Plans are taking shape for an $850 million convention hotel on a piece of prime Las Vegas real estate just east of the Strip.
Construction of the Majestic Las Vegas, a 720-room non-gaming venue, could start in July, said Lorenzo Doumani, the developer behind the project, which will occupy a site on Convention Center Drive where Doumani imploded a hotel called the Clarion back in 2015.
The site has hosted a number of casinos over the decades under various guises𑁋the Royal Inn, the Paddlewheel, the Debbie Reynolds, the Greek Isles. In the late ’90s, it was eyed by the World Wrestling Federation for a themed casino that never got off the ground. Later, a massive two-tower resort was proposed that similarly came to naught with the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008.
Doumani’s ambitions are geared to the site’s proximity to the Las Vegas Convention Center just across adjoining Paradise Road. The Majestic will be non-smoking as well as non-gaming. Its room product will include 35 high-end corporate Sky Suites that will be offered for sale. There also will be an array of gourmet restaurants, live entertainment and a wellness center with a medical spa offering executive physicals and fitness and nutrition counseling.
If the groundbreaking comes off as Doumani expects this summer, he said the property will open in 2024.
