Fremont Street Experience canopy<\/a>, the 315,000-square-foot Expo at World Market Center Las Vegas is slated to open this summer. The $90 million complex is designed in hopes of bringing major trade shows from the Strip to the downtown area.<\/p>\nThe Expo is being developed by International Market Centers, which is partially owned by the Blackstone Group. The private equity giant owns The Cosmopolitan, and recently agreed to acquire the land assets of MGM’s Bellagio, MGM Grand, and Mandalay Bay.<\/p>\n
The Expo is located at 435 South Grand Central Parkway. The campus has already booked three events \u2013 the Vegas Tuffest Junior World Championship rodeo, Holiday Gift & Craft Expo, and Vintage Vegas Expo.<\/p>\n
Also in the works: online retailer Zappos is repurposing the Burning Man Boeing 747 jet fuselage it acquired last August into a one-of-a-kind “tavern” called Turbulence. And two apartment complexes \u2013 Symphony Park and ShareDOWNTOWN in the 18B Las Vegas Arts District \u2013 will soon take their first residents.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nIn the Las Vegas 2050 Master Plan, city officials reveal that the number of residents living in the city proper is forecast to increase by 300,000 people over the next three decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s the “Year of Downtown,” or so says Las Vegas city leaders. Along with the recent $32 million refurbishment of the Fremont Street Experience canopy, Mayor Carolyn Goodman says an abundance of new developments has the area positioned well to continue its economic boom. City officials say work on the “Gateway Arch” will begin March […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":128827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,33810],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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