Las Vegas convention center getting $737 million facelift
Las Vegas’s Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) board of directors approved a $737 million master plan enhancement program for the convention center.
The primary projects include adding meeting rooms to support the facility’s South Hall exhibition space, renovating and upgrading the existing facility and building a new 100,000 square foot general session space.
Said Rossi Ralenkotter, president and ECO of LVCVA:
“Las Vegas is continually reinventing itself as a destination, and this is an opportunity for the convention center to reinvent itself and remain atop the industry.”
Las Vegas is planning to add 35,000 new rooms by 2010. The LVCVA wants to attract 43 million visitors in 2009 and increase the percentage of business-minded visitors from the present 15% to 20%.
Vegas has 133,000 hotel rooms and 9 million square feet of meeting and exhibition space citywide.
Las Vegas is the only US city with three convention centers of more than one million square feet, including the privately held Mandalay Bay Convention Center and the Sands Expo and Convention Center.
Construction on the city owned facility is set to start later this year.
Report by David Wilkening
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