An off-Strip hotel could get a second tower under plans filed with Clark County.

County commissioners are scheduled Wednesday to consider plans for an 18-story hotel tower next to the 23-story SpringHill Suites on Paradise Road, county records show.

The new tower would be built on a plot of what’s now surface parking on the existing hotel’s 1.7-acre parcel across from the Westgate.

SpringHill Suites is behind the Las Vegas Convention Center’s West Hall, and the expansion would vastly boost the property’s room capacity. The existing tower has 299 rooms, and the new one would have 397, according to county records.

Virginia hotel owner Apple Hospitality REIT, which bought the hotel less than two years ago, did not respond to requests for comment on the project.

A second tower has long be

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