Mixed use resort complex that will replace the imploded Stardust hotel, by Boyd gaming, the Stardust owners.

Implosion of the old Stardust.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbuW2cKZTyA

Broke ground on June 19.
http://sev.prnewswire.com/travel/20070619/LATU05419062007-1.html

http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/3376/art3axdr8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/591/art3bxca3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

=5 Towers in two building complexes=

Main Hotel Echelon complex:
Echelon tower - 650ft (tallest tower) / 2,500 rooms
Shangri-La Tower - 466ft / 282 rooms and 71 suites
Suite Tower - 534ft / 650 suites

Morgan complex: (2 boutique hotels run by Morgans Hotel Group)
Delano Hotel - Up to 590ft / 550 rooms
Mondrian Hotel - Up to 590ft / 850 rooms

=Project Stats=
4280 hotel units
1000 resort condominium units
Land Area: 87 acres (not all being developed, some being reserved for future condos or expansion)
Cost: $4.7 Billion USD
Total Interior Area: 9,850,000 sq. ft. (excluding parking areas)
Type: Resort Casino/Condominium-Hotel/Hotel
Exterior: Glass/White/Gray? (see sample image below)
Opening Date: late 2010
Website: www.echelonresort.com

=Features=
30 restaurants
convention space
300,000-square-foot retail area - run by General Growth Properties (Fashion Show mall)
Theater/Showroom
Buffet
Convention Center
Pool Deck

Location:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=las+vegas&ie=UTF8&ll=36.133941,-115.168036&spn=0.005953,0.008358&t=h&z=17&om=1

Older renderings
http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/1789/image1ey3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/4354/image2ez2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/2312/image3ro4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Morgon Component
http://img487.imageshack.us/img487/2358/delanomondrian2da1.jpg
http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/9916/delanomondrian4kq3.jpg
http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/2224/delanomondrian3ya8.jpg

Floor Plans (subject to change)
http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/8881/echelonplaceef5.jpg
http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/8613/echelonplace2nk3.jpg

Excellent!

This place is gonna be almost as huge as CityCenter.

Stardust's last moments

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Stardust-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/sd1-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/sd3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/sd4.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/sd5.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/Dust.jpg

Echelon one week before the groundbreaking
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/Echelon1.jpg

Echelon site a couple days after the groundbreaking last week.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/Ech1.jpg

Nice shots, the drills probably mean the foundation work is starting.

Echelon at 650ft will be a bit taller than both the 2 Wynn towers and the Palazzo in the background, which themselves are by no means small.

wow another mega hotel in las vegas..

wow another mega hotel in las vegas..

What will they think of next ?

The hole keeps getting wider, but don't think it will get much deeper.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/EchHole.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/EchelonDirt.jpg

More digging shots shot this morning.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/ECH7.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/ECH1-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/Ech2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/Ech3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/Ech4.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/ECH5.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/ECH6.jpg

Thanx for the updates..

Love the cladding seems it will fit well in the area.

Good to see that construction has started, but after looking at the new Fountainebleu renders, Echelon looks very unappealing at street level. Hopefully it'll look better in person.

Perfect for Vegas.

Still digging
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/Ech1-2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/ech2-1.jpg

This is where the convention center will go
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/Ech3-1.jpg

think they could have done something better. it is nothing great, especially confronting it with the other grat projects coming up around the city.

With Echelon, the attention will be on the details. The building materials and claddings will be unusual and unique. This is a project that will look much much better in person than on paper. Can't wait.:banana:

the hotel and suite tower look great, the delano/mondrian complex looks interesting, but the shangri-la stump they tried to sneak into the crack between the two main towers looks, at this point anyway, very misguided. the main entrance also looks a bit bland and suburban. but it has yet to go vertical so we can reserve true judgment for later. i do really like the hotel/suite towers.

That's such a beautiful design. I love those curves. A wave -like design seems to be very popular in Vegas.

this thing looks great. like the curves.

Drillin' caissons.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/Ech3-2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/Ech2-2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/Ech1-3.jpg

Wow the Palazzo looks so tall.

well maybe the housing market will stay a little above average becuse theses projects are providing jobs to Vegas

Can we get an Echelon shot north facing from say Treasure Island?

Tyia!

You'd have to rent a room pretty high to get a proper shot of the site from there. Maybe one of the visiting forumers can get a room there and bring their camera. I'm just gonna keep shooting from the Circus Circus south garage until the buildings get some height because that has the best view of the actual work going on without renting a room.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/ec2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/Ech1-4.jpg

Thank you sir!

Cheers!

Thanks for the updates..

construction seems to be moving at a snails pace :ohno:

compare echelon and city center

They need to reduce the height of the Mondrian Hotel tower to 360 feet. The rendering shows that the hotel is shorter than the Delano Hotel next to it.

Cranes for the main tower.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/Ech1-5.jpg

You can see two more crane bases to the left.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/Ech2-3.jpg

Red crane for Mondrian.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/Ech3-3.jpg

Yep there are the cranes. Been expecting them for so long yet it's still shocking to finally see them for real.

Great sky shot on that Echelon/Font photo.

Thanx for the updates..

las vegas here i come.

Now that the cranes are in place, it will start to SOAR!!! They don't mess with a slurry wall, they just dig all the dirt out and place the foundation on the ground.

wow!!!!!!!!!!!......stunning pics!!

This is the best looking resort in Vegas for me. This or Wynn:cheers:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/ech.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/ech1-6.jpg

Echelon and Wynn next to each other are close to perfection. I love them.

http://dangie.com/fey/veg0208/slides/IMG_3039.html

http://dangie.com/fey/veg0208/slides/IMG_3038.html

Dang, you can see the footprint for the main tower real good from up there. Great shots.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/Ech-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/Picture-1.jpg
BYD

Some renders from Boyd.

Enclave lobby
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/Picture-4.jpg

Shangri-La lobby
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/Picture-5.jpg

Meeting rooms
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/Picture-6.jpg

Pool deck
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/Picture-7.jpg

Bland and somewhat uninteresting

Steel frame going up on the southwest corner of the lot.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/Echelon2-1.jpg

Main tower
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/Echelon.jpg

i have a question for las vegas people: when all the old casinos are destroyed, are the signs kept in operation? for instance, the glitzy stardust sign, is it going to be trashed or maintained? i really hope they keep all those cool old signs and take care of them.

^^
All the old signs are carefully dismantled and moved to the Neon Graveyard. Several of the old signs have been fully restored, then moved to the Neon Museum downtown.

Is the Neon graveyard the place that was featured in the movie "Vegas Vacation"? Or was that the Neon museum?

Is the Neon graveyard the place that was featured in the movie "Vegas Vacation"? Or was that the Neon museum?

the graveyard is where the signs are left before being restored http://www.neonmuseum.org/boneyard.html

Cool.

^^ understatement. lol

New webcam
http://www.earthcam.com/clients/echelon/

las vegas will soon run out of water, but seems that they are ignoring that fact :-/

las vegas will soon run out of water, but seems that they are ignoring that fact :-/

Where did you hear that?

http://www.lasvegasnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=6943263

im also interessted how they get their water in dubai, since the population there will rise extremely fast...

im also interessted how they get their water in dubai, since the population there will rise extremely fast...
Desalinization! Dubai at least has a lot of water Nearby it's just saltwater. Las Vegas on the other hand does not have a lot of water nearby.:ohno: Kind of what happens when you build a city in the middle of a desert.

Well underway

Many more photos on my Echelon page (http://www.vegastodayandtomorrow.com/echelon_place.htm)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2245/2473243160_56ffb812cb_o.jpg

Damn, Vegas doesn't mess around with their skyscrapers.

Desalinization! Dubai at least has a lot of water Nearby it's just saltwater. Las Vegas on the other hand does not have a lot of water nearby.:ohno: Kind of what happens when you build a city in the middle of a desert.

I heard a proposal of creating like either a Los Angeles Resivor esq canal system or something like a pipeline leading from the Pacific it would sevrve all the southwest but mainly areas of arizona and southern nevada but that was from some cab driver in LA who told me that

Hoover Damn, I dont think that is going to run out of water anytime soon.

Desalinization! Dubai at least has a lot of water Nearby it's just saltwater. Las Vegas on the other hand does not have a lot of water nearby.:ohno: Kind of what happens when you build a city in the middle of a desert.

las vegas circled in black and water sources circled in white, lake mead less than 30 miles from the las vegas strip covers an area greater than 1.5 million acres, holds 28.5 million acre feet (35 km³) of water, is 110 miles long and just so happens to be the largest reservoir in the United States, if the Imperial valley stopped sucking it dry it may sustain the southwest well into the next century

http://i30.tinypic.com/jfyzqp.jpg

Well you know, with the way Global Warming is going, Las Vegas in the Dessert could be Ocean front property while Ocean Front Dubai is the Lost City of Dubai that we take mini sub tours of.

"If you look to your right, you will see the Skyline of Dubai, submerged underwater, it has become a natural reef. These tower were paid for by the money raked in by the greedy oil hog Arabs of the middle east who over charged the European nations and North America, until America discovered they had the largest deposit of oil in the word off the coast of Alaska and started drilling it, making them the Worlds Oil Supplier. Now lets go to the George Bush gift Shop."

Construction worked killed this morning at the Echelon site.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/19980194.html

Even under the worst global warming scenarios I don't think Las Vegas would become ocean front property.


Sad about the worker dying but assembling/disassembling scaffolding is notoriously dangerous.

Yeah, I haven't heard any predictions that sea levels are going to rise two thousand feet, LOL.

However, I did hear on the news that the worker at Echelon was wearing a safety harness while dismantling the scaffolding, but unfortunately it was attached to the piece of scaffolding that he just dismantled and tossed to the ground, and it pulled him down with it. Guess he forgot which piece he was attached to.

nice building... But it could be nicer with more details in the design

Yeah, I haven't heard any predictions that sea levels are going to rise two thousand feet, LOL.

However, I did hear on the news that the worker at Echelon was wearing a safety harness while dismantling the scaffolding, but unfortunately it was attached to the piece of scaffolding that he just dismantled and tossed to the ground, and it pulled him down with it. Guess he forgot which piece he was attached to.

Those types of accidents will always happen. It gets hot, you get tired, and you make a mistake and in construction a mistake can kill you.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/Ech-2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/Ech3-4.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/ech2-4.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Echelon/Ech1-7.jpg

New aerial construction photo, this project seems to be going quite slowly, but is now accelerating:

http://www.vegastodayandtomorrow.com/images/echelon%20080715.jpg

another one.

New renders:

http://www.vegastodayandtomorrow.com/images/echelon%20rendering%20new%202.jpg

http://www.vegastodayandtomorrow.com/images/echelon%20rendering%20new%201.jpg

http://www.vegastodayandtomorrow.com/images/echelon%20rendering%20new%203.jpg

http://www.vegastodayandtomorrow.com/images/echelon%20rendering%20new%204.jpg

Wow i love it, thanx for sharing with us, finally we have some renders.

Retail portion might be delayed ??

http://media.lasvegassun.com/media/pdfs/blogs/documents/2008/07/30/boa.pdf

Wow. nice updates. Crane maze in LV :)

Retail portion might be delayed ??

http://media.lasvegassun.com/media/pdfs/blogs/documents/2008/07/30/boa.pdf

Good, maybe that will give them time to rethink that butt-ugly entrance design.

Looks like the entire project is held up now...

http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idINWNAB436120080801?rpc=44

NEW YORK, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Casino operator Boyd Gaming Corp (BYD.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) said on Friday it has decided to delay construction of its new Las Vegas Strip casino called Echelon and suspended quarterly dividends.

The company also posted lower second-quarter profit as the U.S. economic slowdown reduced gambling revenue.

The company also said it has decided to delay the construction of Echelon due to the challenging economic environment. It plans to resume construction in three or four quarters, assuming credit market conditions and economic outlook improves.

Boyd had been paying quarterly dividends of 15 cents per share.

Boyd reported net income of $21.7 million, or 25 cents a share, compared with $22.1 million, or 25 cents per share, a year earlier.

Income from continuing operations slipped to 25 cents a share in the quarter from 26 cents a share a year before.

Excluding items, earnings in the quarter were 30 cents a share, down from a year-ago 45 cents a share. (Reporting by Euan Rocha, editing by Gerald E.

So, this thing is going to be on hold for a whole year?

:cry:

Smart move.

Wow, that sucks.

http://www.globest.com/news/1287_1287/lasvegas/175171-1.html
In this article Boyd says they probably won't restart in 2009 and they are looking at redesigns.




.

He is allready on hold?

Is there any news on this project?