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High-speed train project seeks time extensions on permits for Las Vegas station
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Brightline West is requesting a third extension on permits for its Las Vegas train station, but officials are calling it a formality.
'Construction is on time,' Antonio Castelan, director of public affairs for the L.A.-to-Las Vegas high-speed train project, told 8 News Now on Monday.
A request on the June 11 agenda of the Enterprise Town Board seeks a number of extensions for permits, including retail sales, restaurants and outdoor dining for the project. The request also seeks waivers for the elimination of a buffer along Interstate 15 and an airspace encroachment.
Renderings of the station have been released previously, but a design review is also part of the request on Tuesday's agenda to cover the passenger terminal and landscaping at the 110.7-acre site along the west side of Las Vegas Boulevard South, just north of Blue Diamond Road.
The requests are heard first by the town board. If approved, they would advance to the Clark County Commission for consideration. That would be a zoning hearing on July 2, county officials said.
'This is a formality on permitting,' Castelan said.
In early February, officials with the Nevada Department of Transportation said they expected construction on the train to begin within two months.
Frequent reports sent to media outlets on engineering work along the I-15 median — where tracks for the high-speed electric train will go in — stopped in mid-January, and questions about Trump administration support for the project followed. Last week, federal transportation authorities threatened to pull funding for a high-speed rail project between L.A. and San Francisco, but Brightline West has not been targeted. In fact, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy complimented Brightline in February as 'on budget, on time.'
Recent reports have indicated that officials no longer expect to begin service by the time the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles begin.
8 News Now reached out to Clark County Commissioner Michael Naft, but the county said he wouldn't comment until the matter comes before the commission. The station site is in his district.
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