Flamingo Special Improvement District
In 1995 I began promoting the concept of creating a special improvement district to underground one mile of power transmission along Flamingo Road in Las Vegas. Clark County Public Works further developed the concept and formed the Flamingo Special Improvement District. (SID) The project completed in 2010 made way for the new Caesars Palace tower pictured. The original conceptual proposal appears below.
Caesars Palace tower on land once occupied by power lines & towers
Caesars Palace power lines in the photo background circa 1995
The Bellagio Substation
As a consultant to Asea Brown Boveri, I was tasked to approach Las Vegas casino operators and convince them to purchase their own high voltage substations. This would allow them to connect directly to the utility high voltage transmission grid instead of the utility medium voltage distribution grid resulting in a 20% rate reduction. In 1996 our team successfully obtained the contract for the Bellagio. In addition to economic savings, our compact substation freed up one acre of space for other uses.
.JPG "The Bellagio")