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K.J. Howe, “professor of yeastology,” left, pours a glass of wine for General Manager Mike Schoenbaechler at Grape Expectations in Henderson. (mike stotts/special to vegas inc)

Fertile ground for wineries Supporters say new law will bolster Nevada’s wine industry by opening opportunities in Reno, Las Vegas

By Valerie Miller | Special to VEGAS INC

Acres of vineyards and quaint wineries probably don’t come to mind when most people think of Nevada. But that could change, thanks to a new state law allowing wineries in population hubs, such as Clark County. ¶ In May, the Legislature passed and Gov. Brian Sandoval signed Assembly Bill 4 to help the winery industry grow. The law, which wineries, Continued on page 15

$8.1B

Wynn Resorts’ debt at the end of the second quarter. The company’s performance both in Macau and in Las Vegas was weaker than last year.

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Employees expected to be hired at the IKEA store being built at Sunset Road and Durango Drive. The 351,000-square foot furniture warehouse is scheduled to open next summer.

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

EDITORIAL

NOTEWORTHY STORIES

05 06 18 Q&A WITH MICHAEL CRISTALLI

A Las Vegas attorney whose life was part of the inspiration for the television series “The Defenders” talks about why he enjoys hosting radio shows, what he teaches at UNLV and how the legal community has changed.

THE NOTES People on the move, P4

MEET: TRUFFLES N BACON CAFE

Jacqueline Lim and Magnolia Magat recently moved their restaurant, known for its bacon jam, to a larger location. Their unusual flavor combinations have earned a following among people who work in the food industry.

TALKING POINTS Ten ways to help safeguard your business, P7

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

MORE VEGAS INC BUSINESS NEWS Calendar: Happenings and events, P17 The List: Subcontractors, P22

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NEVADA’S CREDIT BUBBLE IS INFLATING AGAIN Las Vegas shoppers are burning holes in their credit cards, but the increased spending may not be good for the economy.

Southern Nevadans had combined creditcard debts of $4.2 billion as of June 30, up 9.4 percent from a year earlier, according to credit-reporting company Equifax. Locals are borrowing money at nearly twice the rate of people nationally. U.S. consumers’ credit-card debts stood at $634 billion by June 30, up 5 percent year-over-year.

Las Vegas had the second-fastest rate of debt growth among the 25 largest metro areas, Equifax said.

Southern Nevada’s once-battered economy has improved over the past few years, especially in terms of job growth. The rise in

consumer spending reflects that.

The valley’s unemployment rate, which reached 14 percent during the recession, was down to 7 percent in June. But several problems remain, including foreclosures, subprime credit scores and weak wage growth.

Despite shrinking, Las Vegas’ jobless rate is tied with Memphis, Tenn., for highest among the nation’s 50 largest metro areas.

Nevadans’ personal finances consistently are ranked at or near the bottom of the country’s, and the spending surge has raised fears that people are repeating the mistakes of the boom years — taking on too much debt and buying items they can’t afford.

Let’s hope the burst of commerce doesn’t create big lines in Bankruptcy Court again.

— ELI SEGALL

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Mining safety awards The Nevada Mining Association honored members during the 2015 Safety Awards. Operator awards were given to the top three mines in each category based on number of employees onsite, number of man hours and penalties for lost-time accidents, number of reportable incidents and lost-time days. Individual awards were chosen based on nominations and judged on the person’s safety record and involvement in advocating for safety in the workplace.

Individual Safety Awards n General manager: Robert Stepper - Coeur Mining n Safety manager: Mark Carlson - American Drilling Corp. n Safety professional: Temby Lawrence Newmont Mining Corp.; Aaron Weight - Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc. n Mine manager/superintendent: Tracy Carroll - Newmont Mining Corp.; Don Dwyer Barrick Gold Corp.; Daryl Everett - Robinson Nevada Mining Co.; Mike Isaak - Klondex Mines Ltd.; Sam Marich - Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc.; Lorin Noble - Coeur Mining n General supervisor/middle management: Wes Amos - Round Mountain Gold Corp.; Page Adkins - Barrick Gold Corp.; Pat Chacon - Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc.; Pete Chavez - Newmont Mining Corp.; Scott Lawson Klondex Mines Ltd.; Max Lujan - Coeur Mining; Tom Stannard - Newmont Mining Corp.; John Taule - Barrick Gold Corp. n Trainer: Wynn Anderson - Silver Standard Mining; Bobbi Jo Bostic - Robinson Nevada; Nikkayla Simon - Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc. n Supervisor: John Bailey - Newmont Mining Corp.; Jason Deputy - Klondex Mines Ltd.; Dale Freese - Newmont Mining Corp.; Tim Felzein - Klondex Mines Ltd.; Neil Hastings - American Drilling Corp.; Dave Kelly - Silver Standard Mining; Terry Krantz - Barrick Gold Corp.; DeeJay Leach - Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc.; Shawn Migas - Newmont Mining Corp.; John Moffitt - Newmont Mining Corp.; John Neary - Newmont Mining Corp.; Justin Petrie - Barrick Gold Corp.; Russell Sheets - Newmont Mining Corp.; Wayne Thompson - Barrick Gold Corp.; Art Willms - Coeur Mining; Chris Zeiler - Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc. n Nonsupervisory trainer: Leonard Barraza - Newmont Mining Corp.; David Johnson Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc.; Mary Myrick - Barrick Gold Corp.; Lorenzo Olivas - Coeur Mining n Emergency response: Dave Baker - Newmont Mining Corp.; Rob Carter - Newmont Mining Corp.; Jeff Freeman - Barrick Gold Corp.; Travis Petersen - Newmont Mining Corp.; Andrew Smith - Silver Standard Mining n Safety champion: Mike Andersen - Silver Standard Mining; Kent Barrett - Newmont Mining Corp.; Dan Brown - Round Mountain Gold Corp.; Nikki Cooley - Round Mountain Gold Corp.; Joel Dunkin - Coeur Mining; Lester Gilman - Barrick Gold Corp.; Steve Justus - Air Products & Chemicals; Mark Koopman - Klondex Mines Ltd.; Chris Laloup - Klondex Mines Ltd.; Porsche Lee - Newmont Mining Corp.; Aaron Leininger - Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc.; Dave Murphy - Graymont; Diana Nelson - Newmont Mining Corp.; Reid Olsen - Barrick Gold Corp.; Billy Richardson - Klondex Mines Ltd.; Sean Riley - Newmont Mining Corp.; Dave Roberson - Newmont Mining Corp.; Scott Taylor - Coeur Mining; Edward Tester - Barrick Gold Corp.; Vaughn Tripp - Graymont; Wayne Tucker - Klondex Mines Ltd.; Josh Upton - Newmont Mining Corp.; Adam Wilson - Barrick Goldstrike

Mines Inc. Special awards: Earl Doege, Outstanding Career in Safety; Randy Harris, Outstanding Career in Safety n

Mine Operators Safety Awards n Surface operations: Large (300-plus employees) First: Round Mountain Gold Corp.

Second: Newmont Mining Corp. – South Area Third: Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc. – Goldstrike n Surface operations: Medium (100-299 employees) First: Newmont Mining Corp. – Mill 6 Second: Newmont Mining Corp. – Genesis Third: Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc. – Roaster n Surface operations: Small (20-99 employees) First: Newmont Mining Corp. – Lone Tree First: Barrick Gold of North America – Ruby Hill Second: Rawhide Mining LLC – Denton Rawhide Mine n Underground operations: Large (300-plus employees) First: Barrick Gold of North America – Turquoise Ridge Second: Barrick Gold of North America – Cortez Third: Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc. – Meikle/ Rodeo n Underground operations: Medium (100-299 employees) First: Newmont Mining Corp. – Exodus n Underground operations: Small (20-99 employees) First: Small Mine Development – Lee Smith Mine First: Nevada Copper Corp. – Pumpkin Hollow First: Newmont Mining Corp. – Chukar Second: Sterling Gold Mining Corp. – Sterling Mine n Nonmetal mining First: Art Wilson Co. – Adams Claim First: Granite Construction – Nevada Operations First: EP Minerals – Clark Mill & Mine First Gypsum Resources – Blue Diamond Hill First: EP Minerals – Colado Mine First Baker Hughes – Argenta Mine & Mill First: M-I Swaco – Battle Mountain Grinding Plant First: Halliburton Energy Services – Nevada Operations First: EP Minerals – Fernley Operations n Contractors First: Ames Construction – Ames Backfill Portable First: American Drilling Corp. – Nevada Operations First: Brahma Group Inc. – Nevada Operations First: Cementation USA Inc. – Pumpkin Hollow First: Phoenix Industrial – Round Mountain Gold Corp.

First: N.A. Degerstrom, Inc. – Robinson Mine Project First: J.S. Redpath – Bazza Mine, Goldstrike First: Small Mine Development – Chukar

Anthony Lai is student affairs program manager at the International lai patay School of Hospitality. He supports students with externships, career advice and job placement as they work toward certification in hospitality-related fields. In addition, Kate Patay, a faculty member at the school, won a 2015 Pacesetter Award from the Convention Industry Council. Patay is executive director of sales and marketing at Creative Coverings, a linen rental and sales company.

Mark Lipparelli is the Interblock compliance committee chairman. Interblock develops and supplies luxury electronic table gaming products.

UNLV School of Nursing Dean Carolyn Yucha received the 2015 State Award for Exlipparelli cellence from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners for making significant contributions to the status of health care delivery and the nurse practitioner role.

Bill Brewer is deputy director of the Nevada Rural Housing Authority.

The La Concha Motel lobby was added to the Nevada State Register of Historic Places for its iconic midcentury modern architecture.

Architect Paul Williams designed the La Concha.

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Matt Kershaw was appointed president and CEO of the Clark County Credit kershaw ferrandino Union, Tina Ferrandino is branch manager at the Sunset Road location and Karen Hirschfield is call center manager. Kershaw succeeds Wayne Tew, who served as Clark County Credit Union president and CEO for 29 years. Also, Lekia Smith and hirschfield LeeAnn Driesen are member services representatives at the credit union.

Ben Klink is senior director of strategy and finance at Sundance Helicopters. He oversees the financial growth of the company. He previously worked as director of financial operations at Caesars Entertainment. klink Tom Perrigo is city of Las Vegas planning director. He was hired in 1994 as a statistical analyst for the planning and development department, was promoted in 2003 to planning manager and in June of 2006 was selected deputy director of planning.

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Q&A with michael cristalli

Dramatic law career is just part of his story In the television series “The Defenders,” Jim Belushi played Nick Morelli, who was based on Michael Cristalli, managing partner of the law firm Gentile, Cristalli, Miller, Armeni & Savarese. In addition to working in the spotlight for TV and radio, as well as arguing high-profile cases involving the murder of Ted Binion and the legality of medical marijuana, Cristalli focuses on the more mundane but equally important task of teaching future lawyers about the business.

What are your greatest accomplishments so far in your career?

Growing up with a mother who was a judicial secretary for a New York Supreme Court Judge, I watched and interacted with many judges and lawyers. However, I was drawn to the trial lawyer who gracefully and persuasively articulated his clients’ cases before juries. It is the advocacy of the trial lawyer defending his clients’ positions passionately and zealously that inspired me. To become known and recognized as one of them has been one of my greatest accomplishments.

Also, in 2007, I, along with several others, developed and participated in a documentary, “The Defenders,” Attorney Michael Cristalli helped create the television series “The Defenders” and highlighting injustices in the crimi- teaches a class at UNLV. (yasmina chavez/special to the sunday) nal justice system. The documentary litigated?

The audience is the barometer for the resulted in the development of the In 2004, I handled the retrial of value of the topic and the disseminadocudrama series that aired on CBS. State vs. Rich Tabish and Sandra Retion of your thoughts.

My involvement was a fulfilling expenee Murphy. The state charged Rick rience. Consulting on each script with Tabish and Sandy Murphy with the As an adjunct professor at the idea of entertaining while also murder of casino heir Ted Binion. The UNLV, what advice do you give educating the public was extremely case was one of the most high-profile students? rewarding. When you defend a clicases in the history of Nevada. I repreIn my class, law practice manageent, you are influencing that one case, sented Sandy Murphy. ment, I try to give a practical apbut when you highlight the inequities After seven weeks and close to 100 proach to the business of law. There of the entire judicial system in a TV witnesses, the jury returned a notare many facets of the business, such series, you are communicating your guilty verdict to the charge of muras creating budgets, handling trust position to 10 million viewers each der. After being convicted and senaccounts and other economic considweek. tenced in the first case to a 20-to-life erations that have nothing to do with sentence, Sandy Murphy was a free handling a case. Students must unWhat is the most challenging woman. derstand how to price a case, and balpart of your job?

Sandy now is married and has two ance the eagerness to bring a case in Business and law do not marry young children. She and her husband with the amount of resources it takes well. If you got into the law business own an art gallery in Laguna Beach. to handle the case competently. exclusively for money, you got into it When I began practicing law, the for the wrong reason.

What is the most rewarding part legal community was smaller and Making money is important to a of your job? more collegial. Today, there’s a more successful practice. It allows you to Protecting the constitutional priviirreverent attitude toward the pracservice your clients better by matchleges afforded to people is the essence tice. Lawyers are not always considing your opponents’ resources. Howof my being. It is who I am and what I erate of each other, and I see a level of ever, the balancing act of how many want to continue to be. disrespect among the profession that clients to take, and how many is too did not exist when I started. Lawyers many, is a delicate analysis. Tipping What are you reading right now? are officers of the court and should the scales disproportionately toward I enjoy reading The New York always remember the oath they took generating more revenue could comTimes as well as our local news when they were sworn in. Despite the promise the services you provide. publications. I am a fan of the Huffadversarial nature of the profession, ington Post, where I get everything a lawyer should maintain decorum as You host two radio shows. Why? from politics and sports to gossip a representative of the court.

There is a freedom associated with and entertainment. For pure enjoypresenting your views to an audience ment, I usually have a James PatWhat was the most high-prowithout objection. However, that terson or John Grisham book somefile case in Nevada you have freedom is not without challenge.

where close.

What do you do after work?

I spend time with my wife of 22 years, Kristyn, and my two teenage boys, Michael and Christopher. Our days are consumed with watching them play baseball. Both are accomplished players, and it is pure enjoyment to watch them play. I also like to golf and ski.

Blackberry, iPhone or Android?

Only Apple everything. I am an addict. I love the interaction between the devices to keep me constantly connected — which may or may not be a good thing, but it is definitely my thing.

Describe your management style.

I am definitely not an autocratic manager. I would say I apply a persuasive democratic style of management. I like to think I persuade my colleagues and staff into reaching consensus.

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

A writer. It would afford me a similar vehicle as that of a lawyer, wherein I can articulate a position persuasively to my audience.

When I was creating “The Defenders,” I worked with many accomplished writers. Neils Mueller and Kevin Kennedy, the two co-creators of the show, taught me a great deal about the craft. I definitely would like to do script writing. I love the production process and collaboration that goes into developing storylines and then seeing them on film.

What is your biggest pet peeve?

Unopened emails drive me crazy. It doesn’t matter where I am or what I am doing, if I get an email, I have to open it.

What is something people might not know about you?

I am an only child. People seem surprised when I tell them. But I grew up in a large extended family with many cousins, so I really never identified myself as an only child.

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$4.3 MILLION Amount operators of the Reid Gardner Generation Station have agreed to pay to settle a lawsuit and clean up contamination nearby that Native Americans say caused health and water pollution problems. The coal-fired power plant is operated by NV Energy and the California Department of Water Resources.

Chef Jacqueline Lim, left, and Magnolia Magat own Truffles n Bacon Cafe.

Among the restaurant’s offerings is the “Rawlins” ciabatta fried chicken sandwich, above. (PHOTOS

855 Nevada’s goal for reducing power plant emissions by 2030, measured in pounds of carbon dioxide per net megawatt hour. In 2012, state power plants emitted 1,102 pounds of carbon dioxide per net megawatt hour.

$322.1 MILLION Allegiant Travel Company’s revenue for the three months ending June 30, up 11 percent from the same period last year.

2.4 MILLION

Number of passengers who used Allegiant during the second quarter, a 15 percent increase from a year earlier.

$1.04 BILLION

Wynn Resorts’ revenue for the second quarter of this year, down 26 percent from a year earlier.

$830.9 MILLION Amount Nevada casinos won in June, down 8.4 percent from June 2014.

$445.5 MILLION Amount won in June by casinos on the Strip, where the bulk of Nevada’s gaming revenue is generated. Revenue was down 16.3 percent year over year.

21 MILLION

Number of people who visited Las Vegas the first six months of this year. Visitation is up 1.5 percent from the same period last year.

1.7 PERCENT

Increase in Las Vegas convention attendance in the first six months of the year compared with the same time period last year.

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Cafe takes fresh approach to flavor Describe your business.

We offer new American comfort food with a twist. Everything is freshly prepared and can be customized.

We also offer tea service and catering, and our space can be rented for private events and parties.

Who are your customers?

TRUFFLES N BACON CAFE Address: 8872 S. Eastern Ave., Suite 100, Las Vegas Phone: 702-503-1102 Email: magnolia@trufflesnbacon.com Website: trufflesnbacon.com Hours and days of operation: 8:30 a.m.2 p.m. Sunday; 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday; 8:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday Owned/operated by: Jacqueline Lim and Magnolia Magat In business since: February 2014 (February 2015 in current location)

us unique. We don’t just serve food to put food out; we put our heart and soul into every plate that comes out of our kitchen.

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

The market here is quite different from the East Coast. It was hard to find out what works and what doesn’t. It was hit or miss for the first few months of operation.

On the weekdays, we have young professionals coming in for their lunch breaks. During the weekends, we have parents who bring in their children or their own parents. A growing trend we’ve noticed is people from the food industry have been our regulars — chefs, servers and bartenders.

Starting a business in Nevada is quite easy. The government agencies all are very supportive and easy to deal with. They guided us throughout the whole process.

What are some of your most popular dishes?

What obstacles has your business overcome?

Our most popular item is our TNB Signature Burger. It has crispy mac ‘n’ cheese and an angus beef patty topped with bacon jam.

The next most popular item is the Not Your Mama’s Grilled Cheese, a grilled-cheese panini with brisket, bacon jam, grilled tomato and sautéed kale with chipotle ranch.

We financed the business using all of our savings, so we can’t afford any surprise expenditures. We still haven’t paid ourselves, so we really have tightened our belts to the most basic needs.

What do you suggest eating with bacon jam?

One of the ways we serve the bacon jam is with roasted garlic toast. Another is with our Sinful Tots — tater tots tossed in truffle oil and shredded cheese, then topped with bacon jam, chipotle ranch and pepperoncini.

What makes your business unique?

The passion Jackie puts into creating our food makes

What is the best part about doing business here?

How can Nevada improve its business climate?

Maybe offer small businesses financial assistance to stay afloat during the most critical times of operations.

What have you learned from the recession?

There were opportunities waiting for those willing to take a risk during the recession. You just needed to be more prudent about your ways and stick with it. If you have a good product, people will buy it, even when times are tough.

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guest column: Evolution (LTE) to ensure uninterrupted as Vegas is open for business Christopher Duggan connectivity.

24/7/365. Many of Sin City’s 5. Better yet, if possible, create an IP VPN businesses — hotels, casinos, by adding Internet connections at two or restaurants and clubs — never more locations with automatic failover close. So even in the wee hours of the during an outage at the primary location. morning, IT issues such as power failures, network outages 6. Order automatic failover for voice lines and trunks, too, and equipment crashes can mean customers can’t book so customers never get a busy or out-of-service signal. rooms, charge meals or play slot machines.

7. Consider a cloud-based service for your phone system, IT downtime can cost thousands of dollars per incident email or collaboration applications since they can be — and the meter turns faster as more businesses simply accessed anytime, anywhere and from any device. can’t operate without communications, data and Internet 8. Move data servers to an off-site, secure facility to provide connections. A study by the Ponemon Institute documented higher availability for mission-critical applications. a 41 percent rise in the cost of downtime between 2010 and 9. Subscribe to a managed security service to prevent 2013, with no indication the curve will flatten. malware and denial of service (DoS) attacks from taking The good news is you can minimize the impact of IT down your network. downtime. Here are 10 ways to improve uptime: 10. Look for a service provider that will consult with you 1. Temporarily store inbound email at a remote data on developing a continuity plan that includes a range of center in the event of a server, line or power failure. Emails solutions that are right for you. automatically are forwarded when service is restored.

Don’t put off business continuity planning. Admittedly, 2. Back up mission-critical data automatically over existing preparing for a disaster that may never happen seems like a Internet or virtual private network (VPN) connections to a low priority, but consider this: A careless backhoe operator secure storage facility and restore when needed. or a user error could stop your business dead in its tracks as 3. Remotely forward calls to your company’s main phone surely as a flood, earthquake or hurricane. line to another office, a mobile phone or even a residence Christopher Duggan leads the Las Vegas office of TelePacific when you need to.

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Governor’s office expects to get NASA contract to test drones By daniel rothberg Staff Writer

NASA could soon be testing drones in Nevada airspace.

As one of six designated drone test sites, the state is in the process of securing a contract to host the agency while it researches unmanned aerial vehicles. Tom Wilczek, who works with the aerospace and defense industries in the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, expects to have an agreement within two months.

The contract would give NASA the freedom to use the Nevada test site for UAV-related projects, such as developing an air traffic management system for drones. NASA also is expected to conduct a demo flight in Nevada as part of its testing for unmanned aircraft. The state has not determined where the testing would take place, but there are several locations with good conditions for operating unmanned vehicles. They include Creech Air Force Base, Nellis Air Force Base, Fallon Municipal Airport, Reno-Stead Airport, Boulder City Airport and the Nevada National Security Site/Desert Rock Airport.

Given its long history of flight research, NASA is one of several federal agencies, along with the Federal Aviation Administration, that Congress has tasked with helping to integrate commercial drones into the national airspace.

According to Wilczek, an agreement with the agency could be a significant stimulus for the state’s technology industry because NASA likely would collaborate with companies in the state’s commercial drone sector.

“NASA is doing a lot of the (research and development), but they are very, very interested in integrating the technological components that come from industry,” Wilczek said.

Talks between NASA and the state have been on and off since October. The federal agency recently issued a request for proposal to the six FAA test sites. Although the contracting process is ongoing, Wilczek said he has been told that NASA has funding to sign Master Services Agreements — the agreement to permit testing — with all six test sites.

“They’ve expressed a growing interest to start engaging with these test sites,” he said.

In addition to bidding for the Master Services Agreement, Nevada is bidding for a NASA demo flight and an agency simulation center that will give researchers the capability to test how a UAV might respond to particular environments and situations.

“It’s the opportunity that we’ve all kind of been waiting for,” Wilczek said. “It’s an opportunity for obtaining some really significant research as well as an opportunity to (bring) really exciting (research and development) to Nevada research institutions and Nevada industries.”

The Las Vegas Ikea store under construction at Durango Drive and Sunset Road is expected to open in summer 2016. (steve marcus/staff)

With Ikea building, a major project finally sprouts at Sunset and Durango By eli segall Staff Writer

When Ikea was in talks to buy a big piece of land in Las Vegas, executives wanted to keep it hush-hush.

They even gave the deal a code name in honor of Nevada: “Project Silver.”

“I named it myself,” Ikea spokesman Joseph Roth said.

Ikea, the popular Swedish furniture dealer and meatball slinger, paid a fortune for the site at the southwest corner of Sunset Road and Durango Drive, and it’s building a 351,000-square-foot superstore there.

It’s not the only construction project in the southwest valley today, and unlike other big plans at Sunset and Durango, this one is actually taking shape.

Workers are building Ikea’s steel frame, and construction crews recently began installing blue exterior panels to form the shell of the building.

Ikea broke ground in April and expects to open the store next summer. It will be Ikea’s 42nd store nationally.

The two-level store — offering Ikea’s lowpriced, self-assembly furniture — is expected to employ about 300 people and will include a 450-seat restaurant.

Ikea closed the $21.3 million purchase of the 26-acre site in December.

Roth said the code name was needed in part because the company wanted to avoid a “bidding war” if people found out Ikea was eyeing the land.

“You don’t want to skew the real estate market by it getting out that Ikea is looking,” he said.

Still, Ikea’s purchase price — about $819,000

per acre — far outweighed the market average.

Last year in Southern Nevada, land sold for about $276,000 per acre, according to Colliers International.

Roth has said the company paid “a fair price” for the property.

Southwest Las Vegas is one of the most active areas for construction in the valley. Most of the work involves apartment complexes, single-family housing tracts and warehouses.

Projects underway near Ikea include a 310-unit apartment complex and the roughly 116,000-square-foot American Preparatory Academy, a charter school.

Ikea’s store, however, isn’t the first big project planned for the Durango-Sunset intersection.

Last decade, developers sought to build the Curve right about where Ikea is taking shape.

Plans for the first phase alone called for two 18-story luxury condo towers; at least 10 buildings with retail and restaurant space; and about 60,000 square feet of offices above retail, according to news releases. It never materialized.

Across the street, developers pursued plans during the go-go years for Sullivan Square.

Their $800 million high-rise project was supposed to include 1,300 to 1,400 residential units, 45,000 square feet of retail and 272,000 square feet of offices.

Excavation and utility work began that summer. But by spring 2008, the project had been hit with $2 million worth of lawsuits and liens, and the developers owed another $2 million to consultants and vendors, according to news reports.

Today, the site is little more than a giant hole in the ground with no signs of work.

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Golden Gaming becomes publicly traded Golden Entertainment By j.d. morris Staff Writer

Golden Gaming, a major operator of Nevada taverns, casinos and grocery store slot machines, has completed its transition from a family-owned business to a publicly traded company.

The company’s merger with Minnesotabased Lakes Entertainment closed recently.

Now known as Golden Entertainment, the combined business owns Maryland’s Rocky Gap casino in addition to the casinos, taverns and slot machines Golden Gaming controlled in Nevada.

The merger was approved by the Nevada Gaming Commission on July 23.

Blake Sartini, who was the CEO of Golden Gaming, is staying on as CEO of Golden Entertainment, which is headquartered in sartini Las Vegas. He said the closing marked a “truly monumental and meaningful day.”

“With Golden Entertainment, we now have a national, diversified gaming company with strong assets across the country,” he said in a company statement.

When the merger was announced in January, Golden Gaming said it would value Lakes at $9.57 per share, which was a 37 percent premium from Lakes’ closing price at the time.

The merger issued about 7.8 million shares to the Sartini family, who were the sole shareholders of Golden Gaming.

Golden Entertainment has also appointed three new members to its board of directors: Mark Lipparelli, a state senator and former chairman of the Gaming Control Board; Robert Miodunski, the former CEO of American Gaming Systems; and Terrence Wright, the board chairman and majority owner of Westcor Land Title Insurance Co. They join existing directors Lyle Berman, Timothy Cope and Neil Sell as well as Sartini, who is the board’s chairman.

Sartini has previously said the merger creates one of the gaming industry’s strongest balance sheets. He has also suggested that the company may grow even more, noting that “as a public company, we’re charged with growth.”

Golden Gaming was preparing to enter the Montana slot machine business before the merger. The company runs three casinos in Pahrump and 48 taverns under brands that include PT’s, Sean Patrick’s and Sierra Gold. It’s also Nevada’s largest slot machine route operator, with thousands of machines inside hundreds of grocery stores and similar spots.

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5 things to keep in mind as Caesars’ bankruptcy advances By j.d. morris Staff Writer

More than six months after a major division of Caesars Entertainment Corp. filed for bankruptcy, it’s still unclear exactly how the company will emerge on the other side.

Caesars wants a Chicago bankruptcy court to approve a restructuring plan that could shed around $10 billion in debt from the division, but lawsuits from some of the company’s creditors continue to complicate things. One recent court decision in particular threatens to create big problems for the entire casino company.

If Caesars’ plan is successful, the division that filed for bankruptcy will be reorganized under a real estate investment trust setup that will split it into two parts: one that owns casinos and another that manages them. That setup would have Caesars follow in the footsteps of other casino companies — including Penn National Gaming, the company buying the Tropicana — that have made similar moves.

Despite the lingering questions surrounding the complicated bankruptcy case, some basic elements remain clear.

1. Caesars Palace is the company’s only Las Vegas property included in the bankruptcy for now.

Caesars Entertainment is a massive company that’s split into multiple divisions. The only division that filed for bankruptcy in January was Caesars Entertainment Operating Co., which has been described as the largest of the company’s units.

Accordingly, the only Las Vegas property included in the original bankruptcy filing is Caesars Palace. Caesars’ other properties on the Strip — such as the Flamingo, the Paris and the Linq hotel — were not. However, that may change.

Other areas where Caesars operates weren’t so lucky. Harrah’s Reno, Harrah’s Lake Tahoe, Harveys Lake Tahoe, Caesars Atlantic City and Bally’s Atlantic City were among the properties included in the bankruptcy filing in January.

So what does being part of the filing mean for Caesars Palace? Not much at the moment. The property — as with other Caesars casinos — is open for business as usual, the company says.

2. But recent events suggest the whole company could go into bankruptcy.

The case hit an important milestone recently, and it did not work out well for Caesars.

Judge Benjamin Goldgar refused to shield the Caesars parent company from lawsuits by its creditors while the operating division is in bankruptcy. Caesars is appealing the decision, but it was denied a request that would have sped that process along.

That has further complicated the company’s attempt to stop suits against it before a judge

in New York “can consider imposing billions of dollars in liability on the parent,” Bloomberg reported.

Caesars has said the suits could force the parent company into bankruptcy.

The creditors’ lawsuits generally have to do with the legitimacy of asset transfers Caesars made before the bankruptcy. The company is standing its ground.

“We believe our defenses in the New York litigation are strong and will continue to contest those cases vigorously,” Caesars spokesman Stephen Cohen said in a statement after Goldgar’s ruling. Cohen said the ruling was a “technical interpretation of bankruptcy law and did not address in any way the merits of the New York litigation.”

3. At the same time, Caesars has made progress in gathering support from creditors.

Days before the Goldgar ruling, Caesars announced that a “significant amount” of secondlien debt holders signed an agreement that gives them a “substantial improvement” in what they can recover from the bankruptcy. Holders who sign the agreement could receive two sets of $200 million in convertible notes, the company said.

Caesars needs more than 50 percent of its second-lien debt holders to sign the agreement for it to become effective. The company did not say last week exactly how close it was to that goal, but Bloomberg reported that the group owned about 30 percent of junior notes.

Caesars said the parent company and the operating division were working to capture further support of the agreement.

4. The case has become expensive.

A case as complicated as this one is bound to produce a hefty stack of legal bills. And they’re piling high: According to the Associated Press, the Caesars case resulted in about $47 million in professional fees and expenses from Jan. 15 through the end of May. UNLV law professor Nancy Rapoport is leading the fee committee that’s reviewing those costs. She said in a previous interview that such committees usually consider the ratio of the fees to everything else going on in the case. It’s “typically pretty proportional” to the amount of money at stake in the overall case, she said, “but it’s still a lot of money.”

5. It’s going to take a long time to resolve.

Don’t hold your breath for a conclusion to this case anytime soon. According to Bloomberg, Caesars’ original plan envisioned an exit from the bankruptcy by Feb. 9, but its newer plan is to emerge by July 15 of next year.

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Unification Church opens long-gestating events center By eli segall Staff Writer

The Unification Church has built an events center in Las Vegas that it’s calling “America’s most heavenly place” and “a new beacon of hope.”

The move comes years after buying the project site and changing plans a number of times — including scrapping a museum dedicated to its late founder, a self-proclaimed messiah.

The International Peace Education Center, across the street from McCarran International Airport, plans to hold a grand opening ceremony Aug. 10 and is aiming to host its first nonchurch-related events next month.

Church leaders held a ribbon-cutting and sanctification ceremony in The International Peace Education Center, 6590 Bermuda Road, will have its late May. grand opening Aug. 10. (steve marcus) The three-story, 93,000-squareevents-industry software firm. church says. Known as “True Father” foot facility — white, inside and out — The meetings business is clustered to followers, Moon hoped the facility will be run by an outside vendor, who on and near the Strip, but Fiorentino “would change the reputation of Las hopes to lure local and out-of-town figures that plays to his advantage.

Vegas from ‘Sin City’ to a city of educustomers for conventions, training The founder of New York-based LNF cational enlightenment,” according to seminars, weddings and other gatherEvents, Fiorentino — not a member the church. ings. of the church — says he plans to tarChurch leaders and IPEC operator Formerly called the Peace Palace, get convention operators who want Mike Fiorentino are entering a lucraIPEC features white marble flooring, to leave the resort corridor for a day tive yet crowded industry. Las Vegas a 10,000-square-foot ballroom, conto hold events in an “intimate,” nonis one of the most popular places in ference rooms, a 5,000-square-foot casino facility; visitors who want to America for meetings and convenfoyer with a fountain and two grand be near Las Vegas Boulevard but not tions, and has an abundance of event staircases, and 49 hotel-style rooms, in the thick of it; and locals who want space. Almost 5.2 million convention including a four-bedroom suite with a place to hold a wedding, corporate delegates came to town last year, acprivate elevator access. event or other function. cording to the Las Vegas Convention Church founder the Rev. Sun Myung At 6590 Bermuda Road, IPEC sits and Visitors Authority. The valley Moon, who died in 2012, launched the among clusters of warehouses and ofhas three of the 10 largest convention project in America’s gambling mecca fice buildings just south of the airport, centers in the country, says Cvent, an and directed the site’s purchase, the

a few miles from the south edge of the resort corridor. As Fiorentino sees it, IPEC is detached from “the distractions that may happen over at the Strip.”

Moon founded the Unification Church in 1954 in Seoul. About 20 years earlier when he was a teenager, he claimed, he was praying on a Korean mountaintop when Jesus appeared to him and asked him to create the kingdom of heaven on Earth.

He recruited followers around the world, and the church became known for, among other things, mass weddings with tens of thousands of couples sometimes marrying at once.

Moon also built a corporate empire, with real estate holdings, a gun-manufacturing business, a ballet company, and newspapers and magazines.

The church bought the IPEC site in 2011 for $11 million, Clark County records show.

Clark County commissioners in March 2012 approved plans for a convention hall. The project had been expected to finish in early 2013.

But after Moon died, “there was a need for a refocusing of the vision God had given to him for the Peace Palace,” Michael Jenkins, director of the church’s Office of Business Investment and Asset Development, told the Sun last spring.

The project underwent a redesign; the church hired new architects, engineers, interior designers and others, general contractor Steven Kwon said last year.

Marijuana dispensary: Business going to pot amid opening delays By conor shine Staff Writer

Frustrated by months of delays, a medical marijuana dispensary is requesting internal Clark County records and threatening a lawsuit to get the store open.

Euphoria Wellness passed state and county inspections in April and has been ready to open since.

But the dispensary hasn’t been able to obtain marijuana because approved cultivation facilities have been slow to start and haven’t produced a viable batch.

Euphoria Wellness initially planned to buy medical marijuana from cardholders already licensed to grow their own plants until cultiva-

tion facilities were up and running.

But Euphoria attorney Maggie McLetchie said the plan has been derailed by the county business licensing department’s “overly strict and absurd” interpretation of state law.

“It seems designed to do nothing but slow us down,” McLetchie said of the county’s stance. “We’ve been extremely frustrated with this process.”

Under state law, patients are allowed to have up to 12 marijuana plants but can’t possess more than 2.5 ounces of usable cannabis.

The county has refused to allow Euphoria to acquire more than 2.5 ounces of medical marijuana from any patient, citing the law.

The dispensary has argued that it

should be able to acquire all 12 plants from patients — the equivalent of about 10 pounds of marijuana.

The stalemate has prevented Euphoria from acquiring any marijuana to sell and forced it to recently lay off 15 employees hired months ago in anticipation of opening.

McLetchie also accused the county of adding conditions to Euphoria’s business license that aren’t based in state law. For instance, the county is limiting the number of pipes and other marijuana-ingestion devices the dispensary can display.

Late last month, McLetchie filed a public records request seeking internal documents she hopes will shed light on whether the county has handled Eu-

phoria’s application appropriately.

“We’re trying to get information about why there have been so many delays and what basis there is for the various conditions that have been placed on Euphoria’s license,” she said.

Depending on the content of the records, McLetchie said, further legal action could be possible.

County spokesman Erik Pappa said Euphoria Wellness has been treated “fairly and in accordance with the law.”

“We’re going to provide all the public records they’ve sought. They’ve been treated fairly, and you’ll see that when you get the records,” Pappa said.

“We expect them to follow state law, even if it’s inconvenient to do so.”

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Controversial rule forces use of Nevada grapes takes effect in October, will allow wineries to open in any Nevada county. The previous law, written in the 1980s, limited wineries to counties with fewer than 100,000 people, essentially prohibiting wineries in the Las Vegas Valley and in Washoe County, which includes Reno.

The new law will mean economic opportunities for both Southern Nevada and Northern Nevada, said Randi Thompson, a lobbyist for the Nevada Wine Coalition.

“We have the fewest wineries of any state,” Thompson said. “But Arizona has a $30 million wine industry, and we are right next door to California and below Oregon, so the sky’s the limit.”

One local business, Henderson’s Grape Expectations, is looking to capitalize. Operators of the winemaking school hope to open an onsite winery. General Manager Mike Schoenbaechler said the company has enough space at its warehouse and could buy grapes from growers.

“We are going to meet with some attorneys and just see how it all plays out,” Schoenbaechler said. “I would hope to know in the next couple of months. Then we can start moving forward with licensing.”

Grape Expectations helps wine enthusiasts make wine. The ninemonth process takes students through each step, from harvesting to crushing to bottling.

“AB4 is very important to us because it allows us to have a tasting room and sell wine to someone who comes in,” said K.J. Howe, “a professor of yeastology” at Grape Expectations. “It allows us to have additional offerings to the public.”

Howe sees a potential ripple effect from wineries opening in Nevada, as the new law requires startup wineries to use 25 percent Nevada-grown grapes after selling the first 1,000 cases of wine each year.

“It’s good for the state because it will induce people to grow grapes,” Howe said.

Nevada’s four existing wineries don’t have to meet the quota for 10 years.

GROWING PAINS Still, the new bill has detractors.

Thompson said the original draft didn’t include a quota for state-grown grapes, nor did it limit new wineries to one tasting room, as the enacted

Workers bottle and pack wine into boxes at Pahrump Valley Winery. (mike stotts/special to vegas inc)

bill does. Thompson worries about the impact the amendments will have on startups.

“I think it will discourage serious winemakers from starting wineries, at least for a while,” she said.

There is a dearth of vineyards in Nevada, Thompson said. Although initial grape crops can be grown in about a year, the first fully-mature crops typically take three to five years. Full vineyards can take as long as seven years to grow.

The Nevada Wine Coalition’s goal was to spark Nevada’s wine industry much sooner. But Pahrump Valley Winery owner Bill Loken and Sanders Family Winery owner Jack Sanders successfully lobbied for the 25 percent rule.

Loken said it was necessary to protect the state, otherwise large corporations could have set up wine bars, called them “wineries” and simply shipped in wine from other states.

“The Legislature, back in the late ’80s when they fashioned the (original) law, actually showed great wisdom,” Loken said. “They knew if this industry was going to ever happen, it would happen out in the rural areas.

And they wanted to prevent the very thing we wanted to prevent, and that is to turn these two metropolitan areas into nothing but bottling plants for California wineries.”

Pahrump Valley Winery is the old-

est Nevada winery. It serves tens of thousands of tourists each year from the Las Vegas Valley, Loken said.

The other wineries in Nevada are Sanders Family Winery in Pahrump; Tahoe Ridge Winery, which moved to Carson City from Minden in May; and Churchill Vineyards in Fallon.

Jack Sanders founded Pahrump Valley Winery in 1989 before selling it. Now, his Sanders Family Winery uses about 20 percent Nevada-grown grapes to produce about 6,000 cases of wine and serve about 40,000 visitors a year.

Sanders and other proponents say growing more grapes in Nevada — and thus supplying future wineries — will be a boon for the state. And grapes need much less water than, say, alfalfa to grow.

But UNLV economics professor Stephen Miller said increasing Nevada’s grape production could be tough. The director of UNLV’s Center for Business and Economic Research pointed out that most of Nevada’s land is owned by the federal government.

“The best use of land for grape growing would be land that is not cultivated now for anything else, but most of that is (Bureau of Land Management) land,” Miller said.

DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH For Tahoe Ridge Winery owner

Tom King, the restriction on the number of tasting rooms is the biggest impediment to growth.

New wineries will be permitted to have only one on-site tasting room where they can sell their wine directly to the public without going through distributors. The existing Nevada wineries still can have two tasting rooms — one on site and a second at a remote location, such as a bistro in another county.

“There has been a bad sequence of state laws put into place since the Al Capone days,” King said. “The distributors make about three times what I make on a bottle of wine. And the wholesaler, like a liquor store, will also make about three times what I make.”

King said he would like to see a fairer system, such as allowing Nevada wineries to have four tasting rooms.

“This wouldn’t hurt the distributors, but it would help the wineries a lot,” he said.

Thompson doesn’t rule out going back to the Legislature in 2017 for more changes to the law. In the meantime, she and others in the wine industry say they’ll look forward to more immediate industry shifts.

“I support the changes to the wine industry,” King said. “And I am for breaking down the barriers to having wineries in Las Vegas and Reno.”

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Calendar of events Tuesday, August 11 Henderson Chamber of Commerce networking breakfast Time: 7-9 a.m. Cost: $25 for members, $45 for nonmembers, additional $10 for walk-ins Location: Sunset Station, 1301 W. Sunset Road, Henderson Information: Call 702-565-8951 Henderson Mayor Andy Hafen will discuss new businesses expected to open in the city and changes at City Hall.

U.S. Green Building Council Nevada chapter breakfast Time: 7-9 a.m. Cost: $20 for members, $35 for nonmembers, $20 for partners, $500 for sponsors Location: InNEVvation Center, 6795 Edmond St., Las Vegas Information: Visit usgbcnv.org Learn how the architecture and design of a building matters when it comes to letting in enough sunlight to provide a comfortable environment for clients and employees.

Southern Nevada Society for Human Resource Management breakfast meeting Time: 7:30-9:30 a.m. Cost: $25, $15 for students Location: United Way of Southern Nevada, 5830 W. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas Information: Visit snv.shrm.org Rebecca Weaver, a former TedX speaker and human resources specialist, will discuss common HR problems and solutions, as well as stereotypical attitudes in the workplace.

Wednesday, August 12 SIOR Southern Nevada chapter: August luncheon meeting Time: 12-1:15 p.m. Cost: Free for members and sponsors, $40 for candidate members, $50 for nonmembers invited by members, $100 for nonmembers invited by a sponsor Location: Maggiano’s Little Italy, Fashion Show

Mall, 3200 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas Information: Call Katrina Bruce at 702-798-5156 Cheryl Persinger, vice president of marketing at Cadence, and Ryan Martin, a senior vice president at Colliers International, will discuss the Landwell Company’s new 2,200-acre masterplanned community in Henderson.

Business by the Book workshop: “Grow Your Business” Time: 6-8 p.m. Cost: Free Location: UNLV Lied Library, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas Information: Call Angela Ayers at 702-895-2277 Learn how to use research tools to identify customers, understand their buying habits and reach them most effectively.

Thursday, August 13 Southern Nevada Home Builders Association builders breakfast Time: 7:30-9 a.m. Cost: $25 for members, $35 for nonmembers Location: Orleans Conference Center, 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., Las Vegas Information: Email events@snhba.com Steve Cervino of Beazer Homes, Joe Whatley of Liberty Homes and Nathan White of Summit Homes will discuss upcoming projects.

Tuesday, August 18 The Social Register: Business coaching webinar Time: 12:30-1:15 p.m. Cost: Free Location and information: Visit socialregister. com Life coach Nathan Smith will discuss how to maximize business profits.

Wednesday, August 19 Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce: Business After Hours

Time: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: Free, but members must register guests Location: Bootlegger Bistro, 7700 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Suite 1, Las Vegas Information: Visit web.lvchamber.com Trade business cards and build new business relationships while enjoying selections from an award-winning menu.

BOMA Nevada mixer and post-session panel Time: 6-8 p.m. Cost: $35 for members, $40 for nonmembers Location: Orleans, 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., Las Vegas Information: Email andrea.pineda@us.belfor.com Assemblywomen Victoria Seaman and Marilyn Kirkpatrick, Sen. Aaron Ford and Assemblyman Derek Armstrong will discuss this year’s legislative session.

Thursday, August 20 City of Las Vegas business licensing event Time: 7-9:15 a.m. Cost: Free Location: Las Vegas City Hall, 495 S. Main St., Las Vegas Information: Register at nevadasbdc.org A free informational event for residents interested in starting businesses. Cathy Brooks, owner of the Hydrant Club downtown, and Kathy Carrico of the Nevada Small Business Development Center are the featured speakers.

NAIOP Southern Nevada: Legislative review Time: 7:30-8:30 a.m. Cost: $25 for members, $45 for nonmembers Location: Orleans, 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., Las Vegas Information: Email laura@theferrarogroup.com State Sens. Aaron Ford and Ben Kieckhefer, Assemblywoman Marilyn Kirkpatrick and Assemblyman Derek Armstrong will discuss the 2015 legislative session.

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The Prepaid Press

Planet Hollywood

Aug. 11-13

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World Beauty Fitness and Fashion Inc.

Cosmopolitan

Aug. 14-16

2,000

Off-Price Specialist Show

Sands Expo and Convention Center

Aug. 15-18

10,500

MRket Trade Show

Sands Expo and Convention Center

Aug. 17-19

7,500

PGA Expo

Venetian

Aug. 17-19

6,500

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Records and Transactions Bankruptcies

Tenant agent: Mario Hawkins of Acclaim Real Estate

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$130,961 for 2,400 square feet, office for 60 months 2451 S. Buffalo Drive, Las Vegas 89117 Landlord: 2451 S. Buffalo Drive LLC Landlord agent: JC Yeh of Gatski Commercial Tenant: Acuity Solutions LLC Tenant agent: Michael Hawkins of First Federal Realty DeSimone

Creative Interior Solutions LLC 6960 W. Warm Springs Road, Suites 100 and 110 Las Vegas, NV 89113 Attorney: Timothy P. Thomas at tthomas@tthomaslaw.com Amedia Creative Inc. 4471 Dean Martin Drive, Suite 701 Las Vegas, NV 89103 Attorney: Samual A. Schwartz at sam@schwartzlawyers.com

Bid Opportunities Thursday, August 13 3 p.m.

Collection agency services for Las Vegas Justice Court Clark County, 603699 Chetan Champaneri at chetanc@ ClarkCountyNV.gov

Friday, August 14 2:15 p.m.

Annual traffic signal modification, installation and maintenance contract Clark County, 603761 Tom Boldt at tboldt@ClarkCountyNV.gov

Brokered transactions SALES $2,250,000 for 17,606 square feet, retail 821 Lamb Blvd., Las Vegas 89110 Seller: DCR Real Estate VI Sub I LLC Sales agent: Ben Millis and Chris Beets of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank Buyer: Orexco 1031 Exchange Buyer agent: Carlington Miller of Realty One $316,000 for 10,000 square feet, industrial 4650 Judson Ave., Las Vegas 89115 Seller: TIB LLC Sales agent: Soozi Jones Walker and Bobbi Miracle of Commercial Executives Real Estate Services Buyer: RAA Global Trading LLC Buyer agent: Did not disclose

LEASES $643,811 for 3,600 square feet, retail for 120 months 9310 Sun City Blvd., Las Vegas 89143 Landlord: South Grove Avenue LLC Landlord agent: Bob Miller and Laramie Bracken of Gatski Commercial Tenant: UNLV-USC LLC

$93,157 for 1,353 square feet, retail for 60 months, NNN investment 4750 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 3, Las Vegas 89102 Landlord: Sahara 3D LLC Landlord agent: Nelson Tressler and Michael Zobrist of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank Tenant: Jose L. Gonzalez dba Avon Tenant agent: Did not disclose $86,376 for 1,860 square feet, retail for 36 months, NNN investment 771 E. Horizon Drive, Suites 122124, Henderson 89015 Landlord: Cornet Plaza LLC Landlord agent: Nelson Tressler and Michael Zobrist of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank Tenant: Dance Addiction LLC dba Dance Addiction Tenant agent: Eric Humes of Rooftop Realty

BUSINESS LICENSES D&D Construction Inc. License type: Contractor Address: 181 E. Rancho Drive, Las Vegas Owner: Did not disclose Dany Racine Ltd. License type: Communication systems Address: 2270 Smokey Sky Drive, Henderson Owner: Dany Racine Ltd. Dave Scott Photographic License type: Still photography service Address: 122 Industrial Park Road, Suite 201, Henderson Owner: David Scott DC Auto and Body License type: Automotive garage Address: 4561 E. Bonanza Road, Suite 130, Las Vegas Owner: Juan C. Vides Quintana Desiree (Dee) Sweet License type: Real estate sales Address: 9525 Hillwood Drive, Suite 120, Las Vegas Owner: Desiree Sweet Detalle’s Beauty Salon

License type: Cosmetics Address: 865 N. Lamb Blvd., Suite 15, Las Vegas Owner: Laura G. Ramos Devin Stanley License type: Independent massage therapist Address: Did not disclose, Las Vegas Owner: Devin Stanley Diamond China Restaurant License type: Restaurant Address: 3909 W. Sahara Ave., Suites 8-10, Las Vegas Owner: Louie & Ng Enterprises Inc. Diehl Realty LLC License type: Real estate sales Address: 3100 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 112, Las Vegas Owner: Bonnie Diehl Digital Matrix International Inc. License type: General retail sales Address: 5041 N. Rainbow Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Robert A. Lambert Dotty’s License type: Restaurant/nonrestricted gaming Address: 2428 E. Cheyenne Ave., North Las Vegas Owner: Nevada Restaurant Services Inc. Dragone Holdings LLC License type: Management or consulting service Address: 11197 Piazzale St., Las Vegas Owner: Sherie Zeller Eastman & McKinney LLC License type: Accounting firm Address: 2298 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway, Suite 211, Henderson Owner: Eastman & Mckinney LLC Edward M Bernstein & Assoc Inc. License type: Professional services Address: 516 S. Fourth St., Las Vegas Owner: Edward M. Bernstein El Dorado Banquet Hall License type: Alcohol beverage caterer Address: 4440 E. Washington Ave., Suite 105, Las Vegas Owner: El Dorado Enterprises Inc. El Pueblo de Los Arboles License type: Apartment house Address: 5400 W. Cheyenne Ave., Las Vegas Owner: 5400 W. Cheyenne Ave. LLC Eli Rivera License type: Real estate sales Address: 7465 W. Lake Mead Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Eli Rivera

Elite Imaging Consultants LLC License type: Management or consulting service Address: 4525 W. Reno Ave., Suite A6, Las Vegas Owner: Ian Johnson

Focuslink Behavioral Health LLC License type: Social work and behavioral therapy business Address: 600 Whitney Ranch Drive, Suite A5B, Henderson Owner: Focuslink Behavioral Health LLC

Elton J. Ebarb Bail Bonds License type: Bail bond broker Address: 141 Industrial Park Road, Suite 303, Henderson Owner: Elton Jacob Ebarb

Fork & Knife Kitchen License type: Food services or cafe Address: 6235 S. Pecos Road, Suite 106, Las Vegas Owner: Black Spot LLC

Engineering For Kids License type: Engineering Address: 3125 N. Buffalo Drive, Suite 2143, Las Vegas Owner: HKL Creative LLC

Friend Factory License type: General retail sales Address: 4695 Sun Valley Drive, Las Vegas Owner: Amber Bacilio

Enterprise Rent A Car License type: Rental car agency Address: 8535 W. Centennial Parkway, Las Vegas Owner: Enterprise Leasing Company-West LLC ERP Leasing LLC License type: Medical marijuana support business Address: 7151 Cascade Valley Court, Suite 210, Las Vegas Owner: Kris A. Madsen ES Design License type: Contractor Address: 840 Colina Alta Place, Las Vegas Owner: Soebbing Flooring Inc. Events With A Twist LLC License type: Alcoholic beverage caterer Address: 495 S. Grand Central Parkway, Las Vegas Owner: Jennifer K. Colacion Extra Space Storage License type: General retail sales Address: 5900 Smoke Ranch Road, Las Vegas Owner: Extra Space Management Inc. Fairweather Fitness License type: Fitness business Address: 2241 Montferrat Lane, Henderson Owner: Kendra Fairweather

General Discount License type: General retail sales Address: 2901 W. Washington Ave., Suite K106, Las Vegas Owner: Robert G. Ellis Gislaine Martell License type: Real estate sales Address: 9525 Hillwood Drive, Suite 120, Las Vegas Owner: Gislaine Martell Goals For Autism Inc. License type: Professional services - medical Address: 3909 S. Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas Owner: Adryon Ketcham Gold Spike Hotel License type: Alcoholic beverage caterer Address: 217 Las Vegas Blvd.

North, Las Vegas Owner: LFDTP LLC Grasons Estate Sales Co. of Las Vegas License type: Trucking Address: 10120 S. Eastern Ave., Unit 200, Las Vegas Owner: Sisunik & Benson LLC Green Valley Mini Mart License type: Convenience store Address: 690 N. Valle Verde Drive, Henderson Owner: GV Mini Mart LLC Guaranteed Rate Inc. License type: Professional services Address: 1333 N. Buffalo Drive, Suite 170, Las Vegas Owner: Nikolaos Athanasiou

Faithfully Therapeutic License type: Massage establishment Address: 6600 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 126, Las Vegas Owner: Shannon L. Kastler

Hair Salon Maktub License type: Cosmetics Address: 1449 N. Jones Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Rebecca L. Gutierrez

Fancy Feet License type: General retail sales Address: 707 Fremont St., Suite 2070, Las Vegas Owner: Anjanelle Yancy

Hakaza LLC License type: Business space, rent or lease Address: 2421 W. Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Roopvinder Dhesi

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Records and Transactions Henderson Liquidation LLC License type: Home-based online business Address: 100 Grove St., Henderson Owner: Henderson Liquidation LLC Homer the Handyman License type: Trucking Address: 5761 Baffy Circle, Las Vegas Owner: William J. Poska Jr. Hunt Property Inspections LLC License type: Professional services Address: Did not disclose Owner: Jason Hunt Ilovekickboxing.com License type: General retail sales Address: 2230 N. Rainbow Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Emmerson LLC Imagine School at Mountain View License type: Instruction services Address: 6610 Grand Montecito Parkway, Las Vegas Owner: Ku Champions LLC Integral Fitness License type: Instruction services Address: 3900 N. Rancho Drive, Suite 104, Las Vegas Owner: Marcia Washington Integrity Rehab Group License type: Professional services - medical Address: 8402 W. Centennial Parkway, Las Vegas Owner: Integrity Rehab Group Inc. Isabela’s Seafood, Tapas & Grill License type: Alcoholic beverage caterer Address: 2620 Regatta Drive, Suites 111, 114 and 119, Las Vegas Owner: Lakeside Trifecta LLC Ivan Ortiz License type: Real estate sales Address: 10750 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 180, Las Vegas Owner: Ivan Ortiz J Torres Lawn & Landscape Services License type: Property maintenance Address: 1904 Stonington Place, Las Vegas Owner: Jose Antonio TorresRebueltos J. Timothy Katzen License type: Medical office Address: 2490 Paseo Verde Parkway, Suite 100, Henderson Owner: J. Timothy Katzen Jasco Technolog LLC License type: General services counter/office Address: Did not disclose, Las Vegas Owner: Kayla Larson Jessica A. McCormick

License type: Real estate sales Address: 5550 Painted Mirage Road 140, Las Vegas Owner: Jessica A. McCormick Jessie Rae’s BBQ LLC License type: Nonfarm product vendor Address: 9200 Tule Springs Road, Las Vegas Owner: Michael L. Ross Jones Trucking Corp.

License type: Sales Address: 1917 Nature Park Drive, North Las Vegas Owner: Jones Trucking Corp.

Jose L. Garcia Romero License type: Independent massage therapist Address: 2620 Regatta Drive, Suite 113, Las Vegas Owner: Jose L. Garcia Romero Jr’s Upholstery License type: Repair and maintenance Address: 806 W. Bonanza Road, Las Vegas Owner: Richard Watson Sr. Kelly Brown License type: Real estate sales Address: 10000 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 130, Las Vegas Owner: Kelly Brown La Fiesta Party Supply Nevada License type: General retail sales Address: 1720 E. Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Victor Sermeno Lake Mead Radiology License type: Medical office Address: 6301 Mountain Vista St., Suite 101, Henderson Owner: Lake Mead Radiology LLC Lake Mead Radiology License type: Clinic or laboratory Address: 7455 W. Washington Ave., Suite 120, Las Vegas Owner: Lake Mead Radiology 2 LLC

Suite G, Las Vegas Owner: Eric Ita

2932 Coast Line Court, Las Vegas Westpoint Development Group

Leo Breau License type: Real estate sales Address: 6628 Sky Pointe Drive, Suite 200, Las Vegas Owner: Leo Breau

$695,988, roof-mounted photovoltaic system 4300 Meadows Lane, Las Vegas Bombard Electric LLC

Leticia C. Gonzales License type: Real estate sales Address: 10750 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 180, Las Vegas Owner: Leticia C. Gonzales Lido’s Beauty Salon LLC License type: General retail sales Address: 2901 W. Washington Ave., Suite 108, Las Vegas Owner: Emily Sandoval Limited Edition Auto Spa License type: Automobile detailing Address: Did not disclose, Las Vegas Owner: DKDM LLC Liquid Courage License type: Alcoholic beverage caterer Address: 300 Stewart Ave., 495 S. Main St., Las Vegas Owner: Jobo Enterprises Liquor Emporium License type: General retail sales and tobacco dealer Address: 240 N. Jones Blvd., Suite F, Las Vegas Owner: Liquor Emporium LLC Los Portales Bakery License type: Bakery Address: 2630 E. Lake Mead Blvd., North Las Vegas Owner: Ayala-Ribera Inc. Lowry’s Catering Inc. License type: Alcoholic beverage caterer Address: 4125 W. Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Robert W. Lowry

Larry Sweet License type: Real estate sales Address: 9525 Hillwood Drive, Suite 120, Las Vegas Owner: Larry Sweet

Loya Management Group LLC License type: Product sales - hair products and tobacco Address: 1300 W. Sunset Road, Suite 1000, Henderson Owner: Loya Management Group LLC

Las Vegas Presort LLC License type: Trucking Address: 3655 E. Patrick Lane, Suite 300, Las Vegas Owner: Las Vegas Presort LLC

LV Home Furniture License type: Furniture sales Address: 2987 Las Vegas Blvd.

North, North Las Vegas Owner: Salvador Manriquez

Las Vegas Sock Company License type: General retail sales Address: 4300 Meadows Lane, Suite 5543, Las Vegas Owner: Jeffrey Harrington Lawrence Creative Group LLC License type: General services counter/office Address: 2912 Highland Drive,

BUILDING PERMITS $3,381,708, commercial - addition 3443 Neeham Road, North Las Vegas SR Construction $1,000,000, single-family residential - custom

$539,900, retail 1540 W. Sunset Road, Henderson Grace Construction LLC $500,000, tenant improvement - store 1800 Industrial Road , Las Vegas Pearson & Pearson Inc. $465,000, commercial - remodel 315 Auto Mall Drive, Henderson Boyd Martin Construction LLC $300,000, disaster 4747 Pennwood Ave., Las Vegas Kalb Construction Co. $300,000, tenant improvement nightclub/restaurant 509 Fremont St., Las Vegas Tre Builders LLC $270,000, plumbing 278 S. Decatur Blvd., Las Vegas Martin Harris Construction $270,000, single-family residential - custom 6000 N. Monte Cristo Way, Las Vegas Johnson Craig $252,852, residential - custom 1121 Dufort Hills Court, Henderson DR Horton Inc. $252,852, residential - custom 1131 Harwood Hills Court, Henderson DR Horton Inc. $238,032, single-family residential - production 7231 Fresh Harvest Ave., Las Vegas DR Horton Inc. $233,230, single-family residential - production 362 Granitico St., Las Vegas Toll South LV LLC

DR Horton Inc. $198,306, single-family residential - production 351 Elder View Drive, Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC $191,303, residential - custom 521 Trenier Drive, Henderson DR Horton Inc. $181,821, residential - production 3209 Porto Vittoria Ave., Henderson Toll Henderson LLC $179,159, residential - production 412 Via Gigante Court, Henderson Century Communities of Nevada LLC $175,000, tenant improvement - office 410 S. Rampart Blvd., Suite 420, Las Vegas Affordable Concepts Inc. $175,000, tenant improvement - office 410 S. Rampart Blvd., Suite 460, Las Vegas Affordable Concepts Inc. $173,871, single-family residential - production 7281 Orchard Harvest Ave., Las Vegas DR Horton Inc. $173,871, single-family residential - production 7270 Fresh Harvest Ave., Las Vegas DR Horton Inc. $173,871, single-family residential - production 7250 Fresh Harvest Ave., Las Vegas DR Horton Inc. $173,871, single-family residential - production 7230 Fresh Harvest Ave., Las Vegas DR Horton Inc. $169,622, residential - production 705 Gulf Pearl Drive, Henderson KB Home Nevada Inc.

$226,487, single-family residential - production 345 Elder View Drive, Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC

$169,622, residential - production 708 Gulf Pearl Drive, Henderson KB Home Nevada Inc.

$211,982, single-family residential - production 346 Elder View Drive, Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC

$156,323, single-family residential - production 378 Port Reggio St., Las Vegas Ryland Homes

$211,711, single-family residential - production 352 Elder View Drive, Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC

$150,741, single-family residential - production 258 Evante St., Las Vegas Toll South LV LLC

$203,113, residential - custom 500 Patti Ann Woods Drive, Henderson

$149,022, residential - new 7037 Solana Ridge Drive, North Las Vegas

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Records and Transactions Woodside Homes of Nevada LLC $148,712, single-family residential - production 6633 Conquistador St., Las Vegas Ryland Homes $146,518, single-family residential - production 7291 Orchard Harvest Ave., Las Vegas DR Horton Inc. $142,483, single-family residential - production 6642 Bristle Falls St., Las Vegas Ryland Homes $142,396, residential - production 3098 Ripe Peak Lane, Henderson KB Home Nevada Inc. $140,919, single-family residential - production 12230 Argent Bay Ave., Las Vegas KB Home Nevada Inc. $140,327, single-family residential - production 7230 Orchard Harvest Ave., Las Vegas DR Horton Inc. $140,327, single-family residential - production 7211 Orchard Harvest Ave., Las Vegas DR Horton Inc. $140,327, single-family residential - production 7260 Fresh Harvest Ave., Las Vegas DR Horton Inc. $140,327, single-family residential - production 7220 Fresh Harvest Ave., Las Vegas DR Horton Inc. $138,306, single-family residential - production 9802 Yellow Shadow Ave., Las Vegas Richmond American Homes of Nevada $136,906, residential - production 943 Harbor Ave., Henderson KB Home Nevada Inc. $136,699, single-family residential - production 281 Besame Court, Las Vegas Toll South LV LLC $136,130, residential - production 1000 Via Stellato St., Henderson Century Communities of Nevada LLC

3605 Greenbriar Bluff Ave., North Las Vegas J.F. Shea Co. Inc.

- addition 10601 Sable Oaks Court, Las Vegas Focus Construction LLC

$132,055, residential - new 5625 Pleasant Palms St., North Las Vegas J.F. Shea Co. Inc.

$80,000, tenant improvement nightclub/restaurant 6010 W. Craig Road, Suite 150, Las Vegas Distinctive Contractors LLC

$130,000, single-family residential - custom 6000 N. Monte Cristo Way, Las Vegas Johnson Craig $124,319, residential - production 2503 Pennabilli St., Henderson KB Home Inspirada LLC $123,433, single-family residential - production 10809 Wrigley Field Ave., Las Vegas Ryland Homes $120,835, residential - new 5853 Clear Haven Lane, North Las Vegas Beazer Homes Holdings Corp. $115,891, residential - production 2601 Marvel Astoria St., Henderson Beazer Homes Holdings Corp. $113,173, residential - production 3160 Fortunati Walk, Henderson KB Home Nevada Inc. $111,777, single-family residential - production 8219 Southern Cross Ave., Las Vegas Ryland Homes $105,000, tenant improvement - office 1800 Industrial Road, Suite 102, Las Vegas Pearson & Pearson Inc. $102,527, residential - production 724 Sea Coast Drive, Henderson KB Home Nevada Inc. $102,527, residential - production 2129 Emyvale Court, Henderson KB Home Nevada Inc. $100,742, residential - new 3609 Greenbriar Bluff Ave., North Las Vegas J.F. Shea Co. Inc. $94,242, single-family residential - production 7546 Whitman Colonial St., Las Vegas Woodside Homes of Nevada LLC $87,000, residential - remodel 1639 Liege Drive, Henderson New Freedom Properties LLC

$134,483, single-family residential - production 12238 Argent Bay Ave., Las Vegas KB Home Nevada Inc.

$86,391, residential - production 3160 Del Dotto Walk, Henderson KB Home Nevada Inc.

$132,764, residential - new

$80,000, single-family residential

$73,475, pool and/or spa 1731 S. Tioga Way, Las Vegas Poolscapes LLC

Axiom Construction & Management $48,818, roof-mounted photovoltaic system 5893 Audria Falls Ave., Las Vegas SolarCity Corp. $47,897, roof-mounted photovoltaic system 7605 Mooring Ave., Las Vegas SolarCity Corporation

$70,000, plumbing investigation 1551 Hillshire Drive, Las Vegas Nevada General Construction

$45,950, pool and/or spa 3641 Corte Bella Hills Ave., North Las Vegas Polynesian Pools Inc.

$61,447, disaster 2700 N. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 2008, Las Vegas Belfor USA Group Inc.

$45,500, pool and/or spa 3321 Lapwing Drive, North Las Vegas Desert Springs Pools & Spas Inc.

$61,447, disaster 2700 N. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 1008, Las Vegas Belfor USA Group Inc.

$45,000, electrical 475 S Grand Central Parkway, Las Vegas Data Processing Air Corporation

$60,590, pool and/or spa 2621 Cattrack Ave., North Las Vegas PPAS - LV LLC

$45,000, tenant improvement office 495 S. Grand Central Parkway, Suite 248 , Las Vegas Whiting Turner Contracting Co.

$60,000, wall/fence 333 S. Valley View Blvd., Las Vegas The Tiberti Fence Co. $56,536, pool and/or spa 4032 Deep Space St., North Las Vegas Anthony & Sylvan Pools Corp. $55,000, pool and/or spa 5820 Revital Court, Las Vegas Desert Springs Pools And Spas $55,000, pool and/or spa 805 Ville Franche St., Las Vegas Desert Springs Pools And Spas $54,970, pool and/or spa 701 Flowing Meadow Drive, Henderson Laguna Pool & Spa Inc. $52,734, wall/fence 9050 Gilcrease Ave., Las Vegas Hirschi Masonry LLC $51,940, solar 6542 Green Sparrow Lane, North Las Vegas SolarCity Corp. $51,038, roof-mounted photovoltaic system 9309 Canyon Mesa Drive, Las Vegas SolarCity Corp.

$44,017, roof-mounted photovoltaic system 9413 Canyon Mesa Drive, Las Vegas SolarCity Corp. $42,416, roof-mounted photovoltaic system 6508 Alpine Autumn Court, Las Vegas SolarCity Corp. $41,860, solar 6528 Black Oaks St., North Las Vegas SolarCity Corp. $40,950, solar 2917 Columbia Ave., North Las Vegas Premier Solar Solutions LLC $40,500, tenant improvement office 200 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 130, Las Vegas Western Trades Construction Inc. $40,000, roof-mounted photovoltaic system 2312 Alpine Pointe Lane, Las Vegas Hamilton Solar LLC $40,000, pool and/or spa 724 Puerto Real Court, Las Vegas Watters Aquatech Pools and Spas

$50,964, pool and/or spa 6917 Snow Finch St., North Las Vegas Anthony & Sylvan Pools Corp.

$40,000, pool and/or spa 7503 Yonie Court, Las Vegas Desert Springs Pools and Spas

$50,000, single-family residential - remodel 2500 Llewellyn Drive, Las Vegas

$40,000, pool and/or spa 7459 Yonie Court, Las Vegas Desert Springs Pools and Spas

$40,000, pool and/or spa 7455 Yonie Court, Las Vegas Desert Springs Pools and Spas $40,000, pool and/or spa 7447 Yonie Court, Las Vegas Desert Springs Pools and Spas $40,000, pool and/or spa 7507 Yonie Court, Las Vegas Desert Springs Pools and Spas $40,000, tenant improvement residential care 1800 W. Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas Muller Construction $39,998, residential - remodel 1848 Heydon Court, Henderson Jason Strodl Adapture $39,215, roof-mounted photovoltaic system 4413 Rosebank Circle , Las Vegas SolarCity Corp. $38,000, single-family residential - remodel 5401 W. Alexander Road , Las Vegas Johnson Family Trust $36,190, solar 7074 Seabirds Place, North Las Vegas SolarCity Corp. $35,334, roof-mounted photovoltaic system 400 Lacy Lane, Las Vegas SolarCity Corp. $34,609, roof-mounted photovoltaic system 7609 Belmondo Lane, Las Vegas SolarCity Corp. $34,580, solar 3836 Kohler Way, North Las Vegas SolarCity Corp. $34,413, roof-mounted photovoltaic system 5509 Goldbrush St., Las Vegas SolarCity Corp. $33,390, solar 3556 Morgan Springs Ave., North Las Vegas SolarCity Corp. $32,978, roof-mounted photovoltaic system 6113 Iron Kettle St., Las Vegas SolarCity Corp. $32,595, roof-mounted photovoltaic system 4900 Hayride St., Las Vegas Summerlin Energy Las Vegas LLC

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The List

Category: subcontractors (Ranked by number of employees as of JuLY 1 Year est.

Company

Employees

Specialty

Recent projects

WestCor Cos. 5620 Stephanie St. Las Vegas, NV 89122 702-433-4040 • westcorcompanies.com

425

Carpentry, concrete, masonry

Rhodes Ranch and Tuscany for Century Communities, PDQ restaurant for Breslin Builders, Gibson Apartments for Pier Construction & Development

1989

Michael Coronado, CEO

2

Helix Electric 3078 E. Sunset Road, Suite 9 Las Vegas, NV 89120 702-732-1188 • helixelectric.com

280

Electrical

Ikea, Silverton Towers I, Allegiant Air Corporate Office

2001

Victor Fuchs, president

3

Tradewinds Construction 1714 W. Bonanza Road Las Vegas, NV 89106 702-310-6088 • tradewindsconstruction.com

186

Carpentry, painting/ decorating

Tivoli Village, Tenaya Creek Brewery, Asurion

1988

Jeffrey Vilkin, president

4

Commercial Roofers 3865 W. Naples Drive Las Vegas, NV 89103 702-876-1777 • commroof.com

150

Roofing/ siding

MGM Arena, SLS, Zappos

1996

Scott Howard, president

5

XL Landscape Development LLC 451 E. Sunset Road Henderson, NV 89011 702-598-1711 • xilandscape.com

140

Landscape

Premium Outlet Mall North expansion and enhancement, Summerlin Village 20, Sean’s Park at Opportunity Village - Buffalo campus

2012

Russell Bay, CFO; Donnie Garritano, COO

6

KHS&S Contractors 6713 S. Eastern Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89119 702-597-3200 • khss.com

107

Carpentry

Silverton Tower, Henderson Hospital, Las Vegas Premium Outlets expansion

1996

Shawn Martin, senior vice president

7a

Acme Electric 6600 Amelia Earhart Court, Suite B Las Vegas, NV 89119 702-876-1116 • nclasvegas.com

85

Electrical

CLV ITS Infrastructure - phase 2, runway 7L/25R and taxiway C, fuel storage modification phase 2

1965

Greg Paulk, president

7b

MMC Inc. 6600 Amelia Earhart Court, Suite B Las Vegas, NV 89119 702-642-9876 • nclasvegas.com

85

Concrete

1956 WPCF reduced loading operation, Las Vegas Wash pedestrian bridge, fuel store modification phase 2

Greg Paulk, president

7c

TAB Contractors 6600 Amelia Earhart Court, Suite B Las Vegas, NV 89119 702-642-3033 • nclasvegas.com

85

Earthwork, underground utilities

Rampart diversion, runway 7L/25R and taxiway C, fuel storage modification phase 2

1958

Greg Paulk, president

10

Sting Surveillance LLC 7120 Rafael Ridge Way Las Vegas, NV 89119 702-737-8464 • stingalarm.com

50

Intrusion alarm and monitoring, surveillance, electronic access control

Omnia Las Vegas, Grand Bazaar Shops, Elara

2003

Jon Perry, president

Cal Pac Painting of Nevada 900 S. Commerce St. Las Vegas, NV 89106 702-383-5144 • calpac.us

48

Painting/ decorating

Nevada State College, Wet ‘n’ Wild, Golden Nugget remodel

1996

Sherrie Hermann, president

12

Heritage Surveying 1895 Village Center Circle Las Vegas, NV 89134 702-474-6277 • heritage-surveying.com

20

Professional Downtown Summerlin, Fashion Show land surveyor Mall, Ikea

2006

Dennis Layton, president

13

BEC Environmental 7660 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 150 Las Vegas, NV 89117 702-304-9830 • becnv.com

18

Environmental oversight and review

Advanced rail energy storage for Clark and Nye counties, Brownfields Coalition assessment for Nye County, biological monitoring and environmental compliance assistance, I-11 corridor, Boulder City bypass project

2002

Belva Eileen Christensen, president

14

Aqua Plumbing Service & Repair 7495 W. Azure Drive, Suite 110 Las Vegas, NV 89130 702-642-8400 • aquaplumbinglv.net

15

Plumbing/ heating

Hakasaan hospitality suite tenant improvement, Ulta Cosmetics remodel, Reo River burn repair

2004

Rebecca White, managing member

1

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Las Vegas sIOR 2014 impact impact RepORt total # sIOR active Member Brokers

26

total # Commercial Brokers

400

sIOR Brokers as % of total Brokers

6.5%

sIOR Chapter transaction Volume Citywide transaction Volume

$778,819,429 $1,860,681,544

sIOR Chapter % of total Market Volume

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SIOR Southern Nevada Chapter Members Art Farmanali

Donna Alderson

Michael De Lew

Soozi Jones Walker

Bobbi Miracle

Garrett Toft

Michael Dunn

Taber Thill

CBRE – 702-369-4868

Cushman & Wakefield RE – 702-796-7900

Colliers International – 702-836-3796

Greg Pancirov

Michael Hillis

Thomas Grant

Avison Young – 702-280-5720

Diversified Interests – 702-813-0089

Greg Tassi

Pat Marsh

Thomas Naseef

CBRE – 702-369-4853

Colliers International – 702-836-3742

Colliers International – 702-836-3720

Jarrad Katz

Randy Broadhead

Xavier Wasiak

MDL Group – 702-388-1800

CBRE – 702-369-4867

Jason Simon

Rob Lujan

Jones Lang LaSalle – 702-522-5001

Jones Lang LaSalle – 702-522-5002

Kevin Higgins

Ryan Martin

Cushman & Wakefield RE – 702-796-7900 Commercial Executives – 702-316-4500

Bradley Peterson

CBRE – 702-369-4810

Chuck Witters

Gatski Commerclal – 702-789-6346

Curtis Sanders

Cushman & Wakefield RE – 702-796-7900

Daniel Doherty

Colliers International – 702-836-3707

Dean Willmore

Colliers International – 702-836-3763

CBRE – 702-369-4866

Colliers International – 702-836-3734

CBRE – 702-369-4944

Colliers International – 702-836-3736

Colliers International – 702-836-3780

Commercial Executives – 702-316-4500

Jones Lang LaSalle – 702-304-2631

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