The timing was perfect. CES 2021 would arrive just after the LVCVA worked out any bugs in its new West Hall, but the arrival of the pandemic ruined all the coordination.
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When the Consumer Technology Association returns the massive technology trade show to Las Vegas in 2022 it will offer a virtual version of the event at the same time.
Crews finished the $980.3 million building in time for CES — which was canceled — but the LVCVA now must start paying for utilities and insurance without a revenue source.
It’s months away from completion, but the entrepreneur who brought us Tesla and SpaceX in addition to The Boring Co. tunnel transit project wants to move people quickly.
LVCVA executives found there would be no financial advantage to extending the completion date of the $980.3 million project, so it will be finished as planned.
There will be no immediate return on two massive public investments — Allegiant Stadium and the Convention Center expansion — with Las Vegas seeing little after spending a lot.
Steve Hill, president and CEO of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, told his board of directors that the cost of the West Hall expansion will go up by probably less than 1 percent.
The controversial Elon Musk transit system at the Las Vegas Convention Center hit another milestone Thursday when a tunneling drill emerged at the west end of the line.
The 1,100 workers at the Las Vegas Convention Center expansion — all observing coronavirus protocols — have begun pouring the concrete floor of the exhibit hall.
Big changes are ahead for CES in the years ahead with the arrival of the West Hall at the Convention Center, other new venues and MSG Sphere at The Venetian.