Closeup neon found in downtown Las Vegas
Photo by: LasVegas360.com
Early morning photos of Downtown Las Vegas, overlooking Symphony Park, the future home of the near completed Smith Center for the Performing Arts. Click to view hi-res. photos.
Photos by LasVegas360.com
Date taken: 10/18/2011
Update: July 20, 2011 -In Downtown Las Vegas, a new crop of buildings have sprang up over the past few years. The following buildings are within a quarter mile from each other with most of them in the Symphony Park development in downtown Las Vegas.
New Las Vegas City Hall under construction on Main Street
New Las Vegas City Hall is currently under construction adjacent to Symphony Park on Main Street. This $185-million project will be a energy saving LEED-certified building. This new building will bring down the annual energy cost by more than $500,000 compared to the current City Hall. The new 310,00-square-foot, seven-story building is taking shape and looks to be completed in spring of 2012.
Cleveland Clinic's Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health opened May 21, 2010
Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, opened on July 13, 2009 in Las Vegas and is operated by the Cleveland Clinic. The building was designed by world-renowned architect, Frank Gehry and is fast becoming a landmark for Las Vegas and Symphony Park.
Smith Center for the Performing Arts, It is scheduled to open in 2012
The Smith Center for the Performing Arts located in Downtown Las Vegas Nevada’s symphony Park is a 4.75 acres theater facility consisting of three theaters in two buildings. The future home of the new Discovery Children’s Museum is shown in the photo near the left edge. Groundbreaking for the Smith Center’s $470 million project was on May 26, 2009. The design is an Art Deco, reflecting that of the nearby Hoover Dam. It is scheduled to open in 2012. The Smith Center will feature international music, and dance companies, and will be the main center of the Las Vegas Philharmonic and Nevada Ballet Theatre.
World Market Center Las Vegas has 3 buildings with total ofover 5,000,000 sq. feet
The World Market Center is located across from the Lou Revo Center and are three massive buildings housing a whooping 5,000,000-square-foot showcase for the home and hospitality contract furnishings industry in Las Vegas. Originally slated for eight buildings, three have been built and the rest on hold until better economics times. Building A (10-stories) stood alone starting back in July of 2005, Building B (16-stories) opened in January 2007 and Building C (16-stories) opened in July 2008. Within the center is also a gourmet restaurant by the name of Mundo.
New Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters opens July 2011
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters is located a few blocks west of the World Market Center on Martian Luther King and Alta Drive and is the new centralized headquarters for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (Metro). The new facility has more than five times the space of the headquarters Metro currently occupies inside City Hall and will help Metro to centralize and consolidate its administrative staff, which currently now operates out of several offices throughout the Las Vegas Valley. When the facility opens this month (July 2011), approximately 1,400 employees will move into the new building.
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http://www.symphonypark.com/
http://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/index.htm
http://www.lvmpd.com/
http://www.lasvegasmarket.com/
http://www.mundolasvegas.com/
Every second Saturday starting at 6pm downtown, off Fremont Street East, there is a street party going on featuring Las Vegas’ high end food trucks called Vegas StrEATS. It is a food festival bringing in upscale food trucks to the downtown area with a very unique blend of food, music and art.
The Vegas StrEATS festival opens at 6 p.m. and runs until 2 a.m. The food is delicious, affordable and there is no admission charge. Vegas StrEATS is held across the street from the El Cortez Hotel Casino on 6th street. The festival is a mix of Vegas locals, eclectic hipsters, artists and a few downtown tourists. It can take 15 minutes or more to get your food because everything is made to order, but it is well worth the wait. Also, there is nowhere to eat your food once you get it. They set up 4 cocktail tables, but that wasn’t enough to support the large crowd and there are no benches or even walls to sit on. You can sit on the curb, which is not comfortable or the easiest place to balance a platter of sliders and fries. There were tents with various vendors selling everything from local art to costume jewelry, a DJ and graffiti artists creating works of art for the crowd.
Vegas StrEATS another original, cultural event happening downtown on Fremont East
Engine 1 Pizza, the fire oven is built in the truck
Grouchy John's Coffee
BBQ Boy
SnOw ONO Shave Ice - Real Shave Ice just like you would find in Hawaii.
Philly’s Famous Italian Ices
Curbside Cafe
Slidin’ Thru - these mini burgers are great!
Fukuburger Truck, adds Asian flair to traditional American dishes.
The girls at Fukuburger
Another handmade pie ready for the oven, which is built in the firetruck.
Crowd at Vegas StrEATS
Vegas Food Trucks links:
In 2002, the city of Las Vegas created an entertainment district in the heart of downtown Las Vegas: Fremont East. The Fremont East District sits adjacent to the popular tourist attraction, the Fremont Street Experience. Fremont East is one of the only areas which is non gaming.
The Fremont East District offers an eclectic mixture of bars, clubs and cafes along Fremont Street from Las Vegas Boulevard to Eighth Street. The district continues one block north of Fremont Street to Ogden Avenue and one block south to Carson Avenue.
In the Fremont East District, you’ll be keeping good company with popular downtown venues such as Azul Tequila, The Beat Coffeehouse, Beauty Bar, The Griffin, Maharaja Hookah Café, Vanguard Lounge, newly opened Insert Coins and (my favorite), the Downtown Cocktail Room (concealed front door entrance and great drinks).
Just a note on parking:
The Griffin - Open Mon-Sat 5pm-4am; also open Sun
Beauty Bar - Open Nightly 9pm-2am
New Bar on East Fremont, Insert Coins Hours: Mon - Fri: 4pm - 4am; Sat: 12pm-6am, also open Sun
Next door to Insert Coins, Vanguard Lounge Mon-Fri: 3pm-2am; Sat 6pm-2am; also open Sun
Maharaja Hookah Cafe - (no alcohol is served here)
The Beat Coffeehouse and Records
Fremont Street Experience “Glitter Gulch” (c.1999)
Located in downtown Las Vegas, also know as “Glitter Gulch” or the newly renamed Fremont Street Experience, this four block canopy is actually the largest lighted outdoor sign in the world.
Click on the small thumbnail photos to view the 360° panoramic photos in high definition. All photos and were taken in summer of 1999
Plaza Hotel and Casino (originally the Union Plaza) across the street, Las Vegas Club and The Golden Gate (oldest casino in Las Vegas-1906 Located at 1 Fremont St.) with the famous $.99 Shrimp Cocktails.
The Golden Gate, Golden Goose (Girls of Glitter Gulch- strip club), Las Vegas Club and the Coin Castle.
The Golden Gate, Golden Goose (Girls of Glitter Gulch), Las Vegas Club and the Coin Castle.
Sassy Sally’s, Pioneer Club, Horseshoe, and the Golden Nugget.
Binion’s Horseshoe, home of the World Series of Poker, and the Elegant Golden Nugget. Note: in 2004, the hotel was sold, rename to Binion’s Gambling Hall and Hotel and the rights to the World Series of Poker was sold to Harrah’s.
The 4 Queens, Fremont, Horseshoe, and the Golden Nugget
The 4 Queens, Fremont, Horseshoe, and the Golden Nugget
Downtown Las Vegas in front of the Four Queens and the Fremont
The 4 Queens, and the Fremont Hotel
Fitzgerald’s and Shopping
Western Village and Trader’s Bill
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