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MGM Wants to Level the Harmon

(August 2011) posted on Tue Aug 16, 2011 EDT

Unfinished CityCenter tower may be razed


MGM Resorts International says it wants to implode the unfinished Harmon Tower within the CityCenter complex, The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. Earlier this week, the casino operator told Clark County officials that the structurally troubled 27-story tower on the Las Vegas Strip can't be fixed, and submitted a plan to implode the unfinished luxury hotel and condominium tower.

The newspaper reports MGM Resorts was responding to a directive from the Clark County Building Department, which sought a solution to public safety concerns surrounding the Harmon. Last month, a structural engineering firm said the building could collapse in a major earthquake.

However, Perini Building Co., CityCenter's general contractor, maintains it can fix the building. Meantime, construction-defect issues surrounding the Harmon have the building's immediate future held up in a Clark County District Court lawsuit between Perini and MGM Resorts, which is the operator and 50 percent owner of CityCenter, according to the Review-Journal.


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