Las Vegas Business News

Las Vegas companies saving time, money by converting offices instead of constructing them

Cory Frank, vice president of business development and project management for Nigro Construction Inc., and Melissa Katz, CCO for the Comprehensive Digestive Institute of Nevada, pose with a finish board in a nurses’ station in the Saint Rose Parkway office in Henderson Friday, April 5, 2024. Nigro Construction converted the building from a financial services company to an office for the Comprehensive Digestive Institute.

The Comprehensive Digestive Institute of Nevada’s location in the southeast Las Vegas Valley boasts nearly a dozen exam rooms, a collaborative office space for physicians, an open-concept ...

The Notes: Philanthropy, April 15, 2024

In the Notes: Special Olympics Nevada, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Rebels Give, Interblock, Three Square Food Bank and more ...

Column: Affordable housing is a catalyst for sustainable economic growth in Southern Nevada

The need to increase affordable and general housing stock in Nevada is undeniable as we face a severe housing shortage and mounting affordability challenges.

Helping build middle class is Vegas real estate agent's American dream

Nora Aguirre

Nora Aguirre, who was born in Mexico and grew up in North Las Vegas, said she first strayed into the world of real estate because she had to act as a translator for her parents ...

Fore! Sports and entertainment themed businesses taking Las Vegas by storm

Brett Jones of Las Vegas tees off at Atomic Golf, a new golf entertainment venue, Friday, March 29, 2024.

Atomic Golf is the latest in an ongoing trend of sports-entertainment complexes making Las Vegas their home. And more are on their way.

Opponents of smoking in casinos try to enlist shareholders of gambling companies in non-smoking push

A gambler lights a cigarette at a slot machine in Harrah's casino in Atlantic City N.J. on Sept. 29, 2023.

Add investors to the list of people that opponents of smoking in casinos are enlisting in hopes of banning the practice. A national non-smoking group and a ...

Poll: Las Vegas voters oppose funding A’s ballpark

A look at the proposed $1.5 billion baseball stadium for the Las Vegas Strip to house the Oakland A's.

If Nevada voters get a say, it’s not looking good for Oakland A’s owner John Fisher. An Emerson College poll conducted last week revealed that 52% of Las Vegas voters ...

Las Vegas conventions, tourism continue to rebound from pandemic

Fans watch the race during night three of the Formula 1 Heineken Silver Las Vegas Grand Prix at The Sphere Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023.

The Las Vegas convention industry and tourism in general continued their recovery last year from the height of the coronavirus pandemic, a report released today said. Las Vegas welcomed 6 million conventioneers last year, a 19.9% increase from 2022 ...

Southern Nevada home sale prices continue to rise in March

A sign advertises a home for sale in the northwest valley, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020.

Local home prices are on the rise after a “sluggish 2023,” Las Vegas Realtors President Merri Perry said in a release Tuesday. The median sale price was $465,000 for existing Southern Nevada single-family homes and ...

Affordable housing concept in Las Vegas filling niche, expanding

An exterior view of shareDOWNTOWN @ Fremont East, apartments from Cherry Development at Stewart Avenue and 11th Street in downtown Las Vegas, Monday, April 1, 2024.

The shareDowntown properties encourage residents to participate in twice-monthly community events — one in which they all gather to eat food, purchased from a local business, hang out and listen to music, and another in which ...

Hornbuckle’s Hall of Fame rise began at UNLV

MGM Resorts International president and CEO Bill Hornbuckle addresses the crowd after being inducted into the Nevada Business Hall of Fame in a ceremony on the campus of UNLV, hosted by Lee Business School on Thursday, April 4, 2024.

Bill Hornbuckle remembers being a community college student in Connecticut when he saw a commercial advertising UNLV’s hospitality college during a broadcast of a UNLV basketball game.

Southern Nevada company stays ahead of the curve on water filtration

Zachary Rice, President at Multipure in Las Vegas explained and demonstrated a chlorine test with unfiltered water and why having clean drinking water can be very important and beneficial for your health. Multipure has been working to improve water for over fifty years and as the original manufacturer of the solid carbon block filter, they aim to provide affordable access to high quality drinking water in Las Vegas, Nevada on Thursday, March 21, 2024.

Multipure has been in the water filtration business for more than 50 years. Like most industries, there has been one constant: change.

People on the Move: April 8, 2024

In the Notes: Eric Walther, Everi Holdings, David Livingston, Blake Sartini II and more ...

Player wins $534,000 at Ultimate Texas Hold’em on Las Vegas Strip

An exterior view of the Venetian in Las Vegas,Tuesday, March 17, 2020.

A guest at a Las Vegas Strip casino hit a $534,000 jackpot over the weekend while playing Ultimate Texas Hold’em. The player was dealt a heart ...

Proposed rules would put strict limits on street vendors in Clark County

Street vendor Luis Sanchez waits for customers by his mobile food stand in a residential neighborhood  in North Las Vegas Wednesday, June 14, 2023. Senate Bill 92, signed by Governor Joe Lombardo, when fully implemented, will legitimize street vendors across the state, providing them with the necessary permits to operate and grow their small businesses. A town hall session held by Make the Road Nevada and the Nevada Immigrant Coalition laid out what the expectations should be for vendors and law enforcement until the relevant laws take effect by July 1, 2024.

A proposal to regulate street vending in Clark County was met with backlash today at a commissioners’ meeting by allies of the industry who say the added regulations would “threaten the very existence of our vendors’ businesses.”