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Courtesy The Downtown Project
An artist’s rendering of the shipping container development planned for Seventh and East Fremont.
Thursday, March 21, 2013 | 12:30 p.m.
Container Park
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Footage of what Las Vegas' Container Park will look like.
Though work on the downtown Container Park came to a stop this week, the array of businesses that will make it home is coming into focus.
The mall-like structure at Seventh and Fremont streets will increase by up to 30 the number of new businesses downtown when completed.
The brainchild of the Downtown Project, the retail/restaurant/tavern space is being constructed mostly of prefabricated cubes manufactured by local company Xtreme Manufacturing and will occupy most of a city block.
With an estimated completion date in October, the outdoor space will be home to eateries Pork ‘n’ Beans and Big Ern’s barbeque (now under a tent on Seventh between Fremont and Carson Avenue), taverns The Boozery and VIP Bar, a wine-seller called Bin 702, and a walk-up coffeeshop, The Beatnik.
A lineup of potential retail stores hasn’t been finalized but there is talk of using some spaces for product demonstrations.
The park’s biggest draw is likely to be the “immersion dome,” an inflatable. temporary dome whose white walls can be used as a screen to project an almost limitless number of scenes, landscapes and other images that will surround visitors.
Sources say work was temporarily stopped as the city and Downtown Project work on permit approvals.
Joe Schoenmann doesn’t just cover downtown, he lives and works there. Schoenmann is Greenspun Media Group’s embedded downtown journalist, working from an office in the Emergency Arts building.
Joe, this stupid trailer park will litter just 1/2 a block, not a whole block. And I am pretty darn sure that the city of Las Vegas Building Department CANNOT issue permits to stack these non-fire rated tinder boxes on top of each other so as to burn up the public if say the Bar-be-que caught fire downstairs below the trendy skinny black jeans and clever t-shirt shop above. How many Downtown Project Wannabees might die in this inferno??? Just saying.
Reminds me of the containers many soldiers have shared together, living in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I spent many nights in them. Don't care to be in one ever again.