Sustainable Sin City: Vegas Takes a Step Towards Green

CityCenter is a planned 18 million square foot “environmentally sustainable urban community” set to open in Las Vegas at the end of 2009. The complex will include three hotels, two casinos, a retail and entertainment district and a $40 million public fine art program.

The team creating CityCenter has tapped a crew of all star green architects and hundreds of sustainability consultants to make sure any and every possible green option is used. The project is aiming for LEED certification, and will be larger than all current LEED certified buildings combined.

Inhabitat reports:

CityCenter is making some pretty big efforts to tout itself as a model of sustainability. Green building practices like recycling construction waste, using eco-friendly materials, boosting natural lighting, and incorporating an onsite co-generation power plant are just a few of the ways that the project is earning its eco-credentials. Materials from the imploded Boardwalk Hotel (cleared for the site of CityCenter) are being recycled into the project, crushed to be recycled into material going into the project, and bathroom fixtures are being shipped to other countries wrapped in the old drapes and carpeting from the original hotel to be used again.

Inhabitat: Las Vegas CityCenter Set to Green Sin City