City officials will break ground for the new City Hall and Civic Plaza at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 4, at 2250 Las Vegas Boulevard North, at the northwest corner of Hunkins Drive and McDaniel Street.

The $142 million project will be built on a 12-acre site.  It will replace the existing City Hall at 2200 Civic Center Drive with a proposed 210,400 square-foot, 9-story building designed to consolidate municipal services and support the City’s growth in upcoming years.

The project is expected to be complete by October 2011.

The new City Hall will be a cornerstone of the City’s downtown redevelopment and will include a Civic Plaza, funded in part by the Bureau of Land Management.  The Civic Plaza will consist of an open-air amphitheater and will be a focal point for special events. The new City Hall will provide a single-stop shop for development and permitting services.  It will feature a 3,000 square-foot retail component.  The City is pursuing financial and food services for that space to enhance the City Hall experience for people conducting business with the City.

The new City Hall building is expected to achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver Certification, becoming City’s first LEED Certified building.  The LEED Green Building Rating System is a third-party certification program and the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings.

The existing 28,923 square-foot City Hall was built in 1966, when the City’s population was about 35,000.  Today, the City’s population is about 216,000.