The Smith Center: The most beautiful place in the valley to catch some of today’s most sophisticated entertainment.
The Las Vegas Philharmonic has a home at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts. This building is ridiculously beautiful. It’s a downtown performing arts center made of stone and marble and steel. It’s the kind of building Las Vegas deserves. It’ll be here for 500 years.
David Schwarz and his team credit the Hoover Dam as their inspiration, and you can see it in the outside structure and all throughout the ornamentation of this art deco building.
Hoover Dam was a massive construction project that changed Las Vegas forever – not just because it’s the valley’s main source of water and power, but because it brought thousands of construction jobs. It helped kickstart another chapter for the city. Indeed, Las Vegas is a very different place because of the dam.
Inside Reynolds Hall
The Smith Center is a sister construction project turning another chapter for Las Vegas – one which brings a home to the LV Phil, the Nevada Ballet Theater, countless jazz bands and singers, public speakers, and traveling Broadway shows. It’s also a home to the Children’s Discovery Museum.
It’s Field of Dreams, and it worked. These institutions lived elsewhere in Vegas prior to TSC, or they didn’t exist at all. And now that they’ve got this ridiculous new home in the heart of the valley, they sell out show after show. Vegas went from not having this to having it, thanks to The Smith Center. Thanks Smith Center!
I’m truly proud to be a citizen of Las Vegas that was here to witness this transition in particular, and so many other transitions in my 12 years. I’ve grown up in the last decade here in the desert, and I’ve watched this town grow up with me. And The Smith Center is a living embodiment of that growth. Naturally, Jackie and I support it as much as possible.
