While being interviewed in front of an audience in the double-wide trailer that doubles as a speakers bureau at at Seventh and Fremont streets, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh said to expect an explosion of development along Fremont Street in the next year.
Another person steeped in the use of the Internet to aid in business development is moving to Las Vegas. But not necessarily to build on her Internet acumen. Cathy Brooks wants to operate a dog-care facility, which Downtown Project is working on to place at the site of a defunct “burrito factory” and “soul food” drive-thru at Eighth and Fremont streets.
A Czech Republic exchange student asked anyone who would listen Friday morning about his desire to walk from Fremont Street to Sunrise Mountain. “Vat’s zee best way to get there?” asked Stepan Kucera, on break from a Louisiana university where he spent the semester studying history. Overseas, the 27-year-old is a journalist for the daily newspaper, Právo.
Apparently imported from North Korea, a unicorn was spotted Wednesday night in downtown Las Vegas in, of all places, a bar. Friends of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh were stunned to see the magical beast inside the Downtown Cocktail Room, where dozens of revelers were helping celebrate Hsieh’s 39th birthday.
What if you could rent out a sleek Airstream recreational vehicle for the night as a hotel room? The idea to put an Airstream park in downtown Las Vegas is being one kicked around by the Downtown Project.
Any given day downtown on East Fremont Street will find people gazing at vacant lots or price-guessing as they point toward decrepit buildings. The air of new and potential business is a constant buzz, especially at The Beat coffeehouse, where it seems daily that deals are literally being made or ideas are landing for the first time.
Demolition of some of the interior of the massive building that occupies almost a half-acre on Fremont Street and Las Vegas Boulevard will begin Wednesday.
Shaved heads, untucked Oxfords and fedoras – trademarks of the hipster – were satirized Sunday night on “The Simpsons” and laughed about Tuesday morning in downtown Las Vegas.
Nevada lawyers working for companies and individuals whose land is being “eminent domained” by the state Department of Transportation to make room for the expansion of Interstate 15 are beginning to quake in their Dolce & Gabanas.
After two hours of debate, county commissioners on Tuesday agreed to consider two proposals that attempt to change the coroner’s inquest, which is an airing of the facts after deadly police shootings.
A Clark County board established two years ago to take some monitoring of University Medical Center out of the hands of county commissioners is being dissolved.
Clark County commissioners on Tuesday formally accepted a report about pedestrian traffic on the Las Vegas Strip, but county staff said it would take a few months to develop a plan, program and budget to address the report’s recommendations. Those recommendations include making obstruction restrictions in certain areas on certain days and times. eleased Nov. 21, the study was ordered last spring as part of a long-term campaign to “clean up” the Strip.
Limousine businesses serving McCarran International Airport are hurting, a year after the airport cut from five to four the number of limo companies at the airport. Business has gotten so bad, in fact, that Jacob's Transportation stopped operation at midnight Friday.
With an eye toward increasing customers, the Springs Preserve will add a train on rubber wheels beginning in January. For a fee of “about $3,” people will be able to purchase a ticket to ride the train.
Two county commissioners who oversee the Metro Police budget will offer an alternative to the coroner’s inquest system at the County Commission meeting Tuesday.
Hsieh, Downtown Project pledge $1 million to the group, which places college graduates with startup businesses
Monday, Dec. 3, 2012
Here’s the weird part of Josh Levine’s first three months into his two-year stint in Las Vegas as a fellow from Venture for America, a group that places new college graduates with startup businesses in cities not used to the startup trend: Levine likes it here.
Nevada Mining and Milling LLC, a company whose management includes the former CEO of a gaming products company, will seek county zoning variances to mine anew the 114-year-old Coyote Mine near Searchlight.
Attorney says TV show "Hoarders" would have paid for work but city acted first
Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012
The good news for a Sun City Summerlin resident who filled his home with tons of garbage, live and dead cats, and other hoarded objects, including six refrigerators, is that a judge on Tuesday gave him a suspended 358-day jail sentence.
The district attorney’s decision not to seek extradition of a man alleged to have possessed child pornography is puzzling a bail bondsman and a Clark County commissioner, especially since the bondsman wants to pay all extradition-related expenses.
Some $6 billion in grants have been allocated through the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development's Neighborhood Stabilization Program since 2008, with most of that money aimed at helping local governments purchase and renovate homes for resale to those hard hit by the recession.
Natalie Young was done with casino work. But last year when she quit her job as executive chef for a major casino, she had no idea where she was going and she didn’t have another chef’s job lined up. “I was just done with that business,” the 48-year-old said. “I think I might have been on my way to Santa Fe.” That’s when Las Vegas’ reputation as a major city with a small-town feel kicked in. It’s also when Young became one of the first benefactors of the “downtown experiment” that online retailer Zappos had begun in announcing its headquarters’ move from Henderson to downtown Las Vegas.
A long-awaited study of pedestrian traffic on the Las Vegas Strip was released Wednesday and shows 17 bottlenecks. The study could become the first step by Clark County toward limiting or spacing out outcall service card distributors, some of whom are said to bother tourists and lead to those bottlenecks.
Mike Casey can stay, but his chimps have to go. Clark County commissioners voted 5-1 at their meeting Wednesday to deny a use permit that would have allowed Casey to keep four chimps and a capuchin monkey at a rental home at Decatur Boulevard and Robindale Road.
With his bright, wide-open eyes, Kenzy gazes with evident curiosity at the visitor. Behind steel fencing that encloses Kenzy on all four sides and overhead, the 7-year-old chimpanzee is a picture of calm. James “Mike” Casey tries to get the animal to do a few tricks.
The annual Mayors Prayer Breakfast was last week at Texas Station for 700 people, about half of them Las Vegas Valley high school students. The nearly 60-year-old event brings people of all faiths together and “encourages (the) community to use their diversity to find creative solutions to the various challenges facing Southern Nevada.”
The state of Nevada will repay Clark County about $50 million, pending approval of a county-state agreement, to resolve a dispute over the Legislature's so-called "money grab" from the county in 2009.
A vote on a proposal that Clark County cede direct control of University Medical Center to a semi-autonomous board has been delayed, but not before raising the hackles of hospital union workers — and several county commissioners. Commissioners decided to put off a vote until Dec. 5 on a measure that would send a proposal for changing oversight at the county-owned hospital to the 2013 Legislature.
A Republican activist who owns a tequila distillery and a downtown restaurant believes he might have two new candidates for America’s Dumbest Criminals.
Speculation about why the elections turned out the way they did and what happens now is echoing through the halls of the Clark County government building.
Emerging information about the shooting death of Gulf War veteran Stanley Gibson implicates Metro’s radio system as a key reason an officer shot Gibson last December as he sat unarmed in his car.
The videogame company behind such blockbusters as "Grand Theft Auto," "Red Dead Redemption" and "Bioshock" is close to sealing a deal to move into downtown Las Vegas, creating 150 jobs for videogame testers.
Clark County commissioners signed off Wednesday morning on settling lawsuits regarding North Las Vegas transporting treated wastewater via the county-owned Sloan Channel. The North Las Vegas City Council in a meeting Wednesday night unanimously voted to ratify the settlement.
Clark County commissioners are tired of funding University Medical Center without help from other local governments that use the hospital’s services but provide none of the money to support them.
Despite pleas from the public to act sooner rather than later, Clark County commissioners indicated they would make no changes to the coroner's inquest process for at least another month.
Barring an unforeseen outcome, the reality is the Clark County Commission elections were over long before Tuesday’s election. Money, or the lack of enough of it to spread around to challengers, was the difference-maker.
It won’t be long before you start hearing angry voices in the Las Vegas City Council chambers again. A report by an independent consultant looking into the operations of the Las Vegas Fire Department will be released to the public later this month or in December, city sources say.
Clark County commissioners met the media Friday to express concerns about a Guns N' Roses advertisement for concerts at the Hard Rock Hotel but said there was little they could do about the content. Commissioners Lawrence Weekly and Mary Beth Scow, who spoke alongside representatives of the Rape Crisis Center and Safe Nest, said they had no intention of interfering with any business’s operation. Weekly said he just wanted them to keep their community in mind.
Las Vegas is used to the importation of expensive facsimiles of other cultures to the Strip. We have the New York-New York, Paris and Venetian casinos. Don’t forget the Rio and the Orleans. Taking Las Vegas’ interesting local culture to other cities, however, is a fairly rare concept.
Take-Two Interactive, the software company behind one of the biggest series in video-gaming, “Grand Theft Auto,” wants to move some of its operations into downtown Las Vegas.
After a state Supreme Court ruling last week, Clark County’s coroner’s inquest process may be in need of an overhaul. But some county commissioners doubt an amendment to be introduced during next week’s meeting is the answer.
Clark County and North Las Vegas are a few “yes” votes away from resolving a year-old dispute that has victimized residents along the stinking, buggy Sloan Channel in the northeast valley.
A slightly acidic odor spills from the second-floor bedroom of the home in an upper-income, northwest Las Vegas neighborhood. Expensive art adorns the walls. A luxury vehicle is parked in the garage. The odor doesn’t fit. But it’s not what causes the stomach to start churning. It’s the man himself. It's that he’s naked on the floor. It's his wide-open, lifeless eyes staring in an expression of total surprise at the ceiling.
Call it the little robot that could — with a little help from its friends. Romo, a plastic robot on rubber treads operated remotely with a smartphone, is leading its young developers into new territory, not only for them but for almost any Las Vegas-based business. Place your smartphone into a jack on top of Romo, and with another smartphone or computer, you can remotely move the robot — even if it's halfway around the world. So, a grandma in Las Vegas could operate a Romo being played with by her granddaughter in China.
It’s been quiet in the Clark County Government Center the past few weeks. The County Commission has a rare three-week lull between meetings and no one wants to stir up anything until the election is over. But these quiet times typically mean much is afoot beneath the surface. Indeed, that’s the case now.
The “work card” is an anachronism in a city where people are dying for work. But work cards, and the power held by the City Council to deny them to people who don’t meet their standards, still exist.