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.
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The Las Vegas Convention Center West Hall expansion project is 96 percent complete.
Construction of the new Las Vegas Convention Center West Hall is 95 percent complete and on track for a Dec. 14 completion with workers doing finishing work now.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority initially would use funds from the scrapped Convention Center renovation project to pay for Las Vegas Monorail.
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.
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 Boring Company’s drill completed the 4,475-foot first tunnel of the underground people-mover system at the Las Vegas Convention Center on Thursday.
The first convention customers began using the new two-story, 430,000-square-foot meeting space at Wynn Las Vegas Monday and the company already has bookings lined up out to 2028.
Along with wearables, artificial intelligence and virtual reality, smart luggage is part of the travel industry’s future, according to exhibitors at the CES 2020 trade show.