{"id":42383,"date":"2024-12-16T16:04:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T00:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=42383"},"modified":"2024-12-16T16:08:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T00:08:20","slug":"today-we-learned-citycenter-is-actually-aria-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/today-we-learned-citycenter-is-actually-aria-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Today We Learned: CityCenter is Actually “Aria Campus”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

‘Tis the season for WTF.<\/p>\n

Today we learned CityCenter, at some point, was renamed “Aria Campus.”<\/p>\n

Presumably, because the name “CityCenter” was deemed just too damn sexy.<\/p>\n

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The opening of CityCenter was the exact moment when Las Vegas took a turn for the shrug.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We thought the name “Aria Campus” might just be a term used internally at MGM Resorts, but nope, it’s out there in the wild. We just missed the change entirely, and we claim to know everything.<\/p>\n

On the Aria Web site<\/a>, it says: “Described as a city within-a-city, the Aria Campus (formerly known as CityCenter) [is] comprised of Aria Resort & Casino and Vdara Hotel & Spa.”<\/p>\n

Which is weird, because CityCenter covered not only Aria and Vdara, but also the Waldorf Astoria, Veer Towers and Shops at Crystals.<\/p>\n

The Internet believes the name change happened in 2019, yet we had never heard about this alleged rebrand until today in a post from a popular Twitter account marking the birthday of Aria, which opened on Dec. 16, 2009.<\/p>\n

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OTD 2009 Aria Resort and Casino opened in CityCenter (now Aria Campus) on the #LasVegas<\/a> Strip. It was named Aria due to its placement as the central feature of CityCenter, as arias are focal points in operas. pic.twitter.com\/hOd5Rh3voU<\/a><\/p>\n

— _GrandpaD__Old School Vegas✨ (@_GrandPaD) December 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n