When MGM's CityCenter opens in late 2009, it will change the face of the Las Vegas Strip forever. The complex will feature three hotels, a luxury apartment building and a ton of gaming, restaurant and retail space.
And it's that retail space we're so interested in. CityCenter has wisely ignored the choice to name their shopping complex something tired like "The Shops at City Center" in favor of something a bit more mysterious. CityCenter's retail haven will instead be called, The Crystals.]]>
New York's grandiose Plaza Hotel is bringing in some equally high-brow retail tenants to solidify its reputation as something special. After luxe British cell phone brand Vertu opened their second US store in the Plaza (the first is in Vegas, natch) at the end of April, the Warren-Tricomi salon followed and then all fell still until recently.
Assouline, the publisher of vellum-inous artsy coffee table tomes, has just opened their first US store inside of the Plaza, overlooking the lobby so that shoppers can look down at everyone else not buying Assouline (and who are probably Taschen fans).
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