Marriott

The Jackson-Shaw Co. of Dallas has Vegas fever. The developer has embarked on its biggest southern Nevada gamble to date: a new $100 million, 548-room Marriott Renaissance hotel.

The 15-story cast-in-place concrete building is on 2.94 acres at the southeast corner of Paradise and Desert Inn roads in Las Vegas. It features post-tensioned floors and an EIFS/glass skin. There is also 60-ft.-wide curved curtain wall set at a 35-degree angle at the hotel's northwest corner entrance. Phoenix-based Perini Building Co. is the general contractor.

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Targeting the city's robust convention business, the 260.5-ft.-tall Marriott is a non-gaming venue that offers a quiet >> respite from the clank and clutter of slot machines.
It contains 30 suites, a 176-seat dining room, a Starbucks coffee shop, a business center and fitness room. The lobby covers 10,000- sq.- ft., and the 5,000-sq.-ft. open courtyard contains a swimming pool and deck area.

There is a six-level, 472-space, cast-in-place parking structure and 19,600- sq.- ft. of steel-framed convention space with 80-ft. ceiling spans. Serviced by a central plant with two chillers, the hotel rooms each average 400- sq.- ft. in size.

HPA Architects, Newport Beach, Calif., is the designer. Quality Mechanical Contractors LLC of Las Vegas is performing the HVAC work.

Slated to finish in February 2005, the 314,000-sq.-ft. Marriott sits atop a slab foundation that required 481 truckloads of concrete to complete. Bomel Construction of Anaheim, California, is performing the concrete work, with Nevada Ready Mix as the supplier. In total, the project will use a total of 18,000 cu. yards of concrete.

Located on confined site, Perini is using two stationary hammerhead tower cranes to pick and place materials. The structure is rising at a rate of one floor every eight days.

"The cranes were needed," said Rick Lorimer, Perini's project manager. "The small lot doesn't allow us to stockpile materials onsite, which has meant careful coordination of deliveries."

Situated roughly 300- ft. from the Las Vegas Convention Center's South Hall, the hotel is assured to receive a steady stream of guests. Las Vegas hosts five million conventioneers annually with 1.2 million of them attending events at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

"This is a tremendous opportunity for the right kind of upscale, business-oriented property," said Lewis Shaw II, chairman and CEO of Jackson-Shaw. "This hotel is literally at the front door of the new South Hall expansion of the Las Vegas Convention Center, making it the most convenient place to stay and conduct business for anyone attending a conference or trade show at the center."

The new Marriott is part of an estimated 10,138 new hotel rooms slated to come online between 2003 and 2005, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.

"We estimate that 1.3 direct jobs are created for every new room that is added to our inventory," said Erika Yowell, LVCVA spokesperson. "That would mean 13,180 new resort positions by 2005."

The Marriott is expected to create roughly 1,000 new jobs. In addition, more than 400 people and 50 subcontractors are onsite during the height of construction activity.

Jackson Shaw has been in the Las Vegas market for 10 years. The firm owns and operates the 325-room Hampton Inn at Tropicana Avenue and Industrial Road. In addition, Jackson Shaw has developed more than 1.2 million sq. ft. of industrial space in the Las Vegas Valley, valued at nearly $150 million.

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