Crown Las Vegas

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Crown Las Vegas

Information
Location 2600 Las Vegas Boulevard South, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Status Cancelled[1]
Use Hotel, Casino, Conference, Retail, Observation
Height
Antenna/Spire 1,064 ft (324 m)[2]
Companies
Architect Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill
Developer Christopher Milam, IDM Properties
Owner LVTI LLC

Crown Las Vegas, formerly known as the Las Vegas Tower, was to be a supertall skyscraper built on the Las Vegas Strip in Winchester, Nevada, an unincorporated suburban community of Las Vegas. If built, the tower would have stood at 1,064 feet (324 m). This would have made the tower the tallest building in the Las Vegas metropolitan area and the 2nd-tallest structure in the Las Vegas Valley and in the state of Nevada, after the Stratosphere Tower.

Crown Las Vegas would have hosted a casino, a hotel and an observation deck. The tower would have been built on Las Vegas Boulevard on the former site of the Wet 'n Wild Water Park. The building's architect was Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill. The cost of the project had been estimated to be $5 billion, and was expected to be completed by 2012.[3]

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Originally proposed as the "Las Vegas Tower", the name of the building changed when Publishing and Broadcasting Limited reached an agreement on May 31, 2007 with the tower's developers to invest money in the project and run its casino.[4] As part of the agreement, the project was renamed Crown Las Vegas.

Crown Las Vegas was originally planned to rise to a height of 1,888 feet (575 m) by Christopher Milam, a building developer from Texas. According to KLAS-TV in Las Vegas,[5] the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was concerned with the proposed height, due to the tower's proximity to McCarran International Airport and Nellis Air Force Base. In November 2006, the FAA issued a "notice of presumed hazard" because the tower location is 2.5 miles (about 45 seconds' flying time for a departing jet), north of McCarran Airport's runways. Because it would extend inside the traffic patterns for the airport's two north/south runways, a very tall tower could render those runways unusable.

The FAA had previously stated that anything over 700 feet on the site chosen for the tower would constitute an air hazard. On October 24, 2007, the FAA denied the project, deeming that the tower was a "hazard to aviation". As a result of the decision, Clark County code prohibited its construction at the proposed height. There were plans to resubmit the project, with a new height of 1,150 feet (350 m).[6] However, on November 20, 2007, the FAA reached a final decision that no structure taller than 1,064 feet (324 m) would be approved in the site.[7] Developer Christopher Milam then resubmitted the project to the Clark County Planning Commission at the maximum height allowed by the FAA, and the tower was officially approved for construction on December 6, 2007 with a height of 1,064 feet (324 m).[8]

There had been some speculation that Milam may wish to submit plans for the construction of a second, twin tower to also rise 1,064 ft (324 m).[2] If constructed, the two Crown Las Vegas towers would then become the tallest twin towers in the Western Hemisphere. However, no official plans have been released.

In March 2008, Crown chairman James Packer announced the project was canceled and the site put up for sale. [9] Crown will continue its investment in the under-construction Fontainebleau Resort and Casino on the site next to the proposed Crown Las Vegas site.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.vegastodayandtomorrow.com/pdf/Crown%20cancelled.pdf
  2. ^ a b Crown Las Vegas / 1,064 ft / 324 m / Floors Pending. SkyscraperPage.com. Retrieved on 2007-12-06.
  3. ^ Packer's high Vegas punt | The Daily Telegraph
  4. ^ ReviewJournal.com - Business - Australian magnate to invest in LV casino
  5. ^ Las Vegas Now - Breaking News, Local News, Weather, Traffic, Streaming Video, Classifieds, Blogs - I-Team: New Plan Could See Tallest Building in U.S. Built in Las Vegas
  6. ^ Knightly, Arnold (2007-10-24). Developer downscales tower plans. ReviewJournal.com. Retrieved on 2007-11-03.
  7. ^ Knightly, Arnold M. (2007-11-20). Strip tower given a trim. Casino City Times. Retrieved on 2007-12-06.
  8. ^ Spillman, Benjamin (2007-12-06). Obstacles gone for LV tower: County panel approves 1,064-foot Strip hotel. Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved on 2007-12-06.
  9. ^ http://www.vegastodayandtomorrow.com/pdf/Crown%20cancelled.pdf

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