Las Vegas WET

Overview

Las Vegas WET is a mixed use entertainment venue scheduled to be built in Las Vegas.

WET Holdings was founded in 2006 to develop a 200+ acre entertainment destination resort in Las Vegas, Nevada called Las Vegas WET. WET Holdings is privately held by a group of theme park, gaming, and hospitality veterans. The project is lead by Steven Dooner, WET Holdings CEO/Founder and 30 year theme park veteran with the likes of Disney and Universal Studios Theme Parks.

Las Vegas WET is a proposed new 200-300+ acre destination adventure park in Las Vegas, Nevada. It will be one of the largest amusement and entertainment complexes in North America featuring indoor and outdoor water rides, surfing, arenas, snowboarding and skiing (indoors yearround), retail, and attractions, all linked to six major hotels with gaming and Vegas-style dining and entertainment venues.

WET will also be a fuel-cell powered installation. Generating its own clean power and treating its own water, WET is seeking to have a neutral carbon footprint and be an almost closed ecological system. The design team is making the project as environmentally friendly as possible. The plan is to use solar panels wherever possible to generate electricity and microturbines to heat and cool the buildings and water.

It is scheduled to open late 2011/early 2012. The company is currently private, but may be public in the future.

Latest news (3/14/08, courtesy of Steve Dooner himself):"We will soon be announcing the location of the 200+ acres we're acquiring on the South Strip. The project has expanded significantly, and a new partner will be announced soon as well. We are now up to 6 hotel casinos on the project, with over 10,000 rooms if built as currently planned."

Details

Proposing Las Vegas WET (through Las Vegas Wet, LLC) also known as Snow Dome Las Vegas, an ambitious, 200-acre, winter-and-water themed mega-resort on the far South Strip, south of the 215. The project would open in 2011 and include:

# Water The country's largest waterpark with 25 acres of themed "lands."

# Snow The country's largest indoor snow dome where people can ski and snowboard

# Theme Park 60 acres of an "internationally recognized theme park brand."

# America In Miniature 1:24-scale replicas of American landmarks including the Empire State Building (48' high - over four stories tall) and the White House (20' wide). By America in Miniature, LLC info.

# Hotels Six hotels. Three of the hotels would include 3,500 hotel rooms and 623 condos, as: Agua Vista Hotel (600 rooms + 100 condos); Alpine Haus Hotel (800 rooms + 150 condos); Flagged Hotel (2,100 rooms + 373 condos).

# Extras 800,000 square feet of retail/dining/entertainment along three themed "streets". Water show, sports arenas, theatres, cinemas, family entertainment center, children's center, shops.

The team and co-founders include:

# Steve Dooner, CEO, co-founder of Proteus Creative, Inc. Dooner was previously with Paramount Parks, Raging Waters Disney, Universal).

# Stephen Berger, Art Director from Universal Studios in Japan.

# Paula Brand, CFO from Universal Studios, MGM/UA, and NBC/Universal.

# Greg Stevens founder of S&G Management Group LLC, a consulting and management company focused on the entertainment business.

# Fred Cochrane and Harrison Price founders of Economic Research Associates (ERA) which performed the original feasibility study for Disneyland and other Disney and Universal Studio theme parks.

# Thinkwell Design and Production Designer of Ski Dubai. A Burbank, CA-based designer of experience-based attractions for the companies such as MGM, the Los Angeles Dodgers, Harrah's, Nike, and Universal Studios. Craig Hanna is the Chief Creative Officer.

# X-Leisure a UK-based company run by a former Disney alum that has developed Xscape-branded facilities in Milton Keynes; Castleford, Leeds; and Braehead, Glasgow.

Contact: Lindsey Dooner at [e-mail].

Proposed Las Vegas Wet Hotels in Las VegasHotel Rooms CondosAgua Vista 600 100Alpine Haus 800 150Flagged 2,100 373Total 3,500 623

External links

* [http://www.lasvegaswet.com Official web site]