CITY CENTER - Sunrise

City Center, looking north up the Las Vegas Strip. 6:45 am - April 8, 2010.

Mandarin Oriental, Aria, Veer Towers, Crystals Mall and a Cosmopolitan tower.

Aria, Veer Towers and Cosmoplitan Tower 2.

Veer Tower 1, Crystals, the Harmon Towers, the Cosmopolitan and Bellagio's sign.

Front Strip entrance into Crystals is to the right of Tom Ford's and YSL.

Mandarin Oriental and Veer.

New York NY, CVS pharmacy, Mandarin, City Center driveway entrance and Crystals.

Crystal's Mall, ther Harmon Hotel and Cosmopolitan Towers 1 and 2,

Westward view of the Harmon Intersection and Las Vegas Boulevard, taken from the Harley-Davidson parking garage. Harmon Avenue continues beyond the Strip and leads to Aria, Vdara, the Panorama Towers and Dean Martin Drive, the Rio and all points west. This can be a good road to use to by-pass Strip traffic on busy nights.

Planet Hollywood and Caesars are to the right. NYNY and MGM are to the left.

The Harmon, Vdara and Aria Hotels.

Aria (right) with the leaning Veer Towers (left).

Part of Aria Hotel with Vdara to the right.

Veer Towers, with Aria behind and Mandarin Hotel, to the left.

The City Center Neighborhood

Planet Hollywood's Westgate Tower is across from City Center on Harmon Avenue.

Planet Hollywood and the Paris Hotel are north of City Center, across the street.

This is the mini-mall that's currently across the street from City Center. The Hawaiian Market Place and the Polo Towers are just south of the cars. The Polo Tower has an excellent view of the entire City Center property. I'm not yet sure if photos can be taken from the top of the the Polo Tower, but I hope to soon find out.

The view looking south from the City Center area of the Strip, showing Monte Carlo, NYNY, Excalibur, Mandalay Bay and the MGM Grand's main roadsign on the boulevard.

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The New Mid-Strip

Walking the Las Vegas Strip

There's a lot more pedestrian foot traffic and activity, on the Strip, than ever before. For the first time since The Strip began, back in 1941, the vacant lots of the Mid-Strip are all filled in with hotels, stores and wide sidewalks - making pedestrian use of the boulevard an easy and enjoyable part of everyone's Vegas Experience .

With the December opening of City Center nearly all of the empty gaps of the southern Mid-Strip properties have been filled in - making the boulevard more appealing for visitors who want to walk from one hotel-casino to the next.

The north end of the Strip has become a virtual no-man's-land of vacant properties and empty spaces, basically from the Sahara Hotel to Wynn's Encore. With the Stardust, the Frontier and assorted gift shops now gone, the north end of the Strip has become an unappealing, long-distanced, turn-off for pedestrian use.

Meanwhile, the Mid-Strip areas from Fashion Show Mall to NYNY have brought new life and much more pedestrian foot-traffic to the hotels from Spring Mountain Road to Tropicana Avenue. With the arrival of City Center and the pedestrian-friendly attractions of Bellagio's fountains, the Paris Plaza , the wide sidewalks of Planet Hollywood and the cool weather of Spring - the Mid-Stip is now noticably alive with lots of people having fun walking.

Pedestrianism is made inviting by the wide sidewalks in front of Ballys, Bellagio, Paris and Planet Hollywood .

The pedestrian-oriented, wide stairways leading into Planet Hollywood's Miracle Mile Shops.

A warm Spring night on the Strip, showing the pedestrian bridge leading to Crystals' Mall and City Center.

The leisurely sidewalk at Planet Hollywood.

Open-top, night-bus at the new Harmon Street and LV Blvd intersection .

Crystals, Mandarin, Veer Towers and Harley-Davidson Cafe sights on the south Mid-Strip

Devil Woman above Diablo's Cantina in front of the Monte Carlo Hotel.


Northern Mid-Strip (Flamingo Hotel to TI) seen from Bellagio-Caesars pedestrian bridge

Looking south down Las Vegas Blvd from Flamingo Rd towards Tropicana Ave from one of the busiest intersections in the USA.

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