The Palazzo
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The Palazzo Las Vegas is a 643-foot (196-m), 53-story extension of The Venetian Casino Resort and the Sands Expo complex on the Las Vegas Strip. The Palazzo is currently under construction. Owned by the Las Vegas Sands Corp., it has an expected completion date of mid-2007.
The $1.6 billion resort will feature a Lobby where guests from the street will arrive under a 60-foot (18–m) glass dome with a two-storey fountain. Those approaching from The Venetian will make the transition through a towering octagonal structure, itself topped by a glass-and-iron dome. Visitors to the Palazzo using the underground parking can take elevators or escalators from the underground garage and arrive in the center of the property's planned casino.
The completed Palazzo will include:
- 3,025 suites
- 375 concierge-level suites and six villas with up to 11,000 square feet each
- 105,000 foot² (9,754 m²) casino with 2,000 slot machines and 80 table games
- an extension of the Grand Canal Shoppes
- a theater
- a spa
- an underground parking garage.
When finished, the Venetian, the Palazzo and the Sands Expo will be the largest resort and hotel complex in the world.
The Palazzo, along with the Cosmopolitan resort, is among the first of Las Vegas's new generation of full-service, ultracompact resorts. Both of these resorts, due to limited land, will feature underground parking garages over which the resort itself will be built.
A 270-unit condo tower will be part of the massive Venetian/Palazzo complex. The tower is being built on top of the 90,000 square foot building that will house the Barney's apparel store. The tower is reported to be of a modern glass design which will probably clash with the neo-classical style of the existing and soon-to-be structures, but no official renderings have been released yet.
[edit] Construction Progress
As of Feb 27, 2006, the project had been under construction for over a year. Most of that time was spent digging the 8-story-deep hole to put in the underground parking structure. Now, the building itself is gradually rising upwards.
As of November 2006, the hotel tower had reached the 35th floor. The construction of the ground floors, including the parking garage and shopping center, was well under way.
As of February 2007, the hotel tower's elevator core is complete, and the rooms area is rising to the top. The facade and windows are being installed on the lower floors.
[edit] External links
- The Palazzo: Las Vegas
- Palazzo - Vegas Today and Tomorrow
- Google Local Aerial Image of the Palazzo hotel site
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