Clark County required $7.2 million in private donations to remove Sen. Pat McCarran’s name from Southern Nevada’s airport in 2021, 73 years after the county itself put that name there. The same public record credits McCarran with winning federal money that helped build the valley’s airports and with writing the 1952 law that tightened who… Continue reading Clark County Renamed a Private Airstrip McCarran Field on Dec. 19, 1948, Honoring Nevada’s Senior Senator. The County Removed His Name From the Same Airport in 2021.
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480-Square-Foot Apartments Are Becoming Downtown Las Vegas’s Housing Model. A Third One Just Got Approved.
Developer Sam Cherry has built his downtown housing strategy around apartments smaller than most hotel suites. A third project, with city-subsidized affordable units built in, is now headed toward a 2026 opening. Developer Sam Cherry opened his second shareDowntown apartment complex in the Fremont East district, following his first project in the Arts District in… Continue reading 480-Square-Foot Apartments Are Becoming Downtown Las Vegas’s Housing Model. A Third One Just Got Approved.
The Arts District Just Added 600 New Apartments. The Rest of the Valley Barely Built Any.
A neighborhood that didn’t have a single apartment tower a decade ago just finished two of them. Meanwhile, apartment construction everywhere else in the Las Vegas Valley is sitting at a four-year low. Nashville-based Southern Land Co.’s Gemma, a 337-unit apartment community at the intersection of Third Street and California Avenue, began a phased opening… Continue reading The Arts District Just Added 600 New Apartments. The Rest of the Valley Barely Built Any.
A 17-Story Tower Is Coming to Fremont East. It’s Taller Than Almost Everything Else in the District.
Fremont East has largely stayed low-rise even as downtown grows around it. A newly approved 196-foot tower is about to change that. The Las Vegas City Council approved construction plans for Triple 7 Fremont, a 17-story, 196-foot-tall mixed-use tower planned for the southwest corner of Fremont and 8th streets, according to city records. The project… Continue reading A 17-Story Tower Is Coming to Fremont East. It’s Taller Than Almost Everything Else in the District.
Arts District Business Owners Want to Tax Themselves for Safety and Cleanup. Their Own Neighborhood Association Says No.
A group of Arts District stakeholders launched a petition this fall to create a new taxing district for safety, cleanup and marketing. The neighborhood’s own nonprofit association voted against it. A group of Arts District stakeholders launched a petition effort Sept. 1 to create a Business Improvement District that would fund additional safety, cleanliness and… Continue reading Arts District Business Owners Want to Tax Themselves for Safety and Cleanup. Their Own Neighborhood Association Says No.
The Nevada Legislature Chartered the Stewart Indian School in 1887 to Assimilate Native Children. A Clause in Its 1982 Closure Deed Still Threatens to Send the Land Back to the United States.
Nevada didn’t convert its last federal Indian boarding school into a museum because the state decided, on its own, to reckon with that history. A reversion clause written into the 1982 deed that handed Nevada the land did much of the deciding for it — and that same clause still governs the property today, nearly… Continue reading The Nevada Legislature Chartered the Stewart Indian School in 1887 to Assimilate Native Children. A Clause in Its 1982 Closure Deed Still Threatens to Send the Land Back to the United States.
The Chicago Outfit Installed Gus Greenbaum to Run the Riviera in 1955. He and His Wife Were Murdered in Phoenix Three Years Later, and the Strip Land Beneath It Didn’t Sell Again Until 2024.
The company that once answered to Chicago mob bosses on the Las Vegas Strip later filed its finances with the Securities and Exchange Commission and listed its stock on a public exchange. The land underneath it took even longer to go legitimate. Nevada’s tourism authority didn’t land a buyer for the empty lot until 2024,… Continue reading The Chicago Outfit Installed Gus Greenbaum to Run the Riviera in 1955. He and His Wife Were Murdered in Phoenix Three Years Later, and the Strip Land Beneath It Didn’t Sell Again Until 2024.
A Las Vegas Mother and Daughter Are Building a Place to Talk About Suicide, One Brunch and Hike at a Time
Ty lost her sister Breana to suicide at 26. Now she and her mother, LaTricia, are filling a calendar with yoga, tea parties and journaling for people who are struggling and have told no one. “To my baby sister, you will forever be missed. My mind doesn’t want to believe it’s true. You were the… Continue reading A Las Vegas Mother and Daughter Are Building a Place to Talk About Suicide, One Brunch and Hike at a Time
Howard Hughes Bought 30,000 Acres on the Las Vegas Valley’s Western Rim for About $3 an Acre in 1952. The Community Named for His Grandmother Didn’t Break Ground Until 1990.
Summerlin began as desert nobody in Las Vegas wanted badly enough to develop for more than three decades. The land-exchange tool that finally cleared the way for it is the same one Southern Nevada officials are still using today to decide what little undeveloped land near Las Vegas gets built on next. Howard Hughes bought… Continue reading Howard Hughes Bought 30,000 Acres on the Las Vegas Valley’s Western Rim for About $3 an Acre in 1952. The Community Named for His Grandmother Didn’t Break Ground Until 1990.
The 1944 Mexican Water Treaty Required the United States to Build Davis Dam on the Colorado River. Washington Finalized the Next Decade of River Rules This Past August.
The Mexican Water Treaty of 1944 forced the United States to build a second dam on the Colorado River just to keep its promise to deliver water south of the border. More than eight decades later, federal officials are still working out exactly how that promise gets kept, under Colorado River operating rules the Interior… Continue reading The 1944 Mexican Water Treaty Required the United States to Build Davis Dam on the Colorado River. Washington Finalized the Next Decade of River Rules This Past August.
