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MGM’s CityCenter Creates Unprecedented Opportunities for Minority-Owned Firms


Among the 200 minority-owned firms that helped build MGM Mirage’s CityCenter in Las Vegas were a Detroit-based general contractor who expanded his business to the city after auto industry contracts dried up, a local electrical supply firm that nearly doubled in size and a drug screening company that was specifically born out of the project.

From building architecture and design, LEED consulting, engineering, to information technology and waste removal, minority-owned firms were involved in virtually every major discipline employed in the development.

In all, MGM Mirage and Perini Building spent more than $700 million in construction and design contracts with minority-owned firms throughout the five-year CityCenter project. “In many cases, these contractors increased the size of their firms as well as their bonding capacity and gained a wealth of valuable experience in the process,” said Bobby Baldwin, president and CEO of CityCenter.

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