In Facebook posts and a report on the Vital Vegas website, the latest progress towards building the new home of the Pinball Hall of Fame (PHoF) in Las Vegas can be seen.
The 1.76-acre site at 4915 S. Las Vegas Boulevard was purchased by the Las Vegas Pinball Collectors Club in 2018 for a total price of $4.567m including fees and taxes. Tim Arnold detailed how and why the Club bought the plot in our coverage of his Pinball Expo seminar here:
Proposals for the design of a parking lot and a new building for the PHoF were agreed by the Clark County Zoning Commission in May 2019.
Tim Arnold at the Zoning Commission meeting
As part of that hearing, an illustration of the proposed look for the museum was shown to the Commission by the architect. This shows a large vertical sign adjacent to S. Las Vegas Boulevard – a vast improvement over the somewhat makeshift banner hanging above the current building – and huge lettering covering the street-facing side of the building.
The proposed look for the new Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas(picture: George M. Rogers Architect)
The vertical sign is set back from the road as there is an extended right-of-way along S. Las Vegas Boulevard which can be used in the event that the city decides to widen the road. This possibility has slightly reduced the number of parking spaces in the design too. There is also an established large advertising sign in the parking lot but that was a known factor when the lot was purchased.
With permission for the building, parking spaces, sign and road access granted along with agreement from nearby Las Vegas airport, construction began and is moving ahead rapidly despite recent COVID-19 delays.
The four walls are raised to form the shell of the building(picture: PHoF)
With strong Nevada sunlight streaming through the windows of previous locations causing both irritation to players and pushing up the internal temperature, it’s no surprise that this custom-built home of the PHoF allows in minimal daylight.
Only the back wall includes windows along its length(picture: PHoF)
The new building will feature 28,000 square
