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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