To be exact, the FAA approved height allowance is 505 feet fronting Las Vegas Boulevard and decreasing to 354 feet on the eastern portion of the site.
Source: https://images1.loopnet.com/d2/wstg9pWkm29Lud56-1rbKoLKdZrqznbkNC2_62T28LA/document.pdf
This documents contains a lot a details about the site including APN and street address of the parcels. Current registered owner is DESERT LAND L L C.
From FOX5 report February 2020: The wheel was designed (and was approved by Clark County in 2011) to stand 500 feet tall and would have featured the world’s largest high-definition LED display. That’s better than 45 stories tall and it’s within walking distance to Allegiant Stadium. Someone’s going to cash in.
]]>The height restriction is 500 feet, same as the planned ferris wheel.
]]>You nailed it Scott, as a guy who flies for fun, the FAA is pretty evil about building in the approach path of a major airport.
Whatever goes there will have to be, by my guess, about 10 stories max. You’re on downwind for runway 01L/R and short base/final for 07 L/R.
It’s too close to the field where if something is coming in, especially in an emergency, to have a large vertical obstruction, and Vegas’s wind patterns are too unpredictable to just abandon an approach from that side.
I’m thinking low-rise commercial or a low-rise boutique hotel/condo complex. Think Jockey Club without the polyester, bad 70’s ‘staches, and blacklight scary shag. I’d bet on a “lifestyle” type complex, and since it’s a Vegas website, I’ll take odds. ??
]]>Ha, I would think it’s a contender, but Atari Hotel sounded tall. Not sure how that would work on top of the airport.
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