from Tradeshow Week (5/2):

Wynn Opens Up on New CC
Heidi Genoist -- Tradeshow Week, 5/2/2008 11:35:00 AM

"Steve Wynn has been sitting on a secret for the last couple months, and it’s a big one – possibly as big as 1.8 million square feet.

The chairman and CEO of Wynn Resorts told investors and reporters in a May 1 earnings call that he was planning a new convention center for Las Vegas.

“We’re planning two new hotels of approximately 2,600 rooms a piece that will straddle 1.6 to 1.8 million thousand [sic] feet, it depends on how you count it, of exhibit space that is,” Wynn said.

He added that the convention facility would be built on the site where the golf course is now located, and that it would extend “2,000 feet to Paradise Road, from an area approximately 550 feet east of our villas, so that there will be a large lake with fountains like Bellagio that will entertain both hotels and the convention and meeting space.” " ....

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