Las Vegas mall modeled on Istanbul's Grand Bazaar
LAS VEGAS - The Associated Press
This artist's rendering provided the developer shows Grand Bazaar Shops, a new Las Vegas mall. Sin City, where everything must mirror something else, is getting the new mall modeled on Turkey?s Grand Bazaar. AP Photo/Grand Bazaar Shops
Las Vegas, where the only design rule is that everything must mirror something else, is getting a new outdoor mall modeled on Istanbul's Grand Bazaar.Construction began this week on the Grand Bazaar Shops outside of Bally's Las Vegas. The two-acre (0.8-hectare) outdoor mall is expected to open next fall in the heart of the Strip.
Developer Larry Siegel describes the project as a sanitized, glitzed-out version of a traditional Middle Eastern market.
It will feature a spice market, a butcher shop, and the first Swarovski store to allow customers to haggle over crystals.
Other hyper-specific themes rolled out on the Strip this year include an Eastern European glass factory theater and a China-themed casino complete with live pandas.
