City Center, On the Las Vegas Strip: A $9.4 Billion Dollar Development, opening late 2009/2010. MGM Mirage's new City Center is the most expensive privately funded commercial development in U.S. History. To include: The City Center Casino, Convention Center, Retail Mall, and 6 High Rise Towers.

Las Vegas What's New?

Cosmopolitan, On the Las Vegas Strip: A $2 Billion Resort, Opening in 2010. The Cosmopolitan Resort and Casino will be a condo hotel which is destined to redefine the Las Vegas skyline with its stunning design, consisting of two glass towers, a casino, a theater, convention and meeting space.

Las Vegas What's New?

Las Vegas Museum of Law Enforcement and Organized Crime, The old downtown Las Vegas Federal Courthouse and Post Office is to be transformed into the Las Vegas Museum of Law Enforcement and Organized Crime. The museum will tell the story of the city's rise from a desert watering hole to glittering magnet for dreamers by organized crime. Las Vegas owes much of its success to the mob made men and associates of organized crime. They built the first big casinos in the 1940's and helped steer development into the 1980's, when mob control gave way to corporate owners. Expect exhibitions of

Anthony "Tony the Ant" Spilotro, an enforcer from Chicago whose bloody character was memorably reprised under another name by Joe Pesci in the 1995 film Casino. Bugsy Siegel, the mobster and creator of the Flamingo Casino

Hotel, Moe Dalitz and the Desert Inn, Moe Dalitz and the Desert Inn, Lou Lederer and the Flamingo Casino Hotel, and more. All the former mob run casinos were taken over by legitimate hotel corporations when the mob was run out of town by federal authorities.