Posted December 21, 20177 yr Steve Wynn used to brag about his casino having the only golf course on the strip. Well, now that Millennials have killed golf, Wynn is finding another use for that prime land. Construction to start on Wynn’s Paradise Park in the spring Wynn Golf Club to close Dec. 22 to make way for new development The carnival-themed new development will have a 103-foot diameter carousel rotating over the man-made lagoon, electric bumper cars that light up when bumped and a nighttime parade with 10-12 floats that guests can pay to join. He will present a budget for the project to his board within 90 days. The development will also have a new 47-story, 1,500-room hotel with its own convention space, casino and restaurants. It will sit roughly between the Encore and the Wynn Las Vegas.
December 21, 20177 yr Well, I guess something had to happen to that horrid golf course. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
December 21, 20177 yr Las Vegas has a Cincinnati Ave.: https://www.google.com/maps/@36.1449585,-115.1626283,3a,75y,75.69h,91.96t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sn9Oyb4rNy0mGJbeGTBRzdw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
December 23, 20177 yr Author It looks like the stalled/abandoned Fontainebleau resort will be moving forward soon too (the blue building near the center of the panorama below).
February 9, 20187 yr How Madison Square Garden Co. is aiming to make every seat the best in the house Sitting in the last row of New York's iconic Radio City Music Hall, a robotic voice speaks a sentence into the amphitheater. "You are hearing my voice from a speaker that is located on the rear stage wall more than a football field away from your current location." The voice is not blasted at a high volume even though it is coming from 100 meters (about 328 feet) away on a speaker array in the back left corner of the Radio City stage. Yet it sounds nearly as loud and clear as if this reporter was standing directly in front of it. More below: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/02/08/how-madison-square-garden-co-aiming-make-every-seat-best-house/318516002/ "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 7, 20187 yr Author It looks like the stalled/abandoned Fontainebleau resort will be moving forward soon too (the blue building near the center of the panorama below). More info: Fontainebleau Will Be 'The Drew Las Vegas', Strip’s First JW Marriott
March 7, 20187 yr Author The north end of the strip is pretty ugly right now, but if all of the proposals move forward, it's going to be totally different a decade from now. The vacant lot across the street from Wynn and Encore will be the new "Wynn West" project (although I bet Wynn's name gets erased from all of his properties before too long); the currently under-construction Resorts World will be completed; the Fontainebleau will be completed as The Drew; and I think the giant parking lot north of Fontainebleau is the proposed site of a new arena. If that all happens, there will basically be no big gap in the strip between the airport and Las Vegas city limits, other than the former site of the Riviera, which is currently a convention center parking lot. While I wouldn't classify any section of the strip as "walkable" or "urban", nearly every casino/resort has gotten rid of their giant parking lots in the front and replaced them with new development facing the street. Awkward plots of lands in between the major properties are getting replaced with new urbanist style outdoor malls, like the Linq Promenade (between Linq and Flamingo) and The Park (between NYNY and the former Monte Carlo, now renamed Park MGM).
April 5, 20187 yr Author Conversion of Monte Carlo into Park MGM: A major streetscaping project is underway in the Arts District which includes pedestrian bump-outs at crosswalks:
April 5, 20187 yr Las Vegas has gone urban! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 5, 20187 yr Conversion of Monte Carlo into Park MGM: A major streetscaping project is underway in the Arts District which includes pedestrian bump-outs at crosswalks: Travis thanks for the update on the Monte Carlo, first internship was to work on the restoration of the Monte Carlo when the upper floors caught fire.
April 5, 20187 yr Just got back from there yesterday. First time I'd been in about 6 or 7 years and thought recent developments, by and large, have been pretty good - for Vegas. That tawdry strip of sidewalk by Harrah's needs to be demo'd and redone though. My hovercraft is full of eels
January 8, 20196 yr Author On 12/21/2017 at 12:51 PM, taestell said: Steve Wynn used to brag about his casino having the only golf course on the strip. Well, now that Millennials have killed golf, Wynn is finding another use for that prime land. Construction to start on Wynn’s Paradise Park in the spring Wynn Golf Club to close Dec. 22 to make way for new development The carnival-themed new development will have a 103-foot diameter carousel rotating over the man-made lagoon, electric bumper cars that light up when bumped and a nighttime parade with 10-12 floats that guests can pay to join. He will present a budget for the project to his board within 90 days. The development will also have a new 47-story, 1,500-room hotel with its own convention space, casino and restaurants. It will sit roughly between the Encore and the Wynn Las Vegas. Wynn pulled the plug on the Paradise Park project and is in the process of redesigning and rebuilding the golf course...
January 8, 20196 yr The Las Vegas monorail appears to attract about 10,000 riders per day, or a similar ridership to the KC Streetcar: https://www.lvmonorail.com/ridership/2017-ridership-revenue-data
January 11, 20196 yr Author The name has finally been announced for the new casino and hotel at 18 Fremont Street: Circa. This is the first modern Strip-style resort to be built in Downtown Las Vegas. I was worried that they were going to do something that would feel totally out of place but they actually came up with a concept that fits in with downtown, has a retro feel, won't feel too out of place on Fremont Street, and yet is completely modern. More renderings here.
January 11, 20196 yr Author Yep. They ruined an otherwise classy looking project with a cheesy dad joke.
January 11, 20196 yr It looks like an ode to the Stardust. I dig it. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
January 11, 20196 yr Author It should also be noted that Downtown Grand and Fremont Hotel and Casino are also planning to build new hotel towers, and Binion's (which closed their hotel tower in 2009) might be planning to renovate/reopen theirs. So the era of increasingly flashy/themed strip casinos might be coming to and end, with Downtown Las Vegas regaining the spotlight.
January 11, 20196 yr I'm glad to see a renewed interest in Fremont Street and downtown Las Vegas. As fun as the Strip can be, there's something really special about Glitter Gulch and downtown has a really great rough-and-tumble Wild West vibe that makes it have such a strong identity and sense of place compared to the Strip. “To an Ohio resident - wherever he lives - some other part of his state seems unreal.”
January 13, 20196 yr i hope the binions tower reopens. i really liked the pool on the tower roof. of course when it does it will be something a lot more glossy, but still. agree fremont is such an interesting old school alternative to the strip -- i am glad to see more investment there.
February 6, 20196 yr Author On 1/11/2019 at 12:22 PM, taestell said: It should also be noted that Downtown Grand and Fremont Hotel and Casino are also planning to build new hotel towers, and Binion's (which closed their hotel tower in 2009) might be planning to renovate/reopen theirs. So the era of increasingly flashy/themed strip casinos might be coming to and end, with Downtown Las Vegas regaining the spotlight. And here it is: Binion’s announces plans for boutique hotel in downtown Las Vegas Binion’s is joining the downtown Las Vegas expansion boom. The property, operated by TLC Casino Enterprises, will open 81 of the more than 350 rooms shuttered at Binion’s in 2009 during the Great Recession as a boutique offering to be known as the Apache Hotel at Binion’s. Hotel Apache was one of the original names on the building once owned by the Binion family. The hotel will feature vintage-style furnishings reminiscent of the original Hotel Apache that opened in 1932, company representatives said in posts on Facebook and Instagram.
April 8, 20196 yr Author 12 hour concrete pour for the new Circa resort happens tonight: Madison Square Garden's Sphere concert venue moving forward:
January 17, 20205 yr Boring Company's underground people mover in Las Vegas coming along The soon-to-be underground people mover at the Las Vegas Convention Center is now almost six football fields long, according to a construction update from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. Tunneling for the project began in November. It's now almost halfway done, the LVCVA says. The people mover was designed by Elon Musk's The Boring Company and will use Tesla vehicles to transport passengers between three stations at the convention center campus 40 feet underground. More below: https://www.ktnv.com/news/first-look-boring-companys-underground-people-mover-in-las-vegas-coming-along "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 11, 20205 yr Author 201 South Las Vegas Blvd, constructed in 1974 for Nevada Savings & Loan, is about to be fully redeveloped into office and restaurant space including a new rooftop bar/restaurant. A new parking garage with ground floor retail space will also be built on an adjacent lot and will be connected to the building.
May 15, 20205 yr https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/14/21257849/elon-musk-boring-company-las-vegas-tunnel-finished-digging Tunnels are apparently complete. Very Stable Genius
May 15, 20205 yr ^So are the drivers going to be employees? Or 1099 contractors? The capacity is going to be amazingly low. They're literally going to have traffic jams in this tunnel when a group of people decides they want to use it.
May 16, 20205 yr Author So the "trams" that will use this tunnel have a maximum capacity of 16 pasengers? Elon invented the subway but worse.
May 16, 20205 yr 3 hours ago, taestell said: "trams" that will use this tunnel For some reason it's called a "loop", for the same unknown reason that a pair of hypothetical pneumatic tubes were dubbed the hyper"loop". Hey everyone, look at this loop:
May 18, 20205 yr On 5/16/2020 at 11:51 AM, taestell said: So the "trams" that will use this tunnel have a maximum capacity of 16 pasengers? Elon invented the subway but worse. InDiViDuAlIzEd mAsS tRaNsIt EDIT - I didn't read the full original article or I just glossed over some things.. Holy crap. It's a 15 minute walk. For a guy claiming to want to change the way the world drives to save the planet from climate change, this is way worse for the environment than just walking. Quote The Loop is supposed to be able to move more than 4,000 people per hour through the tunnels in a variety of Tesla vehicles, taking a cross-campus walk that normally takes at least 15 minutes and turning it into a ride that lasts less than two minutes. The Loop will pack those passengers into Model 3s, Model Xs, and a “tram” built on the Model 3 platform that can fit between 12 and 16 passengers, according to Steve Hill, the CEO and president of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, who spoke to The Verge this week. I'm struggling with the math here. At 4,000 per hour, and using an average of 15 passengers per car/tram (is that total or in addition to the passengers in the vehicles?)...they'd need to be completing 267 trips per hour to get to that 4k/hour figure. What am I missing here? Even if you say the tunnel is operating in both directions, that's still 133 trips per hour both ways. Plus, per the posts above, there will be three stations. Anyone understand how they're supposed to get to 4k people/hour with two one-way tunnels? Either way, it's significantly less efficient than the monorail. Edited May 18, 20205 yr by DarkandStormy Very Stable Genius
May 18, 20205 yr Tunnel boring machines break through all the time, because there are dozens of TBM companies digging hundreds of tunnels around the world as we speak. They're lucky if it's local news. Somehow this teeny-tiny project makes national news.
May 18, 20205 yr Because Musk is the only businessperson techies pay attention to that is not in tech.
May 18, 20205 yr is there a video animation or something of this people mover in action someone can post?
May 18, 20205 yr Author ^ I don't know if there is an animation for it, but this is all it is. It's literally a people mover to go from one side of the convention center to another. On 1/17/2020 at 11:25 AM, ColDayMan said: Boring Company's underground people mover in Las Vegas coming along The soon-to-be underground people mover at the Las Vegas Convention Center is now almost six football fields long, according to a construction update from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. Tunneling for the project began in November. It's now almost halfway done, the LVCVA says. The people mover was designed by Elon Musk's The Boring Company and will use Tesla vehicles to transport passengers between three stations at the convention center campus 40 feet underground. More below: https://www.ktnv.com/news/first-look-boring-companys-underground-people-mover-in-las-vegas-coming-along Despite Elon's claim above that the system "will also connect Vegas hotels & airport" there is no current plan to do that. There is no way that it would be worth spending billions of dollars on miles of tunnels under Las Vegas, when it is only capable of moving 16 people per vehicle. How much fare would each passenger have to pay in order for the system to break even?
June 12, 20205 yr Elon Musk’s Boring Company Loop is expanding again in Las Vegas with another customer Last month, The Boring Company announced that it completed the excavation of both tunnels for the project. But the goal has always been to expand from the convention center to a bigger transportation system for the whole of Las Vegas. Earlier this month, we learned that they are seeking to extend the Loop system to the Encore At Wynn, the closest casino on the trip to the convention center. Now we’ve learned that Resorts World Las Vegas, a new casino resort to launch next year, has recently submitted a plan for an extension to The Boring Company Loop: “On June 1, Resorts World Las Vegas, the US$4.3 billion resort scheduled to open in summer 2021, submitted plans for a proposed passenger station and tunnel that would connect to the Las Vegas Convention Center campus via Elon Musk’s innovative transportation system. This new tunnel project would swiftly transport passengers between the city’s newest integrated resort and the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) via underground tunnels in all-electric Tesla vehicles in under just two minutes.” Full article below: https://electrek.co/2020/06/09/elon-musk-boring-company-loop-expanding-again-las-vegas/ "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 7, 20204 yr https://www.teslarati.com/boring-company-las-vegas-loop-expansion-approved/ Quote The Boring Company, Elon Musk’s tunneling venture, is expanding its Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) transportation Loop to include a station stop at the city’s new Resorts World hotel. The local county approved the application on Wednesday, checking off the final step needed to move forward with the project. Very Stable Genius
November 18, 20204 yr https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/16/cars/boring-company-vegas-elon-musk/index.html Quote The Boring Company's project in Las Vegas was supposed to be the first real demonstration of Elon Musk's vision for re-imagining public transportation in cities. Musk, who has criticized traditional public transit such as subways, contended he could do much better. He tweeted out visions in 2018 of glass pods, picking up relaxed passengers from thousands of stations the size of single parking spaces that blend into cities, and said it would look "a bit" like that. While more images are still to come, so far the rendered reality is turning out wildly differently. The Boring Company received the approval of the Las Vegas Planning Commission Tuesday night to build part of Loop, its intracity transportation service, in the city. It will seek the city council's approval next month. The Boring Company hopes Loop will one day reach 155 mph and use autonomous Teslas, though the project will initially use human drivers and will be capped at 35mph, Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority CEO Steve Hill has said. Very Stable Genius
November 30, 20204 yr This is an incredible visual...not because it "proves" that the Loop will move 21k+ people per hour, but for how chaotic it is. Also...note that many pedestrians get run over in this simulation, and some cars hold 15+ people...which will take a lot longer to unload than is shown. Just build a train. Very Stable Genius
November 30, 20204 yr On 5/18/2020 at 10:56 AM, mrnyc said: is there a video animation or something of this people mover in action someone can post? Bumping this so you can see the post above...yes. The guy also links to a simulation he put on YouTube in the tweet below it. Very Stable Genius
November 30, 20204 yr If they run vans instead of cars then maybe everyone could board and deplane on the same side. #Vanlife.
December 1, 20204 yr Author In other news, a person who played a major role in Las Vegas urban development, Tony Hsieh, has died. Hsieh was the founder of Zappos, which was headquartered in Downtown Las Vegas, and he invested a lot of his own money back into the Downtown Project which sought to revitalize the downtown area, specifically the Fremont East district.
December 1, 20204 yr yeah the old downtown vegas redevelopment was the last big thing he was doing, a shame. he made money then reinvested it in other ventures rather than disappearing to live quietly like a rich guy, so you gotta admire that. hsieh died in a housefire in connecticut in a shed outside an employee's house. it was ruled an accident -- a very sad end. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9005781/Listen-firefighters-Tony-Hsieh-barricaded-inside-shed-house-fire.html
December 6, 20204 yr turns out hsieh was a drug addict. with ... nitrous? presumably other drugs ... ?? even sadder. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9019621/amp/Jewel-warned-ex-Zappos-CEO-Tony-Hsieh-drug-use-prior-death.html edit -- his last days: https://nypost.com/2020/12/09/tony-hsieh-went-50m-property-buying-binge-before-death/ Edited December 9, 20204 yr by mrnyc
December 14, 20204 yr Downtown Projects Downtown Grand - Gallery Tower New Municipal Courthouse Proposed Park (across from City Hall & Next to New Municipal Courthouse) 201 S. Las Vegas Blvd (Adaptive Reuse + Parking Structure Addition) Original look: Now: Fremont 9 "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
December 14, 20204 yr Arts District / Gateway Projects ZLIFE (Boutique Hotel) New City of Las Vegas Arch "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
December 14, 20204 yr Resorts World update "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 9, 20214 yr https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-public-transit-in-las-vegas-still-just-human-1846648723?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=dlvrit&utm_content=gizmodo Quote Elon Musk's 'Public Transit' in Las Vegas Still Just Humans Driving Cars Slowly in a Tunnel There are some embedded videos in the link. Very Stable Genius
April 9, 20214 yr ^ interesting -- thanks. i would never wish a resorts world, or any chintzy, eyesore vegas building for that matter, on any city, but ok those projections or illuminations on it are pretty cool.
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