Wynn Resorts is proposing an
expansion to its hotel and entertainment properties along the Las Vegas Strip
that would include a 1,000-room hotel tower and a 38-acre lake.
The project, which is tentatively
called Wynn Paradise Park, still needs approval by the company’s board of
directors. Paradise Park would be built on a 130-acre parcel where the Wynn Golf Club
currently sits, and would include 260,000 square feet of meetings space
and a casino.
The hotel-casino operator is
proposing a lake area that would include a boardwalk as well as activities such
as waterskiing, paddleboarding, parasailing and nighttime fireworks that would
be set off from an island at the center of the lagoon.
Wynn Resorts CEO Steve Wynn touted the project as “an idyllic beach paradise” and “a chance to reinvent Las Vegas and make
the whole venue an entertainment attraction.”
Wynn is in the process of
building Wynn Plaza, whose 75,000 square feet of retail space is due to open in the
fall of 2017.
The 2,716-room Wynn Las Vegas
opened in 2005, while the 2,034-room Wynn Encore opened next door three years
later.
Wynn Paradise Park appears to
be a counterpoint to other entertainment districts that have popped up along
the Strip. Caesars Entertainment’s Linq Promenade
retail-entertainment district, which includes the High Roller observation
wheel, opened to the public in late 2013.
And this week, MGM Resorts
International’s The Park outdoor entertainment and retail district opened
adjacent to the New York-New York and Monte Carlo casino hotels.