The north end of the Las Vegas Strip will host up to 80,000 people a day for the two-weekend music extravaganza known as the Rock in Rio festival in May at the MGM Resorts Festival Grounds currently under construction.
Photo Courtesy of Nevada DOT NDOT bid out the first phase of the Boulder City bypass with the option to use asphalt or concrete. The latter was picked due to life-cycle costs. Related Links: Boosting Fuel Economy Where The Rubber Meets the Road Competition Can Help Our Roads Evolve Citing long-term life-cycle costs, officials at Nevada Dept. of Transportation have awarded the first phase of the planned Boulder City Bypass to a contractor that proposed paving the highway section with concrete, despite this proposal costing $3 million more than the lowest bid, which planned to use asphalt."We opted to use
Rendering Courtesy of Future Cities The 11-acre site was planned to be the new home of USA Basketball. Related Links: Golden State Warriors Switches Site For Planned San Francisco Arena New California Streamlining Law Gets Mixed Reviews After several months of delays, Arizona State University on Jan. 8 declared it would no longer work with the development team attempting to build an approximately $400-million, mixed-use campus at the school's Tempe campus. Slated to be the new home for USA Basketball,the governing body for the sport in the U.S.The project, dubbed USA Place, also was intended to provide space for retail,
When a nearly 3-mile-long tunnel reached a preconstructed intake into Lake Mead in December, it was a decisive moment for a vast team of planners and contractors as it marked the beginning of the final stage of an $800-million project that began more than six years ago.
From the slow economic recovery to the flourishing revival of urban residential projects, multiple trends are poised to make a big impact on the construction industry in the Southwest.
Tony Illia The never-finished Harmon Hotel was to be the centerpiece of the multi-billion-dollar CityCenter complex in the gambling resort. Related Links: Hotel's Razing and Defects Trial Could Be Best Shows in Las Vegas Dueling Las Vegas Hotel Engineering Reports Cloud Conflict Between Perini and MGM A last-minute deal has effectively ended the long-running CityCenter/Harmon Hotel construction-defect legal saga in Las Vegas—with owner MGM Resorts, contractor Tutor Perini and all but one of the litigants in the case agreed to a Dec. 16 settlement.Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez announced the agreement a few hours before the start of an anticipated one-year-long jury
Thanks to the Dept. of Energy's Loan Guarantee Program and similar incentives, solar power has become a major player in the Southwest construction market for the last half-decade or so.
McCarthy Building Cos. constructed Banner Estrella Hospital's 279,000-sq-ft medical tower addition on a fast-track schedule lasting just 19 months, the quickest turnaround for a health care facility to date by the contractor's Southwest division.