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Tall Tower Proposed
Monday, January 8, 2007
Anthony Curtis
The Las Vegas new year began with yet another big idea, though this one's a bit bigger than most.
A Texas developer has proposed building a $4.8 billion 5,000-room 1,888-foot-tall obelisk-shaped condo-hotel-casino on the north Strip on the site of the old Wet 'n Wild water park.
If built, the 142-story tower would be the second-tallest building in the world (about 800 feet shorter than the Dubai Tower, which is under construction) and the tallest in the U.S. (the Freedom Tower, on the World Trade Center site, will be 1,776 feet tall).
The Clark County Commission is scheduled to consider the application in March, though it will face opposition from McCarran Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration and Nellis Air Force Base.
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