The March-April 2019 Edition of the Aerial Magazine

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What’s Inside

3 Garage Sale

5 Mayor John Lee

8 Howie Lasky

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Sheds & Playground Equipment

14 NLV Events

Moving at the Speed of Business AS THE ROOM FILLS with almost one thousand

people in attendance North Las Vegas Mayor, John Lee, shares the city’s infrastructure success of 2018 at his 2019 State of the City address. “No longer a bedroom community”, the Mayor boasts that North Las Vegas is becoming the e-commerce capital of the west. As reported in the May/June 2018 issue of the Aliante Aerial, new businesses such Amazon’s 2.4 million square foot warehouse, are helping to create 1000’s of jobs and transforming undeveloped land to vital residential and commercial real estate. In last year’s address the Mayor talked about the city’s adopted policy, “Grownomics”. This mindset was to increase the city’s tax base by recruiting new and expanding companies to North Las Vegas, and encouraging land owners and developers begin development on

housing there is $500,000 in commercial/

Master Planned communities. Since 2015, the

already purchased land.

warehouse projects within in the community.

city has issued 3200 permits worth 2 Billion

In 2010 the ratio for new residential vs.

This has elevated NLV to become internation-

dollars. In the past two years a total of 1 bil-

new commercial industrial commitments were

ally known as the top destination for indus-

lion dollars has been invested into the city to

9 to 1. This means there were 9 times more

trial and manufacturing development making

establish and expand city services including

committed investments in housing than com-

it the e-commerce capital of the west.

cable, fiber optics, improved gas lines, flood

mercial real estate. More homes were being

With new development, upgrades to

control and drainage resolutions, (to name

built versus the amount of new business to sup-

everyday services are needed to help sup-

just a few of the improvements to the city’s

port those residents. In 2018 the ratio shifted

port this growth. North Las Vegas partners

infrastructure).

so now we can expect a ratio of 2 to 5 commit-

such as NV Energy, Cox Communications,

In addition to these improvements, Scott

ted investments in housing vs. commercial.

Southwest Gas and many more, are viable

Black, representing the council on the South-

How does this affect North Las Vegas?

to the city’s success to support the 60 major

ern Nevada Water Authority Board, worked

commercial investment projects and 3 new

continues on page 5

For every $200,000 in commitments for


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