Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018 | 2 a.m.
On September 17, the stop-start development of Downtown’s Symphony Park kicks into gear with the groundbreaking for two parking garages. A 694-space B garage (named for the parcel of land it sits on), is located on Grand Central Parkway—across from the World Market Center’s planned 350,000-square-foot convention hall—and is designed to accommodate a possible supermarket on its ground level. The other, the 569-space L garage, is nestled between the Smith Center and the railroad tracks, just across the right-of-way from the existing City Hall garage. It will serve the proposed Nevada Museum of Art at Symphony Park, and may eventually be linked to the City Hall garage by an automobile bridge. The B garage is scheduled to open in August 2019; the L garage a month after that.
These “seed projects” are necessary “to make other projects pencil out,” says Mike Vlaovich, architecture program manager for the City of Las Vegas’ public works department. With a convention center, museum, multi-family residences and a Derek Stevens hotel project in the offing for Symphony Park, this $35 million parking project could prove to be a bargain.
This story originally appeared in the Las Vegas Weekly.
