This is an artist’s rendering of Pulse, a massive mixed-use development that’s just been approved by Las Vegas City Council. Like all good Las Vegas projects, Pulse has several interesting features. The first is its location. Situated just north of the Stratosphere, Pulse aims to extend the strip further north, effectively blurring the boundaries between the strip and downtown areas,
Secondly, is its size: Pulse will be built on 85 acres of land, and will come with a huge array of features, including a 22,000-seat arena - but more on those in a minute.
It’s most astonishing feature by far, though, is its cost - $9.5 billion!!
More details on Las Vegas Pulse after the jump.
Posted on Friday, June 29th, 2007 at 9:04 pm by Mike Evans
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Caesar’s Palace must have been feeling a bit left out, what with all the talk of new multi-billion hotels going up all around it. So they decided to join in the fun, and have announced a new $1 billion extension to the property, which has just been approved.
Read on to see what Caesar’s Palace’s new extension will contain.
The Mandalay Bay hotel sits proudly at the south end of the Las Vegas strip, acting as a shining gold bookend that represents the end of the strip. A giant gold tower may sound gaudy, but in the relentless Las Vegas sun, the Mandalay Bay looks stunning.
At least, from the outside! Inside, it’s been a different matter. Although the main casino floor is nice enough, the rooms have always left something to be desired, particularly for one of the more expensive hotels on the strip.
Fortunately, Mandalay Bay has recognized this, and has just completed a $150 million refit of all of its hotel rooms.
Las Vegas has been referred to as one of the modern wonders of the world, and for good reason. Long gone are the days when Vegas was a cheesy sleazy place full of casinos and endless Elvis memorabilia. Today, Vegas is an ultra-modern party town that’s rapidly going upmarket, with more attractions per square mile than anywhere else on earth, and hotels and casinos that simply take your breath away.
Even more remarkable is the sheer scale of redevelopment that’s going on within the 3.5 miles of the Las Vegas strip. More than $30 billion is being pumped in to develop new mega hotels that make the existing ones look like sheds. If you’ve never been to Vegas before, go now to catch a glimpse of the 20th Century Vegas before the 21st Century comes rushing in.
Before you do, though, read on to understand how a small town in the desert became one of the modern wonders of the world, and see what $30 billion of new Las Vegas hotels will bring to the future of this amazing place.
Note: This article was first published in EzineArticles - but that’s OK, because I wrote it! If you’d like to include it in your site, you have my permission to reprint it in its entirety (you can skip this bit in italics!), but you must include the links at the bottom
Las Vegas is currently in the middle of an unprecedented $30 billion building boom, with another $50 billion set to follow that, with few analysts worrying over whether Las Vegas can support the tens of thousands of new hotel rooms that are being created.
But it wasn’t always like that. Ten years ago, the Venetian and the Bellagio were both under construction as their owners, Sheldon Adelson and Steve Wynn, went head to head in their own personal mini building-boom. Back then, though, analysts were predicting a bloodbath, as the thought of Vegas supporting just two more mega-casinos seemed destined to render one of the casino billionaires bankrupt.
Read on for more details of the Bellagio vs the Venetian in the first of our new History of Las Vegas series.
Posted on Monday, June 25th, 2007 at 10:18 pm by Mike Evans
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Everyone who goes to Las Vegas wants to make a million, right? You play the slots, spin the wheel, or raise them high in high stakes poker - whatever your game, you want to win and win big.
But other than sheer luck, just how can you do it? How can you go to Las Vegas and come away with millions in your pocket?
Well, here are 7 ways you might like to try:
As more renderings and photos of Echelon Place are emerging, I felt it only best to create a new Echelon Place photo gallery. Seeing the pics in the main blog is OK, but you can’t get a sense of the detail, so as there’s more room in the gallery section, it seems best all round to place them there as well.
I’ll update this with more pics of Echelon Place, along with any construction pics that are released as well, as they come in. I’ll also be adding some more galleries in the near future, both of existing hotels and also of new Las Vegas hotels.
The somewhat bland renderings of the new Echelon Place that were released a few days ago caused something of an upset on the main Vegas forums. The renderings seemed to show a pretty soulless set of buildings that would look anonymous in any city, let alone a city like Las Vegas.
However, an anonymous building on the strip would mean almost certain death for any project, and certainly one costing over $4 billion. Fortunately, a new set of renderings have emerged that ad far more detail to Echelon Place’s current design, and as you can see, this set looks far more spectacular than the last one.
More pics of Echelon Place after the jump.
Posted on Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 at 11:21 pm by Mike Evans
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Future Hotels
MGM Mirage purchased over 30 acres of land next to its Circus Circus hotel on the north end of the Vegas strip back in April. This gave the company over 100 acres of contiguous land in a rapidly developing area of the strip. Rumours were rife that MGM Mirage could be planning to build another resort on the scale of the $7.7 billion Project CityCenter.
However, it was precisely because they were investing so heavily in CityCenter that it was thought that the company wouldn’t begin work on the land until sometime close to CityCenter’s compeltion - in other words, sometime in 2009.
This being Vegas, though, things tend to happen rather quickly, and MGM Mirage have now announced a deal with Kerzner International Holdings that will see the development of a multi-billion dollar “integrated resort property” on this area of land, which should being construction a lot sooner than 2009.
Kerzner are the people behind the fabulous-looking Atlantis, Pardise Island hotel in the Bahamas, and so with this latest news, rumours are abound that new Las Vegas resort could be a Las Vegas Atlantis right next to Circus Circus - just without the sea and the ships!
Full details of MGM Mirage and Kerzner’s announcement after the jump.
Boyd Gaming gave us all an update on its progress with Echelon Place yesterday, announcing that thye’d broken ground and construction was about to begin in earnest. Tantalisingly, they also announced that new renderings of the $4 billion mega-resort would be made available, but hadn’t actually released them to the public - until today.
Here, then, are those renderings. The first picture (above), shows an aerial rendering of the entire complex, and mighty impressive it looks, too. However, the second rendering (below, after the jump), is marginally less exciting. In fact, it’s quite dull looking!
