Throw in the extension to Mandalay Bay, and you can add another 1 million square feet of convention space and 11,700 more hotel rooms with the Mandalay-Luxor-Excalibur rooms. One of the benefits of adding the Sands station is that the system would connect more than 30,000 hotel rooms and more than 8 million square feet of convention space. Would transportation aficionado Richard Branson, who backs the Virgin Trains initiative between Southern California and Las Vegas and who is converting the Hard Rock into Virgin Hotels Las Vegas next year, get behind a monorail extension if it means connecting Virgin Atlantic passengers directly to his new hotel? At one time, there was a plan in place to extend the monorail east, then north to create a stop at the Hard Rock Hotel, then the Thomas &Mack Center before ending up at McCarran. It could get even more traction if the system were extended to the north from its Sahara Las Vegas terminus into downtown Las Vegas where Derek Stevens’ Circa resort is going to attract new crowds in late 2020.Īnd everybody knows the big enchilada would be finding a way to somehow extend the system to McCarran International Airport. That is expected to cost between $90 million and $100 million. The system would get closer to completion if the mile-long extension to the south from MGM Grand to Mandalay Bay - a drop-off point for people attending games and events at Allegiant Stadium - can be engineered and built.
It will cost an estimated $13 million to complete. The new station is expected to be engineered into the pedestrian bridge being designed to move people from The Venetian, Palazzo and the Sands Expo and Convention Center to the MSG Sphere. The new Sands Avenue station won’t go far toward reaching completion, but it sets the system up for more ridership once it and the sphere-shaped, 17,500-seat performance venue being developed by The Madison Square Garden Company is complete. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: The Las Vegas Monorail isn’t as successful as it could be because it isn’t finished yet. It filed for bankruptcy protection in 2010, and after emerging, ridership revenue has fallen every year since 2016. The system has foundered because there aren’t enough riders buying tickets to sustain operating costs, let alone pay for capital improvements. If nothing else, it should for at least a few years quiet the critics who want to spend the reserves set aside to dismantle the system in the event it completely failed. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal) the Las Vegas Monorail back on track, now that financing has been secured for a piece of its planned expansion?īut the fact that the privately held company has a plan to build a station at Sands Avenue to provide access to the under-construction MSG Sphere at The Venetian - and financing in place to build it - provides new hope for the 3.9-mile, zero-emissions transit system. The private, nonprofit transit system hopes to construct a new Sands station that would give riders access to the MSG Sphere.
Also, half of the existing building will be covered by a new condo tower and hotel, adding to the already large complex, which also includes The Venetian and Palazzo.Las Vegas Monorail trains pass the under-construction MSG Sphere performance venue in Las Vegas Monday, Sept. A long pedestrian bridge will be built between the two Expos. The first part would add another story to the existing building and build a new two-million square foot Expo center, built on the Sands-owned land east of the Wynn Las Vegas employee parking garage. In 2008, an expansion for the Sands Expo Center was announced. It is frequently used for conventions booked at the adjoining Venetian and Palazzo hotels and casinos (which are owned by the same company) and as overflow space for conventions that outgrow the Las Vegas Convention Center. It is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Sands Corporation. It opened in 1990 across the street from the original Sands Hotel. It is the third biggest events complex in Las Vegas. At 2.25 million square feet, Sands Expo and Convention Center is a large, fascinating, ultra-modern building and an outstanding facility.
0 kommentar(er)
