Mac Rating: 5.00 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:04:00

The last resort of the Vegas building boom opened with a Killers frontman throwing dice, and it has been the Strip's style leader ever since. The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas at 3708 Las Vegas Boulevard South opened at 8 pm on December 15, 2010, when Brandon Flowers threw the ceremonial first roll and played a three-song set in the three-storey Chandelier Bar. The 3.9 billion dollar project - begun in 2005, foreclosed on by Deutsche Bank in 2008 and finished anyway - squeezed 2,995 rooms onto 8.7 acres between the Bellagio and CityCenter, with a uniquely vertical design stacking restaurants, shops and amenities through two 50-storey towers and roughly 2,200 rooms opening onto private terraces over the Strip. The entertainment infrastructure is a city in itself: a 100,000-square-foot casino, the multi-level Marquee Nightclub and Dayclub, four bars including the crystal-curtained Chandelier, and a restaurant collection that imported Jose Andres, Scott Conant and Estiatorio Milos to the Strip. The Boulevard Pool is the signature stage - an amphitheatre-styled rooftop deck 100 feet above the Strip where headline concerts play against the boulevard itself - joined in December 2013 by The Chelsea, a 40,000-square-foot theatre that opened with Bruno Mars and runs 3,000-plus for concerts and boxing. The resort's marquee made its own history on opening night, simulcasting the first concert on the 65-foot LED tower so the sidewalk could watch - typical of a property that marketed itself to the curious class with a secret pizza joint and art vending machines. MGM Resorts International acquired the operations in 2022 in a deal valuing the property near 5.65 billion dollars, but the identity built across the 2010s survives: the Cosmopolitan remains the Strip resort where design, restaurants and rooftop concerts - not just the casino floor - are the draw.