Everything about Crown Las Vegas totally explained
Crown Las Vegas, formerly known as the
Las Vegas Tower, was to be a
supertall skyscraper built on the
Las Vegas Strip in
Winchester, Nevada, an unincorporated suburban community of
Las Vegas. If built, the tower would have stood at 1,064
feet (324
m). This would have made the tower the tallest building in the
Las Vegas metropolitan area and the 2nd-tallest structure in the
Las Vegas Valley and in the state of Nevada, after the
Stratosphere Tower.
Crown Las Vegas would have hosted a
casino, a hotel and an
observation deck. The tower would have been built on
Las Vegas Boulevard on the former site of the
Wet 'n Wild Water Park. The building's architect was
Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill. The cost of the project had been estimated to be $5 billion, and was expected to be completed by 2012.
History
Originally proposed as the "Las Vegas Tower", the name of the building changed when
Publishing and Broadcasting Limited reached an agreement on
May 31,
2007 with the tower's developers to invest money in the project and run its casino. As part of the agreement, the project was renamed Crown Las Vegas.
Crown Las Vegas was originally planned to rise to a height of 1,888 feet (575 m) by Christopher Milam, a building developer from
Texas. According to
KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, the
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was concerned with the proposed height, due to the tower's proximity to
McCarran International Airport and
Nellis Air Force Base. In November 2006, the FAA issued a "notice of presumed hazard" because the tower location is 2.5 miles (about 45 seconds' flying time for a departing jet), north of McCarran Airport's runways. Because it would extend inside the traffic patterns for the airport's two north/south runways, a very tall tower could render those runways unusable.
The FAA had previously stated that anything over 700 feet on the site chosen for the tower would constitute an air hazard. On
October 24,
2007, the FAA denied the project, deeming that the tower was a "hazard to aviation". As a result of the decision,
Clark County code prohibited its construction at the proposed height. There were plans to resubmit the project, with a new height of 1,150 feet (350 m). However, on
November 20,
2007, the FAA reached a final decision that no structure taller than 1,064 feet (324 m) would be approved in the site. Developer Christopher Milam then resubmitted the project to the Clark County Planning Commission at the maximum height allowed by the FAA, and the tower was officially approved for construction on
December 6,
2007 with a height of 1,064 feet (324 m).
There had been some speculation that Milam may wish to submit plans for the construction of a second, twin tower to also rise 1,064 ft (324 m). Crown will continue its investment in the under-construction
Fontainebleau Resort and Casino on the site next to the proposed Crown Las Vegas site.
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