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Inside the Harmon Hotel Inside Project CityCenter You Will Find Mr. Chow's Fortune Cookie

Where: Las Vegas, nv, United States

Harmon Circle, Project CityCenter

We haven't quite gotten used to the possibility that MGM's mammoth Project City Center will be opening in the near-ish future but that hasn't stopped the press releases about the new hotels from rolling in.

Yesterday we got a release announcing executive appointments for the Harmon Hotel, Spa and Residences, a 400-room boutique hotel with 207 residences which will debut in CityCenter in Fall 2009. Interestingly enough, the group who will operate and manage this hotel is The Light Group, most noted for their nightlife options in Vegas like the newly opened Bank at the Bellagio and JET at the Mirage.

The hotel has been designed by the firm Foster + Partners and has already been accepted as a member of the Leading Hotels of the World, so they say. (That actually makes us regard that label even less, knowing that they give it to un-opened hotels.) The Harmon also said it will be "green" and is pursuing a LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.

Lastly, the hotel's biggest asset will be the first-ever Vegas outpost of Mr. Chow's, a celebrity hotspot in LA, NYC and London. A source says Michael Chow will personally design this venue and it will open in Fall 2009 as well. We wonder how the neighboring luxury hotel, the Mandarin Oriental, feels about that....