The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas

This guide to The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas opens in the 2008 financial meltdown, when Deutsche Bank foreclosed on a half-built casino it had financed and found itself applying for a Nevada gaming license to finish the job. You'll hear how designer David Rockwell pitched a sixty-five-foot chandelier strung with two million crystals so guests could stand inside the light rather than just look at it, and follow the resort's opening in December 2010 as the priciest ever built on the Strip. It ends with the bank's own struggle to turn a casino floor profitable.