Construction on Project CityCenter is underway. The development's most prominent feature, a 60-story, 4,000-room hotel-casino designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli, is beginning to take shape. The main casino-hotel will sit behind the Veer leaning condo towers without the typical Strip front location or dramatic entry facades that are the norm for Vegas hotels. And the CityCenter hotel tower will be shaped as an elongated S, not the usual Y shape, for a very dramatic architectural effect.

CityCenter will also include retail, entertainment, restaurants and other amenities in an urban village setting. An elliptical people mover has been designed to help visitors navigate between the four corners of Harmon Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard which is destined to be one of the busiest intersections in the world.

The residential choices will include Veer, a condominium-only project, two condominium developments that will be built on top of boutique hotels, and VDara, a free-standing condo-hotel. The Veer leaning towers will house 810 loft-style condominiums, soaring 36 stories above Las Vegas Boulevard and prominently serving as the gateway to MGM CityCenter. The towers are the creation of German-born architect Helmut Jahn, known for sleek, ultramodern exteriors and unusual shapes.

Las Vegas architect Joel Bergman, who helped design the Mirage, Treasure Island and Paris Las Vegas, among other local resorts, said the towers will make other cutting-edge designs "look tame." The cutting edge leaning design will challenge engineers but benefit residents because their views will be less obstructed than would be in a conventional high rise. While appearing to be smooth glass from a distance, the building's skin will feature horizontal metal blades that will shade floor-to-ceiling windows from Las Vegas' summer heat. The illuminated blades will slowly change colors. Construction on Veer is set to begin in November and expected to be complete by 2010.

VDara, is a 1,543-unit condominium-hotel with units ranging from 500 square feet to 1,850 square feet. VDara will be built between Bellagio and the CityCenter hotel-casino. Fifty stories of elegant design, will offer fully furnished and fully appointed condo-hotel suites.

The Mandarin Oriental Hotel will have approximately 227 condominium units above the 400-room hotel tower, with the 4,100-square-foot penthouses coming with the highest price tag in Project CityCenter at $8 million. The Mandarin Oriental Hotel at CityCenter will include 400 hotel suites as well as more than 200 condominium ultra-luxurious residence units designed to appeal to an international jet set buyer profile. These units atop the Mandarin promise to be some of Las Vegas' most prime "trophy properties".

A second boutique hotel, The Harmon, will be operated by MGM Mirage. It will have 228 condominiums above its 400 hotel rooms. Developed by the Light Group, known for Panorama Towers and Spa Lofts, these units will appeal to the young, hip, and trendy buyers.

As the leading high rise condo sales team in Las Vegas, June & Lauren Stark of Ezra International Realty, have been chosen VIP real estate brokers to be part of the mid-November reservation pre-sale of MGM City Center. The Stark Team was instrumental in the very successful sell-out of TRUMP Towers Las Vegas, with June being featured on the TRUMP Towers promotional DVD and Lauren on HGTV giving a Trump Condo-Hotel Model Tour . As the #1 sales team in the Cosmopolitan Resort, being built across Harmon Avenue from Project City Center, the team has a solid track record of representing buyers in the first phases of preconstruction sales. Sky Las Vegas luxury condominiums on the strip, just honored the Stark Team as the # 1 sales agents by giving the team a new Saab convertible.

Registering with the Stark Team will secure your priority placement in prime units in MGM City Center. Those who register will be e-mailed info as early as November 18th. MGM has announced that public sales will begin in January.

June & Lauren Stark and Ezra International make no representations as to the accuracy of the above info. All info deemed correct but not guaranteed. By registering with the Stark Team, via website, you agree to be represented by June & Lauren Stark and Ezra International Realty as cooperating brokers with MGM Project CityCenter as developers.