Vegas PBS won a Telly Award for a public service announcement for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s American Graduate initiative and the station’s “It Pays to Stay” campaign. The PSA features a local student, Jessica Suarez, who dropped out of high school but returned with help from school administrators and Communities In Schools of Nevada. The Telly Awards honor outstanding local, regional and cable television projects.
Las Vegas North Premium Outlets expanded. The Cheesecake Factory is the mall’s first sit-down restaurant. Other new businesses include AllSaints, AG Adriano Goldschmied, American Eagle Outfitters, Bally, Burton Snowboards, Canali, Catimini, CH Carolina Herrera, Citizen, Clarins, Dunhill, Furla, Helmut Lang, John Varvatos, Last Call Neiman Marcus, Pandora, Rag & Bone, Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th, Under Armour and Vera Bradley. The mall is at 875 S. Grand Central Parkway, Las Vegas.
Vista Cocktail Lounge opened at Caesars Palace in the former Shadow Bar location. It is owned by Caesars Palace and operated by Hakkasan Group.
Johnnie Walker RV opened a flagship “Camping Lodge.” The 52-year-old company offers RV sales, service, repair and parts.
Fresh52, a certified farmers market, is open for the season at Tivoli Village, 440 S. Rampart Blvd., Las Vegas. Hours are 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays.
BBL Churchill, a divorce finance company, expanded to Nevada. The company provides funding to spouses who are unable to pay attorney fees, forensic accounting costs and living expenses.
Blue Heron of Las Vegas was awarded “Best Of Houzz” by Design by Houzz, a homeowner-to-homeowner guide to homebuilders, architects, interior designers, landscape pros and other residential remodeling professionals.
Flight 23 at Footaction opened at the Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood.
City National Corp., the parent company of City National Bank, reported first-quarter net income of $61.6 million, up 14 percent from $53.8 million in the year-ago period. Earnings per share were $1.01, compared with $0.89 per share during the first quarter of 2014.
Creel Printing committed $20 million to upgrade its Las Vegas facilities. The investment will augment the company’s offerings and deliver new print format opportunities. At the center of the investment are two presses and technology that will improve production while reducing chemistry expenses and emissions.
The HealthInsight Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization was selected by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to work on reducing disparities and improving immunization rates among Medicare beneficiaries. The agency is working with physicians and practitioners, home health agencies and critical access hospitals to improve influenza, pneumonia and shingles (zoster) vaccinations among Medicare beneficiaries in Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon and Utah.
Goodwill of Southern Nevada will open its largest store in Las Vegas at Boulevard Mall, 3528 S. Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas. The 28,000-square-foot store will feature a 17,000-square-foot sales floor and is slated to open in late summer.
Panattoni Development Company broke ground on Jones Corporate Park at the northwest corner of Sunset Road and Jones Boulevard. The industrial business park will include two buildings of equal size totaling about 416,000 square feet and providing Class A industrial space.
Promo Direct, which distributes promotional products, won a 2015 gold award from Top Ten Reviews for being the No. 1 rated promotional products store by the firm.
For the 10th year, Cox Communications was included in DiversityInc’s Top 50 Companies for Diversity list. Cox moved to No. 17 from its No. 18 ranking in 2014. The company also ranked No. 9 on DiversityInc’s Top 10 Companies for Diversity Councils.