THoughts on why MGM botched City Center so badly

THoughts on why MGM botched City Center so badly They obviously have some great properties. So how could they go so wrong? I think their best properties in Las Vegas were acquisitions. Mirage, Bellagio, Mandalay Bay all acquired. Their only two big properies they built were MGM and NYNY. 1. MGM's attractions were a disaster. You had to walk through the Big Lion's mouth and into the very cute not not profitable Wizard of Oz area. Back of the property was the ill timed kiddie them park. All three got eliminated. I can just hear the suits say "NO MORE OF THAT" going forward. Forget any attractions. Of course, parking not good, the sign of any badly run casino IMO. 2. NYNY. I don't like it, but I do think it has a personality. Liberty STatue, the Bridge outside, the fake high rises. Cheesy, but somehow ok, not great. IMO, they jettisoned the attraction idea with the early failings of the MGM.......totally clueless that the Mirage and Bellagio are premium properties due to their great attractions. There is literally NOTHING in this City Center worth going to see once, much less over and over.

My first time to Vegas since City Center opened will be in 9 days. We are staying at Mandalay Bay but we'll [U]have [/U]to pay a visit to City Center to at least say we saw it. We've been walking by and looking from a distance for 3 years now. It must be that long since they started building. Spend $8B and no special attraction hook..... crazy.

I get the impression they were trying to maximize profit per square foot. Sort of a beancounters play. They jammed too many buildings into too small a place and got a tangled mess that isn't easy to navigate and with no attraction at all. Their thought was better profit wise to have more buildings with pricey rooms and condos for sale than some free exploding fountain for the unwashed masses. Look at the sportsbook, small and stuck in a corner. More profitable to have more slot machines instead. They went with the business plan all casinos were in love with 4-5 years ago, punch the customer in the face at every turn. Expensive rooms, bad gambling, expensive food and drinks, expensive shows and lounges and shopping. As far as how screwed they are, look at what they built. The property is mostly rooms and condos. One casino in the back that isn't even easy to find and offers nothing but a punch in the face. Their plan seems to be make money off the rooms and selling condos. How much more wrong could that be now?

City Center added 10,000 jobs at a time most critical to the sole survival of las vegas, know matter how screwed up you think it is jobs never hurts. Opening soon if not already will be West Podium an state of the art pool deck, spa balconey, weight room, massage rooom, barber/hair saloon. This place is the real deal you have to see it you can sit in bubbly three story's above pool deck look out over the whole west side(well look out over the whole pool deck even at night drinking all the mia tia's you want. Get over there spend some of that contest money and spread te word to do the same thing next you'll know there will be five hilton contests.

City Center did not add 10,000 jobs to the Vegas economy...they just put Binions hotel and several others down the road (Sahara, Riviera, Hooters) out of business.

NO WAY I could ever endorse this place The folks with money are going to (rightly) stay at the Wynn Tower Suites, and some properites similar to the Wynn. I am amazed at how bad City Center is. Was walking it during the rain, and outside the pedestrian way flooded, and the drains were in the wrong place. I'm walking around the place and the 1st time I disliked it. The 2nd time I very strongly disliked it. The Emperor has no clothes. It will go down as the very symbol of the 2000s Corporate greed and incometence. I might add I HATE properties that don't have clear, easy, well labelled parking. Mr. Wynn understood how important this is. Bellagio, Mirage, Wynn all have good parking right next to the Casinos. The other Casino fat cats/Suits are clueless. They think all their customers are arriving by Limo to be dropped off, and blow off the importance of easy parking/well labelled parking. Harrah's is the king of bad parking. In fact, at Caesar's during the weekend, the Valet is ALWAYS full, but NO ONE at the WHOLE DAMN PROPERY has bothered to put a 'valet full if no diamond' sign on the entrance. So a traffic jam develops with the masses circling the Valet only to be turned away. Mind boggling how badly execs in this town managed to lose all the companies money despite offering a product that was like a printing press of money......only it only prints limited number of $100 bills, and not fast enough to pay the bills.

[url]https://seekingalpha.com/article/185095-is-mgm-about-to-ramp[/url] good comments at the bottom too.

LOL, OF COURSE the place was crowded/exciting during football NFC/AFC championships.. This donk will no doubt visit on 3/18 and conclude the same during the MArch Madness tourney.

nail on the head [QUOTE=EdTeach;17148]City Center did not add 10,000 jobs to the Vegas economy...they just put Binions hotel and several others down the road (Sahara, Riviera, Hooters) out of business.[/QUOTE] I hate to see any place thats been the history of vegas go down or be blown up, sad sad day when the dunes went down, I remember playing the dunes as a kid when two guys roll in after playing a round(each weighing 300lbs) one pulls out this wad of bills and clicks off at least $5,000 and said same time tomorrow, would have liked to challege either one at the time.The tropicana wasn't to bad to play, lets hope something changes I am no longer a democrat call me independant.