14 June 2006
Las Vegas to add two million hotel rooms
"Las Vegas Strip will become irrelevant"
LAS VEGAS -- No sooner had the paint dried on Wynn Las Vegas, the $2.7
billion luxury hotel and casino resort located on the Las Vegas Strip, than
Steve Wynn announced his intention to build an enormous hotel casino
complex just a few miles northwest of the Las Vegas Strip that will
literally cast shadows on every major hotel and casino in the city. Even
in Las Vegas, a
town not known for subtlety or restraint, this project has been getting
plenty of buzz.
The new hotel-casino-resort
complex will be on a scale that is so large that it is difficult to even
imagine. By any standards, it will be huge, covering nearly 823,000
acres with accommodations for over 6 million guests.
Tentatively named "The World - Las Vegas," construction is expected to
begin this fall with the first of 16 phases to be completed by January
2015. (Phase One is
shown here in an artist's rendering.)
"The World - Las Vegas" specifications (preliminary):
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Total property area:
Total air conditioned space:
Towers:
Guest rooms and suites:
Time share condominiums:
Casinos:
Golf courses:
Swimming pools:
Restaurants:
Garages:
Meeting and conference space:
Retail space:
Special features/activities:
Employment:
Projected cost of construction:
Projected completion:
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822,946 acres
1.4 trillion square feet
77 story "Elvis Tower"
93 story "World Tower"
1,969,744
97,334
612
153
258
2,171
644,258 parking spaces for
automobiles
213 million square feet
64 million square feet -
including Gucci,
Versace, Faberge, Thom McCann,
Lamborghini, Bugatti and Cessna Citation
400 foot waterfall, 87 acre
water skiing lake,
Olympic scale luge track, enclosed Formula
One race track and an indoor skydiving
platform
76,650 full time
staff
$3.2 trillion
January 8, 2015 - Phase One
(The anniversary of Elvis' 80th birthday)
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In an exclusive interview with Travel Fox, Wynn said, "To give you an
idea of the scale of this project, we will
employ a staff of full-time atmospheric
forecasters who issue twice-daily weather updates just for the hotel
lobby."
Indeed, when completed, The World will dwarf anything else within miles,
and in a tone of both confidence and hubris Wynn added,
"Ten years from now, the Las Vegas Strip will become irrelevant."
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