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V E G A S I N C . C O M | M AY 2 4 - M AY 3 0 , 2 015 Entrepreneurs work together in a conference room at The Mill.

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They’re all in this together At The Mill, entrepreneurs share inspiration and help each other develop new businesses

BY DAVID DAVIS | SPECIAL TO VEGAS INC

On a recent Monday morning, 12 entrepreneurs from across North America sat in a circle in the penthouse of the Newport Lofts luxury high-rise condominiums downtown. Nine had just moved to Las Vegas — two from as far away as Halifax, Nova Scotia. Most had never met previously. ¶ They soon would get to know each other very well, though, because they’d spend the next three months working together in close quarters as the inaugural cohort of a new program run by THE MILL, CONTINUED ON PAGE 15

$353K

Amount Nevada will receive as part of a settlement with Sprint and Verizon. The mobile carriers were accused of charging customers for third-party services without authorization.

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68%

Share of small-business owners nationwide who say they can’t compete with the benefits and salaries larger companies offer, according to the latest Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index.

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CONTENTS PUBLISHER Donn Jersey (donn.jersey@gmgvegas.com)

EDITORIAL

NOTEWORTHY STORIES

05 06 18 Q&A WITH TYLER JONES

The founder and owner of home development firm Blue Heron talks about how his luxury brand survived the Great Recession, his passion for motorcycle racing and his family’s long history in Nevada.

THE NOTES Giving, P4

MEET: HEXX KITCHEN

They don’t just sell chocolate, they make it.

And we don’t mean they shape it into little flowers and sell it as truffles — they turn cacao beans into chocolate bars, right here in Las Vegas.

TALKING POINTS Marijuana law creates hazy situation for employers, P7

DATA AND PUBLIC INFORMATION

A listing of local bankruptcies, bid opportunities, brokered transactions, business licenses and building permits.

MORE VEGAS INC BUSINESS NEWS Calendar: Happenings and events, P17 The List: Residential care facilities, P22

EDITOR Delen Goldberg (delen.goldberg@gmgvegas.com) MANAGING EDITOR Dave Mondt (dave.mondt@gmgvegas.com) DIGITAL EDITOR Sarah Burns (sarah.burns@gmgvegas.com) ASST. MANAGING EDITOR/BUSINESS Brian Deka (brian. deka@gmgvegas.com) STAFF WRITERS Andrea Domanick, Adwoa Fosu, Ana Ley, J.D. Morris, Kyle Roerink, Cy Ryan, Eli Segall, Conor Shine, Jackie Valley, Pashtana Usufzy, Katie Visconti, Ian Whitaker COPY DESK CHIEF John Taylor COPY EDITORS Jamie Gentner, Brian Sandford SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS EDITOR Craig Peterson DIGITAL COORDINATOR Adelaide Chen EDITORIAL CARTOONIST Mike Smith LIBRARY SERVICES SPECIALIST Rebecca Clifford-Cruz RESEARCHER Julie Ann Formoso OFFICE COORDINATOR Nadine Guy

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PRODUCTION

VINTAGE VEGAS: FOUR QUEENS In the heart of downtown, the Four Queens Hotel has withstood the changing façade of Fremont Street for nearly 50 years.

Opened in 1966, the $6 million, 120room hotel at Casino Center and Fremont Street was built by developers Ben Goffstein and Tommy Callahan.

Goffstein proudly named the property after his four daughters: Faith, Hope, Benita and Michele.

In this Dec. 3, 1964 image, the site is cleared to make way for the foundation of the Four Queens.

The hotel has changed ownership several times but most recently was acquired by TLC Casino Enterprises in 2003 for $20.5 million. Owned by businessman Terry Caudill, TLC also controls Binion’s.

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Summerlin: Ahead of the curve on going green Tom Warden knows it’s not always easy being green. As Summerlin senior vice president of community and government relations for The Howard Hughes Corporation, Warden helped establish the master-planned community as a leader in conservation.

Hughes showed its characteristic foresight when it recently removed 100,000 square feet of water-thirsty turf from its roundabouts. And Summerlin was the first Southern Nevada community to implement strict Water Smart guidelines.

The Water Conservation Coalition, including The Howard Hughes Corporation, is working to raise the bar for responsible water use.

To learn how your business can make a difference, go to snwa.com/waterconservationcoalition

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GIVING Send your business-related information to news@vegasinc.com

“Defending the Caveman” executives donated $500 to Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada to support its community food pantry. The money came from patrons, the cast and the crew.

The Community Counseling Center of Southern Nevada celebrated its 25th anniversary in April.

The agency provides support and treatment to hundreds of underinsured and uninsured people suffering from mental illness, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS and other disorders.

The Fremont Street Experience raised $7,020 for Ronald McDonald House during a charity challenge that collected proceeds from SlotZilla tickets sales.

The Engelstad Family Foundation awarded a $1.6 million grant to Project 150, a nonprofit that helps homeless, displaced and disadvantaged high school students in Southern Nevada and Reno. The grant will be issued over three years to support operations and help purchase an 8,000-square-foot facility with an office, warehouse and boutique. The shop, at 3600 N. Rancho Drive, Las Vegas, will be stocked with donated clothes for the high school students Project 150 serves.

Friends of Henderson Libraries donated $39,000 to Henderson libraries. The money was raised during the 2014 Library Tree Lane gala and was the highest amount collected at the event since its inception in 2004.

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house, 401 Drake St., Henderson. Through a $4.1 million partnership, the CarMax Foundation and KaBoom! plan to build 30 playgrounds across the United States by the end of 2015.

Debbie Harpster is executive director of Project 150. Harpster has 12 years of experience working with nonprofit groups.

Erica Thompson is regional event specialist and Allison Loftus is regional events liaison at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Thompson has worked at Three Square Food Bank, Shade Tree and Catholic Charities. Loftus previously worked at Communities In Schools of Nevada and Vegas PBS.

Nevada Women’s Philanthropy allocated $350,000 to Communities in Schools of Nevada.

The grant will pay for 240 laptops for six high schools. Also, attorney Adam S. Kutner donated $1,000 to Communities in Schools of Nevada.

MGM Resorts Foundation gave $30,000 to the WestCare Foundation for its women and children’s campus. In addition, the campus received a $280,000 grant from NV Energy’s Solar Generations program to install solar panels. NV Energy and Black Rock Solar supplied and installed 396 panels. The campus, at 5659 Duncan Drive, Las Vegas, houses women and children who need safe shelter and substance abuse and mental health treatment.

Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada honored two groups with its Heart of Hope Award for their service to the community: the Investment Counsel Company, headed by founder and CEO Randy Garcia, and the Lied Foundation.

Julie Murray was honored at the 2015 Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Hope Gala. Murray is president and CEO of the Moonridge Group, a consulting firm that helps people, corporations and foundations reach their philanthropic goals.

Jersey Mike’s Subs capped off its “Month of Giving” by donating $12,444, all proceeds from sales on a single day, to the St. Rose Dominican Health Foundation.

McDonald’s locations donated 12,692 Big Macs to homeless youths in Southern Nevada through the “Buy One Give One” program. McDonald’s owners donated one free burger to the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth for every Big Mac purchased during the event.

Three Square Food Bank received $20,000 from the Dunkin’ Donuts Baskin-Robbins Community Foundation to support the BackPack for Kids Program, which helps fight child food insecurity in Southern Nevada. The program provides hungry children with nutritious and easy-to-prepare food to take home on weekends and school vacations when other resources are not available. In addition, more than 30 Bank of America employees packed 3,375 pounds of apples for Three Square.

The event was sponsored by the bank’s Hispanic/ Latino Organization for Leadership and Advancement employee network group.

Caridad, which works with local homeless agencies, police and governments to try to end homelessness, partnered with Nacho Daddy downtown to host Undie Sunday, a sock-and-underwear drive for Catholic Charities, the Shade Tree and Salvation Army.

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The Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth expanded its drop-in center. The 2,600-square-foot addition enhances existing service areas and adds a kitchen, computer lab, staff office, half-court basketball, gym, art and music rooms, and private areas. Nevada Women’s Philanthropy allocated $350,000 for the project. HomeAid Southern Nevada provided $270,000 worth of services. (COURTESY PHOTO)

The Stratosphere donated $1,000 to the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth.

The Outlook Foundation of Las Vegas, which repurposes computers for children and military members, donated 50 notebook computers to the Nevada State Veterans Home. The computers will allow residents to connect with family across the country and help residents communicate with staff. Local students will volunteer to teach the residents how to operate the notebooks.

More than 225 volunteers from CarMax, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada, KaBoom! and Henderson built a playground at the John C. Kish Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada Club-

After-School All-Stars Las Vegas received a $10,000 donation from the John Krakauer MURRAY Charitable Trust advised by Professionals in Philanthropy. The money will be used to support two programs to help disadvantaged students in the Clark County School District: Lifetime Adventures and We Are Ready.

“Lifetime Adventures gives our students the opportunity to learn social and life skills through outdoor activities, while We Are Ready is a proven middle-to-high-school transition and drop-out prevention program,” said Ranna Daud, executive director of After-School All-Stars Las Vegas.

Jennifer Bradley, a public relations consultant for Vegas PBS, was appointed to the board of directors for the Las Vegas chapter of the American Cancer Society.

Ben & Jerry’s 37th annual Free Cone Day raised money for the CASA Foundation, which helps foster children.

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Q&A WITH TYLER JONES

Developer invested emotionally and financially Tyler Jones is founder and owner of Blue Heron, which developed Sky Terrace, a desert-themed luxury community of custom homes in Henderson. The homes are packed with electronics and offer over-the-top amenities, such as elevators, outdoor kitchens and entertainment rooms with 105-inch drop-down television screens. Jones launched Blue Heron in 2004 with his father, Steve Jones, who has been in the Southern Nevada real estate business since 1989.

Where do you get your inspiration for developments like Sky Terrace?

My personal experiences and observations from a lifetime spent in Las Vegas. That is truly how the Blue Heron signature architecture was born.

We call this architectural style “Vegas Modern,” and it was created in response to the lifestyle and needs of the contemporary Las Vegas resident. It complements our Mojave Desert surroundings and climate while taking full advantage of the most advanced green building technology available.

What do you hope Blue Heron accomplishes over the next five years?

It’s my goal to see “Vegas Modern” become accepted more and more into Tyler Jones, co-founder of Blue Heron, a luxury housing development firm, draws the mainstream of the housing mar- inspiration from the Nevada landscape. (CHRISTOPHER DEVARGAS/STAFF) ket and for Blue Heron to remain the reset button each weekend. have always been different, and buyleader in architectural innovation and ers who want something unique that energy efficiency in Las Vegas.

Describe your management complements their sense of personal style. style and sophistication come to us.

What are some of your tradeI try to lead by example, and I try This is as true now as it was during the mark designs? to have fun at work. I think we have a recession. It is very difficult to find reWe use the natural beauty of our good blend of creativity, discipline and ally well-designed modern homes in surroundings — namely, Southern hard work at Blue Heron, and I think Las Vegas.

Nevada — to create unique homes that is a recipe for good results. with unparalleled indoor/outdoor reWhat is the most rewarding lationships. Our homes feature a lot Where do you see yourself and part of your job? of earth tones and organic materials your company in 10 years?

Speaking with a client and seeing with forms that lend themselves to I’d like to be intimately involved in them glow with pride as they describe exaggerated shading elements. Our the day-to-day workings of Blue Hertheir home. Often, clients will describe homes work with the climate in such a on 10 years from now, just as I have the reaction their friends and famway that shaded spaces are created by been since day one. I sincerely enjoy ily have, and it is great to hear about the massing of the home and great efevery minute of it and am very proud how others react to the spaces and ficiencies are gained through passive of what we have accomplished. It is forms we have created. It’s all about solar strategies. my belief that we are just at the beproviding something totally amazOur outside spaces are designed ginning of our journey as a company, ing and unique for each client, and it as a continuation of interior living and I think Blue Heron will continue feels great when you can see how you spaces, as opposed to just a yard. Outto have a big impact on the way homes have affected their daily life in such a door spaces are functional, finished, are defined and redefined in Las Vegas meaningful and personal way. detailed and connected to interior well into the future. spaces.

What do you do after work?

What is your dream job, outside Race motorcycles. I really enjoy the What allowed Blue Heron to of your current field? physical and mental challenges I find survive the recession and home Professional motorcycle racing is at the motocross track. I spend a lot of foreclosure crisis? the only other job I could see myself time in the office and when I’m away, It was difficult to sell homes when really enjoying. my mind is always thinking about there was so much downward presways to improve our company. For me, sure on real estate values, and real Whom do you admire and why? motorcycles are the best way to clear estate — especially distressed homes Both of my parents. I was really my mind for a few hours and hit the — became a commodity. Our homes

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lucky to grow up in an environment with a huge emphasis on personal and professional values. My father is one of the most grounded and genuine people I have ever met, and I grew up watching how quickly he gains people’s trust. He seems to wear his integrity on his sleeve. My mother is the most caring person on the planet, and I watch the way she brightens up the lives of those around her with her selfless energy. I strive to conduct myself in a way that lives up to those qualities, and this informs almost everything I do, both personally and professionally.

What is your biggest pet peeve?

Slow drivers.

What is something people might not know about you?

People don’t usually know that my family has been in Las Vegas since the 1920s. It is hard to find families that have been invested in the community for so long, and my roots are really important to me. Las Vegas is home to me, and I care deeply about all of the issues and opportunities we face as a community.

Anything else you want to tell us?

I would invite people to take a step back and think about the home you live in. Ask yourself if your home inspires you? Does it make you feel good? How does it impact your daily lifestyle? If you are searching for an answer to these questions, then I believe your home has failed you.

A great home will have a noticeable impact on the quality of the time you spend there. Your home should inspire a sense of well being and tranquility while meeting all of your practical needs. An exceptional home will do all of those things and add another dimension to your lifestyle and family dynamic.

I like to challenge people with these questions because a home can be so much more than people realize, and I think the industry has been very complacent over the years.

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Number of stores and restaurants that opened at Las Vegas North Premium Outlets after an expansion.

The shopping center now totals 685,000 square feet and, with 175 stores, is one of the largest retail centers in the country.

$3.22

Average price of a gallon of gasoline in Nevada in May, compared with the national average of $2.66.

$212,568

Median price of Southern Nevada homes sold in April, up 10.7 percent from a year ago, according to the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors.

$115,000

Median sales price of local condominiums and townhomes in April, up 15 percent from a year ago, according to the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors.

7,296

Number of single-family homes listed without any offers at the end of April, up 13.6 percent from a year ago, according to the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors.

$3,500

Sales price of a chandelier that hung over the Riviera’s casino and was sold in advance of the resort’s implosion.

HEXX Kitchen serves High Road Craft ice cream in addition to making its own chocolate at its shop on the Strip.

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Searching the world to bring unique chocolate to Las Vegas Describe your business.

HEXX is a full-service experience, with a restaurant, bar and patio offering Strip-side dining, as well as a large retail, chocolate, candy and “confexxions” store. We bring craft, bean-to-bar chocolate making to Nevada, with a custom kitchen dedicated to the production of single-origin chocolate.

Where does the name HEXX come from?

HEXX KITCHEN Address: 3655 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas Phone: 702-331-5100 (restaurant), 702331-5551 (retail/chocolate kitchen) Email: info@hexxchocolate.com Website: hexxchocolate.com Hours of operation: Restaurant open 24 hours a day; chocolate kitchen open 9 a.m.-midnight daily.

Owned/operated by: Perry Rogers, Corey Jenkins and Matthew Silverman In business since: Spring 2015

The name originated from a few different elements of our brand — the first being the two X’s, which stand for the Roman numeral 20, since cacao trees grow 20 degrees above and below the equator. Secondly, the name comes from our chocolate bar shape, which is composed of a number of hexagonal pieces.

What makes your shop unique?

$189.8 MILLION

The Cosmopolitan’s first quarter revenue, up 3.8 percent from last year.

$20 MILLION

Maximum amount in federal fines that Caesars Palace may have to pay as part of a federal investigation into how the casino prevents and detects money laundering.

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We are chocolate-makers. Unlike chocolatiers who buy someone else’s chocolate, then add ingredients, we actually travel the world to find the best flavored cacao beans and import them ourselves.

We approach our chocolate-making process similar to that of fine wine. We focus on bringing out the flavors of the beans from each country. Each origin of chocolate is made using only two ingredients — the pure cocoa nibs from the specific farm and organic coconut palm sugar.

guests will also experience the joy of our chocolate.

What’s the most important part of your job?

Constantly innovating while ensuring that our products are being created and delivered in a way that represents our brand and brand values.

What is the best part about doing business in Las Vegas?

The nonstop energy, excitement, innovation and diversity found in Las Vegas is exhilarating. But the best part is that Las Vegas is a very close-knit business community, and doing business with people you know is always a plus.

What is the hardest part about doing business here?

It is challenging always staying innovative and fresh in such a dynamic marketplace, but that is also what is so exciting and compelling about doing business in Las Vegas.

What obstacles have you overcome?

With a startup concept, there are scores of issues and considerations to address. Because of our size, variety of elements, volume and center-Strip location, the typical challenges of a startup have consequently been bigger and more dramatic. It has all been a great learning experience.

What have you learned from the recession?

What is your business philosophy?

Be authentic, and love and believe in what you do. By sharing our love and passion for craft chocolate and providing one-of-a-kind tasting experiences, we believe our

Don’t take anything for granted, and pivot when appropriate. But above all, treat every guest as the one and only, and deliver that experience to everyone who walks through your doors.

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On J.D. Morris’ vegasinc.com story “Loss down, casino revenue up at Cosmopolitan in first quarter”: They aren’t going to fix everything overnight, but this is a good sign.

— rippee_robert The only way to show a gain these days is to cut costs. Gaming is in the dirt and won’t get better in the near future.

— jokersmile On J.D. Morris’ vegasinc.com story “Riviera operators get initial approval to run Westgate”: Some day, someone is going to wake up and say, “What happened to the history of this city?”

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Marijuana law creates hazy situation for employers

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GUEST COLUMN: unlawful use at work? wenty-three states, including WHIT SELERT In fact, detecting whether an employee is Nevada, have passed laws using marijuana at work is, itself, an increasingly permitting marijuana for medical difficult proposition — marijuana-infused purposes. Twenty others have candies, pastries, granola bars, soft drinks, butters and lotions ballot measures pending to do the same this year. Four are difficult to distinguish from any other food or drink.

— Colorado, Oregon, Washington and Alaska — and Given these challenges, many employers are confused. the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana for Should they revise existing workplace drug policies or recreational purposes. continue using “zero tolerance” policies to screen out job As Nevada begins issuing medical marijuana registration applicants and employees who fail drug tests? The answer cards, employers should consider and plan to tackle some may vary for each employer. potentially sticky issues.

It’s important to remember that under federal law, Nevada’s medical marijuana law prohibits discrimination marijuana is illegal. Businesses operating under federal against employees with a valid registration card and requires contracts or funding, or dependent on federal licensing employers to consider reasonable accommodations for lawful or regulation, may be required to maintain a drug-free use of the drug. However, employers are not required to permit workplace. Following state law can violate federal law. marijuana use in the workplace and are not required to modify Every employer has a legal obligation and right to provide job requirements or working conditions to accommodate an a safe work environment. Accommodating medical or employee with a marijuana registration card. As it stands, recreational marijuana without the means to effectively employers need only consider accommodations that enable detect and prevent impairment puts employers in a serious employees to fulfill their existing job responsibilities and bind. Every court to address the issue has cited marijuana’s which pose no danger to people or property. status under federal law to uphold employer decisions based That sounds good on paper, but what about in practice? on an employee’s failed drug test for marijuana.

Detecting whether an employee is impaired by marijuana Key features of any sound policy should clearly define is not as easy as it sounds. There are no consensus what is permissible and require testing upon reasonable standards defining impairment. The technology for suspicion of impairment, which should be broadly defined. accurately measuring the drug’s active ingredient is largely Whit Selert is of counsel at the Las Vegas office of Fisher & developmental. How can an employer know whether an Phillips. employee is impaired from lawful use at home versus

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On J.D. Morris’ vegasinc.com story “MGM Resorts might rename, revamp its ‘underutilized asset’ Monte Carlo”: Now that they have reworked the front with the park coming, I think they will rebrand this to better fit a need in the city for quality mid-level resorts.

— PatrickJDyer On Eli Segall’s vegasinc.com story “Developer Larry Siegel talks Grand Bazaar Shops, ‘dwell time’ and retail on the Strip”: Vegas needs a diverse collection of shopping choices.

This is one where the average guy could spend some money.

— RonHirschkind

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‘Shopping and retail are all about dwell time’

BY ELI SEGALL

things on the Strip but didn’t win.

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Sporting a pirate-style bandana and a bedazzled maroon and gold vest, the guy behind the counter of Marash Authentic Turkish Ice Cream is no ordinary dessert slinger.

In a one-man show of sorts, he moves quickly, playfully teasing patrons as the pop-music hit “Gangnam Style” blasts from a speaker and draws a crowd.

The ice cream parlor is at Grand Bazaar Shops, a new retail plaza on the Strip whose developers are betting that, with a not-so-ordinary property, they’ll grab shoppers and tenants in a crowded field that’s only getting more crammed.

Grand Bazaar Shops, in front of Bally’s at the southeast corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Flamingo Road, opened in February. The outdoor mall has about 120 storefronts — some just 150 square feet — squeezed onto 2 acres and selling a hodgepodge of products, including posters, hot sauce, jewelry, temporary tattoos, luggage, clothing, alcohol-infused chocolates and deep-fried Oreos.

“Shopping and retail are all about dwell time — how much time people are going to spend at a project,” said Larry Siegel, the mall’s lead developer. “You have to have a lot of different kinds of activities and a lot of different kinds of uses.”

Gambling is losing its luster in Las Vegas as tourists increasingly bypass casino floors to dine, shop and party in nightclubs. Last year, 71 percent of visitors gambled, down from 80 percent in 2010, according to GLS Research, in a report for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.

Visitors last year spent about $282 each on food and drinks per trip, up from $257 in 2010, and $150 on shopping, up from $123 four years earlier, GLS found.

Siegel and other investors are spending big dollars to capture tourists’ attention — and, more importantly, what’s inside their wallets.

Recent or current retail projects on the Strip include the Linq, a

Larry Siegel, lead developer of the Grand Bazaar Shops, walks through the new retail project on the Strip. (CHRISTOPHER DEVARGAS/STAFF)

$550 million open-air complex with more than 30 shopping, dining and entertainment options; the Park, a $100 million outdoor plaza with bars, restaurants and retail; and a threestory mall at Treasure Island.

Existing malls on the Strip include Fashion Show, Showcase Mall, Grand Canal Shoppes, Miracle Mile Shops, Forum Shops at Caesars, and Shops at Crystals.

Siegel, 62, is chairman of Potomac, Md.-based Juno Property Group.

He’s the former chairman and CEO of mall operator Mills Corp., which was bought out in 2007, the year after he stepped down as CEO. Grand Bazaar Shops is his first project in Las Vegas, and his investors include Caesars Entertainment Corp., which owns Bally’s and the ground underneath the new mall.

Siegel recently met VEGAS INC there to talk about the project and the Strip’s retail scene.

When you announced the project in December 2013, you talked a lot about how you wanted to emulate the Grand Bazaar of Istanbul and open-air markets around the world. Was that still the goal as you built this out or did you move away from that?

I don’t think we tapered back. Every time you open something, you have to look at where we are in the world of retail. The landscape has changed considerably in the past year and a half, and especially since I got in the business. You’ve got to create something that is different and unique.

What got you interested in doing a deal out here? How did this come about?

This site has been sitting here for a long time. It’s on the 50-yard line of Las Vegas Boulevard. If you type into Google Earth “Las Vegas Strip,” the pin drops right here. This was a park with a moving sidewalk down the middle of it. It was a no-brainer figuring out that it wasn’t the highest and best use. It was a matter of sitting down with Caesars and talking to them about what might work here.

I come to Vegas for retail conventions and for other reasons, to see what’s going on in the world of retail. This has always been sitting here.

Had you thought over the years of doing a deal in Las Vegas?

I had. If I was to do something, it would have been on the Strip. When I was at Mills, we bid on a couple of

This mall has a lot of small shops. Did you want to be able to sign retailers who can only afford smaller spaces?

There are two things that grab people: one is price, the other is selection. This is a 2-acre site. Typically, you build a regional mall on 90 acres or so, 1 million to 1.5 million square feet. This is about 60,000 to 65,000 square feet. The smaller stores give people more selection. I grew up in the department-store business. The main floors of department stores really emulate the old bazaars — they’re exciting, interactive places with lots of different subtenants. We wanted to make this attractive to consumers walking by, with an array of prices.

I heard there was supposed to be an area of the mall with haggling and no pre-set prices.

Swarovski has a haggling window.

It’s called the Sparkle Exchange.

Much of the ground-up construction on the Strip lately has been retail. Do you worry about the increased competition?

No, because a lot of those projects are food- and beverage-centric. This is a place where you can come and buy something, affordably, for the most part.

Do you think there’s too much retail on the Strip?

I think there’s a lot of retail. But I think it’s incumbent upon everybody to try and be different and offer something special to the consumer.

Do you think there’s too much being built?

We just hit all-time visitor records last year with more than 41 million people. The thing that’s interesting about Vegas is every three or four days, you get new consumers. You’re always new and unique, so we probably have more retail here than in other places.

“Every time you open something, you have to look at where we are in the world of retail.

The landscape has changed considerably in the past year and a half, and especially since I got in the business. You’ve got to create something that is different and unique.”

— Larry Siegel, lead developer of Grand Bazaar Shops

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UNLV law professor a key player in Caesars case

BY J.D. MORRIS STAFF WRITER

Although the Caesars Entertainment bankruptcy is playing out in a Chicago court far from Nevada, it’s still closely connected to Las Vegas, including through one local academic involved in the case.

UNLV law professor Nancy Rapoport recently was appointed to lead a committee that reviews bills for legal work as well as other professional fees and expenses tied to the Caesars bankruptcy proceedings. Rapoport, an expert in bankruptcy law, will be a key player as the Las Vegas-based casino giant seeks to restructure one of its divisions in court.

Caesars Entertainment Operating Company, one of multiple Caesars divisions, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in mid-January.

The flagship Caesars Palace resort is the only Las Vegas property owned by the bankrupt division — the other Caesars properties on the Strip are controlled by different parts of the

company.

Caesars wants to adopt a real estate investment trust setup for the bankrupt division, and hopes to eliminate about RAPOPORT $10 billion in debt through its planned restructuring.

But not all parties agree about the best path forward. Some Caesars creditors are fighting the company over corporate maneuvers they say unfairly robbed the bankrupt division of value — allegations being investigated by a court-appointed examiner.

Accordingly, an army of legal professionals is working on the case, which is racking up a sizable stack of bills. That’s where Rapoport comes in.

She’s the chairwoman of the fee committee, which consists of five members. Rapoport is the committee’s independent member, a position the court says must be held by

a “disinterested” person. The other committee members represent various parties with a stake in the case as well as the U.S. Trustee, an arm of the Department of Justice that oversees bankruptcies.

Rapoport described her work as helping the court take a “first cut” at determining the reasonableness of professional expenses, like fees for attorneys and advisers. Those costs can be steep: Rapoport said that in other cases, she’s seen them stretch upward of $75 million, and even as much as a half-billion dollars.

“One of the things that we look at is the ratio of those fees to the overall stuff that’s going on in the Chapter 11,” Rapoport said. “When you put it in the context of how much money is at stake overall, it’s typically pretty proportional. But it’s still a lot of money.”

Although the committee investigates the reasonableness of these fees, the bankruptcy court ultimately decides who gets paid, Rapoport said.

City manager gets a $38,500 raise

BY CONOR SHINE STAFF WRITER

Las Vegas City Manager Betsy Fretwell received her second raise in less than a year. The City Council voted to increase her pay by $38,500 to bring it in line, members said, with the salaries of city managers in other similarly sized cities.

The pay increase, which was framed by the city as a “market-rate adjustment,” comes 10 months after Fretwell got a $20,000 performance raise, equal to about 10 percent of her salary at the time.

Las Vegas City Manager Betsy Fretwell has seen With both increases, Fretwell, who has been her salary increase twice in 10 months. (STAFF FILE) city manager for six years, will receive a base oversees McCarran International Airport and salary of $260,000 a year, plus nearly $100,000 University Medical Center. more in other pay and benefits.

Outgoing Henderson City Manager Jacob The council approved the increase on a 6-1 Snow has a base salary of $225,000 a year, while vote, with Councilman Bob Beers opposed to the North Las Vegas City Manager Qiong Liu makes raise, which is retroactive to April. $190,000 annually.

Councilwoman Lois Tarkanian praised the job Fretwell’s salary is still slightly below the averFretwell has done after taking over the city’s dayage of $276,974 paid to city managers in compato-day operations in the heart of the recession. rable cities such as Phoenix, Dallas, San Jose, CaThe economic turmoil led to cuts in staff and lif., and Kansas City, Mo., according to a survey services, but the city has been on the recovery

by Las Vegas human resources staff. recently, managing to balance its budget without Beers called the salary comparison “signifidipping into reserves each of the past three years. cantly flawed” because it failed to account for “We’ve had a remarkable recovery,” Tarkanian retirement benefits. said. “We don’t want to lose” Fretwell.

He also criticized Fretwell’s raise of about 18 The raise makes Fretwell’s salary the secondpercent of her previous salary as much larger highest among government managers in the than the 1 to 2 percent rank-and-file employees valley, trailing Clark County Manager Don Burhave been receiving. nette’s base salary of $262,597. Burnette also

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But her duties — for which she also plans to enlist the help of some UNLV law students and graduates — can save the court a lot of legwork. When she played a similar role in the Station Casinos bankruptcy case, Rapoport said her students and graduates saved the court at least 2,000 hours of time.

This case presents unique challenges for Rapoport, both because of its innate complications and its jurisdiction.

“The cases I’ve been involved in have been Texas and Nevada cases, so there’s a learning curve here that makes it difficult for me personally, and the complexity of the case is high,” she said. “The principles are the same, but every case presents novel issues that the committee is going have to work through.”

Rapoport said the committee would meet for as long as the case lasted, which she said wouldn’t be “years and years and years,” but could comfortably be around a year, “depending on how things play out.”

First-time unemployment claims hit 7-month low

BY CY RYAN STAFF WRITER

The number of people in Nevada filing initial claims for unemployment benefits fell in April to its lowest point in seven months.

The state Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation reported that 13,550 people submitted initial claims, the smallest number since August 2014, when 13,063 first-time claims were filed.

Committee OKs funding for building at UNLV

BY CY RYAN STAFF WRITER

A joint budget subcommittee approved a state construction program of more than $234 million that includes funding for a new hotel college building at UNLV to replace the main office of the Department of Motor Vehicles in Las Vegas.

The new building at UNLV’s William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration is expected to cost $49 million, with half the money coming from the state and the other half from private donations. At last count, about $14 million in donations had been secured.

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Summerlin land prices rising, but homebuilders not shying away

BY ELI SEGALL STAFF WRITER

Homebuilder Kent Lay knows all too well that Summerlin land isn’t cheap.

His company, Woodside Homes, is paying double what it did a few years ago.

It’s not alone. Land prices have been climbing at a faster rate in the sprawling Las Vegas community than in the valley at large, with the gap growing even wider in recent months.

Summerlin land prices soared 31 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, while prices valleywide fell 34 percent in that time.

The price jumps are slowing land sales but by no means scaring off builders, who spend big dollars tying up land in the 22,500-acre project, one of the most affluent and popular places to live in Southern Nevada.

High-end builder Toll Brothers, for instance, shelled out nearly $45 million last fall for about 111 acres near Bishop Gorman High School, where it plans to build a 55-and-older community.

“The (land) values in Summerlin are worth it; it is such a premier location,” said Mary Connelly, Nevada division president for William Lyon Homes, a longtime Summerlin builder.

However, the higher land prices will only make new homes more expensive, and parcels might get too costly for builders to turn a profit, potentially slowing development there and fueling construction in cheaper communities.

“It’s right on that cusp now to make these deals work,” said Lay, Las Vegas division president for Woodside.

Investors bought 46 acres in Summerlin in the first quarter, down 11 percent from the same time last year, and paid an average of $715,000 an acre, up 31 percent, according to Dallas-based Howard Hughes Corp., the community’s developer. Homebuilders bought almost all of that.

Summerlin buyers paid an average of $518,000 per acre last year, up 46 percent from 2013. But sales volume fell 12

Summerlin began taking shape in 1990 and has a projected completion date of 2039. (L.E. BASKOW/STAFF)

percent to 280 acres, “primarily” because of higher prices, Howard Hughes CEO David Weinreb said.

Howard Hughes executives figure Summerlin land prices will stabilize, Weinreb said, adding “the current level appears to be sustainable.”

“We’re selling everything we put out for sale,” project President Kevin Orrock said.

And there’s plenty left. Summerlin, which began taking shape in 1990, is a long way from being fully built, with a projected completion date of 2039.

The community — which runs along the western rim of the Las Vegas Valley and is known for its parks, trails, upscale homes and proximity to Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area — is planned for more than 200,000 residents. By the end of 2014, it had roughly 105,400 people, as well as 4,600 acres of available residential land and 850 acres of commercial land.

However, Orrock’s group keeps prices high by tightly controlling and limiting the land it sells.

It doesn’t flood the market and push prices down; instead, it typically puts certain properties up for bid to certain

groups of builders.

Company officials “keep supply and demand in check to keep prices up,” and could have finished the project by now if they were willing to sell cheap, said land broker and investor Scott Gragson of Colliers International.

Howard Hughes also has a clause in its contracts with builders that lets it buy back undeveloped land. This prevents builders from selling parcels and potentially driving down Howard Hughes’ prices.

“I want to control the market here; I don’t want a builder to control my market,” Orrock said.

Meanwhile, it’s a different situation throughout the valley. Land sales rose fast in recent months as prices plunged.

Investors bought almost 900 acres in Southern Nevada in the first quarter this year, up 21 percent from the same time in 2014. They paid an average of nearly $190,000 per acre, down 34 percent from a year earlier, according to Colliers.

Before prices slumped, Southern Nevada homebuilders bought land quickly the past few years, pushing up values, CBRE Group broker Keith

Spencer said. This especially sped up after Clark County commissioners in spring 2013 opened roughly 3,600 acres, mostly in southwest Las Vegas, to potential development by shrinking McCarran International Airport’s noise contour.

But new-home sales have slowed from a few years ago, and today, builders aren’t loading up on land they won’t develop anytime soon.

“It’s an appetite issue,” Spencer said.

In their absence, speculators have been buying huge amounts of land and, as a result, getting lower prices, he said.

Southern Nevada builders sold about 6,000 new homes last year, down 18 percent from 2013, according to Las Vegas-based Builders Research.

The drop-off was bigger in Summerlin. It was the 15th-highest selling master-planned community in the country last year with 437 sales, but that was down 23 percent from 2013, according to real estate consulting firm RCLCO. However, activity is picking up this year, with local builders selling about 1,380 homes in the first quarter, up 8 percent from the same period last year.

And it’s rebounding even faster in Summerlin, with new-home sales up 46 percent year-over-year, Orrock said.

Builders will keep spending as long as they can keep selling homes at highenough prices, said Dennis Smith, president of Home Builders Research.

And, as locals know, it’s not cheap to live there. Builders’ median base price in Summerlin is $519,950 — two-thirds higher than the median sales price of all new homes in Southern Nevada, Smith’s company says.

All told, Summerlin land is some of the most expensive in the valley, if not the priciest outside the Strip, and that’s unlikely to change anytime soon.

“If you look at the other (masterplanned communities), which one would even come close?” Smith said.

“None.”

Flipping homes still profitable — especially outside of Nevada

BY ELI SEGALL STAFF WRITER

House-flipping is still a popular pastime in Nevada, but investors can make a lot more money doing it elsewhere, a new report says.

Flipping accounted for 6.4 percent of home sales statewide in the first

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quarter this year, the third-highest rate in the nation behind the District of Columbia (8.3 percent) and Florida (6.5 percent), according to RealtyTrac.

The rate nationally was 4 percent.

RealtyTrac defines flipping as selling a home within a year of buying it.

In Nevada, owners waited an aver-

age 154 days before selling, tied with Michigan for the fastest turnaround in the country. The average wait time nationally was 176 days.

Silver State flippers booked an average $40,327 in gross profit in the three months that ended March 31, giving them a 24 percent return on

investment, RealtyTrac found. Nationally flippers had $72,450 in gross profit per deal, a 35 percent return.

Those profits represent the sales price minus the purchase price. They do not account for renovations or other costs that homeowners may incur before selling.

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In 2012 she was retaliated against for her whistleblowing activities when the new senior leaders discovered she was still in contact with Dr. Sam Foote.

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THE MILL, FROM PAGE 1

Goal is to test ideas and discover which are viable a downtown seed accelerator, The Mill.

Co-founders Sara Hill and Jill Murphy started The Mill in early 2014 with money provided by the Vegas Tech Fund. At the time, Hill worked as director of entrepreneurship at coworking space Work in Progress, another Vegas Tech Fund project.

“I had felt that Vegas needed an accelerator since a couple months after I moved here,” Hill said. “Initially, I talked to so many program directors, people who ran accelerators, hoping we could find someone who would want to open one here.”

It never materialized. So Hill approached Vegas Tech Fund officials with the idea of starting her own. Hill recruited Murphy to help.

The Mill’s first program, the Idea Accelerator, started in early 2014.

The Mill gave each company access to mentors and a workspace for two months at Work in Progress. In exchange, the companies agreed to attend events, present their ideas at a monthly meeting called The Grind and give the Vegas Tech Fund the right to participate if a company received additional venture funding in the future.

In its first year, The Mill funded 44 companies. Eight went on to participate in other startup accelerator programs outside Las Vegas, and seven received additional venture capital funding. HashRabbit, which makes software for BitCoin miners, now is listed prominently on the Vegas Tech Fund’s investments page.

But the goal of the Idea Accelerator wasn’t necessarily for companies to receive additional funding; rather, it was for founders to test and discover

FOR MORE INFORMATION Visit themill.vc. The Idea Accelerator has rolling admissions, so companies can apply anytime. Applications for the second Startup Accelerator will open this summer.

whether their ideas were viable. Seven participants decided their ideas were not and chose not to pursue them. The Mill still considers those companies successes and lists them as alumni on its website. The only official failure during the first year was one company whose founders stopped answering phone calls part way through the program and missed their scheduled Grind presentation without explanation.

In January, The Mill revamped its program. It moved into its own building, nicknamed “The Loft,” and shifted its focus to larger investments in fewer companies, mirroring a similar change made by the Vegas Tech Fund.

The revised Idea Accelerator will sponsor 12 companies this year, one per month. And a new program, the Startup Accelerator, will sponsor two cohorts, each composed of five larger companies. The first cohort just started and will run through June.

The second will run from September to December.

The Startup Accelerator is designed for companies further along in development but still too small for traditional venture capital funding. The Mill gives each company $25,000, classes and mentors, and three months of desk space in The Loft. In exchange, the companies give 5 percent ownership of their companies to the Vegas Tech Fund,

a $3,000 program fee to The Mill and agree to move to Las Vegas to participate in the program as they work to start their companies.

For the first cohort, The Mill selected Castoff, Fluttrbox, Konsiderate, Zora and Document ProveUp. After the companies relocated, the program started with a two-day retreat designed to build relationships and encourage the teams to support each other.

“The goal of doing all that and making those connections is to build relationships because you never know where those relationships are going to lead,” Hill said.

The culture of support appears to be working. When one team mentioned its application was running on a single home-built Web server, three other teams raced to see who could be first to help the team move its application to Amazon Web Services.

The cohort also is an experimental community. As the teams experiment with their businesses, The Mill is experimenting on the teams to evaluate which aspects of the program work and which it will change for future cohorts. The Mill itself also is an experiment to discover ways to create a sustainable startup community downtown.

In the past, Las Vegas has seen startups such as Romotive leave because they needed resources only available in larger tech communities such as Silicon Valley. The Mill’s companies have more basic needs — housing and transportation.

Two Canadian teams are living at the Gold Spike. Living downtown has not been easy for them, between

THE FIRST COHORT n Castoff (castoffapp.com) Blake Arnet and Alex and Richard Jacobson are creating a mobile app to enable people to send groups of pictures to their friends and quickly receive votes on questions such as, “Which outfit should I wear today?” n Fluttrbox (fluttrbox.com) Aristo Mohit-Coker and Nadia Shiwdin are providing a way for customers to get aerial mapping with less hassle and expense, by

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taking orders online and subcontracting with hobbyist drone operators who can take the pictures. n Konsiderate (konsiderate.com) Jackie Morck, Lance Baily and Matt McLaughlin are creating a platform on which people can create and read verified peer reviews of high-end B2B products and services, starting with medical simulation equipment.

the noise, the “weirdness of Fremont Street” and the difficulty of finding basics supplies such as groceries.

“It’s not sustainable,” said Fluttrbox’s Aristo Mohit-Coker. “It’s not oriented toward living, it’s still oriented toward tourism.”

Transportation also has been an issue for a few teams, partly because The Mill promotes an ethos called the Lean Startup, which instructs company founders to “get out of the building” and talk to potential customers. The Mill planned to partner with Shift to provide vehicles, but Shift recently closed. Despite the challenges, every team has expressed interest in staying in Las Vegas. Several members commented on how friendly and helpful they found people in the valley, compared with other tech communities.

Nevada’s legislative support of drone testing was of particular interest to Fluttrbox, which depends on unmanned aerial systems and would have been much more difficult to start in any other state.

In some ways, the small size of Las Vegas’ fledgling tech community gives it an advantage. Here, it is much easier to meet key players in the tech community, such as established businesspeople and venture capitalists.

The Mill takes advantage of that by introducing members to potential mentors. Such access would be unlikely in places such as Silicon Valley.

“We think this is the next startup boom behind L.A.,” said Castoff’s Blake Arnet.

Editor’s note: David Davis co-founded a company funded by The Mill and currently is participating in The Mill’s Startup Accelerator program.

n Zora (zora.io) Milan Vrekic and Colin White are creating an online application to enable property owners to screen prospective tenants and manage rental properties more easily, without having to hire a property manager. n Document ProveUp Amber Davis and David Schnell-Davis are creating a program to enable small law firms to more easily collect, organize and send documents needed for complex applications such as mortgage modifications.

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Calendar of events TUESDAY, MAY 26 Henderson Health Care Forum Time: 7:30-10 a.m. Cost: Free Location: Henderson Convention Center, 200 Water St., Henderson Information: RSVP to cohecon@cityofhenderson.com Join members of the Henderson Chamber of Commerce for a discussion about how the city could become a premier location for health care services and education.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 27 Restricted Licensees Regulatory Compliance Time: 9-11 a.m. Cost: $95 Location: UNLV Stan Fulton Building, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas Information: Visit unlv.edu/calendar Restricted licensees can learn about compliance procedures performed by the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Presenters will discuss the most common causes of violations and how to prevent them.

nonmembers without advance reservations Location: Las Vegas Country Club, 3000 Joe W. Brown Drive, Las Vegas Information: Visit bomanevada.org/event A panel discussion, “Utility Panel — What it Takes to Serve Las Vegas 24/7,” will include Pat Egan, senior vice president of NV Energy; Bob Coyle, vice president of government affairs at Republic Services of Southern Nevada; David L. Johnson, deputy general manager of the Las Vegas Valley Water District; and Jose L. Esparza Jr., vice president of energy solutions at Southwest Gas Corp.

TEDxLasVegasWomen: Potential Energy Time: Session one is 8-10 a.m., session two is 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., session three is 2-3:30 p.m., session four is 4:30-6:30 p.m.

Cost: Free Location: InNEVation Center, 6795 Edmond St., Las Vegas Information: Visit tedxlasvegas.com Join other local entrepreneurs and businesspeople to watch a simulcast of the TEDWomen Conference in Monterey, Calif.

Economic Outlook and Nevada Investment Opportunities Time: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $35 for members of the Turnaround Management Association, $45 for nonmembers Location: Las Vegas Country Club, 3000 Joe W. Brown Drive, Las Vegas Information: Email info@TMAofNevada.com

Eric Samuel Schweitzer of Kaercher Insurance will talk about how the insurance industry has developed coverage solutions for the unmanned aircraft industry.

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Scott Shapiro of CellMedics will discuss his company’s efforts to develop an advanced painrelief cream that increases drug bioavailability in muscles and joints.

The insurance industry has developed coverage solutions for drones. (STEVE MARCUS/STAFF FILE)

BOMA monthly breakfast meeting Time: Registration begins 7 a.m. Cost: $35 for members with advance reservations, $45 for members without advance reservations, $40 for nonmembers with advance reservations, $45 for

Henderson Chamber networking mixer Time: 5-8 p.m. Cost: $15 for members, $25 for nonmembers, additional $10 for walk-ins Location: Miller’s Ale House, 594 N. Stephanie St., Henderson Information: Visit hendersonchamber.com/ events/calendar

Topical drug delivery seminar Time: 11:30 a.m-1 p.m. Cost: $40 Location: Lawry’s the Prime Rib, 4043 Howard Hughes Parkway, Las Vegas Information: Email john.k.laub@gmail.com

A panel discussion on the resurgence of master planned communities in Southern Nevada. Panelists include Kevin Orrock, vice president of master planned communities at the Howard Hughes Corporation; Gregg Wolin, principal of Crescent Bay Holdings; and Lee Ferris, vice president of Landwell Company. Kathryn Bovard, vice president of Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors, is the moderator.

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Betty Lo, vice president of community alliances and consumer engagement at Nielsen, and Jerry Wong, a data dissemination specialist at the U.S. Census Bureau, will present, “Census Surprise?

The Asian Influx and How it Affects the Las Vegas Economy and Political Landscape.”

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Southern Nevada CCIM Chapter luncheon Time: 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Cost: Free for chapter sponsors, $40 for members, $50 for nonmembers Location: Palms, second-floor conference area, 4321 W. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas Information: Visit snccim.org

Representatives of the Turnaround Management Association will lead a forum discussion on the national and international economic outlook, with an overview of the companies and countries looking to invest in Nevada.

Asian Chamber of Commerce luncheon Time: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $35 for members, $45 for nonmembers Location: Arizona Ballroom Salon E, Gold Coast, 4000 Flamingo Road, Las Vegas Information: Visit lvacc.org

UAS Nevada business forum Time: 6-9 p.m. Cost: Free Location: National Atomic Testing Museum, 755 E. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas Information: RSVP to stevencurtis@centurylink. net

PRSA LVVC May luncheon Time: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $40 for members, $50 for nonmembers Location: Panevino, 246 Via Antonio Ave., Las Vegas Information: Visit prsalasvegas.com Join members of the Las Vegas Valley Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America for a “lunch and learn” session on whistle-blowing.

Paula Pedene, who helped expose mismanagement and health care breakdowns at the Phoenix Veterans Affairs medical center, will discuss public relations professionals’ responsibility regarding ethical and legal issues.

Business outreach event Time: 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Cost: Free Location: Historic Fifth Street School, 401 S. Fourth St., Las Vegas Information: Visit lasvegasnevada.gov/information Learn about competitive bidding exceptions and becoming certified as an emerging small business.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3 Las Vegas Heals medical mixer Time: 6-8 p.m. Cost: Free for the first 40 physicians, $30 for members Location: Gordon Biersch, 3987 Paradise Road, Las Vegas Information: Visit lasvegasheals.org Network with local members of the medical industry at the monthly meeting of Las Vegas Heals.

SATURDAY, JUNE 6 Solar NV Summer Solstice Golf Tournament Time: 7 a.m. Cost: $125 for Solar NV members, $150 for nonmembers, $500 for a group of four Location: Angel Park Golf Club, 100 S. Rampart Blvd., Las Vegas Information: Visit solarnv.org/golf Celebrate the summer solstice with Solar NV and network with local business professionals over a round of golf.

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Records and Transactions BANKRUPTCIES CHAPTER 7 3334 King Elder LLC 3334 King Elder St. Las Vegas, NV 89117 Attorney: 3334 King Elder LLC pro se

CHAPTER 11 Soda Condos LLC 2512 W. Mesquite Ave., Suite 4 Las Vegas, NV 89101 Attorney: Spencer M. Judd at spencer@SJuddLaw.com

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68,000 GVW cab and chassis State of Nevada, 8325 Marti Marsh at mmarsh@admin. nv.gov

WEDNESDAY, MAY 27 2 p.m.

A four-wheel drive tractor State of Nevada, 8334 Marti Marsh at mmarsh@admin. nv.gov 2:30 p.m.

Two-year open-term contract for the printing and possibly the mailing of payment coupon books State of Nevada, 8327 Sharon Knigge at sknigge@admin. nv.gov

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One-year open-term contract for flat goods mattress ticking State of Nevada, 8331 Sharon Knigge at sknigge@admin. nv.gov 2:15 p.m.

Desert Breeze Recreation Center exterior and interior painting Clark County, 603613 Sandy Moody-Upton at scm@ clarkcountynv.gov 2:30 p.m.

3/8” screenings State of Nevada, 8335 Marti Marsh at mmarsh@admin. nv.gov

BROKERED TRANSACTIONS SALES $1,650,000 for 25,026 square feet, office 4624-4660 N. Rancho Drive, Las Vegas 89130 Seller: Southwest College of Medical-Dental Assistants and Practical Nurses Seller agent: NAI Vegas

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Buyer: Lavar Winsor Buyer agent: Pete Janemark of Cushman & Wakefield Commerce $372,376 for 4,184 square feet, industrial 1051 Olsen St., Suite 3511, Henderson 89011 Seller: Ten Buildings A 13213 LLC Seller agent: Sam Scaletta of MDL Group Buyer: Wallin Construction LLC Buyer agent: Did not disclose $295,000 for 3,177 square feet, industrial 1850 Whitney Mesa Drive, Suite 140, Henderson 89014 Seller: WM Capital LLC Seller agent: Did not disclose Buyer: MPM Holdings LLC Buyer agent: James Griffis of MDL Group

fice for 39 months 9089 S. Pecos Road, Suites 3500 and 3510, Henderson 89074 Landlord: Pecos Rd LLC-MIG Real Estate Landlord agent: Nicholas Barber of Gatski Commercial Tenant: Destination to Recovery LLC Tenant agent: Jarrad Katz and Galit Kimerling of MDL Group $219,707 for 1,724 square feet, retail for 60 months 43 S. Stephanie St., Suite 133, Henderson 89012 Landlord: Vegas Stephanie LLC Landlord agent: Dan Hubbard of Cushman & Wakefield Commerce Tenant: Teriyaki Madness (renewal) Tenant agent: Did not disclose

BUSINESS LICENSES LEASES $526,122 for 7,200 square feet, office for 62 months 1421 W. Warm Springs Road, Henderson 89015 Landlord: Reisbord 1999 Children’s Trust Landlord agent: Penny Mendlovic of CBRE Tenant: Uniforms of Henderson LLC Tenant agent: Todd Manning and Dan Hubbard of Cushman & Wakefield Commerce $360,580 for 3,304 square feet, office for 65 months 5888 Sunset Road, Suite 130, Las Vegas 89118 Landlord: HDI Las Vegas LLC Landlord agent: Jerry Hagfeldt of MDL Group Tenant: Glory Global Solutions Inc. Tenant agent: Michael Dunn and Paula Lea of Commerce Real Estate Solutions Inc. $344,751 for 3,707 square feet, office for 62 months 9005 S. Pecos Road, Suite 2600, Henderson 89074 Landlord: 9005 – 9089 South Pecos Road LLC Landlord agent: Nicholas Barber and Jeremy Foley of Cushman & Wakefield Commerce Tenant: Victor Klausner, D.O. (renewal) Tenant agent: Did not disclose $263,038 for 9,121 square feet, industrial for 63 months 441 Eastgate Road, Henderson 89011 Landlord: Brookhollow Landlord agent: Art Farmanali of Cushman & Wakefield Commerce Tenant: TOL Designs LLC Tenant agent: Eric Rogosch of Berkshire Hathaway Home Services, Nevada $257,615 for 5,119 square feet, of-

T1 Payments Business type: Administrative office space Address: 10655 Park Run Drive, Suite 100, Las Vegas Owner: T1 Payments LLC Tamra L. Coulter Business type: Real estate sales Address: 10000 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 130, Las Vegas Owner: Tamra L. Coulter Tech Kiosk Outlets LLC Business type: Internet adult entertainment Address: 2800 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 4A-4B, Las Vegas Owner: William Sifert The Arts Factory LLC Business type: Alcohol beverage caterer Address: 107 E. Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: The Arts Factory LLC The Vaccine Center and Travel Medicine Clinic Business type: Professional services - medical Address: 2051 N. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 100, Las Vegas Owner: The Vaccine Center LLC TNA Heating & Cooling Business type: Contractor Address: 5782 Calanas Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Did not disclose Total System Services LLC Business type: Repair and maintenance Address: 4535 W. Russell Road, Las Vegas Owner: Jenylou Balistreri Triplett CPA Firm PLLC Business type: Professional services Address: 7473 W. Lake Mead Blvd., Suite 100, Las Vegas

Re Owner: John R. Triplett US Drug Test Centers Business type: Clinic or laboratory Address: 2051 N. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 100, Las Vegas Owner: The Vaccine Center LLC Vegas Leisure Homes Business type: Short-term residential rental Address: 5108 Wapiti Point Court, Las Vegas Owner: Kendall Heath Vegas Urbanwear Business type: General retail sales Address: 4821 W. Craig Road, Las Vegas Owner: Rebecca Kang Vilma Tungol Business type: Real estate sales Address: 9525 Hillwood Drive, Suite 120, Las Vegas Owner: Vilma Tungol Viva Salon Business type: General retail sales Address: 10870 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 120, Las Vegas Owner: Viva Salon LLC 101 Mobility of Las Vegas Business type: General retail sales Address: 3151 W. Tompkins Ave., Las Vegas Owner: MKA Inc. 20/20 Plumbing & Heating Inc. Business type: Contractor Address: 4745 Copper Sage St., Las Vegas Owner: Did not disclose 9970 CCO LLC Business type: Business space Address: 9970 W. Cheyenne Ave., Suite 100, Las Vegas Owner: Kevin Elder A Better Chi LLC Business type: Independent massage therapist Address: 1073 Otto Ridge Court, Las Vegas Owner: Martin Marx Absolute Beverage & Spirits Business type: Alcohol beverage caterer Address: 400 S. Seventh St., Suite 400, Las Vegas Owner: Events Catering LLC Adidas Clearance Store Business type: General retail sales Address: 817 S. Rainbow Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Adidas America Inc. Alifesworks Success Center LLC Business type: Management or consulting service Address: 1623 Fremont St. Suite 3, Las Vegas Owner: Darla Miller

Aloha Properties Business type: Real estate sales Address: 8784 S. Maryland Parkway, Suite 135, Las Vegas Owner: Aloha Enterprises LLC Amigos Flooring & Moulding Business type: Building, plant nursery and hardware supplies Address: 3001 Contract Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Amigos Flooring & Moulding Inc. Andrea M. Loveland Business type: Real estate sales Address: 7854 W. Sahara Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Andrea M. Loveland

Business Address 101, Las Owner: B

Bayside Business Address Suite 22 Owner: S

Brew Ha Business caterer Address Vegas Owner: B LLC

Ann Hwang Business type: Real estate sales Address: 777 N. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 120, Las Vegas Owner: Ann Hwang

Byo-Kle Business property Address Vegas Owner: B

Anne (Missy) Matyas Business type: Real estate sales Address: 1925 Village Center Circle, Suite 150, Las Vegas Owner: Anne M. Matyas

Camilla Business Address Suite 110 Owner: C

Antranik Minassian Business type: Real estate sales Address: 10000 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 130, Las Vegas Owner: Antranik Minassian

Carlito’s Business lounge Address Suite 102 Owner: C

Asap Property Inspections LLC Business type: Professional services Address: 3170 Polaris Ave., Suite 4, Las Vegas Owner: Kyle Sutton

Cathy V. Business Address Suite 120 Owner: C

Ashley Lazarus Business type: Real estate sales Address: 1215 S. Fort Apache Road, Suite 210, Las Vegas Owner: Ashley Lazarus

Centrafu Business Address Blvd., Su Owner: M

Associated Services for Well Pregnancy Business type: Instruction Services Address: 1925 Glider St., Las Vegas Owner: Grateful Birth Inc.

Chelsea Business Address Suite 100 Owner: C

Atlas Realty Business type: Real estate sales Address: 3265 N. Fort Apache Road, Suite 110, Las Vegas Owner: Atlas International Group LLC

Cheryl P Business Address Blvd., Su Owner: C

Automotive Rebuilt Exchange Business type: Automotive garage (major) Address: 1606 S. Commerce St., Las Vegas Owner: Rebuilt Products LLC Avalante LLC Business type: Contractor Address: 1020 S. Commerce St., Las Vegas Owner: Thomas C. Myers

Christian Business property Address Vegas Owner: R

Christop Business Address Blvd., Su Owner: C

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Records and Transactions Business type: Real estate sales Address: 9310 Sun City Blvd., Suite 101, Las Vegas Owner: Barbara Grater Bayside Watch Business type: General retail sales Address: 4300 Meadows Lane, Suite 2271, Las Vegas Owner: SMQ Inc. Brew Ha Ha Mobile Bar Business type: Alcohol beverage caterer Address: 910 Fremont St., Las Vegas Owner: Brew Ha Ha Mobile Bar LLC Byo-Kleen Business type: Residential property maintenance Address: 2424 Tyneside St., Las Vegas Owner: Byo-Kleen LLC Camilla Goodwin Business type: Real estate sales Address: 8330 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 110, Las Vegas Owner: Camilla Goodwin Carlito’s Way Business type: Tobacco sales/ lounge Address: 5001 E. Bonanza Road, Suite 102, Las Vegas Owner: Calero Inc. Cathy V. Rojas Business type: Real estate sales Address: 9525 Hillwood Drive, Suite 120, Las Vegas Owner: CV Rojas LLC Centrafuse Holdings LLC Business type: General retail sales Address: 10300 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 13, Las Vegas Owner: Mark Twyman

community services Address: 800 W. Bonanza Road, Las Vegas Owner: Elite Youth Sports Computer Systems for Business Business type: Business support service Address: 4425 S. Pecos Road, Las Vegas Owner: Scott Brim Cornerstone Benefits & Insurance Business type: Insurance sales Address: 6881 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite A, Las Vegas Owner: Cornerstone Benefits LLC Daniel R. Valenzuela Business type: Real estate sales Address: 777 N. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 120, Las Vegas Owner: Daniel R. Valenzuela Dennis O’Shea Business type: Real estate sales Address: 10220 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 3, Las Vegas Owner: Dennis O’Shea Desert Gardens Business type: General retail sales Address: 1717 S. Decatur Blvd., Suite C17, Las Vegas Owner: Richard C. Wood Desert Grace Home Health Business type: Residential home care provider Address: 4955 S. Durango Drive, Las Vegas Owner: Desert Grace Health Services Inc. Desert Valley Refrigeration LLC Business type: Contractor Address: 1168 Wigwam Parkway, Las Vegas Owner: Did not disclose

Chelsea T. Randa Business type: Real estate sales Address: 9420 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 100, Las Vegas Owner: Chelsea T. Randa

Diamond Catering Business type: Alcohol beverage caterer Address: 679 N. Nellis Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Maurice Jung

Cheryl Pekarovic Business type: Real estate sales Address: 10750 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 180, Las Vegas Owner: Cheryl Pekarovic

Diane Sirikhan Business type: Real estate sales Address: 2620 Regatta Drive, Suite 102, Las Vegas Owner: Diane Sirikhan

Christiansen Handyman Business type: Residential property maintenance Address: 2373 Judson Circle, Las Vegas Owner: Raymond Christiansen

Dieu Joli Business type: Nonfarm product vendor Address: 302 S. Rampart Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Maya Branch

Christopher Beaumont Business type: Real estate sales Address: 10000 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 130, Las Vegas Owner: C Beaumont LLC

Dino’s Lounge Business type: Parking lot Address: 201 E. Wyoming Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Ringside Liquor Inc.

Community Youth Football League Business type: Nonprofit

Direct Mobile Imaging Business type: Clinic or laboratory

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Address: 3320 N. Buffalo Drive, Suite 202, Las Vegas Owner: Direct Mobile Imaging LLC Downtown Las Vegas Events Center Business type: Alcohol beverage caterer Address: 200 S. Third St., Las Vegas Owner: Downtown Las Vegas Events Center LLC Earldan B. Nino Business type: Real estate sales Address: 9420 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 100, Las Vegas Owner: Earldan B. Nino Eficaz LLC Business type: General retail sales Address: 5000 W. Oakey Blvd., Suite A1, Las Vegas Owner: Irving Hernandez-Carmona Elegante Banquet Hall Business type: Alcohol beverage caterer Address: 3020 E. Bonanza Road, Suite 110, Las Vegas Owner: Bonanza Mojave LLC En Fuego Cigars & Lounge Business type: Tobacco sales/ lounge Address: 328 W. Sahara Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Improv LLC Filemon Hernandez Business type: Repair and maintenance Address: 3851 Wynn Road, Suite 1079, Las Vegas Owner: Filemon Hernandez Flakos Auto Spa Business type: Automobile detailing Address: 2538 Rocky Countryside St., Las Vegas Owner: Edgar Lucero Frank Prezgay Business type: Real estate sales Address: 9525 Hillwood Drive, Suite 120, Las Vegas Owner: Frank Prezgay Fresh Kidz Boutique Business type: General retail sales Address: 2901 W. Washington Ave., Suite F102, Las Vegas Owner: Bobby Hopper Galaxy Pilates LLC Business type: Instruction services Address: 1970 Village Center Circle, Suite 5, Las Vegas Owner: Agnieszka Koziarska Gallery Red Business type: General retail sales Address: 1237 S. Main St., Las Vegas Owner: Lilia Laforce Gold & Silver Pawn Shop

Business type: Administrative office space Address: 708 S. Sixth St., Las Vegas Owner: Gold & Silver Coin Shop Inc. Haggen 2234 Business type: Nondepository lender Address: 820 S. Rampart Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Haggen Opco South LLC Hilit Weiss Business type: Real estate sales Address: 1925 Village Center Circle, Suite 150, Las Vegas Owner: Hilit Weiss Hill & Hill Construction LLC Business type: Contractor Address: 1414 Athol Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Did not disclose Hooper Industries Ltd. Business type: Apartment house Address: 912 E. Bridger Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Barbara L. Buchanan

BUILDING PERMITS $1,050,000, tenant improvement 2251 N. Rainbow Blvd., Las Vegas Hadfield Building Corp. $820,680, commercial-new 330 W. Centennial Parkway, North Las Vegas Milestone Construction Inc. $797,432, commercial-new 4703 W. Ann Road, North Las Vegas GM Northup Corp. $690,000, tenant improvement 5720 Centennial Center Blvd., Las Vegas TWC Construction $570,000, tenant improvement 100 S. 14th St., Las Vegas Star Energy Construction LLC $461,000, tenant improvement 1585 N. Decatur Blvd., Las Vegas JG Enterprises $367,985, residential-new 7451 Yonie Court, Las Vegas Plasim Homes LLC $367,985, residential-new 7447 Yonie Court, Las Vegas Plasim Homes LLC $286,887, miscellaneous apparatus conduits and conductors 1293 N. Sandhill Road, Las Vegas Richardson Construction Inc. $250,000, commercial-on-site hardscapes and improvements 2450 W. Charleston Blvd., Las

Vegas Affordable Concepts Inc. $248,342, residential-new 9720 University Ridge Ave., Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC $234,381, commercial-shade structures 1293 N. Sandhill Road, Las Vegas Richardson Construction Inc. $220,000, tenant improvement 2025 N. Buffalo Drive, Las Vegas R&K Development $218,097, residential-new 12129 Paseo Terraza Lane, Las Vegas Woodside Homes of Nevada LLC $214,980, residential-new 45 Arista Port St., Henderson Richmond American Homes of Nevada $214,758, residential-new 1108 Via Alloro, Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC $214,758, residential-new 2285 Laughing Water Way., Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC $211,982, residential-new 298 Calgrove St., Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC $211,918, residential-new 9724 University Ridge Ave., Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC $211,711, residential-new 315 Calgrove St., Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC $211,007, residential-new 308 Calgrove St., Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC $203,466, residential-new 9721 University Ridge Ave., Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC $203,258, residential-new 453 Paso De Montana St., Las Vegas Woodside Homes of Nevada LLC $200,341, residential-new 2882 Shining Sun Way, Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC $200,000, tenant improvement 795 S. Grand Central Parkway, Las Vegas Three Rivers Construction & Development $198,550, tenant improvement 6260 N. Durango Drive, Las Vegas J&F Construction LLC $198,306, residential-new

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Records and Transactions 318 Calgrove St., Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC

3161 Via Como, Henderson Inspirada City Partners LLC

$196,197, residential-new 307 Calgrove St., Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC

$170,287, residential-new 821 Tarbet Ave., Henderson Inspirada City Partners LLC

$195,388, residential-new 8056 Majestic Bighorn St., Las Vegas Woodside Homes of Nevada LLC

$169,954, residential-new 2199 Maderno St., Henderson Pardee Homes Nevada

$194,962, residential-new 912 Lynne Harbor Ave., Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC $194,401, residential-new 8062 Majestic Bighorn St., Las Vegas Woodside Homes of Nevada LLC $181,821, residential-new 3218 San Cilino Ave., Henderson Toll Henderson LLC $181,821, residential-new 2548 Pont Marie Drive, Henderson Toll Henderson LLC $180,604, residential-new 1509 Fantastic Court, North Las Vegas William Lyon Homes Inc.

$169,954, residential-new 2190 Maderno St., Henderson Pardee Homes Nevada $164,465, residential-new 2883 Shining Sun Way, Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC $160,472, residential-new 2874 Shining Sun Way, Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC $160,472, residential-new 2867 Shining Sun Way, Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC $160,472, residential-new 2879 Shining Sun Way, Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC $159,142, residential-new 2887 Shining Sun Way, Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC

Toll Henderson LLC

Ryland Homes Nevada LLC

DR Horton Inc.

$145,723, residential-new 2195 Maderno St., Henderson Pardee Homes Nevada

$127,701, residential-new 49 Arista Port St., Henderson Ryland Homes Nevada LLC

$108,959, residential-new 7946 Blue Lake Peak St., Las Vegas Adaven Homes LLC

$145,723, residential-new 2198 Maderno St., Henderson Pardee Homes Nevada

$123,598, residential-new 283 Via San Gabriella, Henderson Century Communities Nevada LLC

$144,503, residential-new 3157 Via Como, Henderson Inspirada City Partners LLC

$123,422, residential-new 7656 Albright Peak Drive, Las Vegas Adaven Homes LLC

$144,503, residential-new 3159 Via Como, Henderson Inspirada City Partners LLC $144,503, residential-new Did not disclose, Henderson Inspirada City Partners LLC $144,503, residential-new Did not disclose, Henderson Inspirada City Partners LLC $141,675, residential-new 2878 Shining Sun Way, Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC $141,675, residential-new 2767 Sacred Court, Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC

$180,604, residential-new 1504 Fantastic Court, North Las Vegas William Lyon Homes Inc.

$159,142, residential-new 2875 Shining Sun Way, Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC

$141,657, residential-new 8068 Majestic Bighorn St., Las Vegas Woodside Homes of Nevada LLC

$180,604, residential-new 1512 Fantastic Court, North Las Vegas William Lyon Homes Inc.

$158,404, residential-new 5646 Pleasant Palms St., North Las Vegas J.F. Shea Co. Inc.

$139,770, residential-new 1505 Fantastic Court, North Las Vegas William Lyon Homes Inc.

$180,604, residential-new 1513 Fantastic Court, North Las Vegas William Lyon Homes Inc.

$158,404, residential-new 3609 Corte Bella Hills Ave., North Las Vegas J.F. Shea Co. Inc.

$138,306, residential-new 9514 Harlan Hills Court, Las Vegas Richmond American Homes of Nevada

$179,769, residential-new 3217 San Cilino Ave., Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC

$158,349, residential-new 1508 Fantastic Court, North Las Vegas William Lyon Homes Inc.

$137,294, residential-new 1105 Via Alloro, Henderson KB Home LLC

$179,693, residential-new 5634 Mackenzie Park Court, Las Vegas Richmond American Homes of Nevada $179,693, residential-new 5607 Mackenzie Park Court, Las Vegas Richmond American Homes of Nevada $179,658, residential-new 2194 Maderno St., Henderson Pardee Homes Nevada $178,993, residential-new 2186 Maderno St., Henderson Pardee Homes Nevada $177,717, residential-new 169 Wynntry Circle, Henderson Nancy Frasure Living Trust Agmt $170,287, residential-new

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$157,277, residential-new 9717 University Ridge Ave., Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC $156,323, residential-new 12261 Catanzaro Ave., Las Vegas Ryland Homes

$132,764, residential-new 5654 Pleasant Palms St., North Las Vegas J.F. Shea Co. Inc. $132,576, tenant improvement 5051 Stewart Ave., Las Vegas Master Built Construction LLC

$155,537, residential-new 2191 Maderno St., Henderson Pardee Homes Nevada

$129,143, residential-new 1093 Via Della Costrella, Henderson DR Horton Inc.

$155,537, residential-new 1112 Strada Cristallo, Henderson Pardee Homes Nevada

$129,143, residential-new 1104 Via Alloro, Henderson DR Horton Inc.

$151,377, residential-new 8126 Majestic Bighorn St., Las Vegas Woodside Homes of Nevada LLC

$129,143, residential-new 1096 Via Della Costrella, Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC

$149,881, residential-new 1908 Galleria Spada St., Henderson

$128,644, residential-new 2779 Sacred Court, Henderson

$123,422, residential-new 7610 Phoenix Peak St., Las Vegas Adaven Homes LLC $123,422, residential-new 10541 Mount Blackburn Ave., Las Vegas Adaven Homes LLC $123,422, residential-new 10549 Mount Blackburn Ave., Las Vegas Adaven Homes LLC $122,187, residential-new 6700 Bristle Falls St., Las Vegas Ryland Homes $122,187, residential-new 6749 Conquistador St., Las Vegas Ryland Homes $120,835, residential-new 4132 Seclusion Bay Ave., North Las Vegas Beazer Homes Holdings Corp. $117,926, residential-new 7349 Monticello Mist St., Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC

$108,959, residential-new 7943 Blue Lake Peak St., Las Vegas Adaven Homes LLC $107,296, residential-new 1092 Via Della Costrella, Henderson DR Horton Inc. $106,774, residential-new 7950 Blue Lake Peak St., Las Vegas Adaven Homes LLC $106,774, residential-new 7947 Blue Lake Peak St., Las Vegas Adaven Homes LLC $106,108, residential-new 4361 Shady River Ave., North Las Vegas KB Home Nevada Inc. $104,272, residential-new 7923 Mineral Peak St., Las Vegas Adaven Homes LLC $104,272, residential-new 7924 Mineral Peak St., Las Vegas Adaven Homes LLC $103,442, residential-new 9033 Cross Stitch Court, Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC

CONVENTIONS

$114,802, residential-new 8118 Majestic Bighorn St., Las Vegas Woodside Homes of Nevada LLC

Couture 2015 Location: Wynn Dates: May 28-June 1 Expected attendance: 4,000

$114,228, residential-new 7660 Albright Peak Drive, Las Vegas Adaven Homes LLC

Magic the Gathering Tournament 2015 Location: Las Vegas Convention Center Dates: May 28-31 Expected attendance: 10,000

$114,228, residential-new 7618 Phoenix Peak St., Las Vegas Adaven Homes LLC $114,228, residential-new 10545 Mount Blackburn Ave., Las Vegas Adaven Homes LLC

Wholesalecrafts.com-American Craft Retailers Expo 2015 Location: South Point Dates: May 28-30 Expected attendance: 3,000

$112,841, residential-new 386 Monique Springs St., Henderson DR Horton Inc.

Bick International - Coin, Currency, Jewelry & Stamp Expo Location: Orleans Dates: May 29-31 Expected attendance: 1,000

$112,841, residential-new 381 Monique Springs St., Henderson DR Horton Inc.

JCK Annual Trade Show 2015 Location: Mandalay Bay Dates: May 29-June 1 Expected attendance: 37,500

$112,841, residential-new 383 Monique Springs St., Henderson

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CATEGORY: RESIDENTIAL CARE FACILITIES (RANKED BY NUMBER OF LICENSED BEDS AS OF APRIL 30) Licensed Category beds 1 beds*

Category 2 beds* Owner

Top executive

Atria Sutton 3185 E. Flamingo Road Las Vegas, NV 89121 702-436-9000 • atriaseniorliving.com

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Atria Senior Living Group

Diana Mott, administrator

Brookdale Cheyenne 6031 W. Cheyenne Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89108 702-658-5882 • brookdale.com

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Don Parker, administrator

Wentworth of Las Vegas 2620 Lake Sahara Drive Las Vegas, NV 89117 702-233-9800

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Roger Hittle, administrator

Atria Seville 2000 N. Rampart Blvd.

Las Vegas, NV 89128 702-804-6800 • atriaseville.com

144

103

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Atria Senior Living Group

Andrew Levin, administrator

Atria Sunlake 3250 S. Fort Apache Road Las Vegas, NV 89117 702-256-6500 • atriaseniorliving.com

139

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139

Atria Senior Living Group

Dana Daunter, executive director

Prestige Assisted Living at Mira Loma 2520 Wigwam Parkway Henderson, NV 89074 702-260-8400 • prestigecare.com

138

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138

Prestige Care

Barbara K. Gottlieb, administrator

Pacifica Senior Living San Martin 8374 W. Capovilla Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89113 702-222-3600 • pacificasanmartin.com

132

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132

Pacifica Senior Living

Donald Trump Jr., administrator

The Charleston Residential 2121 W. Charleston Blvd.

Las Vegas, NV 89102 702-382-7746

129

Did not disclose

Did not disclose

Did not disclose

Wendy Ramirez, administrator

Heritage Springs Assisted Living and Memory Care 8720 W. Flamingo Road Las Vegas, NV 89147 702-360-6023 • heritagespringsseniorliving.com

127

Did not disclose

Did not disclose

BPM Senior Living

Nancy G. Overson, administrator

Willow Creek at Buffalo Assisted Living 3890 N. Buffalo Drive Las Vegas, NV 89129 702-396-1700 • willowcreeklv.com

113

85

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Willow Creek

Brad Boman, administrator

Siena Hills Assisted Living 2910 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway Henderson, NV 89052 702-614-8733 • seniorlifestyle.com

110

45

65

Senior Lifestyle

Gerald Taylor, administrator

Merrill Gardens at Green Valley Ranch LLC 1935 Paseo Verde Parkway Henderson, NV 89012 702-568-7900 • merrillgardens.com

108

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108

Merrill Gardens

Linn Thome, administrator

Pacifica Senior Living Green Valley 2620 E. Robindale Road Henderson, NV 89074 702-992-0000 • pacificaseniorliving.com

108

36

72

Pacifica Senior Living

Trudy Andrews, executive director

Brookdale Las Vegas 3025 E. Russell Road Las Vegas, NV 89120 702-451-7896 • brookdale.com

105

89

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Brookdale Senior Living Solutions

Ranae Cemensky, administrator

Sunrise of Henderson 1555 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway Henderson, NV 89012 702-837-6582 • sunrisehenderson.com

105

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105

Did not disclose

Michael Korin, administrator

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*Category 1 beds are for residents without memory loss; category 2 beds are for residents with some form of memory loss.

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