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The Smith Center for the Performing Arts Construction Almost Completed

February 22, 2012

: Corner building -smaller theater

: Looking south between the main hall and practice rooms

: Waiting for finished art installation

: The Smith Center – Main Hall

: Smith Center – Street view

: Symphony Park

: Smith Center bell tower

: Symphony Park looking west

: Symphony Park’s newly installed grass

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The Smith Center for the Performing Arts and Symphony Park are in the final clean up phase of construction. The newly sodded Symphony Park is waiting its last final art installation. A series if vertical colored pipes, 80 in all, to be installed at the east end of the park on a curved stream of upward facing lights. The art installation is by Tim Bavington and will be installed later this month. The Smith Center for the Performing Arts plans to open next month.

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Photos Taken: 2/22/2012

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New Las Vegas City Hall of Opens Today Feb 21, 2012

February 21, 2012

New Las Vegas City Hall under construction on Main Street is now finished and open for business

The new Las Vegas City Hall opened today after years of planning and construction. The project came in at a cool $146 million in a state-of-the-art facility on Main St. downtown Las Vegas.

The new seven-story facility is currently opening today with seven department in the building. The rest of the city departments will move in on Monday, Feb. 27.

Once the old City Hall is vacant, remodeling will begin for Zappos’ new headquarters. The new downtown location for Zappos’ is expected to open in late 2013 with a $40 million renovation budget and bringing in over 1,200 job to the downtown area from Henderson.

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Art in the Symphony Park

February 14, 2012

New art piece being installed in the newly landscaped Symphony Park.

A new piece of art being installed at the entrance of the newly landscaped 2 acre Symphony Park. It stands at the entrance off of Grand Central Parkway. The Park is directly located across of the almost completed Smith Center for the Performing Arts which is expected to open this Spring.
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Date Taken: 2/14/2012

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Plans of Opening Splash Canyon this Summer Down the Drain

January 26, 2012

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Splash Canyon Delayed, photo taken 1/15/2012

Las Vegans will have to wait another year before they can once again enjoy a water theme park close to home. Splash Canyon, the much anticipated water theme park, will not be opening in May of 2012 as originally planned, according to a Splash Canyon executive. Red tape caused a delay in getting construction started on the $18-million park. Splash Canyon is located at Fort Apache and Warm Springs roads and plans call for a 25-acre park with a 15-acre expansion planned for the future, bringing the total size to 40 acres. Sales were already underway for season tickets this year at the introductory rate of $99 per person. As of this afternoon, the Splash Canyon website has been taken offline.

Another developer is planning a 22-acre water park for Henderson near Gibson and Galleria roads. Vegas Residential LLC is still securing financing for the proposed project.

The last water theme park operating in Las Vegas was Wet and Wild. Located on Las Vegas Blvd. near Sahara Avenue. That park closed when it’s lease expired in 2004. Landowners were to build a mega-resort there but that project never got off the ground.

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Splash Canyon: Construction Update January 15, 2012

January 17, 2012

Construction Update: Jan. 15, 2012. Construction continues of Las Vegas’ only water park, Splash Canyon. Press release still indicates that it is to open Memorial Day 2012. The address of the park is 7055 S. Fort Apache and definitely puts it in a residential neighborhood bordered by mountains. No Structures or foundations have been started, only grading and trenching for pipes.

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