The .4 billion expansion of the Las Vegas Convention Center has cleared a second hurdle with the endorsement of a committee composed of members of the board of directors of the facility’s operator, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
The unanimous approval by the seven members of the Las Vegas Convention Center District Committee came at roughly the same time as the project won approval from a panel of construction experts.
The second group, the Oversight Panel for Convention Facilities in Clark County, unanimously backed the plan on May 25. The panel contains four elected officials and construction and financial experts from the business and resort communities.
The massive project goes to the full LVCVA board for approval on June 13, according to local news reports.
The plan calls for three initial phases. The first, the acquisition and demolition of the Riviera hotel casino, being already completed, Phase 2 will involve an $860 million expansion that will replace two outdoor parking areas with 600,000 square feet of new exhibit space and 840,000 square feet of meeting rooms, pre-function, support and service space.
Phase 3 will see 3.2 million square feet of existing space in the Convention Center’s North, Central and South halls renovated at a projected cost of $540 million.
This phase includes construction of a 200,000-square-foot north-south connector to enable conventioneers the ability to access all exhibit halls without going outdoors.
