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COURTESY CITY OF LAS VEGAS
Artist’s rendering of Las Vegas city hall project. The 310,000-square-foot city hall will be at First Street and Clark Avenue.
By Dave Toplikar (contact) 
Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 | 4:02 p.m.
New City Hall site
Sun archives
- Queen of Hearts demolition marks new era for downtown (2-2-2010)
- Queen of Hearts hotel-casino to be demolished Tuesday (1-29-2010)
- Council approves bond sale for new Las Vegas City Hall (12-2-2009)
- New city hall bonds have given project stimulating effect (11-17-2009)
- City OKs plan to study downtown arena, entertainment district (11-4-2009)
- Cordish projects include sports-anchored developments (11-4-2009)
- Old Vegas-style financing offered for city hall (7-17-2009)
- City Hall project gets support, leaders note risks (7-1-2009)
- A snapshot of downtown’s future, if dominoes fall right (4-23-2007)
- Barrick Gaming discloses major investment plan (3-3-2004)
With spidery steel girders giving it an outline, the new Las Vegas City Hall has been slowly taking shape over the last few weeks in the city's downtown.
And at 11 a.m. Friday, the final steel beam will be hoisted into place atop the seven-story structure in a topping off ceremony to celebrate downtown redevelopment and the construction jobs it is bringing, officials announced Wednesday.
The city and developer Forest City Enterprises Inc., are jointly sponsoring the topping off ceremony, expected to be attended by the developer, city officials and hundreds of construction workers.
The new 310,000-square-foot City Hall, expected to open in 2012, is going up at 518 S. First St., which is between First and Main Streets and Lewis and Clark Avenues, two blocks south of the Golden Nugget hotel-casino.
The project is being financed by $185.6 million in bonds, the majority of which are Build America Bonds, which were created as part of federal economic stimulus legislation.
It is being built to LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) sustainability standards. Officials have estimated that about 1,400 construction jobs are being created during the city hall construction.
The city hall is part of a five-block development plan that includes the nearly completed Regional Transportation Commission's new Bonneville Transit Center.
The entire downtown redevelopment plan is expected to create about 13,400 new permanent jobs, $4.1 billion in private investment and $16 million to $20 million in new tax revenue, according to the city.
Those projects will also bring thousands of more construction jobs, officials say.
So there are jobs created in Las Vegas with "the failed stimulus package" our republican friends keeping talking about?
The federal economic stimulus legislation that every single republican candidate says has not created a single job?
Let's invite Mrs. Angle and Dr. Heck to the topping off to share a few words with the crowd of construction workers gathered.
Thank you Harry Reid and Dina Titus for working for Nevada.
Jobs "Created". Laughable.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/...
Oscar will probably be taking the "dirt nap" when the bill comes due in 2015 for this joke. It's sad how a pol can control a City Council that will also be mostly out of office by then. Then the taxpayers will be on the hook, as usual. Oh, well, anything to help the Union loafers....
Mobster mayor clown Goodman, worst mayor of Vegas on record. Has no conception of financial budget to benefit its' citizens. We need a new city hall like we need a hole in the head. Economy is sour and moron mayor personifies King Georg 111. He could not get reelected if he tried. New faces in november, urgent!!!
1 union job created @ $50 an hour
50 private sector jobs lost or cut back because of he extra $1 in taxes that the working people have to pay to cover the cost of the money borrowed to payback that union employee.
Do people really think this money just fell off a tree and does not come from the bleeding of the taxpayers to cover it. The taxpayers can't pay their own bills right now, let alone the ones some idiot politician decided to make them pay also. This money wasn't just printed. It has to be paid back. So no, these jobs weren't created, these jobs were created to pay back the unions for political support at the expense of private company jobs.
You know, communities used to celebrate the constuction of City Halls, Libraries, Community Center's, etc. Now it's just another topic for the haters to rally around. How did our society turn so negative and nasty? There are posters on this board who never, ever have a positive comment about ANYTHING! I'll keep waiting, I'm hoping to see what they're "for"... I certainly know what they're against.