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Vegas - 2015 - Issue 4 - Summer - Art of the City - J.K. Russ

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The Cosmopolitan's 3,000-seat theater The Chelsea opens—sporting a crystal chandelier, a grand staircase, exposed brick walls, VIP boxes, and a vintage lobby bar—in a reinvention of the bare-bones Chelsea Ballroom concert space. Bruno Mars breaks it in with an exuberant New Year's concert. Billed as a "grand social experiment," Rose.Rabbit. Lie. opens as part restaurant, part theater, part drinking spot. Within six months, the performance component is shut down. The original managing partners are let go within the year. December 2013 January 2014 The Cosmopolitan devises a pop-up wedding chapel in which the love obsessed can marry dogs or favorite toys and buy wedding bands from a gumball machine. December 2011 Boulevard Pool turns into the Cosmopolitan ice rink for the better part of the winter. Skaters can warm up with chocolate vodka- spiked cocktails and watch movies on the 65-foot marquee. The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas hosts its grand opening event at a reported cost of $12 million. Despite being open for just 17 days in 2010, the property racks up a $139.5 million loss for that year. December 31 2010 November 2012 The pop-up wedding chapel. Hundreds of guests can be seated beneath the 2 million crystals of the trilevel Chandelier. 90 VEGASMAGAZINE.COM

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