Tourist attraction
ARIA Resort & Casino
3730 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89158, USA
Curvilinear glass resort tower centered on a vast urban complex, its lobby strung with sculpted maple-leaf art.
This guide to ARIA in Las Vegas follows the CityCenter project in the depths of the 2008 financial crisis, when MGM Resorts and its partner Dubai World were mid-build on what became the most expensive privately funded construction job in American history. It covers the lawsuit between the two partners, the two hundred twenty million dollar payment Dubai World refused to make, and how MGM found itself staring at half-finished glass towers with no way to pay the crews. Behind the scenes, Nevada senator Harry Reid was already on the phone with bank executives, working a problem of his own.
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