18 Fremont unveiled

I like it. The tower looks a little like a suped-up Showboat in AC! It will be good to have a new ground-up development Downtown.

Putting an entertainment venue immediately facing a glass hotel structure is not a good idea for many reasons. One-The point of entertainment is draw customers not onlookers that don’t have to buy a ticket sitting your hotel rooms. Two-Disturbing customers with loud music (which would have to pushed much louder in an open air environment rather than an acoustically treated non-parallel walled theater. Low end subsonics love traveling up steel beams and walls. Three-Why would anyone want to expose the elements of blazing sun, rain, and cold winds to your equipment, stage, and customers?
Four-The slapback of audio frequencies could be a nightmare once they hit the glass and travel back to the audience…time delays and the Haas effect would ruin any show’s intelligibility and there’s no way to fix it without completely covering the windows with acoustic treatments or knocking down the structure…There are other issues but these alone will be insurmountable….IMHO this is not the way to go at all. But that never stopped anyone from building a terrible venue here in Vegas…think Aladdin’s old theater, MGM’s dome lounge, the Tropicana’s old lounge and theater… Hiring a person that knows acoustics is essential. Steve Wynn spared no expense on that count