Here’s a list of the 10 biggest Southern Nevada projects
Over the next three years, 10 Southern Nevada projects will have $12 billion in capital expenses and spur economic development throughout the valley.
1. Resorts World Las Vegas, Strip resort project — $4 billion
It’s a 3,000-room resort by the Genting Group at the former site of the Stardust and Echelon. It would be the first Strip megaresort to be built in Las Vegas in close to seven years.
2. Las Vegas Global Business District, Las Vegas Convention Center refurbishment — $2.3 billion
In a bid to attract the international business community, the Convention Center overhaul would include a home for the World Trade Center and incorporate a transportation hub to accomodate several modes of transportation, including buses, taxis, the Las Vegas Monorail and, possibly, light rail.
3. Project Neon, Spaghetti Bowl freeway interchange project — $1.8 billion
The state’s largest public works project will include the redesign of several freeway exits and the construction of high-occupancy-vehicle flyover bridge designed to ease traffic on the merge of southbound U.S. Highway 95 to southbound Interstate 15 as well as its northbound counterpart.
4. Union Village, integrated health village in Henderson — $1.4 billion
Tabbed as the largest integrated healthcare facility in the world, ground has been broken on the 158-acre project that would include a world-class hospital complex and health center, residential, entertainment and specialty retail space, a senior retirement community and a civic and cultural arts center integrated into a master-planned community.
5. Switch, digitally connected data storage center — $1 billion
The expansion of the Supernap project in Southern Nevada is being coupled with similar facilities in Reno, Northern California and Southern California. When completed, it would be the largest looped data system in the country.
6. First Solar, solar power plant near Primm — $1 billion
You can’t miss seeing the massive field of mirrors and towers in the desert straddling the Nevada-California border.
7. Downtown Summerlin, retail center by Howard Hughes Corp. — $500 million
The first phase of Downtown Summerlin has already opened. Located next door to the Red Rock Resort, the center also may someday be home to the home of a AAA baseball stadium for the Pacific Coast League Las Vegas 51s.
8. MGM/AEG Arena, MGM Resorts International’2 20,000-seat stadium — $375 million
Located just west of the New York-New York property at Interstate 15 and Tropicana Avenue, the arena, already under construction, will handle large entertainment events, boxing matches and maybe, someday, a National Hockey League or National Basketball Association franchise.
9. Interstate 11-Boulder City bypass, state highway project near Boulder City — $350 million
It’s destined to be the first piece of Interstate 11, a freeway linking the two largest cities without an interstate highway connection, Phoenix and Las Vegas. Decades from now, it will be a portion of the Canamex Highway linking Canada and Mexico, serving as a primary route for goods arriving at ports in Mexico.
10. Las Vegas Soccer Stadium, downtown facility promoted by City of Las Vegas — $200 million
Currently the subject of political controversy, the 24,000-seat stadium on 13 acres in downtown’s Symphony Park would be a partnership between the City of Las Vegas, The Cordish Cos., and Findlay Sports & Entertainment. If built, it would be the home of the city’s first major-league sports franchise, a team in Major League Soccer.
