Construction of Downtown Welcome Display Gets Underway

By Scott Roeben, on July 30 2018
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Downtown Las Vegas Las Vegas

The City of Las Vegas recently announced it would devote resources to a new gateway arch and welcome display, and elements of the latter are already being put into place.

Downtown Las Vegas welcome
Be nice to Denny’s. We didn’t see anywhere else to park for this photo op.

The welcome display, featuring dice, chips and a roulette wheel, sit at the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Main Street, about a block from the Stratosphere casino.

Downtown welcome Stratosphere
The new display is a stone’s throw away from the Strat. Please don’t throw stones. This neighborhood has enough problems with projectiles.

According to renderings, the site will also sport two showgirls. Posts for the showgirls have also been put into place.

Here’s a look at the rendering.

Downtown Las Vegas welcome sign
We definitely didn’t notice the dice pip position has changed since this rendering was released. Because that would be weird.

The City of Las Vegas plays a big part in the display, which is only a little awkward because the City pretty much abandoned the logo in March 2017, presumably because it was too darned full of itself.

The logo cost $20,000 to develop.

Downtown Las Vegas welcome display
On a roulette wheel, those yellow triangles are called canoes.

Also in the works is a gateway arch. The City has been a bit vague about where the arch will end up, but it’s assumed it will stretch across Las Vegas Blvd. at Sahara Ave.

An alternative location for the arch could be at South 4th Street and Las Vegas Blvd., where a “Welcome to Downtown Las Vegas” sign was obliterated by a drunk driver.

No timeline for completion of the welcome area or gateway arch has been announced.

It’s also possible a timeline has been announced and we just ignored it. We’re defiant like that.