New hotel-casino project approved for Las Vegas’ failed Ferris-wheel site

Clark County commissioners approved plans for a caller edifice connected the tract of Las Vegas’ failed Ferris-wheel project.

The committee connected Wednesday gave the greenish airy to developer Eli Applebaum’s connection for a 752-room hotel-casino task on Las Vegas Boulevard crossed from Mandalay Bay.

Applebaum purchased his astir 12-acre site connected the southbound Strip successful April for $70 cardinal from a radical that acquired the dispersed years agone done a bankruptcy case.

The tract includes vacant land, a fewer tiny buildings, and the remains of the never-finished SkyVue observation-wheel project: 2 elephantine factual columns that person been sticking retired of the crushed for much than a decade.

Overall, Applebaum’s plans telephone for a heart-shaped edifice operation covered with a heart-shaped LED screen; a covered pedestrian plaza, akin to downtown’s Fremont Street Experience; and a midair edifice that incorporates the leftover towers, region records show.

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