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« on: February 24, 2011, 03:19:28 pm » |
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The Caesar's Palace attached shopping mall occupies 636000 sq ft extending to Las Vegas Boulevard via a 2004 expansion. With 160 stores and 11 restaurants ( including outlets by Wolfgang Puck, Il Mulino New York, and Bobby Flay, it is the highest grossing mall in the United States on both an absolute basis and on per square foot sales. The decor evokes ancient Roman streets with replicas of the Appian Way, Trevi and Triton fountains, and fountains and statues everywhere. The street front store facades are in the style of ancient Rome as well. Unlike some venues, the streets are aligned to allow walking around discrete blocks so that everything can be seen without backtracking. And, as in so many other sites, note the trompe l'oeil ceilings, beautiful blue Italian skies with light clouds.
The new addition fronting Las Vegas Boulevard is worthy of note. Three stories high, the entrance includes a large reflecting pool, massive statues, and one of only two spiral escalators in the United States. The mall is best known for a large number of specialty shops not seen in many other malls like Lalique, Judith Lieber, and Stuart Weitzman as well as all the usual international design and clothing suspects - Bulgari, Vuitton, Kate Spade, Miu Miu at the upper end and Gap and Diesel for the rest of us. This is a very interesting venue to walk through.
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