The $8.5 billion Las Vegas City Center development is finally opening up. Crystals, the 500,000-square-foot luxury retail and entertainment district at CityCenter, opens today.

“We wanted to move the epicenter in the Western United States of these large, luxury retailers from Los Angeles to Las Vegas,” MGM Mirage Retail President Frank Visconti explained. “Almost every one of the tenants is larger here than it is in L.A. We never wavered from that.” Taking it from LA? Ouch.

This will be the largest Louis Vuitton in North America. At night, the exterior facade will come alive with a show made by over 4,000 LEDs. It reminds me of the extravagant retail stores in Ginza Tokyo.