Real estate developer Donald Trump has filed plans to build what would be the tallest hotel on the Las Vegas Strip.
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Real estate developer Donald Trump has filed plans to build what would be the tallest hotel on the Las Vegas Strip.
The 64-story hotel-condominium tower would be built on a portion of the Frontier Hotel property, across from the Wynn Las Vegas resort project and next to the Fashion Show Mall, Trump said.
Scheduled to begin construction early next year, the $300-million (all funds U.S.) project would feature 1,000 hotel rooms, 50 luxury residential units of up to 10,000 square feet, a spa and restaurants.
It would not have a casino, Trump said from New York last week.
“It’s a super high-end, luxury residential hotel condominium tower,” Trump said.
The project would be patterned after the Trump International Hotel and Tower in New York, Trump said.
Trump is building the 1.6-million-square foot hotel in partnership with Phil Ruffin, who owns the Frontier.
The project would have no immediate effect on the Frontier, Trump said.
Developer Sheldon Adelson has filed plans to build a 53-story, 642-foot-tall resort next to his The Venetian hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip.
The $1.6-billion resort called The Palazzo is scheduled to open in early 2007.
The $2.6-billion Wynn Las Vegas hotel now under construction will be 50 stories and rise 613 feet above Las Vegas Boulevard.
It’s scheduled to open in April 2005.
Trump International Hotel and Tower would top those projects, but not all others.
The Stratosphere hotel-casino is the tallest structure in Las Vegas and west of the Mississippi River at more than 1,100 feet—but doesn’t have hotel rooms above 24 stories.
Bob Klein, a senior Clark County planner who reviewed the plans, said several hearings are scheduled before county commissioners consider the project Oct. 6.
In February, state gambling regulators approved Trump to hold a stake in the Riviera hotel-casino in Las Vegas.
At the time Trump said the move was a foot-in-thedoor licensing opportunity and didn’t figure in his future Nevada plans that included building a high-end condominium tower.
The Associated Press
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