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Joan Whitely Gaming Guru - Page 2Construction deficiencies seen at CityCenter27 April 2009
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- It is five months until the first tower is set to open at CityCenter, one of the largest private construction projects in U.S. history, but general contractor Perini Building Co. has not yet resolved numerous construction deficiencies cited by inspectors.Perini's slow approach to fixing ... (read more)
Clark County issues notices about work CityCenter13 February 2009
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- A flurry of Clark County notices, which document either problematic construction work or a failure to check work, has descended on the CityCenter project on the Strip.
The flurry didn't start until this month -- after the county in late January had ordered its own monitors ... (read more)
MGM Mirage ordered to recheck CityCenter inspections9 February 2009
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Clark County hasn't figured out how construction errors occurred at CityCenter's Harmon Hotel. But it has ordered MGM-Mirage, owner of the development, to have an approved expert recheck any other work done there by Converse Consultants, whose special inspections failed to ... (read more)
Harmon inspectors get violation notice19 September 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- The Clark County building division has sent a violation notice to the third-party inspection firm that failed to spot nonconforming structural work at the Harmon Hotel. Correcting the work on an estimated 15 of 22 existing stories has caused a snag in construction at CityCenter.
... (read more)
Strip development: CityCenter construction hits snag17 September 2008
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LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Construction has slowed on The Harmon Hotel, Spa & Residences at CityCenter after some structural work was found not to match building plans submitted to Clark County.
However, the county has agreed the building is structurally safe for workers to correct the nonconforming work, which is believed to exist on 15 of the 22 existing floors. ... (read more)
Harrah's cited for fire violations30 May 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Harrah's Entertainment must defend itself in a new criminal case alleging workers or contractors tampered with fire safety systems at three of its local hotels.
The complaint, filed Wednesday, contains six misdemeanor counts against Harrah's for improper building ... (read more)
Rooms at hotel under a fire watch23 April 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Bill's Gamblin' Hall & Saloon on Tuesday spent its fifth day with guest rooms on fire watch, as repair services combed the guest tower for malfunctioning fire safety components.
Nine of the tower's approximately 200 guest rooms -- or fewer than 5 percent of rooms -- had problems ... (read more)
Harrah's audit of remodeling stays under wraps18 April 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- The county, a state board and a casino company each says it will not release a report that sheds light on undocumented, and therefore potentially unsafe, remodeling since 2000 at local hotels, through which millions of tourists and thousands of workers have passed.
Harrah's ... (read more)
Harrah's audit finds 34 projects11 April 2008
NEVADA -- Harrah's Entertainment looked within its ledgers for evidence of remodeling projects that have taken place at its local hotels without the safety net created by pulling permits and passing inspections and found 34 projects at eight hotels in Clark County since 2000.
The gaming company gave a ... (read more)
Report not confined to resort complaints9 April 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- The controversial Kessler Report, which documented problems on how county inspectors handle building safety complaints, covered a lot more than the several notorious instances of unapproved remodeling at the Rio and Harrah's Las Vegas.
In the report's appendix, large hotels accounted ... (read more)
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