Coming Soon

Cosmopolitan. Two highrises between Bellagio and CityCenter are under construction with a projected cost of $3 billion. One highrise will be a casino-hotel, and the other a condohotel. It is planned to open at the end of 2009.

Octavius Tower. Caesars Palace's sixth tower: 23 stories, 665 rooms, a $1-billion investment that also includes an expanded convention center and a Garden of the Gods pool.

Coming Later ...

Echelon. A $5 billion resort, on the site of Stardust, now 64 acres, whose construction has been postponed. The hotel is planned to have 5,000 rooms.

Fountainbleu. A $3 billion resort with a 3,815-room, 63-story hotel, to open at the end of 2009. The development includes a 3,300-seat performing arts center, a 60,000 sq ft spa, convention center, retail space, and 1,018 condo-hotel units. It is located on Las Vegas Blvd, just north of Riviera and across from Sky condominium highrise.

The Hoover Dam Bridge, to be finished in 2010, will be 1,960 ft long, 88 ft wide, and will reach 890 ft above the Colorado river, 1,500 ft south of Hoover Dam. The official name will be Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge. The cost of the project is $240 million.

The Mob Museum. Officially it will be named the Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement. It will be housed in a three-story building, the historic post office and federal courthouse at 300 E Stewart Ave. One attraction will be the brick wall from the St. Valentine's Day massacre, when, on February 14, 1929, seven gangsters were gunned down against this wall. More than 70 bullets were used. The museum, which will cost about $50 million including exhibits, is scheduled to open in 2011.

Park Plaza. A $5 billion resort, on the site of Frontier, 34 acres, whose construction has been postponed.

Symphony Park, 61 acres west of Fremont St, is being developed as a mixed-use project to include the Lou Ruvo Brain Institute, already under construction at Bonneville and Grand Central Pkwy, the Smith Center for the Performing Arts, which will house the Nevada Ballet Theatre and the Las Vegas Philharmonic, a theater complex, the World Jewelry Center, a hotel-casino, the Symphony park, condominiums (3,600 units), office and retail space, and a new city hall.