And now for something
completely different MGM Resorts International imagines the Strip as you never knew it. By David McKee
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Las Vegas casino executive once referred to the south end of the Las Vegas Strip as “MGM country.” It’s an apt nickname. MGM Resorts International controls three corners of the Las Vegas
Boulevard/Tropicana Avenue intersection (the venerable Tropicana Resort & Casino takes up the fourth) and its holdings stretch further southward to the huge Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, not
to mention an unbroken string of megaresorts that culminates on Flamingo Road with the iconic Bellagio. Way, way up there, at what is functionally the north end of the Strip, is MGM’s outpost for bargain hunters and families: Circus Circus Hotel Casino. In late 2009, MGM CEO Jim Murren tried to bring
“New Urbanism” to Las Vegas with $9.2 billion CityCenter, It didn’t change visitors’ habits, as Murren
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