Whipped Cream Difficulties

Today’s LAT brings word that MGM Resorts International wants to stage another building implosion in Vegas.

The target in this case is unusual: the Harmon tower, part of MGM’s City Center project.

Construction of the Harmon was halted after inspectors discovered problems with steel reinforcing bars in 2008. Other parts of the CityCenter complex opened in 2009.

More:

Last month, an engineer hired by MGM said in a report that a strong earthquake could fell the building, which stands between the Cosmopolitan resort and CityCenter’s Crystals mall on Las Vegas Boulevard.

I know I drove past the Harmon (because I remember seeing the Cosmopolitan) but it doesn’t stand out in my mind.

(To be fair, though, I didn’t drive the Strip as much as I did on previous trips; I was staying at the Rio, which is off-Strip, and given traffic on the Strip, I found it easier to drive Paradise or Koval to Flamingo, then go up Flamingo to the Rio.)

(Speaking of Vegas, there’s a Gilley’s in front of Treasure Island now? What the heck?)

(How common are “strong earthquakes” in Las Vegas, anyway? I don’t recall Nevada being a seismically active zone.)

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