{"id":1821,"date":"2010-01-07T11:54:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T19:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2010-01-07T11:54:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T19:54:27","slug":"citycenters-original-spore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/citycenters-original-spore\/","title":{"rendered":"CityCenter&#8217;s original spore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1822\" title=\"bubble drawing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bubble-drawing.jpg\" alt=\"bubble drawing\" width=\"500\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bubble-drawing.jpg 672w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bubble-drawing-150x110.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bubble-drawing-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the &#8220;bubble drawing,&#8221; roughed out by <strong>Jim Murren<\/strong> and <strong>MGM Mirage Design Group<\/strong> head <strong>Bill Smith<\/strong> back in February 2004, the tiny acorn from which <strong>CityCenter <\/strong>sprouted. Our thanks to <strong>MGM Mirage<\/strong> for sharing it with us. It will also be featured in a forthcoming <em>Question of the Day<\/em> over who deserves the credit for conceiving CityCenter. There&#8217;s a brewing controversy over the prevalent narrative (that it was Murren&#8217;s baby), with <strong>Roger Gros<\/strong> and perhaps a few others insisting that then-CEO <strong>J. Terrence Lanni<\/strong> was the proud papa. Both sides of the dispute will be aired shortly. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the &#8220;bubble drawing,&#8221; roughed out by Jim Murren and MGM Mirage Design Group head Bill Smith back in February 2004, the tiny acorn from which CityCenter sprouted. Our thanks to MGM Mirage for sharing it with us. It will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/citycenters-original-spore\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,56,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1823,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions\/1823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}