There are the big things that hit you first: the medical centre, a rambling, squat, three-storey yellow-brown structure that looks as if a car bomb, a big one, has gone off outside it, ripping out a great chunk of roof and exposing along one long facade its shiny steelskeleton.
The steel-and-concrete skeleton of the Echelon project has stood on the north Strip since 2008, a symbol of the initial promise and disastrous end of the Las Vegas construction boom.