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LAS VEGAS — The madcap carnival on the Las Vegas Strip is getting another over-the-top addition: the world’s largest Ferris wheel.
The outer wheel of the 55-story High Roller ride is scheduled to be hoisted into place Tuesday. The gargantuan project — it’s actually an observation wheel rather than a Ferris wheel — is now visible from all over the city, including the airport. Early next year, it will be outfitted with 1,500 LED lights, and start its slow spin.
Grand Junction-based Leitner-Poma is constructing the 28 orbs that will attach to the outside of the 550-foot wheel, the first of them to be delivered Nov. 1, President Rick Spear said.
“It’s been going very, very well,” Spear said Monday of the three-year project
