The 1,600-room SLS Las Vegas resort is arising on the site of the old Sahara hotel-casino at the north end of the Strip. It is scheduled to open Sept. 1, 2014.
Rendering: LSL Las Vegas

Construction of the Echelon on the north Vegas Strip stalled in 2008. A Malaysian conglomerate"?uGenting Berhad (investment arm of the Genting Group)"?useeks to build Resorts World Las Vegas here, a $4 billion Asian-themed, 3,000-room resort complex. The Nevada Gaming Control Board just recommended a gaming license for the Genting Group
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LASN recently brought attention to the new planned construction of a 15,000-home master-planned community, Park Highlands, in north Las Vegas. The development is projected to start in late 2014, or early 2015 https://landscapearchitect.com/research/article/19222.

Seems Vegas developers are heavily betting on renewed prosperity, and are looking north, an optimistic view, given 8.4 percent of single-family homes in the Las Vegas Valley are vacant.

Meanwhile, in case you didn't think Vegas already had enough gambling hotel complexes, the old Sahara
hotel-casino on the north end of the Strip, which closed in 2011 after a run of 59 years (think Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Elvis, et al.), is being revamped and rebranded, reemerging as the 1,600-room SLS Las Vegas resort. The Sahara hotel structure is being reused, now with a glassy, modern fa?????ade. It is scheduled to open Sept. 1, 2014.

But wait, there's more: The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports the Nevada Gaming Control Board just recommended a gaming license for Genting Berhad, a Malaysian conglomerate that proposed building Resorts World Las Vegas, a $4 billion Asian-themed, 3,000 room resort complex on the site of the partially built Echelon project. The new project would make use of most of the buildings of the Echelon project, which has been dormant since 2008.