On Monday, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) broke ground on phase two of the Convention Center’s three-part expansion. Phase Two is an $860 million project that will add 1.4 million square feet to the facility, with at least 600,000 square feet of new exhibit space.<\/p>\n
Home to some 22,000 meetings, conventions, and trade shows a year, event organizers have long requested more space, rooms, internet, and technological capabilities, as well as dining areas. The goal of the LVCVA expansion is to satisfy those requests, and ideally continue to grow Las Vegas’ national convention industry dominance.<\/p>\n
\n“I know that it’s going to allow Las Vegas to be even more competitive than we are right now,” LVCVA President Rossi Ralenkotter said at the groundbreaking. “This is our opportunity to brand us as what we are: the convention capital of North America.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The third and final phase of the total $1.4 billion Convention Center overhaul will renovate the existing 3.2 million-square-foot exhibit space. In 2016, Las Vegas trade shows directly supported an estimated 54,000 jobs and $2.3 billion in wages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MGM Resorts properties up and down the Strip are filled to capacity this week, as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Las Vegas’ largest annual convention, begins its four-day trade show. With 180,000 expected convention attendees and rooms in high demand, CES has prompted MGM to reopen sections of Mandalay Bay’s 32nd floor. Several floors had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":66854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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