Years-long Las Vegas Boulevard preservation project rolls along with latest phase nearing completion

The latest phase of the years-long Las Vegas Boulevard preservation project is nearing completion with the final phases scheduled to get underway next year.

Phase C and D of the project on the Strip between Tropicana Avenue and Russell Road started in June 2025.

Each portion of the project, which stretches between Sahara Avenue and the 215 Beltway, includes water line replacement, pedestrian crossing improvements, traffic signal upgrades, LED street lighting and smart pole installation, street repaving and median landscaping.

The project began in late 2019 with the Sahara to Spring Mountain portion.

Crews are nearing completion on the latest section of the project, with repaving continuing through Wednesday, according to Clark County construction project manager Lynette Wojtowicz.

“We have most of the utilities completed,” Wojtowicz said. “We’re doing the last of the median island maintenance so that the smart poles can come in and start getting all their equipment on the new median islands that we have in there. We’re going to be doing UTACS (ultra-thin asphalt concrete surfacing) on top of the dense grade we just completed from a little bit south of Tropicana to where our project ends right before Russell Road, and that will occur from the first through about the 12th of November. And then we’re going to be just doing minor utility adjustments, striping… and the project will be finished up shortly.”

Crews will not be paving on Tuesday or Wednesday in anticipation of heavier traffic for the Veterans Day holiday, Wojtowicz said.

On Monday, between 7 a.m. and noon, two lanes of southbound Las Vegas Boulevard will be open between Reno Avenue and Dewey Drive. The same stretch of northbound Las Vegas Boulevard will be down to two lanes between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m., for paving operations.

There is still some work left to be done once paving wraps up this week. Substantial completion of this phase is set for late January or early February.

“Just the striping and signage that needs to go up, little minor things like that, getting all the last of the landscaping in the median islands, making sure all of the signals are working properly, that all the cameras and loops are working, and then that’ll be it,” Wojtowicz said.

During the project, the county modified some of the planning for the median work to save water.

“We have done some modifications to our plans where we’re able to delete some of the landscaping, which will save costs in the future for that and how we were able to transition from each median to save on cost for that,” Wojtowicz said.

The cost of Phase C and D is budgeted at $60.6 million. The cost of the entire project through those two phases is estimated at $181 million.

There are three remaining portions of the project left to carry out.

Phase G is out to bid to contractors, so the final price won’t be known until a contractor and price for the project are approved by the Clark County Commission. This phase will see the same work as the previous portions on the Strip, this time between Flamingo and Spring Mountain roads. This phase is scheduled to occur between March and October 2028.

Next, a three-quarter mile stretch of Flamingo Road near the Strip between Interstate 15 and Koval Lane will get upgrades to the sidewalk and the Americans with Disabilities Act ramps to ensure they are up to compliance with ADA standards in that area, Wojtowicz said. This portion of the project is also out to bid for contractors.

The final portion, Phase H, includes adding a pedestrian bridge over Las Vegas Boulevard between Bellagio and Planet Hollywood. There is no cost estimate for that project yet. It is slated to occur between January 2028 and February 2029.

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