Mark Andrews
David Peterson
David Peterson is vice president of operations for education services in McCarthy Building Cos.’ Southwest division. The education services team focuses on construction and renovation projects for K-12 schools and community colleges.
Jim Holt is president of National Security Technologies, the management and operating contractor for the Nevada National Security Site.
Mark Andrews, chief marketing officer at the Clark County Credit Union, received Credit Union Times magazine’s Trailblazer Award for Marketing Executive of the Year.
The 2016 board members of NAIOP Southern Nevada, the commercial real estate development association, are President Mike Shohet, Jones Lang LaSalle; President-elect Sallie Doebler, the Korte Co.; Secretary Rod Martin, Majestic Realty Co.; Treasurer Jennifer Levine, Cushman & Wakefield | Commerce Real Estate Solutions; and Immediate Past President Charles Van Geel, American Nevada Company. The 2016 directors are Jody Walker Belsick, Walker Engineering; Dana Berggren, Berggren Commercial Real Estate; Jeff Foster, Prologis; Jay Heller, Heller Cos.; Jeff LaPour, LaPour; Christopher Larsen, PGAL; Adam Malan, Logic Commercial Real Estate; Mike Mixer, Colliers International; John Ramous, Harsch Investment Properties; and John Restrepo, RCG Economics.
New members of the SpeedVegas executive team are Allison Raskansky, executive vice president of business development; Darren Strahl, executive vice president of operations; and Gina Mann, vice president of groups and events. Pavy Mueller is director of global sales, and Grant Blakeman is director of regional sales.
The Pediatric Palliative Care Clinic at Children’s Specialty Center of Nevada opened. The clinic, at 3121 S. Maryland Parkway, Suite 300, Las Vegas, is led by Dr. Kathleen Gates and Angela Berg.
This year’s Nightclub and Bar Award winners include Nectaly Mendoza, Herbs & Rye, bartender of the year sponsored by Coors Light, and Lagasse’s Stadium, sports bar of the year.
The Gaming Standards Association elected officers and a board of directors. Returning as officers are Chairman Adrian Marcu of IGT, Vice Chairman Mark Pace of Scientific Games and Treasurer Keith Wood of Aristocrat.
SHGC LLC, an affiliate, and its members Marvin May, Peter Shin, Joseph Otting and Garry Goett acquired all of the interest of Pacific Links International in Southern Highlands Golf Club.
The Nevada district office of the U. S. Small Business Administration selected small-business award honorees for 2016. Bradley Burdsall, owner of Egg Works and Egg & I, was named Small Business Person of the Year for Nevada. Other honorees include Enrique Villar-Mendez, president, Radioactive Productions, Minority-Owned Business of the Year; Jennifer DeHaven, president and CEO, Millenium Staffing Solutions, Women-Owned Business of the Year; Robert Daniel, president, Pridestaff, Veteran-Owned Business of the Year; Brian Howard, president, DS3Tek, 8(a) Graduate of the Year; Leanna Jenkins, director, Nevada Women’s Business Center, Nevada Business Opportunity Fund, Women’s Business Advocate of the Year; and Bob Cushman, SCORE counselor, Small Business Advocate Lifetime Achievement Award. Top lenders were: Nevada 504 Certified Development Companies of the Year — Nevada State Development Corp., first place; Mortgage Capital Development Corp., second place; Mountain West Small Business Finance, third place. Nevada 7(a) Large Lenders of the Year, Loan Production — Wells Fargo Bank, first place; U.S. Bank, second place; JP Morgan Chase, third place. Nevada 7(a) Large Lenders of the Year, Dollar Volume — Wells Fargo Bank, first place; Meadows Bank, second place; Seacoast Commerce Bank, third place. Nevada Third Party Lenders of the Year — Bank of Nevada Division of Western Alliance Bank, first place; Heritage Bank of Nevada, second place; Bank of the West, third place. The Nevada Community/Rural 7(a) Lender of the Year was Heritage Bank of Nevada. The Rising Star Award went to Bank of George.
Honorees at the Urban Chamber of Commerce Women in Business and Politics Awards include Regent Allison Stephens, Nevada System of Higher Education; Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske; Ellen Spiegel, Nevada Assembly District 20; First Lady Kathleen Sandoval, the Children’s Cabinet; Stephanie Garcia-Vause, city of Henderson; Tina Quigley, Regional Transportation Commission; Dr. Donna Thomas-Rodgers, Brentworth Industries; Jacqueline Ramirez, Ramirez Group; Jane Lee, Jadon Foods; Kimberly Bailey-Tureaud, CDA; Kimberly Miles, the Payroll Co.; Laura Nowlan, See Us Now Staffing; Lois Greene, Liaison Business Services; Marie Ray Scott, M.R. Whittsett; Monica Beasley, the Signature Suite; Monica Gresser, BrazenArchitecture; Rona Timpa, Workplace ESL Solutions; Ruth Furman, ImageWords; and Trina Jiles, Gritz Cafe.
MountainView Hospital offers transcatheter aortic valve replacement for patients with aortic valve stenosis as an alternative to surgical aortic valve replacement. MountainView cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Michael G. Wood and Dr. Jeffrey Levisman, an interventional cardiologist at HealthCare Partners Medical Group, completed the hospital’s first two transcatheter aortic valve replacement procedures.
The UNLV School of Medicine hired radiation oncologist and cancer researcher Dr. Parvesh Kumar to lead its cancer program and oversee its clinical research effort.
Nora’s Italian Cuisine broke ground at 5780 W. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas.
Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican broke ground on its first neighborhood hospital, at Craig Road and Camino Al Norte in North Las Vegas.
My House Fitness opened at 9460 W. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas.
Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican is building four hospitals in Southern Nevada. The first level of each will feature an emergency department, an inpatient wing, imaging and quick-access lab services. Other floors will house Dignity Health Medical Group practices, St. Rose community -outreach programs, additional physician offices and ancillary clinical services. The North Las Vegas Campus is scheduled to open during the first quarter of 2017. It will be followed by the Blue Diamond Campus, West Flamingo Campus and Sahara Campus, all in Las Vegas. As part of the expansion, St. Rose Dominican entered into a joint-venture agreement with Emerus to build and manage the sites and to lay the groundwork for additional facilities.
VanTrust Real Estate broke ground on the Northgate Distribution Center, a 120-acre industrial project at Interstate 15 and Lamb Boulevard in North Las Vegas.
The NAIOP Southern Nevada chapter won a national Chapter Merit Award for Legislative/Government Affairs from NAIOP.
Red Rock Fertility Center opened a 12,800-square-foot facility at 9120 West Russell Road, Las Vegas. It was designed by IZ Design Studio and built by SR Construction.