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President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, then the largest concrete structure ever built.

Myrtha Pools installed a 25-meter, 1-million-liter competition pool inside the Mandalay Bay Events Center in seven days for the International Swimming League's inaugural Grand Final, held 20-21 December 2019.

The Las Vegas Raiders open Allegiant Stadium, a 65,000-seat, climate-controlled venue with a retractable end-zone wall built in three years and nine months on the Las Vegas Strip.

Virgin Hyperloop carried its first human passengers, Josh Giegel and Sara Luchian, through its DevLoop test tube in the Nevada desert at 107mph.

Formula 1 held its first Las Vegas Grand Prix after builders threw up a purpose-built paddock and resurfaced dozens of miles of Strip-area roads to track-grade tolerances in under a year.

Brightline West broke ground on a 218-mile electric high-speed line between Las Vegas and Southern California, aiming to become America's first true bullet train.

Boston Dynamics revealed the product version of its fully electric Atlas humanoid at Hyundai's CES media day and began building it at its Boston headquarters immediately. Every 2026 Atlas is already committed, with fleets going to Hyundai's Robotics Metaplant Application Center and to Google DeepMind.

Construction begins on Stix Asia's 18,000-square-foot Las Vegas food hall in the former Sundry space at UnCommons, with a dozen restaurants planned and a fall 2026 opening. A sakura tree will anchor the centre of the room.

The final structural beam went in at the top of the 660-foot guitar-shaped hotel tower, built on the former site of the Mirage's volcano and holding 675 of the resort's rooms. The $4 billion Hard Rock Las Vegas is a full rebuild of the Mirage, which closed on 17 July 2024, and is expected to open in the fourth quarter of 2027.

HPE's four-day Americas conference at the Venetian Expo, where Antonio Neri's keynote pitched the network as the foundation of the agentic enterprise and HPE launched Juniper switches for AI factories, agent governance with NVIDIA and eight new quantum partnerships.

Waymo began welcoming its first public riders in Las Vegas on 14 September 2026, running Ojai robotaxis over a nearly 24-square-mile zone along the Strip.

Harry Reid International, Signature Aviation and U.S. Customs and Border Protection opened a dedicated general aviation and cargo clearance building on the west side of the airfield. It takes international private-jet arrivals out of the passenger terminals, which the airport says cuts congestion as Las Vegas draws more international traffic for its sporting events.

Tesla veranstaltet am 24. September 2026 einen Semi-Rollout nur für eingeladene Gäste, um sein 1,7 Millionen Quadratfuß großes Semi-Werk in Sparks, Nevada, einzuweihen – ausgelegt auf bis zu 50.000 Elektro-Trucks pro Jahr, mit Werksführungen und Mitfahrten im Semi.

AWS's annual cloud and AI conference fills six Las Vegas venues from Nov 30 to Dec 4 with more than 2,200 sessions, led by CEO Matt Garman's opening keynote at The Venetian on Dec 1. For 2026 the re:Inforce security conference is part of the week.

Die UFC beschließt ihren nummerierten Kalender 2026 in der T-Mobile Arena: Der zweifache Mittelgewichtschampion Sean Strickland verteidigt seinen Titel im Hauptkampf gegen Nassourdine Imavov.

Die jährliche Messe der Consumer Technology Association kehrt für vier Tage nach Las Vegas zurück, unter den Keynote-Rednern ist Stellantis-Chef Antonio Filosa. Anmeldung und offizielle Hotelbuchung für die CES 2027 sind bereits geöffnet.

An 18,000-square-foot Asian food hall with 12 stalls and roughly 400 seats opens in the former Sundry space at UnCommons in southwest Las Vegas, the second Stix Asia after the 2023 Honolulu original. The first three tenants named - Ginza Bairin, Ramen BARIO and NANAMUSUBI - are each opening their first mainland US location.

The only race Formula 1 runs on a Saturday night, straight down the Strip past the casinos at close to 350 km/h.

Lithium Americas peilt die mechanische Fertigstellung von Phase 1 des Projekts Thacker Pass für Ende 2027 an – eine Anlage für 40.000 Tonnen Lithiumcarbonat pro Jahr im Norden Nevadas.

The 33,000-seat domed ballpark, designed by Bjarke Ingels Group and HNTB around one of the largest cable-glass windows in North America, is rising on a corner of the 35-acre site of the Tropicana Las Vegas, which was imploded in October 2024. Construction broke ground in June 2025 on a roughly $2 billion build that brings Major League Baseball to the Strip.

A 350 km/h private high-speed line down the I-15 median, aiming to run Las Vegas to Rancho Cucamonga in about two hours. Estimated date.