{"id":10471,"date":"2015-02-06T22:21:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T06:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=10471"},"modified":"2023-03-29T06:20:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T13:20:28","slug":"construction-rock-rio-usas-city-rock-kicks-high-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/construction-rock-rio-usas-city-rock-kicks-high-gear\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction at Rock in Rio USA’s “City of Rock” Kicks Into High Gear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Construction activity at the Rock in Rio USA music festival site in Las Vegas has intensified recently, with three new, permanent structures springing up virtually overnight.<\/p>\n

Rock in Rio USA’s 40-acre “City of Rock” will be a permanent, open-air concert venue, and the first Rock in Rio USA festival takes place in Las Vegas on the weekends of May 8-9 and May 15-16, 2015. The first weekend will be devoted to rock and the second weekend to pop.<\/p>\n

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One of three new permanent structures on the Rock in Rio USA site.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The City of Rock being built in Las Vegas is the fourth such venue in the world. Spain, Portugal and Brazil each have their own City of Rock. Those venues have played host to events drawing about 7.4 million music-lovers over the course of the last 30 years.<\/p>\n

The City of Rock in Las Vegas, next to Circus and across Las Vegas Boulevard from SLS Las Vegas (formerly the Sahara) has a potential capacity of 85,000 people a day.<\/p>\n

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Second building. That’s a lot of spackle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The City of Rock in Vegas is an ambitious project, described as a “mini-city.” It will feature three themed streets (think Disneyland, but without the measles, probably), inspired by the U.S., U.K. and Brazil.<\/p>\n

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The third building is also three little pig-proof.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The venue will also boast restaurants, shopping and a 64-foot-high zip line.<\/p>\n

We’ve learned exclusively that the City of Rock will also have the world’s largest mobile Ferris wheel. We wrote to the Swiss company that designed and developed the “world’s largest transportable observation wheel,” called the R80XL, and were told they can’t confirm their Ferris wheel will be the one at City of Rock. Which, of course, means this is totally going to be the Ferris wheel at the City of Rock.<\/p>\n

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