LAS VEGAS (KTNV) – Another unique location is coming to Symphony Park.

On Wednesday, the Las Vegas City Council approved plans to give 0.59 acres of land to the Las Vegas Museum of Art, which will use the land for a sculpture garden.

“With such a wonderful neighbor as the Las Vegas Museum of Art, we couldn’t even find a better partner to do it more skillfully and better than ever before,” said Dina Babsky, Interim Director of Economic Development at the Las Vegas Museum of Art . City of Las Vegas. “We are proposing the donation of 0.59 acres to the museum to develop, operate, program and activate the sculpture park to serve not only museum visitors but the entire area.”

The parcel will also include a landing for a pedestrian bridge that would go over the train tracks.

“That is an event that will occur next fiscal year,” Babsky explained.

Museum officials say they are already exchanging ideas and watching what other communities are doing.

“Our goal is to enhance the already vibrant Symphony Park with art and a very welcoming space,” said Heather Harmon, executive director of the Las Vegas Museum of Art. “We can expect a wide range of programming there, highlighting art and community and can also complement existing activities like the recent arts festival.”

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In September, the city of Las Vegas land approved for museumwhich would be located at 302 S. City Parkway. The sculpture garden site is located right next to that plot.

The museum would be approximately 90,000 square feet and would include three exhibition spaces, ranging from 7,000 to 21,000 square feet each, a gift shop, a theater, a cafe, an exhibition stage and an outdoor public area.

If they stay on track with the current schedule, construction would begin in March 2027 with the goal of completing and opening the Las Vegas Art Museum by the end of 2028.

“We are really starting to see from its founding, from its approach, its orientation and its leadership, to really see how the city grows beyond what it was a tourism, a destination city and people do not really see or understand what it is. culture or community. within Las Vegas,” said Patrick Brennan, principal of Red Ridge Development, which is working on the project. “Symphony Park is now that radiant light coming out of Las Vegas.”

And for art museum officials, it’s time to open a new cultural destination.

“This is a place to communicate and a place to be together and a place to celebrate art, that which cultivates an individual perspective and experience, a place where there is no right, wrong, young, old or black, white path. “said Punam Mathur, executive director of the Elaine P. Wynn & Family Foundation. “I believe we will cut the ribbon at the end of 2028 at a time when our community will need and appreciate it more than ever.”