MGM Grand Plans to Blow Up Brand new 29 story hotel/condo

they need to throw a party the night they do it. open and close the thing on the same night, go out with a bang...

 

I hope the Jersey Shore cast host a huge party and they blow it up with them still inside.

 

Tood bad, it is a nice building from the exterior and fits nicely with the look and feel of the City Center.

 

The kayak tree is cool...

 

how do you salvage a building that is not structurally sound?

take note, MTV, we've got ratings GOLD here!

 

There's always more cockroaches to replace the ones you kill. Badabing!

 

Those look like pretty much all canoes....

 

Perini has a horrible, horrible history of screwing up construction projects and trying to weasel out of responsibility. For instance IIRC they are the main contractor that was involved in all the legal disputes with respect to the Big Dig in Boston, and they spent years trying to avoid responsibility there, and that was one of four or five open legal cases that they were fighting or had recently lost at the time.

Frankly, I think it was borderline negligent to hire them as primary contractor. Based on their history, I don't doubt they screwed up and don't want to accept responsibility.

 

^^ agree with a lot of legal maneuvering to do still.

On a smaller scale, if I hired someone to say, run duct work in my attic to properly cool a new bathroom I added, and there was no formal contract, and the contractor hired did the work but did it wrong and it was ineffective, would I be required to pay them for the work performed if they offered to come fix it? This is just a made up example btw, just trying to think it through on a small scale - I'd assume it was contractual in the case of the Harmon.

On a small scale, you would think it would be logical to not have to let the contractor come in and fix his work or pay him. Why would I want a contractor who wasn't very good to come in and fix something he clearly couldn't do right in the first place?

 

This.

The legal liabilities that could arise from structural flaws would be a nightmare among other things. Sometimes you only have 1 chance to get the job done right and it doesn't help when said contracting company has a history of making mistakes.

Safety first.

 

Looks like one of Michael Bay's Transformers.

 

I'm surprised to see the huge losses. Cosmo, Aria, and Vdara are great hotels.

I can't see myself staying anywhere but these hotels or Encore for quite some time.

 

I doubt anyone here knows enough about it to say who is right. If you do know, you're probably testifying about it.

 

I'm no expert on Vegas, architecture or anything like that, but it seems that the "city within a city" concept never seems to work no matter where they are trying to pull it off. For that matter, all grandiose plans set for the Vegas strip in recent memory seem to get either scrapped completely or scaled back before opening. I know there has been financial troubles in most of the giant casino chains in Vegas, but their batting average seems incredibly low.