Over the next three years:
Sometime in mid-March, 2007 The STARDUST will be imploded. They will announce the date about 10-14 days out. Clark County will not issue the requisite permits until about four hours prior to the event, so that if the viewing public was to become too much to handle, they could delay the implosion in an abundance of caution. They will have some limited fireworks, as they plan to make it a news event symbolizing the beginning of Echelon Place, their new $4 billion mixed-use resort destination. The implosion will simply be the steel/concrete structure that is left. The only thing now left is the frame and you can see right through it.
Mar. 28, 2007 Grand Canyon West, a destination owned and operated by the Hualapai Tribe at the Grand Canyon's western rim,will open THE SKYWALK. The Skywalk will be the first-ever cantilever shaped glass walkway to suspend more than 4,000 feet above the canyon's floor and extend 70 feet from the canyon's rim. Access to The Skywalk will run from dawn to dusk and will cost $25 per person in addition to the cost of a Grand Canyon West entrance package. One hundred and twenty people will be allowed on the bridge at a time.
Mar. 2007 The VENETIAN will open their third tower called "Palazzo Resort Hotel Casino" on the south-east corner of The Strip and Spring Mountain where the now demolished Tam O'Shanter Motel was located. The 53-stories tower will have 3,025 suites, cost $1.6 billion, with casino (1,900 slot machines and 80 table games), meeting space, shopping mall (with Barneys of New York), restaurants, underground parking and 1,500-seat theater. There will be a 60-foot glass domed entry lobby with a two-story fountain. When completed, it will be part of the largest hotel complex in the world with over 7,000 hotel rooms. Hip-hop mogul Jay-Z will open a 40/40 club. Also opening is a 20,000-square-foot casual entertainment facility called ROCKET, a seafood-focused outlet, as well as an Italian steakhouse AND A Wolfgang Puck eatery.
Sometime in the spring of 2007 The ALADDIN changes its name to PLANET HOLLYWOOD CASINO & HOTEL.
October 2007 $2 billion TROPICANA expansion starts by the new owners. Hotel to remain open during the construction period.
Sometime in 2007 The new HOOVER DAM bypass and bridge opens. Major visible construction has started and with security vehicle check points, there are some lengthy delays. Internet site is atThe Link
Sometime in 2007 Station Casinos will start construction on its DURANGO STATION CASINO complex. Phase I of the project will include 400 hotel rooms, a 120,000 square-foot casino and amenities. Phase II will add a 600-room hotel tower, entertainment center and other expansions.
2008
Jan. 2008 The LADY LUCK, which closed February 12, 2006, will reopen after major renovations have been completed.
Sometime in early 2008 Apollo Management Group and Texas Pacific Group will close on their $17.1 billion purchase of HARRAH'S ENTERTAINMENT.
Sometime in early 2008 The LAS VEGAS MONORAIL is planning to start construction of an extension from the MGM GRAND to McCarran Airport. The extension will run north from the MGM Grand to Harmon, east to Swenson Street, south to Russell Road and east to the site of McCarran's future Terminal 3. Monorail stations along the extended route are planned at the site of the planned "W" Resort Hotel on Harmon, at the Hard Rock Hotel and on Swenson near the University of Nevada, Las Vegas to serve events at the Thomas & Mack Center. Two stations would be built at McCarran, one near the planned Terminal 3 and another at Terminal 1 on the north side of the airport's baggage claim area. Projected completion date is three years later.
First quarter of 2008 Opening of the $365 million, TRUMP INTERNATIONAL HOTEL & TOWER LAS VEGAS is a 64-story hotel condominium project located west of Las Vegas Blvd on Fashion Show Dr., behind the New Frontier. The project is modeled after the successful New York venture at One Central Park West, Condominium units are in the price range from $600,000 to $6 million and feature 1,282 condominium hotel units ranging from studios to multiple room suites. This will be the tallest residential tower in Las Vegas. "The Donald" promises his project will shake up Las Vegas' already thriving high-rise residential market.
Sometime in mid-2008 The Charlie Palmer Hotel will open on Tropicana Avenue and Dean Martin Drive. $400 million project; 35-story boutique nongaming condo-hotel, 400-500 rooms.Owned by Charlie Palmer.
Jul. 2008 Opening of Building 3 of the WORLD MARKET CENTER. It will be a 16-story, 2.1 million-square-foot showroom. when fully built at 12 million square feet in 8 buildings, will be the largest trade show complex in the world.
Sometime in 2008 STATION CASINOS will open ALIANTE STATION CASINO in the master planned community of the same name, in North Las Vegas at I-215 and Aliante Parkway. The property will have 2,000 slot machines, 200 hotel rooms and cost up to $600 million.
Sometime in 2008 FONTAINEBLEAU Las Vegas hotel-casino will open. It's a development of a 4,000-room hotel-casino, that will be built on the Strip just north of the Riviera on 25 acres that once held the El Rancho and Algiers casinos. The land fronts the existing Turnberry Place high-rise condominium project.
Sometime in 2008 Station Casinos will open ALIANTE STATION CASINO in the master planned community of the same name in North Las Vegas at I-215 and Aliante Parkway. The property will have 2,000 slot machines and 200 hotel rooms and will cost up to $600 million. Sometime in the fourth quarter of 2008 The VILLAGE AT QUEENSRIDGE opens and will have over 700,000 square feet of boutique shops, cinemas, restaurants and office space. This project is located on the southwest corner of Rampart Boulevard and Alta Drive, across the street from the Suncoast Hotel & Casino,on the south side.
Sometime at the end of 2008 The second tower of 2,054 suites, costing over $1.74 billion and named ENCORE AT WYNN LAS VEGAS will open. Fully integrated with Wynn Las Vegas but with additional casino, additional food & beverage and more retail. Demolition of the remaining towers of the old Desert Inn have been completed to make way for this second tower. Click here for information on the second tower.
2009
Sometime in early 2009 The COSMOPOLITAN Resort & Casino will open. A $1.6 billion development, it will consist of two glass towers on an 8.5-acre site on Harmon Avenue and the Las Vegas Strip and will encompass over 4 million square feet and approximately 3,000 rooms comprised of condo hotel units and hotel rooms, over 150,000 square feet of convention and meeting space, a 70,000 square foot casino and Over 300,000 square feet of retail, restaurant, entertainment space, a 50,000 square foot fitness center/spa, 400 feet of Strip frontage, and a four-level, 4,000-car parking garage. The hotel is intended to have a four-star rating and will be called The Grand Hyatt Las Vegas at The Cosmopolitan Resort & Casino. Hyatt will operate the property's 3,000 hotel rooms, suites and condo-hotel units.
Sometime in early 2009 Opening of ONE QUEENSRIDGE PLACE, the first suburban high-rise condo to go up in Las Vegas. Project consists of two 18-story towers with 219 condo units in each that are each priced from $1.2 million to $5 million. Both Tower One and Tower Two are going to open at the same time. One Queensridge Place is located on the southwest corner of Rampart Boulevard and Alta Drive in the master-planned community of Queensridge, which is part of Peccole Ranch adjacent to Summerlin. This project is located across the street from the Suncoast Hotel & Casino, on the south side.
Sometime in 2009 WET LAS VEGAS will open, near the 215. Slated to be the largest indoor waterpark in North America, costing over $1 billion. Exact location and construction schedule is to be released in a few weeks.
Sometime in 2009 MONTREUX, the resort that will rise to replace the NEW FRONTIER will open. Montreux, given a Swiss mountain theme, will cost $1.9 billion, with 2,750 rooms and include a big shopping mall and dining and entertainment amenities.
Sometime in November 2009 Grand Opening of CITYCENTER which will feature a 60-story, 4,000-room gaming resort with an Elvis Presley Show by Cirque du Soleil; two 400-room,non-gaming boutique hotels including Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas; a 500,000-square-foot retail, dining and entertainment district; and four distinct residential products within five towers – approximately 2,700 residential units. CityCenter is located on 76 acres between the Bellagio and Monte Carlo resorts - approximately 18-million square feet of space . Total cost is $7 billion - it is the largest privately financed development in the history of the United States. 12,000 new, permanent positions will be created by this project!
2010
Sometime in early 2010 The $4 billion, multi-use ECHELON PLACE will open, where the Stardust was located. The project will have five hotel towers of 5,300 hotel rooms in five hotels (Echelon Resort, Shangri-La Hotel, one as yet unnamed and Morgans Hotel will open Delano and Mondrian. One million square feet of convention and meeting space, 350,000 square feet of joint ventured retail space, several entertainment venues including a 4,000-seat production theater and 1,500-seat performance venue. 25 restaurants and bars. plus the centerpiece 140,000-square-foot casino.
Sometime in 2010 THE WORLD JEWELRY CENTER will open as part of the city's development of its 61-acre Union Park site, vacant land just west of downtown, across from the $2 billion World Market furniture center. The $500 million World Jewelry Center would occupy 5.4 acres, be 57 stories tall, and have a million square feet of commercial space designed to bring together jewelry manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, and consumers. Roughly 800,000 square feet would be devoted to exhibition and meeting areas, gem-grading laboratories, classrooms, a jewelry and gem museum, a café, and a private club. A 125,000-square-foot retail center, consisting of up to 50 stores, would be open to the public. Up to 25 residential condos would occupy the top floors. The World Jewelry Center would be competing with established jewelry centers, such as New York City's 47th Street Diamond and Jewelry Center, L.A.'s Hill Street Diamond District, and Miami's Seybold Jewelry Building.
Sometime by the end of 2010 The LAS VEGAS CONVENTION AND VISITORS AUTHORITY completes a $1.4 billion expansion and renovation of the Las Vegas Convention Center. They will add some 255,000 square-feet of meeting space, create 3,200 new parking spaces, install a police station and put in a concourse linking three buildings now joined by outdoor pathways.
Sometime in 2011 The LAS VEGAS MONORAIL plans to open an extension from the MGM GRAND to McCarran Airport. The extension will run north from the MGM Grand to Harmon, east to Swenson Street, south to Russell Road and east to the site of McCarran's future Terminal 3. Monorail stations along the extended route are planned at the site of the planned "W" Resort Hotel on Harmon, at the Hard Rock Hotel and on Swenson near the University of Nevada, Las Vegas to serve events at the Thomas & Mack Center. Two stations would be built at McCarran, one near the planned Terminal 3 and another at Terminal 1 on the north side of the airport's baggage claim area.
Sometime in mid-March, 2007 The STARDUST will be imploded. They will announce the date about 10-14 days out. Clark County will not issue the requisite permits until about four hours prior to the event, so that if the viewing public was to become too much to handle, they could delay the implosion in an abundance of caution. They will have some limited fireworks, as they plan to make it a news event symbolizing the beginning of Echelon Place, their new $4 billion mixed-use resort destination. The implosion will simply be the steel/concrete structure that is left. The only thing now left is the frame and you can see right through it.
Mar. 28, 2007 Grand Canyon West, a destination owned and operated by the Hualapai Tribe at the Grand Canyon's western rim,will open THE SKYWALK. The Skywalk will be the first-ever cantilever shaped glass walkway to suspend more than 4,000 feet above the canyon's floor and extend 70 feet from the canyon's rim. Access to The Skywalk will run from dawn to dusk and will cost $25 per person in addition to the cost of a Grand Canyon West entrance package. One hundred and twenty people will be allowed on the bridge at a time.
Mar. 2007 The VENETIAN will open their third tower called "Palazzo Resort Hotel Casino" on the south-east corner of The Strip and Spring Mountain where the now demolished Tam O'Shanter Motel was located. The 53-stories tower will have 3,025 suites, cost $1.6 billion, with casino (1,900 slot machines and 80 table games), meeting space, shopping mall (with Barneys of New York), restaurants, underground parking and 1,500-seat theater. There will be a 60-foot glass domed entry lobby with a two-story fountain. When completed, it will be part of the largest hotel complex in the world with over 7,000 hotel rooms. Hip-hop mogul Jay-Z will open a 40/40 club. Also opening is a 20,000-square-foot casual entertainment facility called ROCKET, a seafood-focused outlet, as well as an Italian steakhouse AND A Wolfgang Puck eatery.
Sometime in the spring of 2007 The ALADDIN changes its name to PLANET HOLLYWOOD CASINO & HOTEL.
October 2007 $2 billion TROPICANA expansion starts by the new owners. Hotel to remain open during the construction period.
Sometime in 2007 The new HOOVER DAM bypass and bridge opens. Major visible construction has started and with security vehicle check points, there are some lengthy delays. Internet site is atThe Link
Sometime in 2007 Station Casinos will start construction on its DURANGO STATION CASINO complex. Phase I of the project will include 400 hotel rooms, a 120,000 square-foot casino and amenities. Phase II will add a 600-room hotel tower, entertainment center and other expansions.
2008
Jan. 2008 The LADY LUCK, which closed February 12, 2006, will reopen after major renovations have been completed.
Sometime in early 2008 Apollo Management Group and Texas Pacific Group will close on their $17.1 billion purchase of HARRAH'S ENTERTAINMENT.
Sometime in early 2008 The LAS VEGAS MONORAIL is planning to start construction of an extension from the MGM GRAND to McCarran Airport. The extension will run north from the MGM Grand to Harmon, east to Swenson Street, south to Russell Road and east to the site of McCarran's future Terminal 3. Monorail stations along the extended route are planned at the site of the planned "W" Resort Hotel on Harmon, at the Hard Rock Hotel and on Swenson near the University of Nevada, Las Vegas to serve events at the Thomas & Mack Center. Two stations would be built at McCarran, one near the planned Terminal 3 and another at Terminal 1 on the north side of the airport's baggage claim area. Projected completion date is three years later.
First quarter of 2008 Opening of the $365 million, TRUMP INTERNATIONAL HOTEL & TOWER LAS VEGAS is a 64-story hotel condominium project located west of Las Vegas Blvd on Fashion Show Dr., behind the New Frontier. The project is modeled after the successful New York venture at One Central Park West, Condominium units are in the price range from $600,000 to $6 million and feature 1,282 condominium hotel units ranging from studios to multiple room suites. This will be the tallest residential tower in Las Vegas. "The Donald" promises his project will shake up Las Vegas' already thriving high-rise residential market.
Sometime in mid-2008 The Charlie Palmer Hotel will open on Tropicana Avenue and Dean Martin Drive. $400 million project; 35-story boutique nongaming condo-hotel, 400-500 rooms.Owned by Charlie Palmer.
Jul. 2008 Opening of Building 3 of the WORLD MARKET CENTER. It will be a 16-story, 2.1 million-square-foot showroom. when fully built at 12 million square feet in 8 buildings, will be the largest trade show complex in the world.
Sometime in 2008 STATION CASINOS will open ALIANTE STATION CASINO in the master planned community of the same name, in North Las Vegas at I-215 and Aliante Parkway. The property will have 2,000 slot machines, 200 hotel rooms and cost up to $600 million.
Sometime in 2008 FONTAINEBLEAU Las Vegas hotel-casino will open. It's a development of a 4,000-room hotel-casino, that will be built on the Strip just north of the Riviera on 25 acres that once held the El Rancho and Algiers casinos. The land fronts the existing Turnberry Place high-rise condominium project.
Sometime in 2008 Station Casinos will open ALIANTE STATION CASINO in the master planned community of the same name in North Las Vegas at I-215 and Aliante Parkway. The property will have 2,000 slot machines and 200 hotel rooms and will cost up to $600 million. Sometime in the fourth quarter of 2008 The VILLAGE AT QUEENSRIDGE opens and will have over 700,000 square feet of boutique shops, cinemas, restaurants and office space. This project is located on the southwest corner of Rampart Boulevard and Alta Drive, across the street from the Suncoast Hotel & Casino,on the south side.
Sometime at the end of 2008 The second tower of 2,054 suites, costing over $1.74 billion and named ENCORE AT WYNN LAS VEGAS will open. Fully integrated with Wynn Las Vegas but with additional casino, additional food & beverage and more retail. Demolition of the remaining towers of the old Desert Inn have been completed to make way for this second tower. Click here for information on the second tower.
2009
Sometime in early 2009 The COSMOPOLITAN Resort & Casino will open. A $1.6 billion development, it will consist of two glass towers on an 8.5-acre site on Harmon Avenue and the Las Vegas Strip and will encompass over 4 million square feet and approximately 3,000 rooms comprised of condo hotel units and hotel rooms, over 150,000 square feet of convention and meeting space, a 70,000 square foot casino and Over 300,000 square feet of retail, restaurant, entertainment space, a 50,000 square foot fitness center/spa, 400 feet of Strip frontage, and a four-level, 4,000-car parking garage. The hotel is intended to have a four-star rating and will be called The Grand Hyatt Las Vegas at The Cosmopolitan Resort & Casino. Hyatt will operate the property's 3,000 hotel rooms, suites and condo-hotel units.
Sometime in early 2009 Opening of ONE QUEENSRIDGE PLACE, the first suburban high-rise condo to go up in Las Vegas. Project consists of two 18-story towers with 219 condo units in each that are each priced from $1.2 million to $5 million. Both Tower One and Tower Two are going to open at the same time. One Queensridge Place is located on the southwest corner of Rampart Boulevard and Alta Drive in the master-planned community of Queensridge, which is part of Peccole Ranch adjacent to Summerlin. This project is located across the street from the Suncoast Hotel & Casino, on the south side.
Sometime in 2009 WET LAS VEGAS will open, near the 215. Slated to be the largest indoor waterpark in North America, costing over $1 billion. Exact location and construction schedule is to be released in a few weeks.
Sometime in 2009 MONTREUX, the resort that will rise to replace the NEW FRONTIER will open. Montreux, given a Swiss mountain theme, will cost $1.9 billion, with 2,750 rooms and include a big shopping mall and dining and entertainment amenities.
Sometime in November 2009 Grand Opening of CITYCENTER which will feature a 60-story, 4,000-room gaming resort with an Elvis Presley Show by Cirque du Soleil; two 400-room,non-gaming boutique hotels including Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas; a 500,000-square-foot retail, dining and entertainment district; and four distinct residential products within five towers – approximately 2,700 residential units. CityCenter is located on 76 acres between the Bellagio and Monte Carlo resorts - approximately 18-million square feet of space . Total cost is $7 billion - it is the largest privately financed development in the history of the United States. 12,000 new, permanent positions will be created by this project!
2010
Sometime in early 2010 The $4 billion, multi-use ECHELON PLACE will open, where the Stardust was located. The project will have five hotel towers of 5,300 hotel rooms in five hotels (Echelon Resort, Shangri-La Hotel, one as yet unnamed and Morgans Hotel will open Delano and Mondrian. One million square feet of convention and meeting space, 350,000 square feet of joint ventured retail space, several entertainment venues including a 4,000-seat production theater and 1,500-seat performance venue. 25 restaurants and bars. plus the centerpiece 140,000-square-foot casino.
Sometime in 2010 THE WORLD JEWELRY CENTER will open as part of the city's development of its 61-acre Union Park site, vacant land just west of downtown, across from the $2 billion World Market furniture center. The $500 million World Jewelry Center would occupy 5.4 acres, be 57 stories tall, and have a million square feet of commercial space designed to bring together jewelry manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, and consumers. Roughly 800,000 square feet would be devoted to exhibition and meeting areas, gem-grading laboratories, classrooms, a jewelry and gem museum, a café, and a private club. A 125,000-square-foot retail center, consisting of up to 50 stores, would be open to the public. Up to 25 residential condos would occupy the top floors. The World Jewelry Center would be competing with established jewelry centers, such as New York City's 47th Street Diamond and Jewelry Center, L.A.'s Hill Street Diamond District, and Miami's Seybold Jewelry Building.
Sometime by the end of 2010 The LAS VEGAS CONVENTION AND VISITORS AUTHORITY completes a $1.4 billion expansion and renovation of the Las Vegas Convention Center. They will add some 255,000 square-feet of meeting space, create 3,200 new parking spaces, install a police station and put in a concourse linking three buildings now joined by outdoor pathways.
Sometime in 2011 The LAS VEGAS MONORAIL plans to open an extension from the MGM GRAND to McCarran Airport. The extension will run north from the MGM Grand to Harmon, east to Swenson Street, south to Russell Road and east to the site of McCarran's future Terminal 3. Monorail stations along the extended route are planned at the site of the planned "W" Resort Hotel on Harmon, at the Hard Rock Hotel and on Swenson near the University of Nevada, Las Vegas to serve events at the Thomas & Mack Center. Two stations would be built at McCarran, one near the planned Terminal 3 and another at Terminal 1 on the north side of the airport's baggage claim area.
