Cosmopolitan Hotel Casino
The Cosmopolitan Resort & Casino is a resort casino and condo that broke ground in October 2005 just south of the Bellagio and north of City Center on the west side of the Las Vegas Strip.
When it opens in mid 2009, the $2 billion Cosmopolitan will feature 2,200 condominium-hotel units; 800 hotel rooms; a 75,000 sq ft (7,000 m²) casino; 300,000 sq ft (30,000 m²) of retail and restaurant space; a 40,000 sq ft (4,000 m²) spa and fitness facility; an 1,800 seat theater; and 150,000 sq ft (14,000 m²) of meeting/convention space.
The themed glass wall of the podium and the curtain wall, designed by Arquitectonica and Jean-Pierre Kocher, is manufactured by a Hong Kong Based firm, Far East Aluminum Works. The hotel and casino will be managed by Global Hyatt Corporation, with the hotel opening as the Grand Hyatt Las Vegas.
The Cosmopolitan Resort, along with the Palazzo hotel, are the first of Las Vegas’s new generation of full service ultra-compact resorts. Both of these resorts, due to limited land, will feature an underground parking garage over which the hotel itself will be built. Source: wikipedia
