An exterior rendering of MSG Sphere at The Venetian. The state-of-the-art venue, which will be 366-feet tall and 516-feet wide. (The Madison Square Garden Company)
Construction continues on the MSG Sphere at The Venetian on Tuesday, July 23, 2019, in Las Vegas. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @benjaminhphoto
Construction continues on the MSG Sphere at The Venetian on Tuesday, July 23, 2019, in Las Vegas. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @benjaminhphoto
Construction continues on the MSG Sphere at The Venetian on Tuesday, July 23, 2019, in Las Vegas. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @benjaminhphoto
Construction continues on the MSG Sphere at The Venetian on Tuesday, July 23, 2019, in Las Vegas. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @benjaminhphoto
Construction continues on the MSG Sphere at The Venetian on Tuesday, July 23, 2019, in Las Vegas. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @benjaminhphoto
Gov. Brian Sandoval, fourth from left, with his wife, Lauralyn, and Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson, third from right, with his wife, Miriam, break ground with others, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018, for the MSG Sphere, a new performance venue expected to open in 2021 in Las Vegas. Rachel Aston Las Vegas Review-Journal @rookie__rae
Construction crews recently completed its 80,000-square-foot basement as well as Level 1 of the spherical building designed by Kansas City, Missouri-based Populous and being built by New York’s The Madison Square Garden Company just east of The Venetian and the Sands Expo and Convention Center.
Level 2 columns and stair core walls have been built on the first-of-its-kind performance venue that will seat 18,000 people.
Representatives of The Madison Square Garden Company and Las Vegas Sands Corp. received additional favorable news last week — the Las Vegas Monorail Co. has received $33.6 million in financing to build a new station at Sands Avenue and Koval Lane. Construction is expected to begin next year with completion when the Sphere opens in 2021.
An estimated 1,500 construction workers will be on the Sphere project.
The Review-Journal is owned by the family of Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson.
