WMC installs Web cams at Vegas construction site
By Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, March 21, 2004
LAS VEGAS — LAS VEGAS — The World Market Center has installed Web cams at its construction site here, giving Internet users round-the-clock views of progress on the first phase of the furniture market complex.
Web Site visitors can see walls going up on the 1.3 million-square-foot building, and rebar coming up from the freight elevator foundation. Cement mixers can be seen wheeling around the tract, while construction workers move about.
The system, from Sting Surveillance, involves two cameras — one that continuously pans the site, and a still video camera that focuses on the central work. Plans are in the works for two more cameras for additional views.
Web users can access the cameras through WMC's site, www.lasvegasmarket.com, or via a direct link, http://www.lasvegasmarket.com/webcam/.
Images can be printed, saved and archived. The system supports 120 viewers at a time.
WMC General Manager Dave Palmer called the Web cams "a very important communications tool" that allows the industry to stay on top of the project's progress.
In a plug for both the project and downtown redevelopment efforts, Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman said, "I love that this developer is broadcasting its construction activities for the world to see."
The 10-level building under construction near downtown Las Vegas is the first part of the proposed 7.5 million-square-foot, $1 billion World Market Center home furnishings showroom and convention center project.
A second-phase 1.5 million-square-foot building is expected to be completed in 2007.
