in Las Vegas, is the largest privately financed development in North America. It’s an $8 billion venture between MGM MIRAGE and Dubai World, the first building is scheduled to be opened at the end of 2009. On completion of the entire City Center project, it includes a resort casino, two non-gaming resort hotels, and almost 500,000 square foot retail and entertainment space and also will feature a $40 million public fine art program.

las vegas green city

las vegas green city


The sustainable buzz around CityCenter starts with the team. At the core of the design are some of our favorite green-minded architects including Pelli Clarke Pelli, Foster + Partners, and Rafael Vinoly. The developers have also employed hundreds of sustainability consultants to bring a whole systems approach to the project, and the tradesmen carrying out construction are educated in green building practice. MGM MIRAGE has trained over 10,000 construction trade and craftsmen on green building techniques that are already being forged into the site.

CityCenter is making some pretty big efforts to tout itself as a model of sustainability. Green building practices like recycling construction waste, using eco-friendly materials, boosting natural lighting, and incorporating an onsite co-generation power plant are just a few of the ways that the project is earning its eco-credentials. Materials from the imploded Boardwalk Hotel (cleared for the site of CityCenter) are being recycled into the project, crushed to be recycled into material going into the project, and bathroom fixtures are being shipped to other countries wrapped in the old drapes and carpeting from the original hotel to be used again.

las vegas green city

las vegas green city

via Inhabitat



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3 thoughts on “Las Vegas City Center, Largest Environmentally Sustainable Urban Communities

  1. Are they going to have a walkway across Las Vegas Blvd? Or is it going to be just your little city? Please answer this.

  2. With recession in 08+ Ive seen NO new construction since attending event Feb 2009.

    Nothing is moving, cranes idle.

    Very compact city complex & NO bridge X LV Blvd.

    Unique. X from new ENCORE Casino, Las Vegas NV.

    I agree, nothing stands out as Unique vs

    HYDRO NET for SF City project

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