Developers said that the project would be a lively mixed-use new urban center on the Las Vegas Strip complete with condos, gambling, shopping and hotels.

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The downtown core got a boost with the 2012 opening of the City Creek Center, a shopping mall and mixed-use development of rentals and condos across the street from the Salt Lake Temple, financed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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