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Originally Posted by jazfingr
Hi guys and welcome to all of the new folks. It's been a while since I've posted, but I'm always lurking here.
I've been busy (slowly but surely) working on a cosmetic makeover of vegastodayandtomorrow.com
I had a chat with the Sandhurst folks. They told me that one of their investors backed out due to an article in the Wall Street Journal that panned the Las Vegas condo market. They are working with another investor and things are looking positive.
Damn the press, I hate uninformed, ignorant reporters. A few bad words can spoil the future of a city.
Sandhurst is an important key to the development of downtown. It is a beautiful project in a prime location. Let's hope this investor reads this thread.
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Thanks for the info Jazfingr! I hope all works out for Sandhurst, I really am looking forward to seeing it going skyward..
The site looks great, good updates, and the maps look good too. Keep up the good work!
As I was looking on Vegastodayandtomorrow, I was looking at the new PCC renderings, and so I decided to go to the websites of the architects. I noticed something when I was going through the website of Rafael Viñoly and was looking at some of the renderings of PCC, I noticed a couple of things, first the Oval Pedestrian bridge does not meet the corners of the Harmon realignment to the eastern intersection of Harmon.. I wonder if they will realign the eastern intersection of Harmon and LVB, or leave it be?? I thought that was interesting.. I noticed the oval "on ramp, off ramp" on what looks like an 8 lane SuperArterial Harmon Ave. I also noticed that the main tower had 2 distinct designs shown in the rendering, and that all the renderings appear to be much taller than the Cosmo being built next door.. From what I read in the County Commission website, the building has a maximum height of 600 feet, while Cosmo has a maximum height of 605 feet.. I thought that was interesting as well.. Plus with the curved building that Vinoly is designing I thought the Spiral tower was to be next to it, yet I dont see where there is room for the spiral tower, nor is it included in the rendering, however the zoning information on the County website includes it as part of the plan.. It seems James KM Cheng is hard to track down online, so i couldn't find info on the twisting tower design.. Perhaps because the Agenda is about a month old, dated 02/09/06, these renderings reflect changes, or perhaps the other way around, they do NOT reflect changes made to the building height. Cesar Pelli's Towers are both the same height (600 ft) according to the Agenda the north tower is 43 floors while the south tower is 48 floors. Which is confusing to me if they are both the same height, so perhaps there are some open spaces above the main floors. I hope to see a combined rendering of the entire project sometime with the final design to provide some clarity.. Construction on the first phase of the project should take place in April or May, as the Boardwalk is prepared for demolition in 9 days.
For more info, check out the wikipedia page of PCC:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_City_Center
And the County Agenda Sheet for PCC:
http://dsnet.co.clark.nv.us/dsnetapp...a/P0166576.htm