Two more CityCenter structures earn high green ratings

Mandarin Oriental and Veer Towers both get LEED Gold certifications

Steve Marcus

A view of Veer Towers, left, and the Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas are shown during a tour of MGM Mirage’s CityCenter project Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. The photo is taken looking east from the Aria toward Las Vegas Boulevard. Properties in the $8.5 billion project will open next month.

By Amanda Finnegan (contact)

Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 | 11:04 a.m.

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LEED Certification

Two more facilities at CityCenter have achieved LEED Gold Certification, MGM Mirage announced today.

Mandarin Oriental and Veer Towers have both reached the high environmental standard, bringing the total of LEED Gold certified facilities to six. Others include Crystals retail district, Vdara, ARIA’s hotel tower and separately, its convention center and theater.

The gold rating is the second highest rating available from the council, given to buildings that score between 60 and 79 points on a 100-point scale that evaluates a building's site, the materials and resources used to build it and design innovation, among other things.

“From its inception to design, development and construction, we had one single goal in mind for CityCenter: Create a destination that is not only built in an environmentally sustainable manner, but also operates every day with an equal commitment to conserving natural resources,” CityCenter President and CEO Bobby Baldwin said.

Sustainability highlights at CityCenter will include radiant floor cooling, skylights, a fleet of stretch limos powered by natural gas and water conservation technology that is expected to save the complex approximately 50 million gallons per year.

Last week, The Forest Stewardship Council honored CityCenter as the best commercial project of 2009 in the fifth annual Designing & Building with FSC Awards.

MGM Mirage will begin to open its $8.5 billion complex starting Dec. 1 with the opening of Vdara, followed by the opening of Crystals Dec. 3, Mandarin Oriental on Dec. 4 and ARIA on Dec. 16. Residential occupancies are slated to being mid-January while the Harmon will open late 2010.

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By In2wishin

Nov. 20, 2009

11:08 p.m.

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What about solar energy panels? All that sea of glass, and not a Volt, Alas!
By BorisR

Nov. 20, 2009

11:28 p.m.

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Are we in Vegas ? This looks like downtown L.A. or Chicago, but anything but casino heaven!!! Do they have loose slots and gaming facilities in these bank towers, too?
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By Seriously

Nov. 23, 2009

10:56 a.m.

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I cant stand these boring blue glass buildings like this that are popping up all over the strip. What happened to our hotels looking original? These city center buildings look like office buildings that every other major city has.. BORING and uninteresting to look at. A big pile of buildings all thrown together.