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Downtown Container Park is an outdoor shopping mall and entertainment complex located in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. The tenants are housed in metal cubes and shipping containers . The project was conceived by Tony Hsieh and his Downtown Project, a group dedicated to revitalizing the downtown area.
In 1955, the land was acquired by the Las Vegas Elks. With support of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, the city of Las Vegas acquired the fort in 1989. Long-term protection was gained when the state acquired the site as a state park in 1991. [14] A $4.5 million renovation and visitor center, designed by assemblageSTUDIO, was completed in 2005. [15]
Downtown is located in the center of the Las Vegas Valley and just north of the Las Vegas Strip, centered on Fremont Street, the Fremont Street Experience and Fremont East. The city defines the area as bounded by I-15 on the west, Washington Avenue on the north, Maryland Parkway on the east and Sahara Avenue on the south.
In the middle of Las Vegas is the Springs Preserve, a 180-acre site of botanical gardens, amphitheater, museums, butterfly habitat, and waterworks. Besides strolling through the gardens, tickets ...
Fremont Street in 1983. Fremont Street is the locale of several Las Vegas firsts, including hotel opened in 1906, as Hotel Nevada, (since renamed Golden Gate), first telephone (1907), first paved street (1925), first Nevada gaming license — issued to the Northern Club at 15 E. Fremont St, first traffic light, first elevator (the Apache Hotel in 1932), and the first high-rise (the Fremont ...
The Plaza Hotel & Casino is a hotel and casino located in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada.It currently has 995 rooms and suites, an 80,000-square-foot (7,400 m 2) casino and more than 25,000 square feet (2,300 m 2) of event space.
Symphony Park's neighbors include the 5,100,000-square-foot (470,000 m 2) World Market Center Las Vegas, the 175-store Las Vegas North Premium Outlets and the multistory Clark County Government Center. Symphony Park is the only project in the state of Nevada to be accepted into a national pilot program for green neighborhood developments.
"Downtown Las Vegas Area" is the name assigned by the Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB) which includes the Downtown Las Vegas area casinos and The Strat casino tower which is located 2 miles (3.2 km) from Fremont Street. [1] The city of Las Vegas uses the term Downtown Gaming for the casinos near the Fremont Street Experience. [2]