The plan by Harrah's Entertainment to redevelop a large section of the Center Strip in Las Vegas is taking a little longer to sort out than expected. The casino gaming empire had announced they would be revealing the details of their large-scale plan to build an enormous (and expensive) complex of multiple casinos, condominiums, hotels, restaurants and shops that would make up a unified complex branded as a single Harrah's entity by the end of September. However, with September coming to a close, many of the plan's finer details are awaiting confirmation.

Harrahs' tentative plan has yet to be named, and is being compared to MGM Mirage's Project CityCenter. Considering what Harrah's has at their disposal, most investors and gaming insiders are predicting the project to exceed the $7 billion apportioned by MGM to build Project CityCenter. There is no doubt hat several land acquisitions are in the picture, as well as casino acquisitions and demolitions.

Several of the more costly steps along the way will include spending millions of dollars in property purchases along Koval Lane (not to mention directly behind Harrahs' casino properties, Flamingo and Imperial Palace), possibly gutting out Imperial Palace for expansion purposes, buying the Barbary Coast Casino and Resort from Boyd Gaming (which will undoubtedly come with a very large price tag), demolishing the older of Bally's two hotel towers and replacing it with a more unified resort, and renovating Caesar's Palace in a way that would make better use of the frontage property it has on the Strip.

All of this will undoubtedly call for billions of dollars, no to mention the costs in building high-rise condominiums and time shares, all of which will need to be accommodated with parking garages to account for the increased traffic. Harrahs' most certainly has the assets to make the Center Strip their own. However, depending on how dealings go with Boyd Gaming and the Barbary Coast Casino, there is still a possibility that the Harrah's project could not be as cohesive and unified as originally imagined. Perhaps that is part of delay for the revealing of the proposed project.