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OPENINGS AND CLOSINGS IN LAS VEGAS by billhere, Publisher
OPENINGS & CLOSINGS LAST MONTH (JULY,2007):
================================
July 1= Fitzgerald's (Molly's Buffet)—Closed for remodeling and
is scheduled to open back up Sept. 10th, 2007.
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July 1= Flamingo (Paradise Garden Buffet) — Brunch is no longer
offered. Instead, lunch has been added for $15.99 from
11 a.m.- 3 p.m. every day and breakfast was added for
$13.99 from 7 a.m.-11 a.m. daily.
+++++++++++
July 1= "Hello Dere!" show with Marty Allen and Karon
Kate closed - Gold Coast.
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July 1= Music icon Michael Jackson has moved into a
$60 million compound owned by Prince Jefri Bolkiah
of Brunei in a gated community in Las Vegas.
Jackson moved into the 100,000-square-foot property
after his six-month lease expired on a $1 million
home elsewhere in Las Vegas. Someone who saw Jackson's
vacated house said the singer left the 10-bedroom home
IN a mess. It appeared the home hadn't been cleaned in
months.
The 53-year-old Prince Jefri, one of Jackson's longtime
friends, built his Spanish Trail compound in the 1990's,
when he was known as a high-roller playboy with lavish tastes.
The prince fled Las Vegas when his brother filed embezzlement
charges against him to curb his spending. Prince Jefri
reportedly is living in exile in London. Spanish Trail has
been home for celebrities since it opened, with Andre Agassi,
Greg Maddux, Siegfried Fischbacher, David Copperfield and
Randall Cunningham among the residents.
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July 1= WYNN LAS VEGAS is giving away 2 free buffets (@38 each!)
when you collect 100 points on your first day on their
players'
club card. This great offer (their buffet is the best one in
Vegas) is ongoing until they cancel it.
FOR NEW SLOT CLUB MEMBERS ONLY.
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July 2= MGM MIRAGE opened the final Tower 3 in the
SIGNATURE MGM GRAND. It's non-gaming and
non-smoking.
The project has three Towers, each
40-storeys high and each Tower will have
576 condominium units. The Towers are very
creatively called:
Tower 1, Tower 2 and Tower 3.
Towers 1 and 2 are OPEN AND SOLD OUT.
The condominium units can be rented by the
public under the MGM Mirage program called
The Signature at MGM Grand.
The whole project is being built where the
MGM Grand Adventures Theme Park was
located, in the back of the MGM Grand.
Turnberry & MGM Mirage are partners.
Tel. 1-888-891-1688 or (702) 891-5555.
Beautiful sales internet site is at:
http://www.mgmgrandresidences.com
Rentals can be made at:
www.signaturemgmgrand.com
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July 2= A California investment firm purchased the
51,000-square-foot MONTELAGO VILLAGE at Lake Las Vegas
for more than $23 million.
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July 5= Metal Skool Thursdays - Rock Comedy show closed
- Hard Rock.
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July 5= Frederick's of Hollywood opened a store in the
Miracle Mile Shops in Planet Hollywood Resort
& Casino.
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July 6= SANTA FE STATION will open the Tides Oyster Bar.
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July 14= Grand opening of ASIA Nightlife & Dining
with massage, tattoo parlor and sake bomb
station located on Harmon & The Strip, east of
Krave Nightclub and also can be entered
through the Miracle Mile Shops in Planet
Hollywood Resort & Casino.
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July 14= Comedy magician Tim Gabrielson opened his
“Keeping it Funny” show of comedic rock and roll
magic to the House of Blues, in Mandalay Bay,
for daily afternoon shows, six days a weeks
Saturday thru Thursday at 3 p.m.
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July 15= Kabalah Center opened at 3824 S Jones Blvd,
Suite B, between Flamingo and Spring Mountain.
Tel.(702) 243-0559.
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July 15=The New Frontier will close and will be imploded.
In the coming weeks thereafter. The new owners
will then build a new $6 billion to $8 billion
mega resort called PLAZA replicating New York
City's Plaza Hotel, which they also own.
The new Las Vegas Plaza will be a
$6 billion to $8 billion development featuring
a casino, 3,500 hotel rooms, apartments, shops
and 300 private residences.
THE LAS VEGAS PLAZA is expected to open in 2011.
+++++++++++++
July 25= Tommy Rockers bar has converted to a topless
club, after 8 p.m.
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July 27= Aga-Boom at the Steve Wyrick Theater at Planet
Hollywood has closed.
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July 28= A new non-casino nightclub called JUST JAZZ,
offering live jazz, has opened at 1000 E. Sahara.
+++++++++++++
July 29= FEVER Nite Club opened at South point.
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July 30= DIRTY, a new comedy hypnosis show opened with
Michael Johns & Terry Stokes at the House of
Blues in Mandalay Bay.
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July 31= LURE ultralounge has closed at Wynn Las Vegas.
A new nightclub, called BLUSH, will open in
its spot.
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July 31= TAO Beach in the VENETIAN no longer offers
topless sunbathing.
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OPENINGS & CLOSINGS COMING UP IN THE FUTURE:
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2007
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Sometime this summer, Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino
will open:
PINK'S Race @ Sports Book Lounge featuring
PINK'S famous L.A. hot dogs;
STRIP HOUSE Steakhouse featuring New York steak;
KOI Restaurant from Los Angeles;
YOLOS Mexican Restaurant;
ALFREDO OF ROME Italian Restaurant;
EARL OF SANDWICH Restaurant and
Trader Vic's Restaurant.
Also PRIVE nightclub.
+++++++++++
Sometime during late summer or early fall of 2007,
FIESTA HENDERSON will open a Food Court,
Arcade and 12-screen movie theater operated
by Regal Cinemas.
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Sometime in the fall of 2007, TOWN SQUARE, phase one,
will open with theaters, restaurants and
offices. This $750 million project on
1.9 million square feet, is located at Las
Vegas Boulevard and Sunset Road.
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Sometime in the fall of 2007, CATHOUSE, a new
restaurant and lounge will open in the Luxor.
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Sometime in the fall of 2007, the Monte Carlo will
open DIABLO CANTINA MEXICAN RESTAURANT.
The two-story, Strip front entrance restaurant
will offer casual Mexican food with a modern
festive approach.
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Sometime in the fall of 2007, the NEW FRONTIER will
be demolished to make way for the $5 billion
Plaza Las Vegas Resort.
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Sometime in August, opening of the The biggest
club in the state of the $3 million Stoney's
Rockin' Country – a cowboy ultralounge on the
south Strip. Former New Frontier Gillie's GM
Stoney Gray will be the proprietor.
++++++++++
Aug.1-4= International Belly Dancing Convention-
South Point.
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Aug.2 = "On With The Show", tribute to Liberace, with
Wes Winters, opens in the Liberace Museum.
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Aug.6-7= Bingo Gala - South Point.
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Aug.10= Hypnotist Marshall Sylver show opening-Harrah's.
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Aug.18= PBS'S ANTIQUES ROADSHOW, will tape episodes at -
Las Vegas Convention Center.
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Aug.31= LAX Nightclub opens - Luxor.
+++++++++++
Aug.??= Tony Danza takes over the lead role of Max
Bialystock in "The Producers" - Paris Las Vegas.
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Aug.??= SANTA FE STATION will open the Center Bar with a
concept similar to the ones at Green Valley Ranch
and Red Rock Station Resort.
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Sep. 3= Labor Day.
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Sep. 9= MTV Video Music Awards to be help for the first
time in the Pearl Concert Theater in the PALMS.
++++++++++
Sep. 10= Fitzgerald's Molly's Buffet reopening after
remodeling.
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Sep.11-16= San Gennaro Festival.
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Sep.28-29= Even though the name has already changed,
Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino will hold a
Grand Opening with parties, special events and
celebrity guests.
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Sep.29= = Hawaiian Luau show closes for the season
- Imperial Palace.
++++++++++
Sometime in September, the Venetian starts pre-selling
condominiums in a new tower which will be built
next to their existing Palazzo Tower.
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Oct.??= Opening of the newest room category in MANDALAY
BAY, the Sky View Suites. These will be
1,050 sq. ft. bedrooms located on the top three
floors of Mandalay Bay, which will be
accessible only by key-card.
The suites have separate living room areas and
an extra 1/2 bath for guests of the guests.
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Oct.??= $2 billion TROPICANA expansion starts
by the new owners. The company has filed plans
with Clark County to expand the old casino
to 10,224 rooms counting 948 condo-hotel units.
Existing hotel towers will stand as will the
showroom while the rest of the property is
demolished for the redevelopment. The current
two towers, which total fewer than 2,000 rooms,
will be reworked and merged into new towers.
Hotel will remain open during the construction
period.
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Oct.??= 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 $1.8 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
7,052 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, Sushi Samba and a
Wolfgang Puck eatery.
"Jersey Boys" is set to open in the
Palazzo Tower in early 2008. The Broadway hit
is slated for a long run in a new theater.
The biography of Frankie Valli and the Four
Seasons won four Tony awards, including best
musical. It opened on Broadway in
November,2005 and grosses more than
$1.1 million per week.
As in the first two towers, there will not
be a buffet in this Tower.
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Nov. 4= Daylight Savings Time ends. Put clocks back
one hour.
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Nov.14-17= Comedy Festival - Caesars Palace.[HBO-TV]
Nov. 16 to Dec.10= Elvis Presley's wedding ring,
Marilyn Monroe's jewelry and costumes worn by
Charlton Heston, Mike Myers,John Wayne, Keanu
Reeves and over $2 million of exclusive TV and
movie memorabilia will be on display to the
public - Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.
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Dec.14-15= Auction of the entire $2 million collection
consisting of Elvis Presley's wedding ring,
Marilyn Monroe's jewelry and costumes worn by
Charlton Heston, Mike Myers,John Wayne, Keanu
Reeves and exclusive TV and movie memorabilia
- Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.
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Dec.15= Caesars Palace headliner CELINE DION
is closing her show as she is planning
for a second child at the end of her
4-year Las Vegas run.
Dion, told Tele 7 Jours, a French
entertainment magazine, "I'm approaching
40 years old, and I have to tend to that."
Her son, Rene-Charles, was born in
January, 2001 after in vitro fertilization.
The frozen embryo of her second child awaits
in storage at a New York clinic.
Bette Midler,who replaces her,
starts Feb.20,2008.
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Sometime in 2007, the sale of the SAHARA
will be finalized.
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Sometime in 2007, June???= SILVERTON will start a
$500 million expansion consisting of a
25-story tower with 360 rooms,a spa,
restaurants and additional casino space.
Completion is for late 2009.
+++++++++++
Sometime in 2007, details will be released on a new casino
which will be named CROWN LAS VEGAS. It will be built
next to the Fontainebleau Casino and Resort, just
north of the Riviera, on the old site of Wet 'n' Wild
water park, just south of the Sahara. The
$5 billion project will be an 1,888 foot high
hotel/condo tower with 5,000 room hotel/casino
will be taller than the Stratosphere and the
tallest building in the Western hemisphere.
++++++++++++
sometime in 2007, Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino will
open a new show "Lumiere".
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Sometime in 2007, HARMON AVENUE EXTENSION opens that
would link the street with Frank Sinatra
Drive and The Strip.
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Sometime in 2007, the Hard Rock Hotel will start
A $750 million expansion with the
addition of approximately 950 guest rooms,
including an all-suite 15-story tower with
upgraded amenities, approximately 60,000
square feet of meeting and convention
space, and approximately 35,000 square feet
of casino space. In addition, the project
includes the expansion of the Hard Rock's
award-winning pool, several prominent new
food and beverage outlets, a new and larger
"JOINT", live entertainment venue,
30,000 square feet of new retail space,
as well as a new spa and health club.
The project, is expected to be fully
completed by mid-2009.
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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.
++++++++++
Sometime in 2007, Station Casinos will announce plans
for a mixed-use project (condos, retail etc.)
on 52-acres near their Palace Station.
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Sometime in 2007, Construction is scheduled to begin
on THE WORLD JEWELRY CENTER by a California
developer called Probity International
Corporation 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.
It will take three to three-and-a-half years to
complete.
++++++++++
Sometime in the third quarter of 2007, details will be
released by MGM MIRAGE and Kerzner International
on the new resort which will be built for
approximately 40 of the 78 acres of land,
located on the corner of Las Vegas
Boulevard and Sahara Avenue.
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Sometime in late 2007, the famous CROBAR Nightclub
will open where the Rita Rudner Theater was
located - New York-New York.
++++++++++
Sometime by the end of 2007, the sale of Harrah's
will be finalized.
++++++++++
Sometime by the end 2007, the Amazing Jonathan
show will close - Sahara.
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Sometime by the end of 2007, the sale of the Stratosphere,
Arizona Charlie East and West, will be finalized.
++++++++++
Sometime at the end of 2007 = Opening of the
$365 million, TRUMP INTERNATIONAL HOTEL &
TOWER LAS VEGAS.
It 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 $700,000 to $7 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:
http://www.lasvegashighriseprojects.com/TrumpInternational.html
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2008
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Jan.7-10= Consumer Electronic Show (CES) - Las Vegas Convention
Center,
Las Vegas Hilton, Sands Expo and Convention Center and
Venetian.
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Jan.14= "In the Master's Hands: Picasso's Ceramics,"
featuring more than 30 unique ceramic objects,
will close - Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art.
+++++++++++
Feb.20= Bette Midler starts her show, which replaces
Caesars Palace headliner CELINE DION.
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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.
+++++++++++
Sometime in the spring of 2008, Widening should begin on Interstate 15
in southern Nevada --
under an accelerated program allowing it to be designed as
it's
being built. The $242 million project is dubbed the North
Corridor
project. It'll improve about four miles of the freeway north
of the
Spaghetti Bowl interchange near downtown Las Vegas.
Plans call for widening I-15 from six lanes to 10 up to Lake
Mead
Boulevard, reconfiguring the Lake Mead Boulevard interchange,
and
widening the freeway to eight lanes from Lake Mead Boulevard
to
Craig Road. Electronic message signs, ramp meters and closed-
circuit video cameras also will be installed -- with work
completed
by 2010.
++++++++++++
Sometime in mid-2008, a new Cirque du Soleil show
opens at the LUXOR. Cirque du Soleil will
present 'Mindfreak' illusionist Criss Angel
in a $100-million+ magic spectacular.
++++++++++
Jul.??,2008 = Opening of Building 3 of the WORLD
MARKET CENTER. Costing $550 million, it will
be a 16-story showroom with over 2.1 million
square feet of space, Sky bridges at all
levels will connect this Building with
Buildings 1 and 2.
When fully built at 12 million square
feet, in 8 buildings, the WORLD
MARKET CENTER will be the largest
trade show complex in the world.
Telephone: (702) 599-9621
www.lasvegasmarket.com
++++++++++
Sometime in the late summer 2008, the EASTSIDE CANNERY will
open located on the old Nevada Palace site on
Boulder Highway. The $250 million project
will have a 307-room Tower, a casino with 2,000
slot machines and 26 table games, restaurants, spa
and pool.
++++++++++
Sometime in the late summer of 2008, the MAMMA MIA
show will close - Mandalay Bay.
++++++++++
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, The International Halloween Costume
& Party Show, has announced that after 23 years
in Chicago, the show will move to Las Vegas.
Also making the move, is the annual National
Haunt & Attractions show.
++++++++++
Sometime in 2008, the LADY LUCK in Downtown Las Vegas,
which closed February 12, 2006, will reopen
after major renovations have been completed.
Financing problems have delayed completion.
++++++++++
Sometime in 2008, ground breaking will take place for
the MAXIM magazine mixed-used project planned for the
7.7-acre site near Circus Circus which would include a
three-tower resort hotel with 300 rooms and 1,860
condominiums. It will also have a large casino, shops
and restaurants. Completion of the project will be
in 2010. The project is planned for a site on the
northwest corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Circus
Circus Drive.
+++++++++++
Sometime in 2008 construction will start on The
world-class SMITH CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING
ARTS on a vacant 61-acre former railroad
yard west of downtown.
The Center is expected to cost up to $250
million, with an endowment of $50 million or
more for expenses. Completion is for 2011.
State, county and city governments have
approved a car-rental tax to pay almost half
the estimated cost. Completion is for 2011.
The Center's main hall will have more than
2,000 seats for large touring productions
and concerts. The Center will also have an
elegant theater with more than 600 seats
for intimate performances and a Studio
Theater with more than 300 seats for
children's performances, jazz, cabaret,
rehearsals and community events:
http://www.lvpacfoundation.org/
++++++++++
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 in late 2008 the COSMOPOLITAN Resort &
Casino will open. A $1.8 billion
development, it will consist of two glass
towers on an 8.5-acre site on Harmon
Avenue and the Las Vegas Strip, just
south of the Bellagio. It 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 75,000 square foot
casino, Over 300,000 square feet of
retail, restaurant, entertainment
space, a 50,000 square foot fitness
center/spa, 400 feet of Strip frontage,
multiple nightclubs, an 1,800 seat theater,
500 seat cabaret and a four-level,
3,800-car underground parking garage.
One of the attractions will be The Cosmo
Beach Club, a five-acre pool deck
overlooking The Strip featuring al fresco
dining and a nightclub.
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. Info.::
http://www.hyatt.com/hyatt/about/press/pr-show.jsp?id=1200622
++++++++++
Sometime in late 2008, opening of the Lou Ruvo Brain
Institute on the corner of Bonneville Avenue
and Grand Central Parkway at Union Park in
downtown Las Vegas, which will be a
medical-scientific think tank, diagnostic and
research facility dedicated to seeking the
cures for memory disorders and dementia
associated with diseases such as Alzheimer's,
Huntington's, Parkinson's and other brain
dysfunctions.
++++++++++
Sometime in late 2008, the first homes will be
occupied in Olympia Group's massive
new 6,000 residential unit project in North
Las Vegas. The homes in the master-planned
community, called Park Highlands, will have
a price range from $250,000 to $1 million+.
The project will take 10 years to completely
build out and is located close to Station
Casino's future Aliante Station. The builders
also hope to add a casino to their project.
++++++++++++
2009
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Sometime in early 2009, CAESARS PALACE will open
another tower costing $375 million, called
Octavius Tower, with 665 rooms and
23-stories high.
++++++++++++
Sometime in early 2009, the second tower of
2,054 suites, costing over $2.1 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.
Information on the second tower at:
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/May-28-Fri-2004/business/23980705.html
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Sometime in early 2009, 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 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. Tel.: (702) 646-6377.
++++++++++++
Sometime in mid 2009, the HARD ROCK Hotel will
complete their $750 million expansion which
includes the addition of approximately 950
guest rooms, including an all-suite 15-story
tower with upgraded amenities, approximately
60,000 square feet of meeting and convention
space, and approximately 35,000 square feet
of casino space. In addition, the project
includes the expansion of the Hard Rock's
award-winning pool, several prominent new
food and beverage outlets, a new and larger
"JOINT", live entertainment venue,
30,000 square feet of new retail space,
as well as a new spa and health club.
++++++++++
Sometime in the fall of 2009, FONTAINEBLEU LAS VEGAS
will open.
The 3,889-room, 63-story Fontainebleau Las Vegas
hotel/condo-hotel/casino is a $2.9 billion
development that is being built on the Strip
just north of the Riviera on the 25 acres where
the El Rancho and Algiers casinos once stood.
This project will have a condo-hotel element,
due to an alliance between Fontainebleau and
Turnberry. Construction is under way. It will
have two lobby entrances; one off The Strip
and the other off Paradise, near the Convention
Center.
+++++++++++
Sometime in mid-2009, opening of the new M Resort's $700 million,
first phase of an 80-acre mixed-use development including
hotel-spa-casino that will be located on the far south side
of the Strip (near St. Rose Pkwy.).
++++++++++++
Sometime in the fall of 2009, NORDSTROM DEPARTMENT STORE
(my favorite store in Las Vegas) will open their
second Las Vegas store in the Summerlin Centre,
located at Sahara and the 215.
+++++++++++++
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:
www.wetlasvegas.com
++++++++++++
Sometime in 2009, Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino will open
Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino TOWERS BY WESTGATE.
50 stories high with 1,200 fully furnished
vacation villas located on the southeast
corner of the property.
++++++++++
Sometime in November, 2009, the 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 $7.4 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!
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Sometime in late 2009, the new HOOVER DAM bypass
and bridge opens. With security vehicle check
points, there are some lengthy delays.
Originally set to open in 2007, The completion
of the Hoover Dam Bypass has been delayed by
two years because of the collapse of
construction equipment. Internet site is at:
http://www.hooverdambypass.org/
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Sometime in late 2009, SILVERTON completes a
$500 million expansion consisting of a
25-story tower with 360 rooms, a spa,
restaurants and additional casino space.
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2010
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Sometime in early 2010, the $4.8 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 a 550-room Delano Hotel and a 860-room
Mondrian Hotel.
One million square feet of convention and 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.
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Sometime in 2010, Widening should be complete on Interstate 15,
under an accelerated program allowing it to be designed as
it's
being built. The $242 million project is dubbed the North
Corridor
project. It'll improve about four miles of the freeway north
of the
Spaghetti Bowl interchange near downtown Las Vegas.
Plans call for widening I-15 from six lanes to 10 up to Lake
Mead
Boulevard, reconfiguring the Lake Mead Boulevard interchange,
and
widening the freeway to eight lanes from Lake Mead Boulevard
to
Craig Road. Electronic message signs, ramp meters and closed-
circuit video cameras also will be installed.
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Sometime in 2010, opening will take place for the
MAXIM magazine mixed-used project planned
for the 7.7-acre site on the northwest corner
of Las Vegas Boulevard and Circus Circus Drive,
which would include a three-tower resort hotel
with 300 rooms and 1,860 condominiums. It will
also have a large casino, shops and restaurants.
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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.
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Sometime in 2011, 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.
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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.
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Sometime in 2011, THE LAS VEGAS PLAZA, on the
site of the New Frontier, will open. It will be
a $6 billion to $8 billion development featuring
a casino, 3,500 hotel rooms, apartments, shops
and 300 private residences.
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Sometime in 2017, the new $7 billion Ivanpah Airport
will open to ease the pressure on the existing McCarran
Airport.
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