From Ars Technica:
Musk's company says it can deliver by early 2021 for $35 million to $55 million.
On Wednesday, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) announced that it would recommend The Boring Company to build a two-mile loop under the city's massive, expanding convention center.
he LVCVA's recommendation must be approved by the authority's board on March 12 to move forward.
The Boring Company is Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk's third company, started with the intention to make large-scale tunneling projects cheaper and easier to complete. Musk offered tours of a rough initial tunnel in December 2018 in Hawthorne, California, under the SpaceX Headquarters.
The Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) is currently expanding, and LVCVA says that "Conventioneers walking the facility will log approximately two miles from end-to-end, hence the need for an on-property guest transportation solution." The authority says that the convention center expansions will be complete by early 2021.Related:
The Boring Company's president, Steve Davis, said in a statement that the Convention Center Loop could be in operation within a year upon approval of the company's plans....MORE
June 2018
"Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Wins Chicago Airport High-Speed Train Bid"
I guess it's official, Mr. Musk is an impresario, joining the ranks of Ziegfeld and Tyler Perry where you have to preface the company or production with the guy's name.
Feb. 27
Elon Musk's Boring Co. Chicago Tunnel Project Is Dead
Nov. 2018
"Salesforce CEO Asks Musk To Dig Tunnel Under San Francisco"
If, and that is a very big if, if The Boring Company doesn't go broke on
the Chicago airport tunnel it very likely could command deca-corn
status and become Musk's third ultra-mega-unicorn, along with SpaceX and
the marijuana automobile company.*
