Union Park, Downtown Las Vegas

About sixty acres of land on the western edge of the downtown, which was formally part of the Union Pacific rail yard, will have many new projects that will convert this part of the city into an another downtown.

The plans for this area called the Union Park are yet to be finalized. According to the plan the area will be having a baseball center, a performing arts center, a medical center, high-rise commercial and residential district and a new city hall. There is major concern about the success of the project regarding how the art center could compete with the entertainment venues of the strip, whether the proposed high rise would be filled and whether these individual projects can work together with the adjacent furniture mart and mall.

The developers who were expected to complete the project successfully withdrew from it raising question about the projects success. In spite of all the hurdles within next two years the construction of the art center and the medical center will begin as both of these projects have strong financial background.