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NOTEWORTHY STORIES

FLOODING IN THE VALLEY

ON THE COVER Elite eaters put to shame that guy in front of you at the buffet line.

Las Vegas is situated in a desert and gets the least average annual precipitation among any major U.S. city. So how and why does it flood? In five minutes, we’ll make you an expert on desert water danger and what the city has done to protect against it — as well as what people can do to stay safe.

FEEDING TIME

Contest eating goes beyond hot dogs and soggy buns. The athletes — yes, they engage in specific workout regimens tailored to their competitive goals — set records for sushi, bacon, pumpkin pie and even cow brains. We examine their training, eating and recovery techniques, and share some places locals can test themselves.

CULTIVATING YOUNG MINDS

Schools across Clark County are discovering that teaching children to work in a garden is beneficial to students learning a variety of subjects, from biology to business.

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REBUILDING A FOUNDATION

Commercial real estate in Southern Nevada is slowing making a comeback from the Great Recession, but this time, banks are being more cautious about whom they lend money to. For instance, local executives say they will fund projects only if developers already have tenants lined up.

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A day in the ER Each work shift brings myriad challenges for doctors at University Medical Center.

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Angels in the Valley: Karim Hussein How a Palo Verde High School student and JROTC cadet saved his father’s life.

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Ride-hailing services are revving up again Uber has regulatory hurdles to clear before it can go full throttle in Las Vegas, but the door is open for its return to business.

Unlike GOP field, Clinton dealing with reality Most Republican presidential candidates aren’t venturing outside of their comfort zones. Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, is confronting the difficult issues facing the nation.

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CLIMBING HIGH

Festival goers climb into an interactive art sculpture during the Electric Daisy Carnival.

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A Las Vegas doctor was charged with child pornography after allegedly sedating a teenage patient and videotaping himself having sex with her, Metro Police said.

Renewed concerns over the Confederate flag spilled over to UNLV. Sen. Harry Reid suggested regents consider changing the university’s Rebels mascot.

The elevation of Lake Mead dipped below 1,075 feet, setting a new low for the droughtstricken reservoir and crossing a threshold that could trigger water cuts next year.

More than 6 million people who received tax credits to pay for health insurance will get to keep them, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled.

Rashad Vaughn, who left UNLV’s basketball program after one season, was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks as the 17th overall pick of the NBA Draft.

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Clark County’s unemployment rate in May, the lowest level since May 2008.

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CHASING THE PUCK The National Hockey League’s Board of Governors formally agreed to begin accepting expansion-franchise applications.

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman mentioned three cities — Seattle, Quebec City and Las Vegas — as having shown the most interest.

The Las Vegas group, led by businessman Bill Foley, impressed hockey officials by collecting deposits for more than 13,000 season tickets, showing Southern Nevada has an appetite for the sport.

“Based on the drive he conducted, on the surface, it looks like there’s a tremendous amount of interest here,” Bettman said.

The application process opens July 6, with all requests due by Aug. 10. Factors to be considered include arena, ownership, market viability and business plan. There also would be a $500 million expansion fee.

Las Vegas’ team is proposed to begin play during the 2017-18 season at the privately-funded, $375 million MGM/AEG arena near New York-New York and Monte Carlo.

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as Vegas is one of the driest cities in the country, receiving an average of just four inches of rain per year.

But if enough rain falls in the right place in a short amount of time, the valley’s desert landscape quickly can be inundated with raging flood waters.

With no tornadoes or hurricanes to contend with, floods are Las Vegas’ most damaging and most deadly natural disaster.

Las Vegas experienced four floods in 2014, two of which were declared emergencies by the National Weather Service, the most severe category of alert.

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ago, when the valley’s drainage system consisted of several natural washes and a piecemeal network of city flood control channels. In 1985, with the valley on the verge of a growth spurt, state legislators decided a more organized approach was needed and formed the Clark County Regional Flood Control District to oversee urban and rural lands in the valley, on Mount Charleston and in smaller communities such as Mesquite and Moapa.

Since its formation, the district has spent $1.7 billion building a flood control system that today includes dozens of detention basins and hundreds of miles of channels. The system is about 75 percent complete.

During intense storms, there still are parts of town where floods submerge streets.

WHY DOES LAS VEGAS FLOOD? SPRING MOUNTAINS

The geography of the Las Vegas Valley basin is similar to a bowl tipped slightly toward its edge. Storm water flows downhill through the valley from west to east, converging in the Las Vegas Wash before pouring through the Clark County Wetlands and into Lake Mead.

WHO MONITORS FLOODING? The Flood Control District’s job is to make sure water flows from one side of the valley to the other in as orderly a fashion as possible, away from areas with lots of buildings or people. The system is designed to handle a 100-year storm, which has a 1 percent chance of happening in any given year.

DETENTION BASINS

SEVERAL TOOLS ARE USED TO CARRY AND CONTROL STORM WATER

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DETENTION BASINS Detention basins act as temporary storage when water pours into the valley faster than it can drain out to the lake. The basins fill during storms, then slowly divert the water to channels at a manageable rate.

The detention basins typically span 10 to 50 acres and are up to 50 feet deep.

STORM DRAINS Storm drains are the feeder system of the flood control network, using curbs and gutters to carry water off streets and into underground drains that lead to flood control channels.

CHANNELS Seven large concrete channels form the backbone of the regional flood control system, collecting water from storm drains and detention basins. The channels converge in the Las Vegas Wash and flow to Lake Mead. During storms, the otherwise dry channels can fill up quickly and create rapid currents that move thousands of cubic feet of water per second.

In most areas, the channels are open and uncovered, allowing water to flow easily into them over their sides. Where flood channels meet roads or developments, the flow is routed underground through four-sided concrete box culverts.

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Flood insurance Most homes in Las Vegas aren’t in designated flood zones, meaning homeowners aren’t required to buy federal flood insurance. But buying a flood policy, which can cost as little as $300 to $400 a year for homes in low to moderate risk areas, is worth considering. The flood control district offers resources to help homeowners buy flood insurance and research the history of flooding near their homes.

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The development of the regional flood control network has resulted in more than 51 square miles of land in Clark County being removed from federally designated flood zones, saving people millions of dollars annually on insurance premiums.

staying safe

How is the system funded?

1. The desert landscape and sparse vegetation do little to absorb water flowing over it.

2. The desert soil also is averse to water, with some stretches of natural land absorbing so little water, it may as well be asphalt.

3. The valley’s urban sprawl of roads, shopping centers and neighborhoods means there’s lots of paved land that’s little help absorbing or slowing storm flows. “Water just hits and runs off,” said Steve Parrish, general manager of the Clark County Regional Flood Control District. “When you combine all of those things with an intense storm, the result is flooding.”

Gaps in the system Despite the progress made over the past three decades, there still are many parts of the valley that remain unconnected to the regional drainage system, causing streets to flood when heavy rains arrive. The gaps in the system are caused by the piecemeal measures put in place by cities before the flood control district was formed, as well as continued development on the edge of the valley that’s being built faster than the flood district can keep pace. For instance, a stretch of Grand Teton Drive in the northwest suffered frequent flooding because of a one-mile gap in the drainage system. The gap recently was fixed, thanks to $15 million of construction to install new drains under the road.

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In 1986, voters approved a quarter-cent sales tax increase to fund the regional flood control district.

The dedicated funding is unique compared with most flood districts, which are paid for with annual appropriations from local governments. Predictable revenue allows the Clark County Regional Flood Control District to plan its construction over decades and tackle projects in a more efficient manner.

The most recent deaths due to flooding came in 2012 when a pair of people were killed in separate incidents during a summer of heavy storms. A Henderson teenager died after being swept into a flood channel on Pittman Wash. At the Desert Rose Golf Course, a landscaper died after being swept away by flood waters.

Flood officials say there are a few basic steps people can take to stay safe when the waters start rising.

Don’t drive into flood waters Most injuries and deaths from flash floods come from motorists who don’t heed warnings or roadblocks and drive onto submerged streets. While from a distance flood water may not look like it’s moving fast, it can travel as fast as 30 miles per hour — fast enough to lift a car and send it tumbling off the road. Drivers “think they’re in this big, heavy car and that they’re almost invincible,” Parrish said. “They don’t understand that cars can float.

If the doors are shut and water gets above the bottom of the car, there’s a buoyancy effect.”

Stay away from channels and basins Flood control facilities are scattered throughout the valley, with detention basins near soccer fields, dog parks and walking trails. The basins are permanently marked with no trespassing signs, but the warnings are especially important to heed when the basins start to fill with water. Water flows rapidly through the flood control system, making it nearly impossible for even experienced swimmers to escape if they fall into a channel. Banks around some of the channels are unlined and can become unstable during storms, increasing the risk that someone trying to get a close look at the storm waters may fall in.

Flash flooding has killed 39 people in Clark County since 1960, mostly from drowning.

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Miki Sudo’s favorite competition food is ice cream. “It was just pleasant,” she said.

“Who doesn’t like all-you-can-eat ice cream for six minutes?”

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Miki Sudo is downing oysters at the Orleans. ¶ Although they’re not her favorite, Sudo grabs a half shell, raises it to her mouth, sucks out the raw oyster and swallows it whole. Chewing would take too long in competition. ¶ A few minutes later, all that remains is a stack of empty shells. ¶ “I don’t even feel like I ate,” Sudo says. ¶ Welcome to a practice round for one of the world’s top competitive eaters. Sudo is ranked by Major League Eating No. 1 among women competitive eaters worldwide and No. 4 among men and women, having fallen into the sport in 2011 after scarfing down a 12-pound bowl of Vietnamese noodle soup in Chinatown. Sudo won a $1,510 jackpot and found her calling. ¶ A day after the oyster session, Sudo downs platefuls of pot stickers, prepping for a different competition. Last summer, she won the women’s division of Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, sucking down 34 hot dogs in 10 minutes. ¶ How do Sudo and her colleagues do it? What does it take to be a competitive eater? And why don’t they weigh 300 pounds?

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Tim “Eater X” Janus competes in the 2012 Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating World Championship. The competition is staged every Fourth of July.

Janus finished in second place after eating 52 hot dogs and buns.

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IS COMPETITIVE EATING DANGEROUS? It can be. Binge eating can rip the lining of the stomach, particularly if someone has undiagnosed ulcers. Drinking too much water could dilute electrolytes in the blood and cause fatal water intoxication. Vomiting or faulty swallowing can cause asphyxiation, and food can get lodged in the lungs and cause pneumonia.

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Masticator muscles in the jaw are among the strongest in the human body and are a key factor in being able to grind food quickly. Competitive eaters often work the muscles by chewing gum — anywhere from six to 25 pieces at a time.

PRACTICE RUNS Most competitors do dry timed runs at home before a competition. Joey Chestnut, who compares his training regimen to that of a bodybuilder or marathoner, says he practices once a week by eating massive quantities of whatever food will be featured in his next competition. It helps him shave time off the clock and perfect his technique for the particular food.

Some eaters videotape their practices so they can critique and improve their techniques.

HOME STRETCH Most competitors cut way back on food in the days leading up to a competition.

Chestnut stops eating solid foods and consumes only water and protein supplements. Sudo fasts 24 hours before each contest.

“You want to go in hungry,” Sudo said. “If you have the right appetite, the first three or four minutes can be enjoyable.”

Competition habits of successful eaters:

Move around.

It helps the food settle and allows more to fit in.

Stand while competing.

Sitting limits the space in your stomach and colon.

Wear comfortable clothes. Bottoms with elastic waistbands are preferable.

Hop in place.

Gravity and force can help speed up swallowing.

HIT THE BUFFET In the week leading up to a competition, Juan Rodriguez, a valley resident who is the 11th-best competitive eater in the world, eats at least three buffet meals, eating platefuls of food for up to three hours. He tries to fill two plates of food from each section: Italian, Chinese, American.

“Living in Vegas is a great advantage because we have all the buffets at our disposal,” Rodriguez said.

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CONTROL YOUR BREATHING Eaters find a workable rhythm for breathing and stick to it. If they don’t breathe enough, their heart rate will quicken. If they breathe too often, they’ll lose time.

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It sounds counterintuitive, but competitive eaters are skilled, trained athletes. Most work hard at their craft and devote a significant amount of time to preparing for competitions.

TEST YOURSELF It’s unlikely the average diner can down 103 hamburgers in eight minutes like competitive eating champ Joey Chestnut or swallow 57 cow brains in 15 minutes like gurgitating guru Takeru Kobayashi. But how about a sixpound burrito in 45 minutes? Or 87 ounces of noodle soup in a half-hour?

That’s more doable. In fact, it has been done here. A growing number of Las Vegas restaurants have added oversized food challenges to their menus. It’s marketing brilliance — and gastronomical torture.

Here’s a taste of what’s out there for those who want to put their stomachs to the test:

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Be flexible. Be able to adapt quickly to variables such as portion size and meat tenderness.

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STOMACH CAPACITY The key to successful competitive eating is stretching your stomach. Most competitors do that over time by guzzling increasingly large amounts of water or milk — up to a gallon at a time, usually in only a DO NOT minute or two.

TRY THIS AT Competitors also eat HOME. huge amounts of food.

These people are The key is low-calorie, professionals, and high-fiber, water-rich consuming too meals. Yasir Salem, who much water can in 2013 won the Cannoli be deadly.

Eating Competition, trains by eating 6 to 8 pounds of steamed broccoli and cauliflower topped with a couple of pounds of sauerkraut in about 20 minutes. Others stretch their stomachs with watermelon, lettuce, cabbage or grapes.

Stomachs stretch after you eat a meal but typically shrink back to normal size. Repeatedly eating large quantities of food can cause stomach muscles to weaken and enlarge the “normal” size of the stomach.

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Food in a competitor’s mouth when time is called counts, so stuff it in.

WORK OUT Exercise is crucial for competitive eaters, to maintain their body weight and limit belly fat, which can impede food intake.

Rodriguez said he spends about 12 hours a week exercising, doing mostly weight training and a little bit of cardio.

A person’s abdomen can only fit so much, and the leaner it is, the more food can be shoved in.

Many competitors work out an hour or two before a competition to increase their appetite and stimulate their muscles.

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IT’S COMPETITION TIME! Eating competitions typically last 10 to 12 minutes.

Depending on the food type, winners are determined by the number of items eaten, as with hot dogs, or the weight of the food consumed, as with chicken wings.

Prizes typically range from bragging rights to a few thousand dollars.

HOW TO EAT STRATEGICALLY

Sudo won the 2013 Hooters wing-eating contest in Las Vegas after eating 192 wings in 10 minutes. (STEVE MARCUS/STAFF)

Dunking hot dog buns in water is done to make them easier to eat. (ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE)

TECHNIQUES FOR CHICKEN WINGS

For drumettes, Sudo rolls each in her hand to strip the chicken from the bone in one motion.

Flappers are more complicated. Sudo separates the bones with her thumb, places the flapper in her mouth and pulls the meat off with her teeth.

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Two organizations regulate professional competitive eating. The International Federation of Competitive Eaters, also known as Major League Eating, allows competitors to dunk food in liquid before swallowing. The Association of Independent Competitive Eaters uses “picnic-style” rules that require food to be eaten normally without mashing, dunking or mutilation.

If the competition food was processed and heavy in sodium nitrates, competitors drink lots of water to relieve bloating. Green tea pills also help, Rodriguez said.

PICK THE RIGHT LIQUID Sudo dunks food in strawberry or raspberry lemonade instead of water because she likes the taste better.

Other types of liquids give competitors an advantage.

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Joey Chestnut set the record (69) in 2013 at the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating contest. (ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE)

Alcohol isn’t allowed, and soda is a bad choice because the carbonation can make competitors burp.

Whole milk: Neutralizes spicy foods.

Sugar-free flavored drinks or water: Best for salty foods; low calories allow more to be eaten.

Coffee or tea: Best for sweet foods.

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Liquids should be body temperature.

Cold liquids can cause the throat to tense, while hot liquids can burn.

If the contest food was very flavorful or greasy, competitors eat bread to soak up the oils and spices.

Most competitors nap after a competition, as eating such copious amounts can be a workout.

Many eaters use laxatives or stool softeners after a contest.

Most competitors say they do not vomit after a competition.

DO THEY PUKE? Sometimes competition can be too much even for an expert to handle. Vomiting during an eating contest isn’t common but does occur.

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The emergency room at University Medical Center is typically a busy place, with attending physicians such as Dr. David Obert, center, doing their best to diagnose, treat and dispatch dozens of patients per shift. (PHOTOS BY L.E. BASKOW/STAFF)

Portrait of a day at the ER Each work shift brings myriad challenges for doctors at University Medical Center

BY JACKIE VALLEY STAFF WRITER

It’s Friday the 13th, and Dr. David Obert is driving to work. The date doesn’t worry him. As an emergency room physician at University Medical Center, Las Vegas’ public hospital, he can see crazy any day.

He calms drunk and delirious people and has stitched multiple gunshot wounds closed. He helped deliver a baby in the front seat of a truck. And, more than once, he has removed foreign objects that people willingly inserted into their bodies.

“There tends to be a lot of drugs (involved) with these things,” Obert said of the object removals. “I don’t even ask anymore.”

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a guarantee patients will clog his lobby. If it’s busy at other local hospitals, UMC’s emergency department is almost certain to be slammed.

As the city’s safety net for the poor and uninsured, UMC’s emergency department has no shortage of action or variety. Last year, nearly 75,000 adults received care there, along with more than 31,000 children and almost 12,000 trauma victims. UMC has separate trauma, adult and pediatric emergency rooms.

About 17 percent of the patients had no health insurance, although that’s down from a peak of 36 percent before the Affordable Care Act went into effect.

Obert has worked at UMC for nine years. It’s the type of atmosphere he sought after volunteering as a college student at a tiny community hospital in California. On his first day there, a man with a stab wound arrived at the emergency room.

“I was hooked,” Obert recalled. nnn

At 6 a.m., a man complaining of chest pain walks into the emergency room. He has suffered a heart attack before. The Veterans Affairs Hospital in North Las Vegas

sent him here, figuring UMC would be better equipped to handle his needs.

UMC operates Southern Nevada’s only Level 1 trauma center and the state’s only burn center. As such, it’s often the landing place for people with life-threatening gunshot wounds, motorists involved in car wrecks, people who attempted suicide and others barely clinging to life.

“It’s a catchall,” Obert said. “It’s truly the fail-safe, the backup. A lot of stuff ends up here by default.”

The emergency room receives the lion’s share of those cases. People flock to UMC’s emergency department for a variety of reasons — such as having no health insurance or having difficulty securing an appointment with a primary-care doctor. Many patients see the emergency room as convenient, a place to fill prescriptions, get a hot meal, sleep in a warm bed. The department doesn’t turn away anyone.

For years, UMC has struggled to keep afloat financially. Clark County taxpayers bailed out the hospital with a $71 million subsidy in 2014. At the same time, hospital officials eliminated 390 positions and closed four satellite clinics.

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Drs. Darren Mahoney, left, and Obert confer about the status of a patient. The ER at UMC treated nearly 75,000 adult patients last year, as well as more than 31,000 children.

The valley’s doctor shortage puts an extra squeeze on the emergency room, as does the community’s lack of resources for the mentally ill. About 20 percent of patients in UMC’s emergency room show signs of mental illness.

Patients arrive by ambulance, public bus and car, most often with abdominal pain, chest pain or respiratory issues. The majority of patients — 53 percent — aren’t severely ill, hospital officials said, despite the fact that emergency rooms were created to serve only the most urgent health emergencies. nnn

At first, the 33-year-old woman’s symptoms point to anxiety: She suffers extreme headaches when she lies down after long days juggling work and caring for her four children.

But as the woman tearfully explains a list of other symptoms — dizziness, nausea, a change in her hair texture — Obert begins thinking otherwise. He’s sitting next to her because it’s less intimidating, and he needs her to feel comfortable enough to share everything.

He also summoned the help of a Spanish translator, a frequent necessity given the hospital’s large number of Hispanic patients.

“You look tired to me,” Obert tells the woman as he examines her neck. “We’re going to check a few things.”

He orders a blood test to test for a thyroid disorder.

Several hours later, the results indicate Obert’s hunch was correct: The woman’s hormone levels indicate hyperthyroidism. Obert starts her on medications, and the woman and her husband leave the hospital.

In the meantime, Obert has spoken with numerous other patients, including a 25-year-old with a severe case of strep throat, another man with chest pain, two jail inmates and an elderly woman who fell, gashing her left eye and breaking her shoulder. Another patient

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complaining of stomach pain arrived by ambulance but left shortly after paramedics wheeled him into the emergency room.

“It happens on a regular basis,” Obert said. “It’s unfortunate for him if he really does have a medical problem.”

By the end of Obert’s eight-hour shift, he has seen 20 patients and mentored several medical residents.

UMC is a teaching hospital, and training the next generation of doctors is a big part of Obert’s job. nnn

A man who was found ebbing in and out of consciousness at a bus stop wakes from his daze when Obert visits him. The man is confused.

“Do you know where you’re at?” Obert asks.

The man doesn’t respond, so Obert helps him: “This is a hospital. Do you know what city you’re in?”

“This is Los Angeles, Calif.,” the patient says.

Obert poses more questions, trying to piece together what happened. Soon, the man’s memory becomes less fuzzy. He remembers being at a casino with a flask of Fireball whiskey, playing blackjack. He was winning.

But somehow he got kicked out, so he headed toward the bus station. He may have taken a few Xanax pills, too.

Obert advises him to cut back on the alcohol and refrain from mixing it with drugs.

Once the man gets in touch with family who can pick him up, he’s free to leave. He didn’t suffer any injuries.

Obert said he receives a fair share of patients whose medical problems are related to alcohol, drugs, gambling or sex.

“People will hop on a bus and be like, ‘I’m going to Vegas,’ ” Obert said. “Then they get here and have no social support.”

That paves the way for bad things to happen and for UMC to welcome more patients.

Most people hesitate to call an ambulance except in the most urgent of circumstances. Others call ambulances two or three times a week. Some Las Vegans use ambulances as taxis, to hitch free rides to destinations close to hospitals.

Two years ago, ambulance company AMR saw an influx of joyriders who called ambulances, provided false identification, then bolted when they arrived at the hospital. Even if paramedics know someone has insincere intentions, they aren’t allowed to turn patients away.

The abuse since has decreased — AMR officials aren’t sure why — but the problem of “frequent fliers,” people who regularly call 911, sometimes multiple times a week, to request an ambulance, continues.

When Stephanie Teague, a community paramedic specialist for AMR, visits patients’ homes, she drives a Ford Escape — not an ambulance. That’s the point. Many of the people Teague visits each week are former frequent fliers who called ambulances inappropriately because they let chronic conditions get out of hand, couldn’t secure a primary-care physician or needed a prescription refill.

Teague’s clients range in age from 22 to 75 and have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart disease and diabetes, among other conditions. During home visits, Teague offers medical care and information to try to minimize unnecessary ambulance transports.

“What we’re really trying to do is give more to them than they can find on their own,” she said.

The patients’ problems vary.

Some don’t have the right medical equipment or medications. Others are in financial trouble and need information about food banks and Medicaid. Teague visits twice a week at no cost to the patient.

The program, now 3years old, reduces AMR’s costs and frees up ambulances and bed space in hospitals. AMR takes an average of more than 300 people to local hospitals daily, Teague said.

The 40 people Teague visits each month live across the valley and have become an important part of her life.

“It’s almost like being adopted into all these families,” Teague said. “Some of them need that mom-paramedic tough love. Other ones just need somebody to say, ‘I’m still here for you.’ ”

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PROJECT JACKPOT 18 ACRES

Located just south of Harmon Avenue on the east side of Las Vegas Boulevard, “Project Jackpot” includes a Walgreens, Travelodge motel and Harley-Davidson Cafe.

And it’s for sale.

The previous ownership of the site, which once was supposed to house an Elvis-themed resort, went bankrupt a few years ago, and a group spearheaded by Spectrum Group Management took control of it. The group has put the property on the market after receiving unsolicited offers from multiple potential buyers.

The site could become a mixed-use development with a combination of retail, hotel, and maybe timeshare, residential and casino buildings.

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In 2005, actor George Clooney was involved with a group that planned to build a large, mixed-use project called Las Ramblas — named after the famous street La Rambla in Barcelona — at Harmon Avenue between Koval Lane and Paradise Road. The group ended up scrapping the project and selling it to the developer of an adjacent site, and it was combined with yet another piece of land. The new ownership defaulted, though, and the site is back on the market after making its way through the foreclosure process.

CBRE Group is brokering the sale of the now-60-acre site.

“You got a blank canvas there where a developer can come in and incorporate a number of uses,” Parks said. “Sixty acres is a large piece of property, and while it could support another megaresort, it’s probably more likely that someone comes in and develops other uses, as opposed to just one big resort on the site.”

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he $4 billion Resorts World Las Vegas project made a big splash in May when a ceremonial groundbreaking ushered in what, upon completion, would be the Strip’s biggest development in years. ¶ But the Resorts World site, formerly home to the Stardust and the scrapped Echelon project, isn’t the only spot in the heart of Southern Nevada’s tourism corridor that could be developed over the next couple of years. ¶ In several areas on the Strip and within close proximity to it, opportunities exist for new casinos or other big buildings to pop up. Some developers are pressing forward with major plans, although several projects remain shrouded in mystery. ¶ Real estate broker Michael Parks of CBRE Group described the environment for development on the Strip as positive but controlled.

He drew a strong contrast between what’s happening today and the situation before the financial downturn. ¶ “We’re not seeing a new potential project be announced every other week like we were at the peak of the market when there was always a new condo project or resort project going up,” Parks said. “I think the banks are just being more cautious on which projects they’re going to provide financing for. But we are seeing an increased level of interest in companies wanting to put a stake in Las Vegas.” ¶ Here’s a look at some of the remaining development opportunities on and around the Strip.

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HARMON HOTEL TOWER .97 ACRES

The southwest corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Harmon Avenue, a prime spot on the Strip, has for years been fraught with complications.

The Harmon hotel should have opened there as part of the CityCenter complex developed by MGM Resorts International and Dubai World.

But work on the building stopped in 2008 when construction defects surfaced, indicating that the steel used in the initial 26 stories wouldn’t support the rest of the building.

Workers began to dismantle the building last summer, and in December, MGM Resorts and general contractor Tutor Perini Corp. reached a settlement that prevented a lengthy trial about the tower’s problems.

Now, MGM Resorts needs to figure out what to do with the site. CEO Jim Murren said his company felt it was inappropriate to plan for the site’s future until after the litigation was resolved. Now that it is, MGM is considering its options.

“We know, conceptually, the kinds of things that would be effective there,” Murren said. “It’s my guess that we’ll go back to the CityCenter board by the end of this year to talk in more tangible ways about what to do there.”

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NEW FRONTIER 35 ACRES

Once home to one of Las Vegas’ famous old resorts, this site has sat empty since November 2007. That’s when the New Frontier was imploded to make room for a planned replica of the Plaza Hotel in New York.

The El-Ad Group had purchased the site for $1.2 billion, but its Plaza dreams crashed amid the financial downturn.

Last year, a group including Australian casino company Crown Resorts bought the site and announced plans to build a resort. Further details have yet to be revealed.

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After six decades in operation on the north Strip, the Riviera hotel closed May 4. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority bought the aging property for $182.5 million with plans to replace it with convention space.

The resort eventually will be demolished or imploded, but the authority hasn’t disclosed a timeline for when the Riviera will come down.

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A ceremonial groundbreaking for the project took place last fall, next to SLS Las Vegas.

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Taxi cab drivers gather May 29 in front of Caesars Palace to protest Uber, the ride-hailing service trying to break into the Las Vegas market. Laws signed by Gov. Brian Sandoval opened the door, but there remain details to be worked out before Uber drivers can pick up customers on the Strip. (L.E. BASKOW/STAFF)

Ride-hailing services revving up again Uber has regulatory hurdles to clear before it can go full throttle in Las Vegas

BY CONOR SHINE STAFF WRITER

After a thwarted launch last year and four months of intense lobbying at the Nevada Legislature, Uber now can legally operate its ride-hailing service in Nevada, thanks to a pair of laws signed last month by Gov. Brian Sandoval.

But don’t pull out your smartphone and download the app just yet.

Before Uber drivers can start giving rides to valley residents, even more rules will need to be written, this time by the Nevada Transportation Authority. That could happen as soon as this week, but Uber and any other ridehailing service that wants to operate in Nevada then will have to apply with the NTA for approval.

That means it still could be several weeks, and possibly longer, before you can catch an Uber ride near your home — and potentially even longer for a pickup at a Strip casino or the airport.

Uber will have to negotiate separate deals with McCarran International Airport officials and Strip casino companies before drivers can begin picking up riders at those locations.

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THE NEW LAWS A pair of bills passed by the Legislature cleared the way for Uber and other ride-hailing companies, known formally as transportation network companies, to come to Nevada. The laws set insurance, background-check and vehicle-maintenance standards for drivers, and imposed a 3 percent surcharge on all fares.

But rulemaking is a two-step process in Nevada, with lawmakers laying out broad requirements, and state agencies, in this case the Nevada Transportation Authority, filling in details.

Transportation Authority staffers have been working since the law was passed to draft an emergency set of regulations that would provide clarification.

Once those rules are in place, Uber and other ride-hailing companies could apply for a permit as soon as July 1, and the Transportation Authority would have up to 120 days to process and review.

A set of permanent regulations also will be developed over the next year, with workshops and public meetings, to address insurance requirements, driver permitting and more.

GETTING TO THE STRIP During the few weeks Uber operated in Las Vegas before being shut down by state officials, drivers gave thousands of

rides to residents from all corners of the valley.

The only places they weren’t active were the two places where cabs are in highest demand — the Strip and the airport. To avoid running afoul of hotel and airport officials, the company configured its app to block customers in those areas from ordering rides.

Although Uber is confident it can be successful serving residents in neighborhoods typically underserved by taxis, it’s hard to ignore the resort corridor, which accounts for about 95 percent of the nearly 26 million taxi rides in the region each year.

At the airport, officials have discussed setting up a specific zone where Uber drivers could pick up riders separate from the taxi lines.

“The airport is diligently working on how that type of operation would work,” Director of Aviation Rosemary Vassiliadis said. “It’s a different type of behavior. The pickup is really different than how a cab, shuttle bus or limo operate.”

Airport officials also are reviewing whether insurance requirements for drivers meet county standards — the airport is county-owned — and how to levy the $2 surcharge tacked onto fares that originate at the airport.

San Francisco International Airport welcomed Uber drivers last fall after

nearly a year of contentious back and forth that led to cease-and-desist letters and threats to shut down ride-hailing companies illegally operating at the airport. Los Angeles also is in the process of writing rules that would allow Uber drivers to begin servicing Los Angeles International Airport starting this summer. The rules would allow drivers to pick up and drop off passengers in the airport’s departure level and also impose a $4 per passenger fee on airport fares.

Resorts on the Strip are sorting through issues of logistics and liability before allowing Uber to enter their private properties and serve guests.

Several casino companies acknowledged discussions with Uber, but none was willing to speak about the specific issues that need to be resolved. The issues likely revolve around passenger pickup, because Uber’s on-demand service and variable pricing don’t mesh with the taxicab lines that are standard on the Strip.

For its part, Uber is talking with casinos, restaurants, bars, show venues and businesses throughout Las Vegas to educate them about the company’s service. Spokeswoman Eva Behrend said the response has been welcoming.

“Everything’s going well so far,” Behrend said.

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Last week, I got a letter saying my HOA was foreclosing on my home because I owe them $2,000 that’s past due. Can they do that? I’m current on my mortgage and don’t think I owe them money!

Yes. In Nevada, a homeowners association has the right to foreclose on a home regardless of whether you’re current on your mortgage, even if you dispute the amount you owe. In fact, your letter probably reads, “Warning! If you fail to pay the amount specified in this notice, you could lose your home, even if the amount is in dispute.”

(That’s required by law).

HOA foreclosure has been in the news a lot over the past few years, most recently when Gov. Brian XENOPHON PETERS Sandoval signed into law Senate Bill 306, which adds several new rules governing HOA foreclosure.

Unfortunately for the reader who asked today’s question, the bill doesn’t take effect until Oct. 1.

HOA foreclosure is no joking matter. Once the process has started, HOAs tend to foreclose quickly, leaving many (former) homeowners upset and confused when they’re evicted by new owners. Adding to the misery, as of this writing, most HOA foreclosures are permanent, meaning there’s no right of redemption.* Hope is not lost, though. It’s usually possible to negotiate with your HOA to stop the sale and work out a payment plan — sometimes for less than what you owe. The truth is, most

HOAs don’t want to foreclose on residents, they just want to get paid. (They’re about as strapped for cash as the rest of us). If you communicate with your HOA board, you usually can work something out.

If your HOA board won’t work with you, there may be other options available to stop or delay an HOA foreclosure, including bankruptcy and filing a lawsuit. Before going down those paths, however, I encourage you to try to handle the situation outside of the court system. *When Senate Bill 306 goes into effect in October, homeowners will have 60 days after the date of foreclosure to pay the auction-sales price plus other expenses as noted in NRS 116.31166 to get their home back.

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THROWING A PARTY? 10 STEPS TO KEEP GUESTS SAFE ’Tis the season for day clubs, pool parties and BBQs, especially here in Las Vegas. With the Fourth of July weekend quickly approaching, there’s a seemingly endless lineup of events. ¶ But whether you’re attending or hosting, keeping everyone safe and sound should be a top priority. As a party host, it’s your job to make sure your guests have a great time and are able to get home safely. There may be no worse feeling than knowing your friend took his or her last drink in your home before causing a serious car crash. ¶ Creating a safe party-environment can help prevent drunken driving.

ARE YOU SOBER YET?

While a .08 blood-alcohol content is the legal limit, the only truly safe BAC for driving is zero. Waiting 45 minutes between drinks and drinking water between alcoholic beverages can help you avoid getting too intoxicated. It can take more than two hours to drop from a .05 BAC to a zero and up to six hours from a .08 BAC.

IF YOU’VE HAD TOO MUCH TO DRINK ...

Maybe the heat got to you, maybe you didn’t eat enough during the day, maybe your mixed drink was stronger than you anticipated. Regardless, you’ve had too much to drink and can’t drive home.

Be sure to set up “insurance plans” for yourself should you need them.

1. Make sure your phone is fully charged before going out, and have cab numbers saved and accessible.

2. Park your car somewhere you can leave it overnight if you have to.

3. Familiarize yourself with designated driver services that will drive your car home for you if you can’t. There are multiple options in Las Vegas.

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Make sure the designated driver isn’t parked where they can be blocked in by other cars.

Have enough party supplies to last you and your guests all night.

There should be no reason for anyone to have to make a mid-party beer run.

Hire a professional or designate a trusted friend to be the bartender so guests aren’t serving themselves.

Be sure to have plenty of snacks available throughout the party, but avoid too many salty options, which can cause guests to drink more.

(Pro tip: Snacks that are high in water content are best, especially in the heat. Watermelon, fruit salads and vegetable plates all are great options.)

Have water readily available for guests. Set out multiple coolers filled with water bottles and refill them throughout the party.

Stop serving alcoholic beverages at least an hour before you expect anyone to leave.

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Be prepared for the possibility of overnight guests.

Have blankets, pillows and sleeping bags ready in case anyone needs to stay the night.

Most importantly, don’t let anyone drive whom you suspect may have had one too many. Instead, help them find a ride home, ask them to stay longer to hang out and sober up, or let them crash at your place.

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Palo Verde JROTC cadet Karim Hussein, left, practices rifle drills with other members at the high school. Hussein saved his father from drowning in March and was awarded the JROTC’s highest honor. (L.E. BASKOW/STAFF)

‘The family hero’: Teen saves dad’s life

BY IAN WHITAKER

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member anything after that. With the help of the groom, Karim hauled his father back onto the rocks before paramedics took In Angels in the Valley, an him to the hospital.

Karim Hussein had been asking to accompany his father occasional series, we “Afterward, it hit me that in that split second, I could have on trips for his videography business for years. profile people who have lost my dad and my own life,” Karim said. “I saw my dad there In the past, Sam Hussein always said no. But while preparing made a difference in drowning, and I didn’t even think, I just jumped back in the wafor a recent trip to Southern California to film a wedding, he the lives of others and ter.” finally relented. deserve to be recognized Three surgeries and as many months later, Sam Hussein On March 14, 16-year-old Karim, then a Palo Verde junior for their willingness to remained in a wheelchair but was strong enough to place a ROTC cadet, and his father were filming the bride and groom help. If you know Golden Valor Award, the JROTC’s highest accolade for bravery, near the shore of the Pacific Ocean when Karim saw a rogue an Angel, email around Karim’s neck. wave out of the corner of his eye. news@thesunday.com The ceremony in the Palo Verde gym drew a small gather“I tried to pull (my dad) away, but I just wasn’t fast enough,” with details. ing of Karim’s Air Force JROTC classmates and school offiKarim said. cials. JROTC instructor and retired Air Force captain Gordon The wave washed both father and son off the rocks and into Doughty said it was the first time he heard of a student in Nethe sea. Karin swam back to shore and quickly recovered on the vada earning the award. beach, then realized his father remained helpless in the water. So he dove back After college, Karim wants to join the military and work in medicine, posin. sibly in orthopedics. He mostly deflected praise for his actions but gladly ac“I got to him and realized that he was in complete shock,” Karim said. “His cepted handshakes and hugs from his friends. leg was floating in the water as if it were a fish.”

“His name in Arabic means generous, and I see him being that every day,” Sam Hussein had broken the bones in his leg in three places during the fall. said Shymaa Hussein, Karim’s mother. “He’s our hero. The family hero.”

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CHILD DEVELOPMENT 101 Should my child be talking? Crawling? Smiling?

A look at the milestones many parents ponder as their little ones age.

Children develop rapidly during the first four years of their lives and experience many major milestones along the way. “During this time, children develop socially, linguistically, cognitively and physically,” said Lesa Brookes, MD, a pediatrician at Healthy Kids Pediatrics. Because children undergo so many drastic changes, it’s important for parents to be diligent about regular check-ups, keeping vaccines up to date, and observing, playing and engaging with the child. Parents should be aware of the many important milestones that can ensure a child is developing properly.

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Parents and guardians play a huge role in childhood development. Brookes suggests several ways parents can aid in a child’s development, including talking to the child, explaining how things work and why, holding the child, reading to the child to help develop linguistic skills and listening to music together.

He can move objects and toys between his hands and begins showing signs of handeye coordination. He can pull himself up to sit. He may begin to show stranger anxiety.

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1-2 MONTHS The baby can roll from his side to his back, can lift his chest up using his arms, and when held upright, can hold his head up. He coos and babbles at people he recognizes and is able to focus his eyes on his parents and objects. He is startled by sudden noises and is beginning to smile.

He can roll from his stomach to his back and can rest on his elbows. He can laugh, make different sounds while verbalizing, and verbalizes to engage others. He can follow moving hands with his eyes, and his color-vision is close to fully formed. He expresses happiness appropriately and is beginning to reach for objects.

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9-10 MONTHS He can wiggle, crawl and sit unsupported. He looks for dropped toys and exhibits apprehension around strangers.

He can walk alone, pick up toys without falling over and is beginning to hop with both feet. He babbles, often using intelligible words, and can recognize familiar songs. He may try to sing along or hum. He can drink from a cup using both hands and can feed himself with a spoon. By this age, potty training should be introduced.

Note: Children with autism usually are diagnosed at this age.

2-3 MONTHS He can hold his head up for prolonged periods. He turns his head to hear sounds and can meet and follow an adult’s gaze.

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5 MONTHS He can hold his head steady and pursue objects successfully.

He begins to notice colors.

1 YEAR He can stand holding furniture and stand unassisted for a few seconds before falling. He can say two or three words repeatedly.

When he drops toys, he looks to where they fell. He understands and complies with simple commands and waves goodbye.

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3 YEARS He can speak in sentences and will ask questions constantly. He will play cooperatively and imaginatively.

2 YEARS He can run, walk up and down stairs and is beginning to speak in two- to three-word sentences. He can speak clearly enough for strangers to understand at least half of what he is saying. His play is becoming more sophisticated; he engages with others and can build structures with blocks. By 2 1/2 years, he should be getting comfortable with potty training and working on maintaining daytime dryness.

SPEECH DEVELOPMENT “At 9 months, babies will start to form simple words such as ‘mama’ or ‘dada,’ but these words are nonspecific, meaning they don’t associate the words to mom or dad yet,” Brookes said. “By 12 months, babies are able to say mama and dada with specific relationship to mom and dad.” If at 15 months old, the child does not say any words, check with a physician.

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1 IN 8 Students prepare a planting area during a summer garden camp at Crestwood Elementary School. Green Our Planet, a Las Vegas nonprofit organization, has helped establish gardens in dozens of area schools. (STEVE MARCUS/STAFF)

Cultivating young minds

BY KATIE VISCONTI STAFF WRITER

younger, strawberry-stealing students.

Walter Bracken Elementary School HOW IT’S DONE third-graders cup soil in their Green Our Planet teams with local and hands, preparing planters and national companies to provide a fundtending to budding roots. gathering platform so schools can raise Their school is not typical. money for garden projects. Clark County Traditional classrooms are filled with partners include most of Las Vegas’ large desks and whiteboards. Bracken has burresort companies, Pardee Homes, the NV ied tradition in favor of growing someEnergy Foundation, Whole Foods, Honey thing new: classroom gardens. It is Salt, Zappos and Jamba Juice. among dozens of Clark County Projects vary in price, but schools that, thanks to loeach garden bed tends to cost The average cal nonprofit Green Our about $900. Most schools American child Planet, have a on-campus have five or six raised beds spends gardens. that measure 3 to 4 feet Since it began in Januwide. The price fluctuates each day playing ary 2013, Green Our Planet depending on the materials outside. has helped build gardens in used. Installation and main64 Clark County schools. tenance is done by local comThe goal is to teach local chilpany Garden Farms of Nevada. dren about environmental issues, health and conservation, and expose STEM LESSONS them to STEM (science, technology, engiKindergartners are the caretakers; they neering and math) topics. Students learn get to explore the garden, help with cleanabout plant growth and decomposition, up and learn the basics of what plants participate in weekly farmers markets need to survive. First-graders learn about selling produce they grow, and receive the plant life cycle, from digging a hole to instruction from local chefs and farmers harvest. Second-graders are “bug detecabout food and nutrition. tives,” learning about what insects eat and Fifth-graders even are tasked with how they affect the ecosystem. protecting the gardens after school from By third grade, students are in charge

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of composting and analyzing the weather, climate and soil. Fourth-graders explore natural systems, observing patterns in nature and the flow of energy in their garden.

In fifth grade, students become entrepreneurs; after developing a business plan, they run a farmers market at their school selling the produce they have tended to during their elementary school careers.

Meanwhile, chef-to-school programs provide in-class instruction from 40 trained chefs who share tips about healthy eating, nutrition and cooking.

Using a grant received last year from the American Honda Foundation, Green Our Planet paid Clark County teachers to develop a curriculum that incorporates the garden and meets state and national science standards.

“It’s called a ‘live curriculum’ because it is constantly updated and upgraded through teacher feedback,” said Sabina Malik, Green Our Planet coordinator.

WHAT’S NEXT During the upcoming school year, eight schools are slated to expand their outdoor garden classrooms. Students will be able to learn beneath trees, surrounded by fruits and vegetables they helped grow.

The classrooms also will have a large white board, seating, murals and tables.

American children takes medication to combat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

ENCOURAGING RESULTS n In a Kentucky elementary school, students’ test scores improved 25 percent in science, 21 percent in reading and 40 percent in social studies after integrating a school garden into the curricula. n School gardening has been shown to increase students’ self-esteem, help them develop a sense of ownership and responsibility, help foster relationships with family members and increase parental involvement. n Exposure to school gardens increased students’ interest in eating fruit and increased the variety of vegetables they eat.

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The Animal Foundation and the Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals are shelters dedicated to finding homes for dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, turtles and more. Each week, we feature a selection of animals available for adoption.

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Competitors must keep one foot in contact with the floor at all times.

Setting your grip is key to winning an arm wrestling match. A bad grip likely will result in a loss.

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Dickey Spiroff, of Homestead, Fla., tries to overtake a competitor during the World Armwrestling League’s Las Vegas regional at UNLV’s Cox Pavilion. (L.E. BASKOLW/STAFF)

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It’s a cross-section of humanity you’re unlikely to find competing anywhere else, and it’s that spirit of meritocracy that makes arm wrestling feel like a perfect American pastime.

BY TAYLOR BERN | STAFF WRITER

n arm wrestling, it doesn’t matter whether you’re a truck driver, a mechanical engineer or the most badass middle school principal in Pennsylvania. The only thing that matters is whether you can step on the stage and beat the person standing across from you. ¶ With ESPN planning to air events starting at the end of July and bigger pots of prize money available to competitors, the sport of arm wrestling appears to be adding some muscle. ¶ On May 30-31, the World Armwrestling League held a regional contest at Cox Pavilion with nearly 650 competitors.

The organization handed out $3,500 to each weight class champion and at least $500 to competitors who qualified for the national finals. ¶ The finals will take place July 4-5 at the Mirage, and each winner will take home $20,000. Second-place finishers will receive $10,000 each. ¶ The high payout is helping to legitimize arm wrestling, a sport many associate only with bar brawls. ¶ “This sport has never seen a lot of money,” said Mike Cook, a local competitor who picked up passion for pulling from his father. “The World Armwrestling League is finally giving us a venue, cash prizes, and they’re putting the sport up on a pedestal.” ¶ So what does it take to compete against arm wrestling’s best?

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To understand arm wrestling training, all During the left-handed heavyweight finals you have to do is look at the sport’s best in last month’s regional competition, defendcompetitors. They are big. ing champion Devon Larratt made simply In most cases, they achieve their strength getting the match started difficult. and physique the same way athletes in any Pullers are supposed to place their hands sport get big: a lot of weightlifting. together, clasp thumbs first, then grip their Specifically, big arm wrestlers tend to folfingers to start the match. But even a slight low the low reps/high weight model that angle in the wrist can give an immediate personal trainers tell the average gym-goer advantage, and there’s some gamesmanship to avoid because of risk of injury. While it’s in trying anything to gain that advantage. never bad to be able to run a mile Larratt played the villain and kept at a quick pace, most arm looking for the small edge while the wrestling matches are over crowd grew restless. A fellow If a competitor in less than 15 seconds. competitor yelled, “This ain’t commits three fouls in a match, he automatiThat means it’s more for $20,000. He ain’t going to cally loses. Examples of fouls important for arm play games in July.” include: a foot coming off the wrestlers to have quick Larratt won the best-offloor; delaying the match by leavbursts of high energy three final for a $3,500 prize ing the table; dropping your comthan longer outputs at and a shot at more — in part peting shoulder below the level a lower gear. because he gained a mental of the elbow pad when in neutral Smaller-sized comedge from the start. or in losing position; or false petitors don’t put up Part of working your way starts before the referee the same weight but up through arm wrestling is instructs the match to typically share the same being able to shake off losses, begin. goal. Many favor horizonCook said. tal rope climbing to increase “When you’re in the sport of arm strength and grip. wrestling, you’re used to losing,” he said.

Pull-ups are a staple of any puller’s workLarratt swaggered onto the stage and out because they work practically every acted the part of the bad guy, yelling, “You muscle arm wrestlers want to target. More just better get stronger, that’s what you’ve isolated lifts include rows to develop back got to do,” after winning the first pin. Then, muscles, plus lots of curls for the biceps, he immediately lost the next one. wrist and forearms.

There’s a lot of back and forth in arm “You’ve got to find people who want to wrestling, and shaking off the last outcome train all the time,” Cook said. is vital, as Larratt did on his way to his decisive victory.

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MATCH TECHNIQUE Every arm wrestler must step onto stage with a game plan, Cook said.

For most pullers, the basic plan is to get into either the hook or the top roll position.

The hook starts with bending your wrist and isolates the opponent’s bicep, taking away most of the power from his back and giving you the advantage. A top roll is a bit more complicated; the key is leverage both from the nonpulling arm and the hips to generate enough power to win.

In either case, the seemingly simple objective — pin down the opponent’s wrist before they do it to you — becomes much more complicated if you break down every pressure point and advantageous angle that can be gained with a subtle change.

Then there’s the factor of the strap, which can be helpful or hurtful depending on an armwrestler’s strengths.

If competitors slip out of their grips, which happens more often with bigger pullers, the competitors’ hands are strapped together to prevent separation. It’s a good scenario for the puller with weaker hand strength because he doesn’t have to worry about keeping his grip tight. With the hand advantage nullified, he can focus on other leverage battles involving arms, backs and legs.

All simultaneously and potentially in the blink of an eye.

“It happens so quick,” Cook said. “It’s very fast, it’s very intense, and then it’s over.”

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Sundays also are eligible. $130,000 Caddies and Cash Date: Sunday Time: 7 p.m.

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BOYD GAMING Young at Heart Date: Wednesdays Location: Orleans, Suncoast, Gold Coast or Sam’s Town Information: Loyalty card members can earn up to 50x points and receive

ORLEANS STATION CASINOS MyGeneration Wednesdays Date: Ongoing Locations: All Station properties, Fiesta Henderson and Fiesta Rancho Information: For loyalty card holders age 50 and older. Swipe your card at a kiosk to earn up to 10x points on slots and 6x points on video poker, and discounts on dining, movies and bowling. Slot tournaments from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., with a top prize of $1,000. The first entry is free; receive up to four additional entries by earning 50 additional base points for each. $1.3 Million Music Mania giveaway Date: Saturday Time: 10 a.m.-midnight Information: A kiosk game and drawing. Win up to $5,000. Drawing is at 8:15 p.m.

Gift giveaway Date: July 2 Time: 10 a.m.-10 p.m.

Information: Earn 300 points for a sixpack of Pepsi, Diet Pepsi or limitededition Budweiser bow-tie cans.

Gift days Date: Tuesday Time: 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

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The rebate will be split over three redemption periods to total 100 percent of the player’s loss.

SAM’S TOWN Cool cash giveaway Date: Monday Time: 11 a.m.-11 p.m.

Information: Twelve table games players will win each hour. Players can win more than once.

Bonus tourney Date: Sunday and Tuesday Information: As an eligible penny slot machine is played, a tournament icon meter will grow. Once the meter is full, the player can press a spin button on the tournament game three times. Cumulative scores will be added up at the end of the tournament. Top prize is $750 in play.

Poker High Hands bonus Date: Through August Information: Players who get a royal flush, straight flush or four of a kind while playing seven-card stud and hold ’em will receive a bonus payout. $3 Million Blackjack Bonus drawing Date: Saturday and Sunday Time: 6:15 p.m.

Information: Earn entries by playing slots and table games. Five winners at each drawing; win up to $50,000.

Video Poker Showdown Date: Fridays Time: 4-8 p.m.

Information: Earn 10 points for the first entry and 50 points for each additional entry in a video poker tournament at 8:15 p.m. Top prize is $1,000 in play.

STRATOSPHERE Camaro Point Challenge Date: Through July 15 Information: The top three loyalty card users who collect Camaro points will win cash. The top 50 winners will earn entry into a slot tournament.

Camaro slot tournament Date: Aug. 13-15 Information: The top 20 point earners can play for a share of $25,000 in prizes. The grand prize is a Camaro signed by NASCAR’s Earnhardt family.

ELDORADO $8,000 giveaway Date: Saturday Time: 4:30-9:30 p.m.

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Cash Blower Wednesdays Time: 12:30-7:30 p.m.

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Gift giveaway Date: Sunday Information: Earn 200 points to receive a free gift.

dar month can participate in the following month’s drawing. Ten winners will be chosen.

Dollar blackjack Date: Ongoing Information: Available at select tables.

MyGeneration Mondays Date: Ongoing Information: For players 50 and older.

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WESTGATE Rockin’ 777 slot tournament Date: Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays Time: 4-8 p.m.

Information: Free for loyalty club members. The top five winners will receive $100 in free slot play.

RAMPART CASINO 50-plus party Date: Tuesdays Information: Loyalty card players 50 and older can earn $100 in free slot play on all video reel machine jackpots more than $1,200, a complimentary kiosk swipe for earning 50 points, a second kiosk swipe for earning 500 points, a bingo coupon for a free small electronic unit rainbow pack (minimum buy-in required), a $5 lunch buffet and a free round in a slot tournament from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Summerlin and Elite players may receive an additional round. The best score will be used in the tournament, with 12 winners selected each week. The top prize is $1,000. A $15 free slot play bonus will be given to everyone who wins a round.

Pirate’s Treasure progressive drawings Date: Last Wednesday of the month Time: 6:15 and 8:15 p.m.

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CLUB FORTUNE Top of the Hill slot tournament Date: Tuesdays and Wednesdays Time: 10 a.m.-7 p.m.

Information: Win cash prizes.

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Jumpin’ Jokers cash giveaway Date: Saturday Information: Nine players will be chosen, one winner on the hour every hour from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and one on the hour every hour from 6 to 10 p.m.

Win up to $1,000 or $1,200 slot play.

Gift giveaway Date: Sunday Information: Earn 200 points to receive a gift.

MAX CASINO AT THE WESTIN Happy Hour specials Date: Daily Time: 6-8 p.m.

Information: Select tables will offer $3 craps and 25-cent roulette.

GOLDEN NUGGET New player rewards Date: Ongoing Information: Sign up for a players card and spin to win up to $1,000 in free play.

EL CORTEZ Free shirt giveaway Date: Throughout June Information: Players with loyalty cards who win a jackpot of $200 or more on a slot machine, a jackpot of $200 or more on a 5-cent or lower denomination video poker machine, a jackpot of $300 or more on a 10-cent or higher denomination video poker machine or a jackpot of $200 or more on live keno receive a Hawaiian shirt.

BINION’S Mother Lode swipe and win Date: Ongoing Information: Club members can win up to $2,500 daily. Earn points for chances to swipe the prize machine, with a maximum of three swipes daily.

Earn five points for a chance to win $50, 40 points for a chance to win $100 and 300 points for a chance to win $2,500.

JERRY’S NUGGET Up to 5x points Date: Fridays and Saturdays Time: 4 a.m.-11:59 p.m.

Information: Rewards members who swipe their cards at a kiosk receive 3x points, 4x points or 5x points on slot and video poker games.

VENETIAN AND PALAZZO Progressive poker variant Date: Ongoing Information: Caribbean stud, Ultimate Texas Hold’em and three-card poker players can make $5 side bets for a chance to win a progressive jackpot.

TREASURE ISLAND New player rewards Date: Ongoing Information: Sign up for a players card and earn rewards starting at 50 points. New members who earn 100 points can win $20 to $100 in slot play. Continue playing to earn a slot card keeper; a T-shirt; more slot play; a meal for two at the buffet, Gilley’s or Phil’s Italian Steakhouse; tickets to “Mystere;” or a free room. All points earned during the first seven days from initial sign-up are counted.

SILVER SEVENS Nifty 50 slot tournament Date: Wednesdays Time: 10 a.m.-5:45 p.m.

Information: Earn entries with play.

First prize is $1,000.

$25,000 Cash is King drawing Date: Aug. 15 Information: Earn an entry for every 5,000 points.

Point multipliers Date: Thursdays and Saturdays Information: On Thursdays, earn 3x points on video poker and 7x points on reels. On Saturdays, earn 4x points on video poker and 10x points on reels.

Spin ’n’ Win Date: Ongoing Information: Earn 100 slot points in one day for a chance to spin a virtual prize wheel.

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As GOP candidates huddle with far right, Clinton deals with reality

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o appreciate how high a priority is placed on Latino issues by Republican presidential candidates, just look at how many of them attended a recent national Latino leadership convention in Las Vegas.

The convention would have been the natural forum for them to discuss immigration reform, an important — and increasingly less controversial — issue among voters, based on public opinion polls. And it would have been an opportunity to engage with leaders of a voting demographic that could sway the 2016 presidential election.

So how many of the 16 invited GOP candidates showed? You can count them on one finger: retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson.

Most of the others cited scheduling conflicts, saying they instead would attend a rally in Washington sponsored by the ultraconservative Faith and Freedom Coalition, an organization endorsed by Sarah Palin, Donald Trump and Michele Bachmann. Seems most Republican presidential candidates

don’t like leaving their comfort zones.

Organizers of the 32nd annual convention of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials would be right to feel snubbed. Its executive director, Arturo Vargas, said, “Scheduling is a reflection of priorities. If something’s important to you, you move your schedule around to accommodate it.”

UNLV political scientist David Damore put it this way: “Their absence spoke loudly and was another salient example of the gulf between the GOP’s rhetoric and actions when it comes to reaching out to the Latino community.”

Republicans would be fools not to understand the importance of the Latino vote. But the GOP candidates know their bread is buttered by social conservatives who claim to embrace social justice, even while failing to act on it.

So while Republicans court the conservative extremes within their ranks, the issue of immigration reform will be marginalized. Only after a Republican presidential candidate surfaces and out of necessity tries to bring the party back to the middle to win votes will immigra-

tion become part of the GOP conversation. As in the old TV quiz show “What’s My Line,” you might wonder: Will the real Republican please stand up?

Democrats, though, are fully and consistently transparent on the issue.

In Hillary Clinton, who attended the Latino leadership convention, we have a presidential candidate who has advocated for migrant workers for more than 40 years, and who in her Senate career campaigned for immigration reform. She hasn’t stopped, telling her Las Vegas audience this month, “If Congress continues to refuse to act, I will do everything under the law to go further than what President (Barack) Obama has attempted to achieve.”

There is little doubt a majority of Americans are sympathetic toward those who wish to become legal U.S. residents, or even citizens. Consider: n A CBS News/New York Times Poll conducted April 30 to May 3 found that 57 percent of respondents wanted immigrants who entered the country illegally to be allowed to stay and eventually apply for citizenship.

n In a poll conducted in February by the Public Religion Research Institute, 58 percent of respondents believed that immigrants strengthen our country because of their hard work and talents, while just 31 percent felt that immigrants are a burden because they take jobs, housing and health care. In that poll, 78 percent said immigrants living in the United States illegally should be allowed to become citizens or permanent legal residents, as opposed to 18 percent who wanted them deported.

It is more clear than ever that Americans have compassion for those who yearn to live in our country, work hard, pay taxes and educate their children.

Study after study has shown immigrants help build, not weaken, our economy.

GOP candidates may, in the deep recesses of their souls, want to reach out to immigrants who want to move here to better their lives and strengthen our country. But we don’t know for sure because they are afraid to say so.

On the other hand, Hillary Clinton has the courage and honesty to speak her values — values we share.

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Ribbon of Life: Las Vegas dancers and performers will take the stage during a fundraiser for Golden Rainbow, a local organization that provides housing and financial assistance to Southern Nevadans living with HIV/AIDS. 1 p.m., $45, Tropicana, 3801 Las Vegas Blvd.

South, goldenrainbow.org.

Cartooning in the Digital Age: Veteran cartoonist Bill Barnes will teach the basics of creating a comic strip, including developing memorable characters, writing dialog, lettering, penciling, inking and coloring. Barnes also will discuss the technology and business of cartooning, including how to use computers and the Internet to create and publish comic strips. 2 p.m., free, Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702-507-3459. *Also: 6 p.m. Monday, Sahara West Library, 9600 W. Sahara Ave., 702-507-3631.

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Job fair: MGM Resorts International will conduct on-site interviews for jobs in operations and general management, marketing, sales and convention services, food and beverage, finance and accounting, casino operations, human resources, hotel operations and more. 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Mirage, Grand Ballroom, 3400 Las Vegas Blvd. South, mgmresorts. com.

Halstrom Academy introductory meetings: Staff members from Halstrom Academy, a private school that operates 15 campuses in California, are coming to the valley to introduce the academy to local parents. Halstrom, which offers one-to-one instruction and flexible scheduling for students in grades 6-12, is exploring an expansion into the Las Vegas Valley. 5-7 p.m., Greenspun Media Group, 2360 Corporate Circle, Henderson; 7-9 p.m., 6787 W. Tropicana Ave., Las Vegas.

Nukes and Asteroids: Celebrate Asteroid Day with a lecture by television personality and scientist Ben McGee. RSVP encouraged. 6 p.m., free for members, $10 for students, $20 for nonmembers, Atomic Testing Museum, 755 E. Flamingo Road, 702-794-5151.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 Savvy Seniors Scam Prevention Series: A representative from the Better Business Bureau will explain how to spot scammers, specifically fake relatives, and what can be done to prevent becoming a victim. 11 a.m., free, Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702-507-3458.

Speakeasy Cinema: This summertime film series features classic mobster noir movies shown in the museum’s courtroom. Tickets are available for each film or for the entire series. The first installment will show the 1952 film, “The Captive City.” 6:30 p.m., $12 for members, $15 for nonmembers, price includes one alcoholic beverage, the Mob Museum, 300 Stewart Ave., themobmuseum.org. *Also: July 8, July 15 and July 22.

THURSDAY, JULY 2 Ward 5 Coffee with the Councilman: Join Councilman Ricki Barlow for coffee and conversation about how to improve Ward 5 and the city of Las Vegas. 9-10 a.m., free, Starbucks, 751 N. Rancho Drive.

Green Chefs farmers market: Browse regional produce, plants, herbs, homemade baked goods, honey and more. Activities include gardening workshops and cooking demonstrations in the Desert Living Center Courtyard. Purchases are cash only. 10 a.m.-3 p.m., free entry, Springs Preserve, 333 S. Valley View Blvd., thegreenchefs.com.

Yankee Doodle at the Pool: Celebrate Independence Day with water games and activities. Noon-4 p.m., Carlos L. Martinez and Darrio J. Hall Family Pool at Gary Reese Freedom Park, 889 N. Pecos Road, 702-229-1755; noon-4 p.m., Municipal Pool, 431 E. Bonanza Road, 702-2296309; noon-4 p.m., Pavilion Center Pool, 101 S. Pavilion Center Drive, 702-229-1488; noon-4 p.m., Garside Pool, 250 S. Torrey Pines Drive, 702-229-6393; 1-5 p.m., Doolittle Pool, 1950 N. J St., 702-229-6398; 4-8 p.m., Baker Pool, 1100 E. St. Louis Ave., 702-229 1532; $2 for ages 4-17, $3 for ages 18-49, $2 for ages 50+, free for ages 3 and under.

TechArt Studio: Learn to DJ: This interactive, hands-on experience will introduce students to scratching, mixing and lighting. Create a mix, burn it to a disc and share it with family and friends. For ages 13-17. 3 p.m., free, Enterprise Library, 25 E. Shelbourne Ave., 702-507-3761. *Also: July 7, 9, 14, 16, 21, 23, 28 and 30.

Las Vegas Stories: “Atomic Las Vegas”: As bombs exploded at the Nevada Test Site, Las Vegas’ economy flourished. From 1950 to 1960, Las Vegas’ population doubled, and the mushroom cloud symbol was used on billboards, marquees, advertisements and the cover of the Las Vegas High School yearbook. In the 1970s, the population doubled again, prompting Benny Binion to declare, “The best thing to happen to Vegas was the atomic bomb.” Ernest Williams and

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FRIDAY, JULY 3 Liberty festival: Enjoy fireworks, a horseshoe tournament, family-friendly activities, swimming, music and more. Noon-8 p.m., free, Petrack Park, 150 State Highway 160, Pahrump, visitpahrump.com.

Dancing With the Stars Live: After a sold-out winter tour and the 10th anniversary season of the TV series “Dancing with the Stars,” the Perfect Ten Tour is stopping again in Las Vegas. Featuring Alfonso Ribeiro. 8 p.m., $50-$150, Venetian Theatre, 3355 Las Vegas Blvd. South, dwtstour.com. *Also: Sunday, featuring Rumer Willis.

SATURDAY, JULY 4 Downtown Summerlin farmers market: Celebrate the red, white and blue with organic produce like red watermelon, white onions and blueberries, and get everything you need for a Fourth of July barbecue.

The market will be open under the shaded canopy at the north end of Downtown Summerlin. 9 a.m.-2 p.m., free entry.

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Summerlin Council Patriotic Parade: The parade will feature more than 70 floats, oversized balloons, bands and more. 9-11 a.m., free, begins at Hillpointe Road and Hills Center Drive in the Trails village of Summerlin, 702-341-5500.

Henderson Fourth of July celebration: Multiple stages of live entertainment, concessions and a fireworks show. 6-9 p.m., free, Mission Hills Park, 551 E. Mission Drive, cityofhenderson.com.

Stars, Stripes & Sparks: Enjoy live music from local band the Garage Boys and fireworks. 6 p.m., free, Knickerbocker Park, 10695 Dorrell Lane, providencelv.com.

Mandalay Bay fireworks show: Mandalay Bay Beach will launch fireworks, with a performance by 311.

8 p.m. doors, 9 p.m. show, $55-$64, Mandalay Bay, 3950 Las Vegas Blvd.

South, mandalaybay.com.

Caesars Palace fireworks: Watch fireworks erupt over the Roman Tower. The best view is from the hotel’s front fountains. 9:15 p.m., free, Caesars Palace, 3570 Las Vegas Blvd.

South, caesars.com.

Fireworks at the Linq: The Linq will host an Independence Day celebration with fireworks after the Caesars Palace show. Fireworks will launch from the High Roller lot. 9:30 p.m., free, the Linq, 3535 Las Vegas Blvd.

South, caesars.com/linq.

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Construction continues on a medical project financed

by Meadows Bank. (MIKAYLA WHITMORE/STAFF)

Rebuilding a foundation Commercial real estate is slowly making a comeback, but this time, banks are being more cautious

BY ELI SEGALL | STAFF WRITER

Las Vegas bankers couldn’t write loans fast enough during the real estate bubble, doling out funds for construction projects even if borrowers didn’t have a way to pay them back. ¶ Today, after the massive real estate bust, waves of bank failures and the worst recession in decades, that spigot is merely dripping. ¶ Southern Nevada’s banks COMMERCIAL LENDING, CONTINUED ON PAGE 52

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

EDITORIAL

NOTEWORTHY STORIES

47 48 56 Q&A WITH TERRY DOWNEY

The president and general manager of Aliante Gaming discusses the importance of innovation in the gaming industry, his company’s commitment to serving the armed forces and the personality trait he tries to avoid when making hiring decisions.

THE NOTES People on the move, P46

MEET: SOLA SALONS

The Great Recession took a toll on the beauty industry and salons closed across the valley, but Russell Nordstrom and Trey Campbell came up with a way to help keep stylists in business.

TALKING POINTS ■ Commercial real estate is rebounding, P49 ■ What you should know about CRE law, P49

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, P55 The List: Third-party commercial property managers, P60

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VINTAGE VEGAS: LANDMARK HOTEL MET ITS DEMISE IN 1995 Construction of the Landmark Hotel began in 1961 by developer Frank Caracciolo.

Howard Hughes opened the 31-story, saucertopped resort — then the tallest building in Clark County and the highlight of Las Vegas’ skyline — in 1968.

Pictured here Feb. 16, 1972, is the pool, a local and tourist hot spot for people watching.

But the hotel became mired in financial problems, and owners declared bankruptcy

twice before closing the resort in 1990. The property changed ownership a few times but eventually was acquired for $15.1 million by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.

In true Vegas fashion, the property was imploded Nov. 7, 1995, to make way for parking and trade show space near the Las Vegas Convention Center.

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Tom Wagener is senior vice president of industrial services at Gatski Commercial. Wagener has a Certified Commercial Investment Member designation.

Jennifer Lehr joins Gatski as an associate broker in the professional and medical office division.

Michael Campbell is a senior adviser focusing on investment and land sales at MDL Group. He is chairman of the Henderson Planning Commission. Alexia Crowley is a senior associate specializing in medical and professional office sales and leasing. She previously was an associate at Avison Young.

DC Building was retained to build a Starbucks in the Grand Bazaar Shops and the first Buffalo Wild Wings in the resort corridor. The projects are valued at almost $5 million. DC Building also completed a Chili’s flagship across from City Center and remodeled M&M’s World at Showcase Mall, as well as finished a Raising Cane’s at 1950 W. Craig Road, North Las Vegas. Owner TML Mendenhall Legacy contracted DC Building for the project valued at almost $1.5 million. 10Nine Design Group was the architect of record for the Raising Cane’s project.

Michael Newman, managing director of CBRE Las Vegas, is the industrial practice leader for CBRE’s Southwest Region. In addition to overseeing CBRE’s Las Vegas office, Newman leads and coordinates more than 40 industrial professionals throughout Utah, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico.

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Burke Construction Group is building St. Anthony of Padua Parish Hall on behalf of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Vegas. Located on 10 acres at Fort Apache Road and Centennial Parkway in northwest Las Vegas, it will include an arched sanctuary space with seating for almost 1,000 people.

It will cost almost $5 million, was designed by John Landsell of LGA and is managed by senior project manager Doug Schmoldt. Burke also is building the Summerlin Aquatic Center for the Howard Hughes Corp. The 25,000-square-foot public facility was designed by Erik B. Peterson of AIA. The $7 million project will be managed by project manager Patrick Schueppert.

Cushman & Wakefield acquired a 1 million-squarefoot managed portfolio from Integris Realty Services LLC. The portfolio includes contracts for retail, office and industrial assets. Joining as part of the acquisition will be Integris Realty Services’ founder David Jewkes and regional vice president Stacy Blattner.

The Southern Nevada CCIM chapter established an endowed scholarship through the CCIM Foundation that provides one recipient with $1,000 toward attending the CCIM Institute.

Panattoni Development Company broke ground on Jones Corporate Park at the northwest corner of Sunset Road and Jones Boulevard in Las Vegas. The industrial business park is slated to include two buildings of equal size totaling about 416,000 square feet. The company also is working on Henderson Freeways Crossing at the northeast corner of West Lake Mead Parkway and Eastgate Road in Henderson, which will include six buildings totaling 452,710 square feet and corresponding parking lots.

Matt Feustel and Jakke Farley of Virtus Commercial assisted Zion United Methodist in leasing 10,000 square feet of space to Gregory and Carol Kirby of Come Unto Me Ministries and Apostolic Behavioral Health Center.

Greg St. Martin is a vice president at Kennedy Wilson, a global real estate investment and services firm. He specializes in industrial, office and retail sectors. Before joining Kennedy Wilson, St. Martin served as vice president of Sun Commercial Real Estate, Realty One Group and NAI Las Vegas.

Bob Hawkins is a senior director at Cushman & Wakefield.

He specializes in leasing and sales of HAWKINS FOLEY office and industrial real estate and represents only landlords and sellers.

Nicholas Barber and Jeremy Foley are directors at Cushman & Wakefield. They specialize in leasing and investment sales of office and retail properties.

Dan Hubbard is senior director of retail services. Hubbard is HUBBARD a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers and the Commercial Alliance of Las Vegas.

Penta Building Group added the following staffers: Bob Gaus, project executive; Greg Darling, superintendent; Ralph Sibley, project manager; Brad Par-

nell, project engineer; Don Apodaca, supervisor; Leo Erhardt, superintendent; Marlyne Alderete, project engineer; Nicoleta Rotaru, project engineer; Dina Gattuso, payroll administrator; Charlie Capps, superindendent; Ken King, superintendent; Siddharth Kothari, building information modeling engineer; Tanuj Patel, project engineer; Michael Whitmire, project manager; Greg MacClennen, superintendent; and Lacey Tisler, project engineer.

DC Building Group Lead Estimator Charlie Stewart is a certified professional estimator, one of only 14 in Nevada. Stewart’s designation is certified by the American Society of Professional Estimators.

Roseman University of Health STEWART Sciences bought 3.5 acres at the corner of South Hualapai Way and Discovery Drive for $3.1 million from the Howard Hughes Corp. The purchase completes Phase I of Roseman University’s Summerlin Campus Master Plan, which already includes 9.25 acres of adjacent undeveloped land, a flagship building and the Ralph & Betty Engelstad Cancer Research building of the former Nevada Cancer Institute. The Summerlin campus is home to Roseman University’s MD-granting college of medicine, which hopes to enroll its first class of 60 medical students in fall 2017.

Summerlin started work on the Cliffs, the community’s 20th village. The 22,500-acre community will hold 11 neighborhoods, more than 1,700 homes and sits at the foot of the Spring Mountains.

CBRE Las Vegas is the listing agent for available space at the Linq Promenade, 3535 Las Vegas Blvd.

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NAIOP SOUTHERN NEVADA’S 2015 SPOTLIGHT AWARDS NAIOP Southern Nevada’s 2015 Spotlight Awards honor members for achievements, projects and deals completed during the prior year. The honorees are: Frank Martin, Lifetime Achievement; JMA Architecture Studios, Architecture Firm of the Year; Colliers International, Brokerage Firm of the Year; Walker Engineering LLC, Engineering Firm of the Year; Bank of Nevada, Financial Firm of the Year; Martin-Harris Construction, General Contracting Firm of the Year; Harsch Investment Properties LLC, Principal Firm of the Year; Steve Neiger, Developing Leader; The Equity Group’s

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Jason Otter, Broker of the Year – Retail; Voit Real Estate Services’ Higgins & Toft Team, Broker of the Year – Industrial; CBRE’s Randy Broadhead, Brad Peterson, Darren Lemon and Amy Lance, Broker of the Year – Office; Jeff Foster, Principal Member of the Year; CCIM’s Jennifer Levine, Associate Member of the Year; Sallie Doebler, Spirit of Spotlight; Prologis, Trendsetter Firm; Vadatech corporate headquarters and manufacturing facility, Sustainable/Green Building; Brooklyn Bowl, Tenant Improvements - Retail/Entertainment; Mainor Wirth Injury Lawyers, Tenant Improve-

ments – Small; McDonald Carano Wilson, Tenant Improvements – Medium; Barclaycard call center, Tenant Improvements – Large; Nevada System of Higher Education Southern Nevada headquarters, Public Use/Government; SLS Hotel, Redevelopment Project; Downtown Container Park, MixedUse Development; Las Vegas Harley-Davidson, Retail Building; Carpenters Union International Training Center, Industrial Building; EVAPS Professional Law Office core and shell, Office Building; Vadatech corporate headquarters and manufacturing facility, NAIOP Works Award.

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Q&A WITH TERRY DOWNEY

‘Don’t forget who you are, or what we are here for’ Terry Downey had retired after a long and successful career with Station Casinos. But he was talked back into working and became president and general manager of Aliante Gaming, which runs Aliante Casino and Hotel in North Las Vegas. The resort focused on ways it could set itself apart from others.

How have you adapted Aliante to fit the needs of locals?

By providing a high-value experience in a high-quality setting. Our amenities, restaurants, entertainment and Players Club program continue to evolve to fit the people of our community. We are dedicated to be part of the “neighborhood” and have partnered with notable charitable organizations to make a difference in North Las Vegas.

Why do you think Aliante has been successful?

Aliante is a stand-alone property owned by a small group of investors who have given the management team broad latitude to proceed aggressively, and swiftly, as business Terry Downey, president and general manager of Aliante, has little time or conditions change and as guest inter- patience for pessimism. (STEVE MARCUS/STAFF) ests change. Also, Aliante has a strong How has the industry changed many others. financial foundation, and a dedicatduring your career? ed, well-trained base of employees, Technology has changed so many What prepared you for your which allows us to provide attention things, especially with regard to the position at Aliante? to the unique needs and interests of manner in which we find, keep, reward I grew up in Las Vegas, have a hosour guests. For example, we deterand communicate with our guests. I pitality degree from UNLV and have mined very quickly that our guests, appreciate the technology tools that spent my entire career working in the both local and from out of the area, are available today, but the caveat has industry. were tired of the exact same promoto be that you don’t forget who you are I was always in love with the hospitions being offered by our competior what we are here for. We are in the tality industry. I remember reading the tors month after month, just with the business of providing hospitality.

Reader’s Digest version of “Hotel” when name of the promotion and artwork I was very young and being influenced changed. So we’ve been innovative Describe your management style. by it. My mother worked in hotels her with our promotions, and our casino Manage by walking around — being entire career, and I was enthralled with guests have responded with appreciaamong all the people; customers and the stories she brought home. tion. team members alike. That’s where Another area where we differentiour business really happens. If you What is the most challenging ate our property from the competiaren’t in touch at that level, you are in part of your job? tion is in food quality. We made the the wrong business.

Las Vegas is perhaps the most comdecision early on that we were going I have not always been a general petitive hospitality market in the to buy fresh food and let our chefs not manager. I worked my way through country, so we need to be constantly only cook but also create. It varies the ranks and have gained a great apstaying a step ahead of our competifrom the standard of buying everypreciation for what it takes to help a tors and attuned to the interests of our thing pre-cut, prewashed, in cans and guest have an enjoyable experience guests — both locals and out-of-town bags and just throwing it together in and how difficult each employee’s visitors, in making sure we are not only a pot. We like to say “our chefs work job can be at times. And, early in my relevant but also cutting-edge. with knives, not scissors.” career, someone told me that “corn For instance, our innovative kioskgrows tall in the farmer’s shadow.” As based games and promotions provide What charitable organizations my career has evolved, I have tried to our guests with entertainment and a does Aliante support? cast a larger shadow. somewhat unique experience.

We are involved in a wide variety of community charities, from large Where do you see yourself in 10 What has been the most organizations such as United Way years? rewarding part of your job? to individual events such as deliverI’m not really sure, but I’m having Building a fantastic team that is ing holiday presents to children at the time of my life right now. I tried to taking Aliante from the depth of the Nellis Air Force Base. We have also retire once already, but I really missed recession to setting revenue and earnpartnered with Red Cross, SafeNest, interacting with folks on a grand scale ings records almost monthly.

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like this job and career allow. So I would like to think I will still enjoy this enough in 10 years to keep doing what I’m doing.

What is your dream job, outside of your current field?

Jazz guitarist, history professor, writer … so many things, so little time.

I would love to write a sitcom about the gaming industry. People have no idea what it entails. Or I would love to do anything in the sports field, because I love being outdoors.

Whom do you admire and why?

Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully — what a career! And after all these years, he’s still highly motivated and sharp as a tack.

What is your biggest pet peeve?

Negative people. Pessimists tend to stifle the motivation of others and create an unwelcome environment.

Thankfully, I rarely need to confront negativity in person. The culture of encouragement, support and optimism that we have created at Aliante tends to weed out the “lemon suckers.”

What is something that people might not know about you?

I have 10 grandkids. I am also an honorary commander of the 57th Wing at Nellis Air Force Base.

I have a deep and abiding respect and appreciation for the men and women who serve our country in the armed forces. Their sacrifices deserve to be honored.

Aliante is in close proximity to Nellis Air Force Base, so we frequently have the opportunity to provide hospitality to service men and women, and their visiting families. We always extend them a special welcome.

Aliante is also proud to have been the site of many special events hosted by the Nellis Air Force Base leadership.

Further, we chose to honor the men and women of the 57th Wing, located at Nellis Air Force Base, by creating a permanent namesake at our property and naming our global cuisine restaurant Bistro57. The men and women of the 57th Wing are our friends!

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BY THE NUMBERS

$150 MILLION

Estimated cost to transform Cashman Center into a hub for drone and technology research. A proposal to turn Cashman into the Unmanned Aerial Robotics Resource Center took first place in a federally sponsored contest for community revitalization.

$9.3 MILLION

Amount of Allegiant funds under scrutiny by corporate-governance activists, particularly CtW Investment Group. The money came from multimillion-dollar contracts between Allegiant and side businesses operated by its CEO, Maurice “Maury” Gallagher.

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Additional Starbucks locations that will allow customers to place orders via mobile app.

$700 MILLION NV Energy’s income last year, more than all of the resorts on the Las Vegas Strip.

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McDonald’s locations worldwide that are expected to close. For the first time since 1970, McDonald’s will shut down more restaurants this year in the United States than it will open.

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Times, out of 38, that Nevada has chosen the candidate who ultimately wins the presidency. Though the presidential election is more than a year away, several hopefuls, including Hillary Clinton, Marco Rubio and Ben Carson, already have visited Las Vegas.

$100 MILLION

Fine the Federal Communications Commision imposed on AT&T Mobility LLC. The FCC said the mobile company misled consumers into buying plans for unlimited data, but when customers reached a certain level of use, the data would slow to speeds that contradicted advertisements.

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Sola Salons are stand-alone suites where stylists, manicurists, estheticians, massage therapists and others can rent space without feeling like someone else’s employees. (COURTESY OF SNAP REAL ESTATE PHOTOGRAPHY)

Salon’s business model: Empower professionals to work for themselves Describe your business.

We put salon professionals into business for themselves by providing elegantly furnished, stand-alone salon suites.

Who are your customers?

SOLA SALONS Address: Six locations in Southern Nevada Phone: 702-468-9529 Email: lasvegas@solasalons.com Website: solasalons.com Hours and days of operation: Salon professionals have the freedom to set their own hours Owned/operated by: Russell Nordstrom and Trey Campbell In business since: 2008

Our customers range from traditional stylists, estheticians, manicurists and massage therapists to niche service providers and smaller beauty retailers. All of them have chosen Sola Salons because they are ready to run their own business without the drama typical of many traditional salons.

Most of our customers come to Sola when they have an established book of clients and are ready to run their own business. We provide the resources and support to get them started, from insurance options to custom paint colors in their suite.

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

Las Vegas is actually a fairly sprawling city. We’ve found that each area of the valley has it’s own unique personality. As a result, we’ve tailored each Sola location slightly to meet the diverse needs of beauty professionals in that area.

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

We get to meet incredibly talented people, and nothing is more rewarding than seeing them succeed. We recently got a call from one of our customers who is a single mother. She called to tell us that her move to Sola Salons changed her life. She is making more money and is able to spend more time with her kids. As a business owner, she feels she is setting a great example for her children. Knowing that we are helping people is the best part of our business.

How is Sola Salons different from other salons?

Sola Salons was created to address a gap in the beauty industry. Prior to the introduction of Sola Salons, the only option for an independent stylist was to rent a chair or booth in a large salon. Many top stylists were frustrated at paying chair rent to a traditional salon, only receiving 10 percent commission on retail sales and being treated like an employee.

Additionally, they were unable to control important aspects of their business such as pricing, scheduling and retail. The introduction of Sola Salons changed the beauty industry in Las Vegas. In fact, since 2008, we have helped more than 300 people go into business for themselves.

What obstacles has your business overcome?

As a new concept in salon ownership, it took some time and creative marketing to help potential customers understand how Sola is different from a traditional salon. We had to keep explaining that we would not be the “boss” — our customers are the boss of their own businesses.

Once people understood how Sola works, word spread and we were able to expand. Our success did not go unnoticed, and several competitors popped up trying to mimic Sola. They offered lower pricing, but that meant lower quality. The loyalty of our customer base was tested, and we were pleased to see very few people leave.

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Commercial real estate is rebounding

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Speaking of office, certain sectors, such as ommercial real estate in Southern Central Las Vegas, will continue to struggle Nevada is back in a big way. due to a lack of rent growth compounded For the first time since the with short-term leases. Some submarkets, recession, NAIOP Southern such as those surrounding the 215 Beltway, Nevada, the Commercial Real Estate downtown Las Vegas and the Strip corridor, Association, has a growing membership base. have seen vacancy rates remain at nearly We stand now at around 380 professional half of the 20 percent valley average. The members, up from 320 in 2013. That speaks efficiency trend continues, with companies volumes about our industry. Companies GUEST COLUMN: packing more bodies into less overall space no longer are struggling just to survive but CHARLES VAN GEEL since the recession. again are invested in nurturing and growing The multifamily market is poised to make the commercial real estate and development some major contributions to the valley in the community in Southern Nevada. near term. Multifamily developers secured land during the The industrial market is well into recovery mode and downturn now are in a position to build, and in a big way. even is expanding. Speculative industrial buildings are More than 9,500 units are projected to be built through being developed at 150,000 square feet and larger. In 2016. The beltway curve of the 215 is going to see the most addition, many Las Vegas-area distribution centers have activity, with more than half of those units slated for the expanded recently, including TJ Maxx, which just added Southwest submarket. This level of activity will affect 400,000 square feet of new space. construction costs and labor availability.

The retail market, too, is well into recovery and looks to The single-family builder activity has slowed after expand if current trends continue to improve. Southern being the most active buyers through 2013 and 2014. They Nevada retail feels healthy, with vacancy rates at less seem to be content with current inventory. Prices paid by than 10 percent, though some inline retail developments homebuilders have been in the high $200s to low $400s without strong anchors still are struggling. Big-box per acre. retail is a casualty of the recession and an ever-changing Here’s to more growth in 2015. landscape, which is why we are excited to see creative Charles Van Geel is president of NAIOP Southern Nevada adaptive reuses of such spaces. Look for the former and vice president of commercial leasing and sales at Boulevard Mall Dillard’s space to be converted for office American Nevada Company. use, for example.

What you should know about CRE law

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may pursue a deficiency judgment against the ompared with other states such as borrower and guarantor. Such holder must file California, Nevada doesn’t have a complaint for a deficiency judgment within many laws regulating commercial six months of the date of sale. With the recent real estate. passage of Assembly Bill 195, the amount of the But if you are involved in commercial real deficiency judgment is limited to the lesser of: (a) estate in Nevada, you need to know these laws the amount by which the secured indebtedness and understand how they could affect your exceeds the fair-market value of the property business. sold at the time of the sale, with interest, or (b) n Nevada’s “One Action Rule”: This rule GUEST COLUMN: the difference between the amount for which generally requires that the holder of a mortgage ANGELA the property was sold and the amount of the or deed of trust first exhaust its rights to real TURRICIANO OTTO secured indebtedness, with interest. property collateral before proceeding against a borrower on underlying debt. If such a holder n Transfer tax: In Nevada, real property brings an action to obtain a money judgment transfer tax is imposed on each deed or land before proceeding against the real property sale installment contract. The amount, $2.55 collateral, the mortgage or deed of trust is discharged as a for every $500 of value in Clark County, varies by county. Some lien against the real property upon entry of a final judgment. real property transfers are excluded from such tax, including Some acts do not constitute an “action” for and may be brought certain transfers between an entity and certain of its affiliates. without violating the rule. n Mechanic’s liens: Landlords and their property are not subject to mechanic’s liens arising from tenants’ n Commercial foreclosure process: In Nevada, most improvements. Generally speaking, this procedure requires commercial foreclosures are conducted as nonjudicial that a landlord record a notice of nonresponsibility and that foreclosures. The trustee of a deed of trust generally must a tenant: (a) establish and fund a construction disbursement record certain notices, provide copies of such notices and wait account or record a surety bond, and (b) record a notice of certain time periods before conducting a sale. The purchaser at posted security. Both landlord and tenant must also comply such a sale takes title to the property free of any and all junior with the other detailed statutes regarding this procedure. liens or encumbrances, and there is no right of redemption.

Note: These laws are subject to change. n Deficiency judgments: If the commercial foreclosure Angela Turriciano Otto is a shareholder at the law firm of sale amount is less than the amount of the outstanding secured Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. indebtedness, the holder of the mortgage or deed of trust

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Slew of new taxes and fees to take effect July 1

BY CY RYAN STAFF WRITER

Gov. Brian Sandoval’s record $1.1 billion tax increase takes effect July 1, but there are many other fees and taxes that will hit Nevadans on that date or later.

They range from levies on taxi rides to divorce actions. And local governments are authorized to ask voters to approve tax increases for many reasons. n There’s a 3 percent tax on taxicab and ride-hailing car fares. The tax was imposed to help fully fund a $27 million request by UNLV to start a medical school. n Customers who transact business with the state Department of Motor Vehicles will be assessed $1 to help pay for a massive new computer system. n In a joint divorce action, there will be an additional fee to reopen terms. The person who files a request to amend a divorce decree will be charged $129. The individual who responds to the new case will have to pay $59. The money goes to the court system. n Boxing promoters will pay the state 8 percent of the gross gate receipts, up from 6 percent. n The live entertainment tax ranges from 5 to 10 percent on admissions, depending on the size of the venue. Effective Oct. 1, the rate is 9 percent for all admissions, including outdoor events. n There is an immediate tax increase of $1 per pack of cigarettes. n Counties will be permitted to create a district to impose a sales and use tax to pay off bonds to help finance water projects that cost more than $50 million. The tax must be cleared by the Interim Finance Committee of the Legislature. n Counties and cities with master and recreational plans may impose a residential construction tax for new or expanded parks. The tax would apply to construction of homes, apartment complexes and the development of mobile home spaces. The tax would be 1 percent of the valuation on the building permit or $1,000 per residential unit, whichever is less. n Rural counties will be able to ask voters in 2016 if they want to approve an increase in the gasoline tax. n The state business license fee for corporations will increase from $200 to $500.

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A recently announced $10 million donation from the Engelstad Family Foundation will provide 100 scholarships for the first four graduating classes at the UNLV medical school. (COURTESY OF AARON MAYES)

UNLV raises twice its goal for medical school scholarships

BY IAN WHITAKER STAFF WRITER

The campaign to raise $6 million in scholarships for the first class of students at the proposed UNLV medical school was supposed to last the rest of the year.

It’s now June, and the campaign is finished. In a little over two months, the campaign raised more than twice its goal.

“It’s just unbelievable,” said medical school Dean Barbara Atkinson. “People just came forward.”

Atkinson and her team were just $600,000 shy of the goal in May, but a recently announced $10 million donation from the Engelstad Family Foundation sealed the deal. It will provide 25 scholarships for the school’s charter class of 60 students in fall 2017 as well as 25 scholarships for each of the school’s next three classes.

In total, the school has commitments for 135 scholarships at a cost of $13.5 million.

“In my 44 years in the profession, I have never seen a campaign that successful,” said Peter Smits, senior fellow at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. The nonprofit group helps universities build relationships with alumni and donors, among other things.

He said similar campaigns usually take universities two to five years on average to complete.

It’s a huge victory for the fledgling medical school, which has had to prove to lawmakers that it has enough community support to thrive in Southern Nevada.

“It’s just an enormous expression of faith in the university,” Smits said.

It also caps off a month of great news for the school. On June 11, Gov. Brian Sandoval signed legislation that would give the school $27 million in startup funding over the next two years.

“We have had a very good month,” said Atkinson.

At $100,000 per scholarship, the donation from

the Engelstad family will fund four years worth of medical education for 100 students.

Until now, most of the donations have been from private individuals giving smaller sums. The donation from the Engelstads is the first major donation in the school’s history, and comes from a family with a history of philanthropy at UNLV. In 2009, the family gave $12 million to create the Engelstad Scholars program at UNLV, the largest endowment of its kind in the state, according to the university.

Kris Engelstad McGarry, trustee of the foundation, said the gift was motivated by a commitment to students and the state of health care in Southern Nevada.

“For people who have made their living here, to have to look elsewhere as soon as you are ill is really a tragedy that needs to be rectified,” she said.

“We want to have quality doctors in Nevada, and it seems to us the way to start that is the medical school.”

The scholarships allow the school to choose the best students, which will make a big difference when an agency examines the school’s test scores in its fourth year to determine whether or not to grant it accreditation.

“We want to ensure high quality in this medical school,” said UNLV President Len Jessup, who donated $100,000 of his own money to pay for a scholarship. “A fundamental part of that is the students.”

The school now must hire faculty and prepare to open admissions for the school’s first students early in 2016. The initial application for accreditation is due in a few weeks, Atkinson said.

The school also must raise the money for its first building, which will be located near UNLV’s dental school across from University Medical Center.

“There’s a lot going on,” Atkinson said. “People are really starting to talk about the school being ready to go.”

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Allegiant Air investors recently reelected the carrier’s entire board of directors and rejected a proposal to curb executive pay, thwarting labor groups that wanted to shake up the Las Vegas airline’s corporate governance.

At the company’s annual shareholders meeting at its Summerlin headquarters, executives announced that all six board members of parent Allegiant Travel Co. were picked to serve another year.

Their elections were far from unanimous. Linda Marvin, chairwoman of the audit committee, got “yes” votes from investors representing about 10.3 million of Allegiant’s roughly 17 million shares, by far the fewest of any board member, while investors representing 5.7 million shares withheld their votes for her, by far the most.

Board member John Redmond got approvals from investors representing about 14.5 million shares, the secondfewest, while those holding 1.5 million shares withheld their votes for him, the second-highest tally, according to a securities filing.

CtW Investment Group, a union-affiliated corporate-governance activist firm, had asked Allegiant shareholders to vote out half the board — Marvin, Redmond and Gary Ellmer.

Those three have close ties to Allegiant chairman and CEO Maurice “Maury” Gallagher and, as members of the audit committee, have approved multimilliondollar contracts with outside businesses that Gallagher controls or partially owns.

According to CtW, the trio has displayed a “collective failure to guard against” the “poor use” of company money.

CtW targeted Marvin, a former Allegiant chief financial officer; Redmond, who owns real estate with Gallagher; and Ellmer, who, according to CtW, worked with Gallagher at the former WestAir Commuter Airlines. Gallagher was a principal owner and executive at the carrier in the 1980s and early ’90s.

ISS recommended that shareholders re-elect every board member except Marvin.

Unlike the Allegiant shareholders vote, most board members at U.S. publicly traded companies get near-unanimous approval. Last year, directors with the 3,000 largest U.S. public companies received an average approval tally of at least 96 percent, according to CtW, citing data from the Council of Institutional Investors.

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have drastically cut back on construction and development lending since the market tanked. They’ve boosted profits and overall lending, but when it comes to real estate development, bankers aren’t opening the vault nearly as often as they did during the go-go years last decade.

“We’ve all kind of stayed away from that,” Meadows Bank CEO Arvind Menon said.

Clark County’s six remaining small, locally based community banks — lenders with just one or a few locations — had a combined overall loan portfolio of about $757 million by the end of the first quarter. Construction and land development loans comprised $54 million, or 7 percent.

By comparison, during the first quarter of 2009, when the economy was nosediving, their total lending stood at $440 million, with development funding at nearly $143 million, or 32 percent of all loans, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., a banking regulator.

Those numbers — a snapshot of loans outstanding — do not include the much larger Nevada State Bank.

Its total loan portfolio has dropped 23 percent since early 2009, to $2.3 billion — and its development financing has plunged 89 percent, to almost $101 million by first quarter’s end, according to the FDIC. Las Vegas banks are not alone, as lenders have been scaling back construction financing in other parts of the country that also were hit especially hard by the real estate bust.

“This is very much a regional issue,” said Michael Natzic, senior vice president of the community bank group at Los Angeles-based Crowell, Weedon & Co., a stock brokerage and money management firm.

A big reason for the drop here: Unlike during the boom years, bankers are steering clear of speculative development.

Local executives say they’ll fund projects only if developers already have lined up tenants. Securing paying customers in advance improves the odds of being able to pay off the loan, which borrowers frequently failed to

do after the bubble burst.

Menon said his bank — by far the biggest of Las Vegas’ smaller, hometown lenders, with $467 million in assets — “will not touch” speculative developments. Neither will Kirkwood Bank of Nevada, the smallest of the pack with $69 million in assets.

Unless a project is preleased, “we wouldn’t do new construction,” said Kirkwood chief credit officer John Dru. “Bankers are a lot smarter now, and customers are too,” Dru said.

Regulators also have pressured banks to rein in such lending. Sinking under bad development loans, banks failed nationwide during the recession, and financial regulators cracked down on funding to ensure banks wouldn’t put themselves at risk of collapsing again.

“They’re still watching them very closely,” Natzic said.

Local community banks still devote most of their lending to real estate deals, but they seem to be writing mortgage loans more often than funding construction.

In early 2007, Nevada State Bank devoted 35 percent of its loan portfolio to construction and development deals. By early this year, it was down to 4 percent, according to FDIC data.

The bank has shifted to commercial-property mortgages and other business-focused lending, said Jeff Jenkins, executive vice president and statewide real estate lending manager.

“We’re trying to grow the book in a more balanced fashion than what’s been done in the past,” Jenkins said.

Borrowers still have plenty of options for finding loans, as Southern Nevada’s community banks are minuscule compared with the likes of Wells Fargo Bank and Bank of America. Meadows, for instance, has only four branches — two in the valley — and $402 million in total deposits.

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Construction has picked up the past few years Developer Doug Roberts, who recently broke ground on two local speculative warehouse projects, said financial giants such as JPMorgan Chase Bank and Bank of America are issuing construction loans in the valley.

Lenders are more disciplined, though, requiring far more cash up front than they did during the bubble.

Back then, banks would finance 80 to 85 percent of a project’s construction costs. Now, they’re down to about 55 percent, said Roberts, a partner with Panattoni Development Co. nnn Though still a shadow of what it was during the bubble, construction has picked up valleywide over the past few years. Most of the work involves tract housing, apartment complexes and warehouses.

In June 2006, around the height of the real estate bubble, 112,000 people in the Las Vegas area worked in construction. That plunged 69 percent to 34,800 workers in early 2012, according to the Associated General Contractors of America. Today, about 50,400 people work in construction locally, up 45 percent from the depths.

One project that received funding this year is a planned two-story, roughly 60,000-square-foot skilled nursing facility on Wigwam Parkway at Eastern Avenue. Meadows issued the developer, Tower Realty & Development, a $10.8 million loan, county records show.

Owned by brothers John and Louis Carnesale, Tower already has lined up a tenant to operate the facility. Construction crews are doing site work, and the building is expected to open next year, said Barry Lindemann, an asset manager at Tower affiliate Taylor Financial.

Lindemann said he probably “knocked on 10 different doors” to secure a lender. He praised Meadows, saying the bank made the underwriting process as easy as possible. In general, larger banks might offer better loan terms but have more bureaucracy than community lenders.

“If you can get it done faster, you’re not wasting money sitting around trying to fund a loan,” Lindemann said. nnn Backed by easy money, Las Vegas

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developers built at a frenzied pace during the go-go years, flooding the valley with office buildings, retail centers, warehouses and other properties.

The industry was all but wiped out during the recession, with widespread bankruptcies, foreclosures, vacancies and abandoned construction projects.

Financial regulators, amid waves of bank failures nationally, shut down six locally based banks from fall 2008 to spring 2011. Others almost failed, and practically every hometown lender that remained alive was losing money.

The first to collapse, Silver State Bank, also was the largest to go under. It had almost $1.9 billion in assets, 12 branches in Southern Nevada and four in Arizona, and sales offices in seven states.

The bank grew rapidly along with Las Vegas, more than tripling the size of its loan portfolio between late 2004 and June 2008, to $1.6 billion.

Regulators shuttered the bank in September 2008, 12 years after it opened. Silver State’s receiver, the FDIC, sued former CEO Corey Johnson, former Executive Vice President of Real Estate Lending Douglas French and two ex-loan officers in 2012. The agency sought to collect more than $86 million in damages tied to losses FDIC officials said were caused by the defendants’ “gross negligence” on numerous real estate loans. The lawsuit recently was set-

tled, court records show.

In 2013, a lawyer for Johnson told VEGAS INC that Silver State’s failure wasn’t his client’s fault.

“It was exclusively the economy,” he said.

The FDIC’s Office of Inspector General, however, blamed the bank’s demise on sloppy real estate lending.

In a 2009 report, it said Silver State failed primarily because of management’s “high-risk business strategy.”

Executives pursued aggressive loan growth, concentrating in higher-risk commercial real estate loans and had “weak risk management practices and controls,” the report said.

In late 2004, construction and development lending comprised 21 percent of Silver State’s loan portfolio. By June 2008, it had ballooned to 67 percent of all loans, according to the report.

The second-largest to fail, Community Bank of Nevada, closed in 2009, 14 years after it opened.

Management dumped money into Las Vegas real estate projects, helping the bank grow at a rapid clip. It suffered heavy losses when the local economy started to crumble, but executives said they were sure it would turn around. Examiners, however, found that bank management had “a ‘lethal sense of optimism’ regarding the resilience of the Las Vegas market” and “failed to identify and quantify the magnitude of risk” in its real estate-heavy loan portfolio, according to the Federal Reserve’s Office of

Inspector General.

Commercial buildings emptied out as companies laid off workers en masse or shut down altogether.

With little demand for new space and practically no money being offered to build, construction largely ground to a halt in Las Vegas.

“There was really no need to build another building,” Jenkins said.

Today, Las Vegas’ commercial property market is stronger, but some sectors are healthier than others.

The warehouse market in particular has gained speed over the past few years, with developers breaking ground on several projects, and landlords signing more tenants and raising rents.

Retail got a major new player last fall with the opening of Downtown Summerlin, the once-mothballed 106-acre shopping and office complex near Red Rock Resort. But overall, shopping-center vacancy rates remain largely unchanged over the past year and rental prices are sliding, according to Colliers International.

The office market has been slowest to recover. Landlords are signing more tenants and raising rental prices a bit, and construction plans are picking up, with a dozen mostly small to medium-size projects in the development pipeline. But the market’s vacancy rate hovers around 19 percent, roughly twice that of industrial and retail, according to Colliers.

Overall, lenders have noticed an upswing in competition among banks for construction loans and a bump in requests from prospective borrowers. Community bankers expect development lending to stay flat or to tick higher, though no one is forecasting a surge of deals.

“It’s going to go up, (but) it’s not going to be enormous,” Bank of George CEO T. Ryan Sullivan said.

Local banks are far healthier today than they were during the worst of the downturn. They’ve charged off huge amounts of soured loans, sold foreclosed properties and boosted earnings.

And even though bankers are avoiding speculative construction projects, at least one lender may not be surprised if they eventually pile back in.

“We all learned a lesson,” Menon said. “But they do say that bankers have short memories, so who knows?”

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TMA webinar: “Utilizing and Preparing Valuation Experts in Bankruptcy Litigation” Time: 4-5:30 p.m. Cost: $29 for Turnaround Management Association members, $119 for nonmembers Location: Visit turnaround.org Information: Email emenet@turnaround.org Richard Costello, of Principal Finances and Capital Markets, will moderate a discussion about bankruptcy litigation.

Cocktails and Conversations Time: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $100 Location: Orleans, 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., Las Vegas Information: Email mrodolico@lvchamber.com Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., and other elected leaders will share their thoughts on issues affecting the state and its business community.

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BROKERED TRANSACTIONS SALES $10,350,000 for 183 units, multihousing 4350 Boulder Highway, Las Vegas 89121 Seller: BPLV LLC Seller agent: Doug Schuster, Curt Allsop, Vittal Ram and Diane McKinney of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank Buyer: The Bascom Group LLC Buyer agent: Did not disclose $7,760,000 for 160 units, residential 3417 E. Cheyenne Ave., North Las Vegas 89030 Seller: Parkwood Apartments LLC Seller agent: Patrick Sauter, Art Carll and Devin Lee of NAI Vegas Buyer: Las Vegas Residential

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Property Buyer agent: Patrick Sauter, Art Carll and Devin Lee of NAI Vegas $3,900,000 for 2.47 acres, industrial 111, 115, 121, 125 Corporate Park Drive, Henderson 89074 Seller: Sage Industrial Holdings LLC Seller agent: Did not disclose Buyer: Elevon Corporate Park LLC Buyer agent: Greg Pancirov and Mike DeLew of Colliers International $560,000 for 7,695 square feet, multifamily residential 1114 E. Clark Ave., Las Vegas 89101 Seller: Lu and Dale Siewert Seller agent: James Slack, Michael LaBar and Michael Shaffner of Avision Young Buyer: Michael Kaplan Buyer agent: Jay Mitterlehner of American Realty Properties $220,000 for 1,600 square feet, office 4218 W. Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas 89102 Seller: Enerson 2009 Family Trust Seller agent: Did not disclose Buyer: Absolute Primary Care Center Buyer agent: Tom Naseef and Jeff Naseef of Colliers International

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Blue Ribbon K9 Business type: Office Address: Did not disclose, Las Vegas

Cafe 525 & Catering Business type: Alcohol beverage caterer Address: 1044 S. Sixth St., Las Vegas Owner: Hart & Hart Chakra Pouf Business type: Online retal Address: 201 S. Gibson Road, Suite 2211, Henderson Owner: Keshia Zane

Concret Business Address Henders Owner: R

Continen Business establish Address Las Veg Owner: J

Cook Se Business service Address Suite 160 Owner: C

Cornerst Business services Address Suite 210 Owner: C

Custom Business Address North La Owner: C LLC

Cynthia Business sage the Address Vegas Owner: C

D Smoke Business Address Suite 101 Owner: D

Characters Unlimited Inc. Business type: Coin amusement machine Address: 310 Fremont St. and 300 Fremont St., Las Vegas Owner: Olaf Stanton

Dav Spo Business Address Vegas Owner: D

Chelsea Carsello Business type: Real estate sales Address: 10750 W. CharlestonBlvd., Suite 180, Las Vegas Owner: Chelsea Carsello

David Cl Business Address Owner: A Inc.

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

Dd’s Dis Business Address Vegas Owner: R

Cindy L. Pierce Business type: Real estate sales Address: 10000 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 130, Las Vegas Owner: Cindy L. Pierce

Dean Le Business services Address Las Veg Owner: A

Cole Haan Company Store Business type: General retail sales Address: 785 S. Grand Central Parkway, Suite 2119, Las Vegas Owner: Cole Haan Company Store LLC

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Records and Transactions Concrete House Business type: Contractor Address: 652 Finch Island Ave., Henderson Owner: Ronald Garrett Reed Continental Studio of Beauty Business type: Cosmetological establishment Address: 921 W. Owens Ave. 130, Las Vegas Owner: Josephine Langforoad Cook Security Group Inc. Business type: Burglar alarm service Address: 3230 W. Desert Inn Road, Suite 160, Las Vegas Owner: Cook Security Inc.

Diversity Wicked Tattoos Business type: Tobacco sales Address: 300 S. Decatur Blvd., 4401 N. Rancho Drive, Suite 2310 and S. Las Vegas Blvd., Suite 102 , Las Vegas Owner: Shahram Inc. Dolan Law Group Ltd. Business type: Professional services Address: 7495 W. Azure Drive, Suite 110, Las Vegas Owner: Dolan, Courtney E. Stanley Projects Business type: Management Address: 2725 S. Mona Lisa St., Henderson Owner: E. Stanley Projects Inc.

Cornerstone Cpas LLC Business type: Professional services Address: 9030 W. Cheyenne Ave., Suite 210, Las Vegas Owner: Christine Miles

Edward James Orasi Jr. Business type: Real estate sales Address: 10000 W. CharlestonBlvd. 135, Las Vegas Owner: Edward J. Orasi Jr.

Custom Cabinets & Closets LLC Business type: Manufacturing Address: 4550 Donovan Way, North Las Vegas Owner: Custom Cabinets & Closets LLC

Encore Group Of California LLP Business type: Project management consulting Address: 2380 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway, Suite 100, Henderson Owner: Encore Group Of California Llp

Cynthia Hernandez Business type: Independent massage therapist Address: Did not disclose, Las Vegas Owner: Cynthia Hernandez

Eragance Apparel Business type: General retail sales Address: 8486 Antique Cameo Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Chanel Thorley

D Smokeshop Business type: Tobacco sales Address: 3510 E. Bonanza Road, Suite 101, Las Vegas Owner: D Enterprises LLC Dav Sports Trade Co. Business type: Sporting goods Address: Did not disclose, Las Vegas Owner: Davod Ghasemi David Clarke Business type: Bail bond agency Address: 810 S. Main St., Las Vegas Owner: A Royal Flush Bail Bonds Inc. Dd’s Discounts #5260 Business type: General retail sales Address: 562 N. Eastern Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Ross Driveess For Less Inc. Dean Legal Group Ltd. Business type: Professional services Address: 725 S. 8th St., Suite 200, Las Vegas Owner: Aaron R. Dean Delicate Sensations Business type: Beauty supplies Address: 4333 Laguna Garden Ave., North Las Vegas Owner: Allena Felder

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Evelina Sulrzycki Business type: Real estate sales Address: 10750 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 180, Las Vegas Owner: Evelina Sulrzycki Evision Media Business type: Website design Address: 818 Roaring Falls Ave., Henderson Owner: Mark Evans Fortress Home Services Business type: Contractor Address: 7255 N. Monte Cristo Way, Las Vegas Owner: Jon Weisberg

BUILDING PERMITS $15,400,000, commercial - alteration 333 W. Gowan Road, North Las Vegas Capitol Steel Constructors Inc. $1,200,000, residential 3900 W Oakey Blvd., Las Vegas CEI Builders $792,259, wall/fence 265 Fox Hill Drive , Las Vegas Desert Plastering LLC $517,847, residential- custom 1620 Villa Rica Drive, Henderson

Pebble Creek Holdings LP $500,000, tenant improvement 1941 N. Decatur Blvd., Las Vegas FP Contracting Inc. $468,663, residential - custom 2673 Boboli Court, Henderson Pebble Creek Holdings LP $434,902, single-family residential production 6911 Winter Rain St. , Las Vegas Richmond American Homes of Nevada $431,550, professional 2990 Bicentennial Parkway, Henderson Bicentennial Animal Hospital LLC $394,027, residential - custom 7 Lido Mord, Henderson Level Development Group LLC $390,423, residential - custom 1491 Reims Drive, Henderson Blue Heron $372,956, residential - custom 210 W. Desert Rose Drive, Henderson Desert Rose Customs LLC $325,000, tenant improvement 4660 N. Rancho Drive, Las Vegas Sustain Builders LLC $282,795, residential - custom 1131 Dufort Hills Court, Henderson DR Horton Inc. $270,000, tenant improvement 4648 N. Rancho Drive, Las Vegas Sustain Builders LLC $270,000, commercial - new 3950 N. Bruce St., North Las Vegas Windset Nevada Properties Inc.

$202,503, residential - production 301 Mandarin Hill Lane, Henderson Pardee Homes of Nevada $202,281, residential - production 306 Mandarin Hill Lane, Henderson Pardee Homes of Nevada

$169,989, commercial - remodel 874 American Pacific Drive, Henderson Kittrell Jenson Contractors LLC

$191,302, residential - custom 1141 Harwood Hills Court, Henderson DR Horton Inc.

$169,621, residential - production 1110 Echo Pass St., Henderson KB Homes Nevada Inc.

$186,518, single-family residential - production 10741 Irving Park Ave., Las Vegas Toll North LV LLC

$168,673, residential - new 1020 Pine Vista Court, North Las Vegas Pardee Homes of Nevada

$186,273, single-family residential - production 5536 Bruin Lakes St., Las Vegas Richmond American Homes of Nevada

$168,673, residential - new 1017 Pine Vista Court, North Las Vegas Pardee Homes of Nevada

$185,647, single-family residential - production 12283 Lorenzo Ave., Las Vegas Pulte Homes of Nevada $185,647, single-family residential - production 344 Rezzo St., Las Vegas Pulte Homes of Nevada $183,373, residential - production 309 Mandarin Hill Lane, Henderson Pardee Homes of Nevada $182,740, single-family residential - production 9809 Guiding Light Ave., Las Vegas Richmond American Homes of Nevada $176,485, single-family residential - production 9801 Guiding Light Ave., Las Vegas Richmond American Homes of Nevada

$259,865, commercial - alteration 2705 W. Lake Mead Blvd., North Las Vegas Marco Contractors Inc.

$175,000, tenant improvement 4656 N. Rancho Drive, Las Vegas Sustain Builders LLC

$250,000, tenant improvement 875 S. Grand Central Parkway, Suite 1660, Las Vegas CM Builders

$173,935, residential - new 3717 Blissful Bluff St., North Las Vegas Richmond American Homes of Nevada

$238,324, residential - custom 230 W. Desert Rose Drive, Henderson Desert Rose Customs LLC $237,600, commercial 825 Gibson Road, Henderson Pac-Van Inc. $225,000, single-family residential - addition 9324 Verlaine Court, Las Vegas Little Mountain Development LLC $216,000, commercial 825 Gibson Road, Henderson Pac-Van Inc.

9114 Mastodon Ave., Las Vegas DR Horton Inc.

$173,935, residential - new 2511 Endearing Court, North Las Vegas Richmond American Homes of Nevada $173,114, residential - production 302 Mandarin Hill Lane, Henderson Pardee Homes of Nevada $171,070, single-family residential production 9113 Mastodon Ave., Las Vegas DR Horton Inc. $171,070, single-family residential production

$167,685, single-family residential - production 12240 Toselli Court , Las Vegas Pulte Homes of Nevada $167,685, single-family residential - production 304 Rezzo St., Las Vegas Pulte Homes of Nevadaada $167,685, single-family residential - production 346 Rezzo St., Las Vegas Pulte Homes of Nevadaada $167,459, residential - production 812 Loch Katrine Ave., Henderson DR Horton Inc. $161,809, residential - new 1024 Pine Vista Court, North Las Vegas Pardee Homes of Nevada $160,949, single-family residential - production 9119 Mastodon Ave., Las Vegas DR Horton Inc. $160,949, single-family residential - production 9120 Mastodon Ave., Las Vegas DR Horton Inc. $160,949, single-family residential - production 9108 Mastodon Ave., Las Vegas DR Horton Inc. $159,585, residential - production 341 Values Circle, Henderson Woodside Homes of Nevada LLC $159,363, residential - production 3222 Porto Vittoria Ave., Henderson Toll Henderson LLC To receive a complete copy of Data Plus every week in Excel, please visit vegasinc.com/subscribe.

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CATEGORY: THIRD-PARTY COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE MANAGERS (RANKED BY SQUARE FEET UNDER MANAGEMENT AS OF APRIL 30) Square feet managed

Properties

Property managers

Top executive

The Equity Group 8367 W. Flamingo Road, Suite 201 Las Vegas, NV 89147 702-796-5500 • teglv.com

8.2 million

141

7

Barbara M. Barron, president

2

MDL Group 3065 S. Jones Blvd., Suite 201 Las Vegas, NV 89146 702-388-1800 • mdlgroup.com

7.9 million

123

7

Carol Cline-Ong, CEO, principal

3

Gatski Commercial Real Estate Services 4755 Dean Martin Drive Las Vegas, NV 89103 702-221-8226 • gatskicommercial.com

6.9 million

247

6

Frank P. Gatski, president, CEO

4

CBRE 3993 Howard Hughes Parkway, Suite 700 Las Vegas, NV 89169 702-369-4800 • cbre.com

6.3 million

61

13

Meaghan Levy, director of asset services

5

Avison Young 3993 Howard Hughes Parkway, Suite 350 Las Vegas, NV 89169 702-472-7979 • avisonyoung.com

3.1 million

30

3

Joseph E. Kupiec Sr., principal, managing director

6

Colliers International 3960 Howard Hughes Parkway, Suite 150 Las Vegas, NV 89169 702-735-5700 • colliers.com/lasvegas

2.9 million

33

5

Mike Mixer, executive managing director

7

Virtus Commercial 1333 N. Buffalo Drive, Suite 120 Las Vegas, NV 89128 702-787-0123 • virtusco.com

2.6 million

69

6

Chris Emanuel, president, broker

8

Sun Property Management 8936 Spanish Ridge Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89148 702-968-7305 • sunpm.net

2.1 million

43

4

Susan M. Cotton, principal, managing director

9

Sansone Real Estate Services 9017 S. Pecos Road, Suite 4500 Henderson, NV 89074 702-914-9500 • sansonecompanies.com

1.9 million

12

2

Roland Sansone, president

Juliet Realty LLC 8375 W. Flamingo Road, Suite 200 Las Vegas, NV 89147 702-368-5800 • julietcompanies.com

1.7 million

11

Did not disclose

Jason Ahlstrom, principal

TNP Nevada 302 E. Carson Ave., Suite 330 Las Vegas, NV 89101 702-951-9900 • tnpre.com

1.4 million

12

3

Mala Zheleznyak, vice president

12a

Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Nevada Properties - McGarey Group 2140 E. Pebble Road, Suite 160 Las Vegas, NV 89123 702-735-0411 • mcgareypartners.com

1.2 million

63

4

Mark Stark, CEO

12b

Cushman & Wakefield Commerce 3773 Howard Hughes Parkway, Suite 100S Las Vegas, NV 89169 702-796-7900 • comre.com

1.2 million

18

2

David L. Jewkes, senior vice president

14

Nevada Development & Realty Co. 2500 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 211 Las Vegas, NV 89102 702-362-4144 • ndrlasvegas.com

978,301

13

1

Tedd Rosenstein, president

15

Commercial West Brokers 10120 S. Eastern Ave., Suite 200 Henderson, NV 89052 702-289-7007

474,000

5

1

Julie Barbagallo, owner, broker

Company

1

10 11

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One coupon per guest, per visit. Not valid with any other offer. See dealer for full details.

Buy One Get One FREE Buffet or 50% OFF One Buffet at S7 Buffet

Must be at least 21 with valid photo ID and A-Play Card. Membership into the A-Play Club is free. Cannot be combined with any other offer. Complimentary buffet value up to $12.99, additional fees apply on specialty, brunch and holiday buffets. Tax and Gratuity not included. One coupon per person, per table, per week. Dine in only. No cash value. Void if copied. Management reserves all rights. Expires 7/4/15. Settle to: 535.

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Limit one coupon per customer. Not valid with any other offers. Offer is non-transferable and has no cash value.

Not valid on holidays. Management reserves all rights. Expires 7/31/15.

20% OFF Entire Guest Check

*One coupon, per table, per visit. Not valid with any other coupons or promotional offers. Coupon has no cash value. No change returned.

Taxes and gratuity not included. Valid at participating Denny’s restaurants. Selection and prices may vary. Only original coupon accepted.

Photocopied and Internet printed or purchased coupons are not valid. No substitutions. © 2014 DFO, LLC. Printed in the U.S.A. Offer ends 7.4.15.

HOUSE OF BLUES INSIDE MANDALAY BAY RESORT 3950 LAS VEGAS BLVD. S, LAS VEGAS, NV 89119

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FREE Drink On Us at House of Blues Crossroads Bar Buy one drink and get the second FREE. *Good for one domestic beer, well drink or house wine, valid at the bar only. Must present this coupon when ordering drink.

Limit one coupon per customer. Not valid with any other offers. Offifer is non-transferable and has no cash value. Must be 21+ with valid ID. Management reserves all rights. Expires 7/31/15.

Get 10% OFF Any Purchase Over $30 Bring this coupon and get 10% off your purchase of $30 or more in the HOB Company Store *Offer not valid on sundry items, CD’s, Santana Musical Instruments or Artwork. May not be used in conjunction with any other offers. Expires 7/31/15.

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Poked, puma-style Dollhouse staples Remotely piloted craft Many a deaf person Foes of us __ squid First name in lexicography Govt. security Shotgun caller Two-handed, perhaps Try a new line, say Like Vassar since 1969 Scratched (out) Binoculars user Flats, in the U.S. Home run pace DOWN Video game involving 1 Pizzeria shaker contents breaking and placing blocks 2 Arthurian isle 85 Cash box 3 Most susceptible to burning 87 Massage deeply 4 Clue seeker 88 Mark above a “See me!”

5 Contractors’ destinations note 6 “This American Life” host 91 __ Bradley handbags Glass 7 Only nonvocal instrument in 92 Sch. level 94 Sitcom sewer worker Britten’s “A Ceremony of 98 As an option Carols” 99 Complimentary words from 8 Really enjoyed a bartender 9 Ricochet 101 Get in line 10 Ace 103 Munch 11 Cracker with a scalloped 105 Cried out, as in pain edge 106 Attends 12 Et __ 107 Not learned 13 Gossip 108 Varsity athlete’s honor 14 Laugh syllable 110 Poetry contests 15 83-Down tool 112 Put aside 16 In la-la land 114 Palindromic pop group 17 Academic period 115 Lowly worker 18 Chicago-based order 117 [Just like that!]

25 TUV neighbor on some 118 Carving tool phones 120 Show elation 26 Game piece 123 Supposed abduction 28 “__ chic!” vehicle 33 Hair 124 Whole bunch 35 “Hunny” lover 125 Stevens of Alaska 37 Golden relatives?

126 “Yo te __”: Spanish lover’s 38 Cannes coin words 40 Legal document 42 43 45 46 48 50 52 53 54 55 57 58 60 62 66 68 70 72 73 74 75 76 80 81 82 83

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without repeating.

Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 through 4 (easy) or 1 through 6 (challenging)

The numbers within the heavily outlined boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to produce the

target numbers in the top-left corners.

Freebies: Fill in singlebox cages with the number in the top-left corner

For answers to this week’s puzzles, go to Page 41

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