Motor noise buffs will love Trophy Towers at Speedway
It won?t be the smell of the greasepaint and the roar of the crowd, as the saying on Broadway goes; rather, it would be the smell of the grease and roar of the engines.
Trophy Towers, a luxury 12-story condo structure proposed for erection alongside the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, would offer plenty of decibels for noise aficionados?racecar engines and jet engines of craft taking off from adjacent Nellis Air Force Base.
That?s IF the U.S. Air Force says the proposed 190-foot, 127-unit Trophy Towers is OK. A Nellis spokesman has said the Air Force is comfortable with current zoning of the area, which doesn?t include residential. He said the zoning?currently skewed to light industrial and commercial?ensures public safety.
Nellis notwithstanding, Bruton Smith, CEO of Charlotte, N.C.-based Speedway Motorsports, formally unveiled his project March 10 as a press conference near the Las Vegas Speedway tunnel as NASCAR drivers roared around in qualifying laps.
Trophy Towers would not compete with some 70,000 luxury high-rise units planned or under construction in Las Vegas, Smith said.
Entertainment rather than residential would be the focus, Smith averred. ?It?s an extension of the tailgate party. People invite 20 or 30 of their friends to come up and watch the race with them,? he told the Review-Journal.
Prices would run from $500,000 to $4 million, or $500 a square foot, Smith said.
Still, it?s a pricey tailgate venue out in the boondocks 15 miles from the Strip.
