You’re looking at the largest privately-owned convention center in the world. Would you expect anything less from Las Vegas?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe Sands Expo and Convention Center is next door to the Palazzo Hotel and Casino, emphasis on “casino,” and has 2.25 million feet of convention space. That’s not a typo, and yes, that’s a lot of feet.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s not the most earth-shattering news, but that’s never stopped us before. We caught the Sands Expo and Convention Center with its sign down. We’re thinking another sign will be going up in its place. We hope there’s neon. Here’s what went down a few minutes later. The Sands Expo and Convention Center is next […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegas","category-lasvegashotels"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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