Clark County
A photo provided by JCJ Architecture shows the design that was selected to serve as the community’s 1 October memorial project.
Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023 | 11:44 a.m.
The Clark County Commission has received a $35,000 donation to help build the 1 October Memorial.
At their meeting today, commissioners accepted the donation from the County Strong Project, a nonprofit that assisted with the Remember Music Festival held last year on Oct. 1.
The county will also allocate $50,000 from the Recreation Activity Enterprise Fund to the Clark County Arts Fund to support the memorial.
The memorial is in remembrance of the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting at a Las Vegas Strip music festival that left 60 people dead and hundreds injured.
The 1 October Memorial Donation Fund was established by commissioners in 2021. Donations to the fund will be used to build and maintain the 1 October Memorial.
Earlier this month, commissioners voted 6-0 to approve the recommendation by the now-dissolved 1 October Memorial Committee to use JCJ Architecture’s country music-inspired memorial design proposal.
“It was a terrible tragedy, but if there was a way to remember it with grace and healing, I think they all picked something that was pretty amazing,” Commissioner Marilyn Kirkpatrick said at the Sept. 5 meeting.
The county will continue collecting donations to begin construction on the memorial, which will sit on a plot of land on the south Strip donated to Clark County byMGM Resorts International.
