NEWS 4/29/08
The Plaza project is on hold until the current economic issues
improve.
NEWS
12/16/07 Elad has put their plans for The Plaza before the
Clark County planning commission for approval.
The plans include: Seven towers
containing 6,700 keys (4,100 hotel rooms and 2,600 resort
condominium units), 175,900 square feet of casino area (making it
the
largest casino on the strip and
second largest in the valley), 134,500 square feet of restaurant
area, 347,887 square feet of retail area, 539,607 square feet of
convention space, a 50,000-square foot health club, a 1,500-seat
theater, and 227,038 square feet of open space on the roof top of
the podium that includes gardens and pool areas.
The grand total for
the project includes 3,317,400 square feet of parking garages and a
total area of 15,080,846 square feet.
|
|
|
|
First rendering of The Plaza Las Vegas
You saw it here first, another VegasTaT exclusive -
The first rendering of The
Plaza Las Vegas shows several (old world styled) towers reflecting the
original Plaza Hotel look. The design challenge
(I discuss below) has been handled (IMHO) with grace and class. This is
promising to be an impressive project.
Trump Towers can be seen in the upper-left and Fashion Show Mall in the
lower-left. with the Las Vegas strip along the bottom.
|
|
New renderings 11/15/07
|
|
Early Rendering |
|
|
| |
|
The
Plaza Construction Photos |
| |
|
While not
officially under construction, the site of The Plaza
is being prepared. Photo 2/2/08 by Brian Fey |
 |
| |
|
|
|
|
5/15/07 ELAD, the owners of The Plaza Hotel in New York, are
planning to build a $5+ billion, larger than life replica of the famed
resort on the New Frontier site.
The Plaza Las Vegas (not to be confused with the one downtown) will
contain a 3,500-room luxury hotel, 300 private residences, restaurants,
retail, convention space and a casino. They are promising a level
of luxury that will surpass anything in Vegas (sounds like Mobile and
AAA will have to add another star and diamond to their matrix to keep
up).
The main resort, is said to be a replica of the New York landmark. The
New York Plaza is a 19-story building (right) which holds 800 rooms and
the new hotel will have 3,500 rooms, looks like a design challenge to
me.
The New Frontier will close in July 15, 2007 and be imploded in early
2008.
2011 is the expected opening date.
No groundbreaking date has been announced.
The Plaza New York was built in 1907
|
|
NEWS 8/10/07
Tamares Las Vegas Properties, the owners of
Plaza Las Vegas, the downtrodden, downtown hotel, has filed a complaint
with the Clark County District Court, to block ELAD from using the Plaza
name for its new six-star strip project.
Frankly, I feel this is silly for several reasons:
-
Who would confuse a 2-star downtown hotel (next to the bus station)
with one of the finest hotels in the world?
-
"Plaza Las Vegas" and "The Plaza" are not the same name, so I don't
think their complaint will hold water.
-
Plaza Las Vegas is probably going to be imploded anyway and
replaced, due to plans to extend Fremont over the tracks to the
proposed 61-acre
redevelopment.
I think
ELAD should buy the downtown Plaza and be "front row
center" for the new Fremont bridge to the 61 acres. They could then
build a new hotel there and name it something different. That would stop
this silliness.
NEWS 7/26/07
It seems the David Atwell (big-time strip real estate deal maker) has
sued ELAD, claiming that he was first to initiate the $1.2 billion deal
for the New Frontier land.
Atwell's thirty-year-old company, Resort Properties of America, has been
responsible for many big Las Vegas deals including; Caesars Palace,
Steve Wynn and Hilton.
How and if this will affect the planned Plaza hotel is yet to be seen.
|
|
|
Montreux
Cancelled
Phil Ruffin's original plan for the property was Montreux.
Read
more about the old plans here |
|
|
|
