Vegas, Dallas ready expansions
By Susan Pyle Dickenson -- Home Accents Today, 1/1/2007
World Market Center's Building B is ready to debut this month as the largest and tallest building in downtown Las Vegas. The $345 million, 1.6 million-sq.-ft. structure is fully leased to about 300 exhibitors, including new permanent tenants as well as relocations from Building A.
The 16-story Building B is connected by sky bridges on the first 10 floors to Building A. Amenities in the new structure include an expanded registration area in the main atrium, more passenger and freight elevators, full service restaurant and food outlets and a second Internet lounge. A year-round Design Center operates on the first two floors. Floors three through five house accessories and home accents showrooms, and six through 15 are comprised mainly of furniture and bedding companies. The 16th floor includes seminar and meeting space, a media center, an international buyers lounge and business offices for industry associations.
When completed in 2013, the World Market Center complex will measure 12 million square feet in eight buildings on 57 acres. Last month, ground was broken for the first phase of a $60 million, seven-level parking garage for 3,600 vehicles, expected to be completed in June of 2008.
DallasDallas Market Center will celebrate the grand opening of the 500,000-sq.-ft. Trade Mart expansion, custom-designed to the specifications of the lighting industry. The expansion doubles Dallas's lighting marketplace, giving DMC more than 1 million square feet of dedicated space for the lighting industry. The ribbon cutting will take place Jan. 18 at a ceremony attended by Dallas Mayor Laura Miller, and will commemorate the largest expansion project since the original buildings on the Dallas Market Center campus were constructed following the center's founding in 1957.
"January will be a first-class market for buyers who shop Dallas," said Bill Winsor, president and CEO of Dallas Market Center. "We are entering our 50th Anniversary with expansion of the Trade Mart, new and expanding showrooms, the continuing growth of F!NDS, and as always, more resources under one roof than any other marketplace."
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