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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