Check out this wonderful site that has collected renderings of all the dead projects that were proposed for Vegas in those crazy times known as a few years ago.

Gathered are more than two dozen renderings of the dead or presumed-dead projects announced at costs of many billions of dollars as happening in Vegas. None broke ground, and this list only counts major projects announced during 2005 and after.

Remember the two towers of W that wound up not being built in the Harmon Corridor? Remember the talk of the Harmon Corridor? I still recall my touchy interview with principal Reagan Silber in 2006 where he was still trying to assure me that the second tower of W was not in trouble. Of course, he never hinted that ground wasn't ever going to break even on the first tower. So it goes with construction dreams in Vegas these days.

Anyway, Vegastodayandtomorrow.com has the renderings for both W towers that never were. Also, remembered is Ivana, the tower planned by Ivana Trump, and George Clooney's Las Ramblas. Las Ramblas was the project that was going to bring Rat Pack glamour back to Vegas, a jackets-only joint. Then there was a brief moment when there was talk of tearing down the New Frontier to build Montreux resort. The announcement frenzy even raised hope that the famed jazz festival would transplant here for the opening of the resort. Then the developer sold the land. I did not even know Montreux lasted long enough to have a rendering. It does. Or did. The New Frontier, though, did come down. Now, the plan is to put a resort called the Plaza in that space and here is the rendering  and revised renderings of that proposed project.

By the way, does anyone know how much a rendering costs? Does it scale like the projects? For example, would a rendering for one of the dead $200-million condo/hotels cost less to draw than the rendering for the billions that were going into the now-dead Crown resort on the Strip?

Of course, there are still plenty of projects being built. The most discussed, of course, is CityCenter, which with six towers is the largest by far of any building project in the Strip's history. Also set to open soon is Wynn's Encore. Perhaps the least-discussed of the major building projects is the Fontainebleau being built near the Riviera. The involvement of well-known Vegas gaming executive Glenn Schaeffer has provided locals with confidence in that project from the beginning. And recent construction photos on the Vegastodayandtomorrow.com site show Fontainebleau coming along. Boyd's Echelon, where the Stardust once stood, has also broken ground and offers a construction camera, of which I have attempted a screen shot.