Wynn LV
Venetian
Expansion Las Vegas
Some collected text from various sources on the topic of the Expansion
of the Venetian Hotel & Casino Las Vegas
existing conditions
after demolition work
my favorite solution, but good only for 2000 rooms, parking might
be possible somehow
proposal with 3000 rooms, building too close to streets, parking
undisclosed
http://www.viva-vegas.com/vegas/archive/Issue%2046.htm
The Las Vegas Report - Issue #46 – October 2000
The very popular Venetian is reportedly looking to add an additional 1,000 rooms on top of it’s parking structure. These
rooms
are in contrast to plans to add an additional 3,000-room phase 2 tower
that they recently placed on hold. The Resort is planning to add two
projects;
an exhibition space and a museum to hold traveling exhibits from the
Guggenheim
Museum. Decision on the room additions is expected before years end
with
the museum projects expected to open in 2001.
http://www.viva-vegas.com/vegas/archive/Issue%2050.htm
The Las Vegas Report - Issue #50 – March / April 2001
The great Venetian continues to be on a roll, with the announcement of
another
phase of construction in their quest to become the World’s Largest
Hotel.
They are expected to break ground by early 2002 for phase 2 of the Venetian that will include a 3,000
room,
$900 million resort hotel. This phase will come
in
addition to the current phase 1A which is a 1,100-room hotel
tower
being constructed above the resorts parking structure. When completed
the
resort will feature 7,200 rooms. The
resort
has made additional announcements including the addition of an outdoor
gondola
ride, a pair of nightclubs and the addition of an AAA Four Diamond
rating
for the popular resort.
http://www.martinandmartincivilengineers.com/completed.htm
Civil Engineering Services for this major $2 billion reconstruction of
the Sands Hotel and Casino, to be renamed "The Venetian".
Reconstruction included 6,000 luxury suites in
two separate towers,
1.6 million square feet convention and exhibition center (Sands Expo
Center),
500,000 square feet of retail shops, thirty-five (35) restaurants, two
casinos,
200,000 square feet expansion of existing Exposition Center and two
major
parking garages. Project scope included Traffic Study, an Air Quality
Analysis,
Hydrology Study, and Construction Drawings for on and off-site
improvements,
including roadway design.
http://www.martinandmartincivilengineers.com/undercon.htm
Phase 1A of the project includes an 1,100-room
twelve-story
hotel and one transfer level on top of the existing Venetian
south
parking structure, the conversion of 1.2 million square feet open
parking
structure to a high-rise open parking structure, and a 300,000 square
foot
thirteen-story addition to the existing parking garage to the east.
Phase 2A and 2B includes the construction of a
five-story
meeting room and ballroom complex. Total area of expansion is
557,000
square feet. Engineering services include the update of the traffic and
drainage studies, preparation of public street improvements in Sands
Avenue,
and preparation of site utility and grading plans.
http://southwest.construction.com/SWCN/SW-May03/SW-NVnewsMay03.htm
Taylor to Expand Venetian
Taylor International was recently awarded the contract for the
construction management of the Venetian's Phase
1A hotel tower
and Phase 2A meeting rooms. Following the expansion completion,
The
Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino will be listed as the third largest hotel
in
the world.
Phase 1A consists of a major room
expansion.
When complete, the new 286-ft. tower will add
1,013
new suites to The Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino, bringing total
guest
rooms to 4,049. The suites are broken
down as
follows: 795 double queen bed suites, 218 king bed suites and 14 lanai
suites
with patios overlooking the pool deck. The tower will bring an
additional
1 million sq. ft. to the resort property.
The expansion will also include 4,500 sq. ft. of retail space and
10,928 sq. ft. of restaurant space.
A 26,485-sq.-ft. garden area will include a swimming pool, three spas,
and five fountains. A bridge will also be constructed to connect the
new tower's first floor with the existing tower's 10th floor.
Taylor International will also oversee the construction of the Phase 2A meeting room additions.
Forty-two new meeting rooms will be built at the hotel's existing
ballroom level as well as 22 new boardrooms. These additions will bring
the meeting space to approximately 95,000 sq. ft. As a result of these
plans, the catering and conference management staff will receive 13,300
sq. ft. of office space.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/text/2000/mar/16/510001673.html
It would also be critical to the Venetian's long-term plans to add a
second, 3,000-room tower to the resort. In February, Venetian owner
Sheldon Adelson said he hoped to start construction on the expansion by
fall, at a cost of $800 million to $1 billion.
"Phase 2 is to a great extent already designed," Weidner said. "We will
not be talking of Phase 2 until we display to the market that Phase 1
works. We are well on our way to doing that, but we are focused totally
on maximizing Phase 1 performance.
December 13 - 20, 2000
http://newsletter.casinocity.com/issue14/Page2.htm
Executives of Las Vegas Sands Inc. are studying the feasibility of
building a 1,000-room hotel tower atop The
Venetian's 10-story
parking garage, although no plans have been finalized
The 3,036-room Venetian opened in May 1998 at a cost of $1.5 billion.
Construction delays and county safety testing led to a phased opening
that angered hotel guests who were forced to stay elsewhere.
Las Vegas Sands Chairman Sheldon Adelson has spoken of building a second 3,036-room tower on 16 acres of adjacent land,
but company President Bill Weidner said The Venetian needs several
consecutive
quarters of positive results before proceeding with a second phase.
October 15, 1998
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1998/Oct-15-Thu-1998/news/8394689.html
The first phase of The Venetian will include
3,036
suites, 116,000 square feet of gaming area and 500,000 square
feet
of meeting space when it opens April 21, just weeks after Mandalay Bay
opens.
The Venetian will be linked to the existing 1.15 million-square-foot
Sands
Expo and Convention Center.
Pennsylvania-based Nicholson Construction Co. has finished boring about
500 steel pipes into the foundation at the $950 million Mandalay Bay to
halt excessive
settling and stabilize the tower, Circus Circus spokeswoman Sarah
Ralston
said.
The tropical-themed Mandalay Bay settled as much as 16 inches in some
sections
because of an unusual mix of sand and thin rock. Typically, Strip
resorts
settle about 2 inches to 8 inches because they are built on rocklike
caliche.
1999
http://www.gamblingmagazine.com/articles/27/27-1018.htm
Despite fears of a downturn in the Las Vegas gaming market, the
chairman of Las Vegas Sands Inc. is as bullish as ever about his
two-year-old resort, the Venetian. To prove it, Adelson said Friday he
now plans to break ground on Phase 2 of the
Venetian, a 3,000-room, $800
million to $900 million second resort hotel, by early 2002.
This expansion, which Adelson expects to take no more than two years to
build, probably will not be the "Lido" project that was expected.
Though
the property will be a high-end property of the Venetian's caliber,
Adelson
said it's unlikely to be an extension of the Venetian theme.
"We're talking to our architects," Adelson said. "It might be something
substantially different. It's going to be difficult to better one of
the
10 grandest hotels in the world."
This project will come in addition to an 1,100-room hotel tower being
built on top of the Venetian's parking garage. Construction on that
$200 million tower, called "Phase 1-A," will begin by July and be
finished by mid-2002, Adelson said and has already been financed with
new bank debt, he said.
If all this comes to fruition, the Venetian resort would have 7,200 rooms by 2004, making it the world's
largest
hotel. The complex is adjacent to Adelson's massive Sands Expo Center,
a
convention and trade show venue that is responsible for many of the
Venetian's
room bookings at high business-traveler rates.
Adelson has been openly discussing his plans to expand the Venetian for
about a year. But his lieutenants had clarified his remarks by saying
they hoped to establish a strong track record for the original resort
before trying to
raise money for a second.
"We need the rooms to meet our demand," Adelson said. "Phase 1-A is a
quick fix between now and Phase 2."
http://www.vegasvisitor.net/new_vegas_hotels.htm
Venetian expansion (Phase 1A)
costs $200 Mio
1000 rooms
Tentative Proposed Projects with Undetermined Completion Dates
Venetian - 2nd hotel
costs $900 Mio
3,000 rooms
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.07/venetian.html
The price tag for this bit of old-world charm is about US$2.5 billion,
and, as its promoters never tire of saying, when it's finished it will
be the biggest
resort of its kind in the world.
The Venetian will, of course, sport canals. More than a quarter mile of
them, including 650 feet of outdoor waterways that will run parallel to
the
Strip. The canals won't go through the casino, but will slide
gracefully
through the 800,000-square-foot enclosed shopping complex - built to
mirror
Piazza San Marco and, conveniently, house 150 upscale shops and
restaurants.
Phase I of The Venetian - the area with a replica of Saint Mark's
Square at its center - broke ground on April 14, 1997, and is expected
to open in the spring of 1999. Phase II, The
Lido, a "beach resort"
containing a marina, then begins construction. When both phases have
been
completed, their hotels alone will contain more than 6,000 rooms.
When Bovis, principal construction manager for The Venetian, poured the
foundation of Phase I, it was the largest continuous concrete pour in
US
history. To be precise, Bovis used 300 workers and 125 trucks to pour
20,600
cubic yards of concrete in 30 hours, creating a 68,000-square-foot
foundation
slab 8 feet deep. According to Kurt Ouchida, publicist for The
Venetian,
Bovis could have poured more concrete that day, but it would have meant
shutting
down all construction in LA for a weekend.
May 22, 2003
VIVA LAS VEGAS NEWSLETTER
by billhere, Publisher <[email protected]>
June 1, 2003 - Venetian opening their new $250
million,
14-storey, 1,013 suite "VENEZIA" tower which is being built on
top
of their 11-storey existing garage. Will
then
have a total of 4,049 rooms. Only MGM
Grand
(5,034) and the Luxor (4,467) will be larger in the U.S.
June??, 2003 - opening major expansion to the Sands Convention
Center,
next to the Venetian, with 150,000 additional square feet of convention
space,
meeting rooms and ballrooms.
February 7, 2002
http://www.gamingmagazine.com/managearticle.asp?c=90&a=337
Venetian Looks To Delay Plans For Hotel Tower
The Venetian is asking the county for a delay of up to two years on its
plans
to build a 1,000-room hotel tower.The
Clark
County Planning Commission will consider tonight a request by the
Venetian
that would give the $1.5 billion resort an additional two years to
begin
construction of the tower.
The Venetian planned to build the $175 million
to $200
million expansion on top of its parking garage. But this project,
called
"Phase 1A" by Venetian officials, was temporarily shelved in
late
September, following a dramatic post-Sept. 11 slowdown in Las Vegas'
tourism
economy.
This project was to have been followed at some point by "Phase 2," an entirely new casino resort of at least
3,000
rooms. Venetian owner Sheldon Adelson has previously estimated
this
new resort would cost somewhere between $800 million and $900 million.
http://southwest.construction.com/SWCN/SWTopProj/SWTopProjects2001-NV.htm
Venetian Parking Expansion
Cost: $60,000,000
Start Date: June 2001
Completion Date: December 2002
Owner: Venetian Hotel & Casino
Architect: The Stubbins Associate
General Contractor: Beers Skanska Construction
Engineer: Martin, Peltyn & Associates
Steel: Century Steel/ Union Erectors
Concrete: Nevada Ready Mix
Phase 1A of the project includes a 1,100-room, 12-story hotel and one
transfer
level on top of the existing Venetian south parking structure, the
conversion
of 1.2 million-sq.-ft. open parking structure to a high-rise open
parking
structure, and a 300,000-sq.-ft.,13-story addition to the existing
parking
garage to the east.
Phase 2A and 2B includes the construction of a five-story meeting room
and
ballroom complex. Total area of expansion is 557,000 sq. ft.
http://www.lvstriphistory.com/venetian.htm
1999-2002, Deanna DeMatteo - All rights reserved.
In April or May of 1997, Sheldon Adelson held a very low-key
groundbreaking
for his planned 6,000 room resort with a Venetian theme. In the
wonderful
"Strip Way" of never giving up on a dream, on May 3, 1999, the $1.5
billion,
3,036 room, 35 story, The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino opened its
doors.
The Venetian opened on 1.7 million square feet of property.
The Venetian is the first phase of a two-part master planned casino
resort
entertainment project. Upon completion of Phase II, The Venetian will
be
the world's largest hotel and convention complex under one roof - with
more
then 6,000 lavish suites. The property boasts approximately 120,000
square
feet of gaming floor; 500,000 square feet of meeting space at The
Venetian
Congress Center - which includes the world's largest column-free
ballroom
at 85,0000 square feet; and a direct link to the 1.2 million
square-foot
Sands Expo and Convention Center.
It was rumored that Venetian executives have told bankers that the
business
disruptions could delay construction of a planned 1,000-room tower at
the
resort.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2000/Feb-17-Thu-2000/business/12977301.html
Last week, Venetian boss Sheldon Adelson told an investor conference he
is
considering a public stock sale that would double the size of the
3,036-room
resort. That expansion would likely cost a couple of hundred million
dollars
less than the project's first phase, Adelson said.
"Sheldon obviously desires to do phase 2," he said, "but I think the
company
needs to improve before undertaking that kind of endeavor."
March 1, 1999
http://www.cio.com/archive/webbusiness/030199_hotel_content.html
The Venetian is scheduled to open this spring with 3,000 rooms; if
developers
follow through with plans to add 3,000 more in two years, it will be
the
world's largest hotel.
Projected Cost: $3 billion
Architects: Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo Inc. of Newport Beach,
Calif.,
and TSA of Las Vegas
Height: 35 floors (480 feet)
Size: 63 acres
Phase I: Venetian Hotel Tower with 3,036 suites, shopping mall with 90
upscale
stores and restaurants, 500,000-square- foot convention facility and
ballroom,
116,000-square-foot casino with 2,500 slot machines and 118 gaming
tables
Phase II: Scheduled opening mid-2001; adds second 3,036-room tower,
300,000
square feet of mall space and a second 100,000-square-foot casino
2001 ?
http://www.nevadadevelopment.org/future.cfm
Venetian expansion (Phase 1a) 1,100 rooms
Venetian - 2nd Hotel 3,000 rooms