Comments on: First look: Life in the CityCenter http://www.elliott.org/blog/first-look-life-in-the-citycenter/ Consumer advocate Christopher Elliott's site. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Keith http://www.elliott.org/blog/first-look-life-in-the-citycenter/comment-page-1/#comment-30674 Keith Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:06:57 +0000 http://www.elliott.org/?p=10369#comment-30674 In Manhattan, we don't go to grocery stores. We get our groceries & sundries delivered. In Manhattan, we don’t go to grocery stores.
We get our groceries & sundries delivered.

]]> By: William Beem http://www.elliott.org/blog/first-look-life-in-the-citycenter/comment-page-1/#comment-30521 William Beem Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:49:32 +0000 http://www.elliott.org/?p=10369#comment-30521 Sam, People in Manhattan don't need a car to drive to a market five minutes away. They have markets and bodegas within walking distance of their homes. Manhattan also has a great mass transit system, which is really lacking in Las Vegas. The concept of City Center is that everything you need to live is right there. Well, where is the grocery store in City Center? Can you walk to one in five minutes? Where do you take your dry cleaning? Where do you walk your dog? Sam,

People in Manhattan don’t need a car to drive to a market five minutes away. They have markets and bodegas within walking distance of their homes. Manhattan also has a great mass transit system, which is really lacking in Las Vegas.

The concept of City Center is that everything you need to live is right there. Well, where is the grocery store in City Center? Can you walk to one in five minutes? Where do you take your dry cleaning? Where do you walk your dog?

]]> By: Ed http://www.elliott.org/blog/first-look-life-in-the-citycenter/comment-page-1/#comment-30483 Ed Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:15:28 +0000 http://www.elliott.org/?p=10369#comment-30483 #Sam Petersen; You said; "Stores are there, and grocery stores are only about five minutes away. " I find that very funny. Anybody who's ever been to a Las Vegas Hotel/Casino *KNOWS* that it takes more than 5 minutes just to get OUT OF THE DARN HOTEL! So yeah...if you're already outside the hotel, grocery stores may indeed be only 5 minutes away...but if you are in a room on the 25th floor of a hotel, you gotta figure on at *LEAST* 20 minutes just to get to the lobby (that's figuring on the elevator only stopping 2 or 3 times on the way down...it may take longer if there are more stops). Then another 10 minutes to get to the front door and depending on the time of year, another 10 minutes to get a cab...so a 5 minute grocery trip just turned into a 45 minutes ordeal! sheesh! Ed #Sam Petersen;
You said; “Stores are there, and grocery stores are only about five minutes away. ”
I find that very funny. Anybody who’s ever been to a Las Vegas Hotel/Casino *KNOWS* that it takes more than 5 minutes just to get OUT OF THE DARN HOTEL! So yeah…if you’re already outside the hotel, grocery stores may indeed be only 5 minutes away…but if you are in a room on the 25th floor of a hotel, you gotta figure on at *LEAST* 20 minutes just to get to the lobby (that’s figuring on the elevator only stopping 2 or 3 times on the way down…it may take longer if there are more stops). Then another 10 minutes to get to the front door and depending on the time of year, another 10 minutes to get a cab…so a 5 minute grocery trip just turned into a 45 minutes ordeal! sheesh!
Ed

]]> By: Justin http://www.elliott.org/blog/first-look-life-in-the-citycenter/comment-page-1/#comment-30450 Justin Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:17:06 +0000 http://www.elliott.org/?p=10369#comment-30450 @ 149 a day x 365 days. 54,385 dollars a year and this life style can be yours! Don't all run, push, and shove at once!! Vacation here would sound great. Living here? Completely unaffordable for the masses. I am sure those condos are at least a cool million. @ 149 a day x 365 days. 54,385 dollars a year and this life style can be yours! Don’t all run, push, and shove at once!! Vacation here would sound great. Living here? Completely unaffordable for the masses. I am sure those condos are at least a cool million.

]]> By: Sam Petersen http://www.elliott.org/blog/first-look-life-in-the-citycenter/comment-page-1/#comment-30421 Sam Petersen Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:31:07 +0000 http://www.elliott.org/?p=10369#comment-30421 I live here in Vegas, and actually worked in the construction industry while it was being built, saw the blue prints. You CAN live there, some of the towers are condos not just hotels. It was designed to be live, work, play. It has it's own fire station even. Stores are there, and grocery stores are only about five minutes away. You don't even want to know the starting prices on some of the condos in the towers around The Strip that have been built in the last five years or so. No local could ever afford to live there. The concept behind this is called Manhattanizing. I live here in Vegas, and actually worked in the construction industry while it was being built, saw the blue prints. You CAN live there, some of the towers are condos not just hotels. It was designed to be live, work, play. It has it’s own fire station even. Stores are there, and grocery stores are only about five minutes away. You don’t even want to know the starting prices on some of the condos in the towers around The Strip that have been built in the last five years or so. No local could ever afford to live there. The concept behind this is called Manhattanizing.

]]> By: Thomas Brenneman http://www.elliott.org/blog/first-look-life-in-the-citycenter/comment-page-1/#comment-30419 Thomas Brenneman Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:31:54 +0000 http://www.elliott.org/?p=10369#comment-30419 Wow, how do you live on $149 a day in LV? Wow, how do you live on $149 a day in LV?

]]> By: William Beem http://www.elliott.org/blog/first-look-life-in-the-citycenter/comment-page-1/#comment-30404 William Beem Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:20:57 +0000 http://www.elliott.org/?p=10369#comment-30404 It's easy to think you could live there, until you realize there's no place to buy groceries, walk your dog, or do many of the other things that people do at "home." It’s easy to think you could live there, until you realize there’s no place to buy groceries, walk your dog, or do many of the other things that people do at “home.”

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