Crown Las Vegas – a 1,888 foot tall hotel coming to the North of the Strip
Following on from the succession of new multi-billion dollar mega-hotels currently being built at the north end of the Las Vegas strip comes news of, well, another new multi-billion dollar mega hotel.
Called the Crown Las Vegas, the new hotel resort will be built next to the $3.4 billion Fontainebleau that’s currently being built opposite Circus Circus.
Crown Las Vegas will be slightly different from other hotels in Las Vegas though.
At 1,888 feet tall, and with 142 stories, it’ll be the tallest building in Las Vegas by a mile, dwarfing even The Stratosphere.
Actually, it’ll be the tallest building in the Western hemisphere!
More details and pictures of the Crown Las Vegas after the jump.
Formerly called The Las Vegas Tower, the project has been on the drawing board for some time, but financing was proving tricky.
Now though, Australia’s richest man James Packer has invested $22.5 million in The Tower’s holding company, LVTI, and will invest further funds to help finance the project.
The newly renamed Crown Las Vegas will feature 5,000 hotel rooms, 250,000 square feet of casino space, and 625,000 square feet of shops, restaurants, convention area and other amenities.
Although the new project is a gamble, particularly with so many other big construction projects currently under way in the immediate area, the Packers are used to the life of the high roller. Packer’s late father, Kerry Packer, is rumoured to have won between $20 million and $40 million over several days at the MGM Grand in 1997 and tipped as much as $1 million at Bellagio.
The Crown Las Vegas could cost his son a lot more than that!
[Source: SkyscraperPage, ReviewJournal]
June 10th, 2007, 23:39
[...] As you can see from the pic above, the new hotels around The Wynn are all around 640 foot tall, with the Encore at Wynn being the tallest of the lot at 653 feet. Both Echelon Place and the Fontainebleau should be taller still, while the Crown Las Vegas project that hasn’t begun construction yet, but is all set to go, will be a gigantic 1,888 foot monster – nearly twice the height of the Stratosphere. [...]
June 28th, 2007, 23:20
[...] These hotels are currently under construction, and will open between early 2008 and 2010. They’re by no means the end of the story, though. Hotels that are about to begin construction include The Plaza, a $5 billion hotel that will be built on the site of the New Frontier, which will be imploded later in 2007; and the Crown Las Vegas, a new hotel that will be built next to the Fontainebleau, and which will soar an incredible 1,888 feet. [...]
April 28th, 2009, 04:12
I don’t think this Hotel will make much money, it probably will go bankrupt at some point. There is already a lot of hotels, and not a lot of people in them. People need to like chill with the building…