A hotel was rising on the lowermost tier, in front of a bare earth arena about to become a lake bed.

For tourists and gamblers a half-dozen hotels are rising to supplement the 3,000-odd rooms now available.

Rising above the fallen body is the 680-room hotel, a 47-story tower sheathed with colored glass.

The six-floor, 40-room hotel, which opened in May 2001, rises high above the beach below.

Yet after only a brief delay, the new hotel now rises on the property.

Off to the right rose the distant high-rise hotels of the Beach, as it was locally known.

Inevitably, office buildings and hotels will rise around the station.

A new hotel and a restaurant are rising.

Behind the converted City Hall, an eight-story, 96-room hotel will rise.

The first full-service hotel on the resurgent waterfront will rise atop the old pier over the next 24 months.