LAS VEGAS -- Las Vegas may on the site, got the green construct a 500-foot Ferris light for the project from wheel, the tallest in the Clark County commissioners on Western Hemisphere, on the Wednesday. famous Las Vegas strip, It would also include six officials said. additional rides, 140,000 A developer won permission to square feet for retail and 21, construct the Ferris wheel as 000 square feet for the centerpiece of a 10-acre conferences, said Ed Garcia, amusement park and retail Bulloch's attorney. center planned for a vacant The idea behind the Ferris plot of land on the Strip, wheel, he said, is to offer across the street from the "a very unique view of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino. Las Vegas Strip." If built, it would be the Bulloch has not disclosed the third-tallest Ferris wheel in financial backers of the the world and, at 500 feet, project but hopes to have it is the maximum allowed by the built in 18 to 24 months, Federal Aviation Garcia said. Administration. The 541-foot Singapore Flyer The site is less than half a is the tallest operating mile from McCarran Ferris wheel in the world, International Airport, where followed by the 525-foot Star more than 35 million of Nanchang in China. ' passengers land every year. The London Eye, on the banks Developer Howard Bulloch, the of the Thames River, reaches principal owner of 38 acres 443 feet.
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