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\tKimberly Pierceall, Associated Press \u00b7 <\/p>\n
\tLAS VEGAS (AP) \u2013 Initial plans for a casino-hotel that may rise from the Las Vegas Strip site where the New Frontier once stood show two hotel towers with 1,100 rooms and a 126,000-square-foot space for a water feature inside.<\/p>\n
\tThe plans were submitted to Clark County on May 28 by the owners of the 35-acre parcel across from the Wynn and Encore resorts.<\/p>\n
\tIt represents the latest in efforts to fill in dormant sites on the northern end of the Las Vegas Strip with new resort-casinos including Genting Group\u2019s $4 billion sprawling Resorts World development expected to open by mid-2018, along with a plan by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority to raze the Riviera hotel-casino and extend the convention center to the Strip.<\/p>\n
\tThe resort-casino is being called Alon Las Vegas (pronounced A\u2019-lawn) and was born of a partnership between billionaire Australian hotelier James Packer, chairman of Crown Resorts, and former Wynn Las Vegas President Andrew Pascal.<\/p>\n
\tThe partnership isn\u2019t offering many specifics, but Pascal said by phone that he expects a groundbreaking in early 2016 and the resort to open by late 2018.<\/p>\n
\tThe New Frontier, where Elvis Presley first performed in Las Vegas in 1956, was imploded in November 2007 to make way for a $5 billion project meant to mimic the Plaza Hotel in New York City. But the plan fell through.<\/p>\n
\tPacker and Pascal, backed by Oaktree Capital Management, bought a controlling stake in the site in August 2014. At the time, a groundbreaking was planned for this year, and the resort was expected to open as early as 2018.<\/p>\n
\tDetails of the submitted plans may change after the company\u2019s team met with county staff last month. Now it\u2019s up to the company to submit an application to the county\u2019s planning department.<\/p>\n
\tInitial plans show rows of shops facing the Strip in front of two hotel towers.<\/p>\n
\tThe plans show heights of 539 feet for the VIP tower and 631 feet for the resort tower, but Pascal said by phone that\u2019s not accurate and the towers are expected to be smaller than surrounding buildings, although he wouldn\u2019t say how many stories he expects the casino-resort to be.<\/p>\n
\tThe interior of the towers appear cylindrical, and drawings submitted to the county note a 126,000-square-foot water feature. Initial plans submitted to the county also show a nightclub, black-box theater (typically a smaller performance venue), movie theater, spa, botanical chapel and meeting space inside.<\/p>\n
\tPascal and officials with Alon Leisure Management LLC didn\u2019t answer questions about the water feature and other details mentioned in the plans.<\/p>\n
\tAn outside spokeswoman for the company referred to a brief emailed statement from Pascal, who said, \u201ccentral to our vision for Alon is the careful consideration, creative exploration and uncompromising execution of the resort experience.\u201d He said the company is building its team to \u201cbring a fresh, new approach to what we think the future of Las Vegas should be.\u201d<\/p>\n
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