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By Taylor Bern | Staff Writer

What NBA Summer League basketball was and what it has become can be seen on the same day: July 8. ¶ That’s the final day of the Orlando Pro Summer League, one of two smaller basketball events meant only for team personnel and

news media, and the first day of the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas, which over a dozen years has SUMMer leaGUe, ConTinUed on paGe 15

$30Bamount airbnb is raising for

new investments and growth.

among privately held tech

startups, the new valuation

would make the home-rental

company the second most

valuable, behind Uber.

35Hours of television watched by

the average american every

week, according to a new

report by Nielsen.

Vegas’ NBA franchise

New Oleans Pelican Seth Curry shoots over Phoenix Suns guard Josh Harrellson during a 2015 NBA Summer League game. Both players are now with other teams. (AP

Photo/JohN Locher)

Heading into its 12th year, Summer League is a strong economic driver in the slow season

05 06 18Q&A WITH MIKE CHERNINEThe developer assembled what he called an “all-star” team in real estate devel-opment to form Brass Cap Cos. In the next 24 months, he says, there is a window for industrial development and ground-up retail devel-opment on which he and his team aim to capitalize.

THE NOTESPeople on the Move, P4

MEET: SETTINGS BY MONAMona Steck walked the run-way in creations by some of the world’s most sought-after designers. And she applied what she learned in the fashion industry to her own business, creating custom luxury linens.

TALKING POINTSThree things to take Las Vegas to the next level, P7

DATA AND PUBLIC INFORMATIONA listing of local bank-ruptcies, bid opportuni-ties, brokered transac-tions, business licenses and building permits.

MORE VEGAS INC BUSINESS NEWSCalendar: Happenings and events, P17

The Lists: Offi ce, furniture, equipment and supply dealers, P22

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St. Gabriel the

Archangel Byzantine

Catholic Church

was established in

1977 with services

conducted in a

private home with 21

parishioners. By the

early 1980s, a parcel

near McCarran

International Airport

was purchased

to build a house

of worship for

the growing

congregation.

Pictured here,

from left, are Joseph

Cordova, John

Jurcsisn and John

Dragon on June 7,

1983, installing a

dome atop the new

church . The gold

dome features a

traditional three-

barred cross, which

commonly adorns

Russian and Greek

Orthodox churches.

— REBECCA CLIFFORD-CRUZ

LAS VEGAS SUN ARCHIVES

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The Albrecht Group Anthem Periodontics & Dental ImplantsB&P Advertising Media Public RelationsBack Bar USABank of America NevadaBarrick Gold of North AmericaBNY Mellon Wealth ManagementBoyd GamingBy DzignCaesars Entertainment CorporationCashman Equipment CompanyCasino Connection International LLCCBRE, Inc.CenturyLinkThe Coffee Bean & Tea LeafCommand GlobalCORE ConstructionThe Cosmopolitan of Las VegasCox CommunicationsCredit One BankDesert Cab, IncDignity Health – St. Rose DominicanFerraro’s Italian Restaurant & Wine BarFleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar – Town SquareFogo de Chão, Las Vegas

Four QueensFour Seasons Hotel Las VegasGameworksGlobal Gaming Business MagazineGreenspun Media Grouphexx chocolate & confexxionsThe Howard Hughes CorporationThe Howard Hughes Properties, LPHRL Group, LLCJamba JuiceKonami Gaming, Inc.The Korte CompanyLas Vegas Power Professionals – IBEW/NECA/LMCCLas Vegas EventsLas Vegas Real Estate MagazineLas Vegas Woman MagazineLEV Restaurant GroupMaggiano’s Little ItalyManpower Inc. of Southern NevadaMartin-Harris ConstructionMicatrotto Restaurant GroupNational Security Technologies, LLCNevada State BankNV EnergyPalm Mortuary and Cemetery

PepsiCo, Inc.Platinum Hotel and SpaRaising Cane’s Chicken FingersReagan Outdoor AdvertisingRepublic Services of Southern NevadaResort Media PartnersS3H, Inc.Sam’s ClubsbeSH ArchitectureThe Siegel Group Nevada, Inc.Southern Wine & Spirits of NevadaSouthwest AirlinesSteinberg Diagnostic Medical Imaging CentersSunstate Companies, LLCThomas & Mack CenterThomas & Mack CompanyUSAA Savings BankVintner GrillWells Fargo Bank Nevada, N.A.Wells Fargo FoundationWestern States Contracting IncWolfgang Puck Fine Dining GroupWVCYokel Local Internet Marketing Inc.

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Summit Materials, a construction materials compa-ny, acquired Sierra Ready Mix, a concrete business.

Harsch Investment Properties broke ground on an expansion at the Henderson Commerce Center at 7360 Eastgate Road. The 240,000-square-foot expansion is slated for completion this winter.

The Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance assisted five companies — Core-Mark Interna-tional, Mirixa Corp., Pacific Dental Services, Sitel Operating Corp. and ViaWest — in receiv-ing tax incentives for relocating or expanding in Southern Nevada. Among the five companies, 388 new jobs will be created as well as $34,345,950 in capital investment.

Franklin Cos. signed an agreement with Union Vil-lage to construct a $60 million, 400,000-square-foot senior living village in the Henderson health care complex. Franklin Park will include 150 units for independent living, 75 units for assisted living and 50 units for memory care housed on 9 acres.

Digital Matrix International expanded its operations with the purchase of a new building with 16,000 square feet of operational space. DMI creates soft-ware for industries, providing computer systems and VOIP phone systems and services for businesses.

The American Council of Engineering Cos. hon-ored Las Vegas firms Walter P. Moore and LGA each with a National Recognition Award for their work on the Spring Mountains Visitor Gateway project.

Summerlin is adding to its list of 23 public and pri-vate schools with the opening of Doral Academy- Red Rock, a public charter school set to open in the fall. Located near the southwest corner of Sky Vista Drive and Alta Drive, the school will offer kindergar-ten through ninth grade.

Downtown Summerlin earned Silver certification status from the U.S. Green Building Council in its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program.

Borracha Mexican Cantina is open at Green Valley Ranch Resort.

Best Mattress opened a location at 543 N. Stepha-nie St., Henderson.

Kealey Fukuyama is a credit administration analyst for Meadows Bank.

Back Bar USA, a marketing, consulting and design firm, is partnering with Tales of the Cocktail, a na-tional event that takes place in New Orleans.

Towbin Fiat/Alfa Romeo sold more Fiat 500L models than any other dealership in the country for March and is the top-selling 500L dealership for the year, as of March 31.

MountainView Hospital received accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medi-cal Education to start an obstetrics and gynecol-ogy residency program, a four-year program for 16 residents.

Zippia, a career-advice site, ranked Henderson No. 7 on the list of the 10 Happiest Places in Nevada. Enterprise was No. 9 and Boulder City was No. 10. The list is based on such criteria as employment opportunities, short commute times and low costs of living.

Plug In Vegas, a subscriber-based business that of-fers free tickets to events and activities, launched at pluginvegas.com.

Welcome to Las Vegas, a souvenir store, is open at Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood.

Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center is the first hospital in Nevada to use the Savi Scout breast localization and surgical guidance system during breast-conservation surgeries. An alternative to wire localization, Scout is an FDA-cleared device used by surgeons and radiologists to precisely locate and direct the removal of a tumor during a lumpectomy or surgical biopsy procedure.

Pico Madama changed its name to Beli Andaluz Salon. It is at 8975 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 190.

Clark County Credit Union reached $601 million in assets as of the end of the first quarter. This is the first time the credit union has seen assets above $600 million since before the recession in July 2009.

Desert Springs Hospital offers patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation the newly approved Watch-man Left Atrial Appendage Closure Implant. Atrial fibrillation is a cardiac condition in which the heart’s upper chambers beat too quickly, which causes the heart’s lower chambers to pump blood ineffectively through the body. The state’s first two Watchman LAAC cases were performed in April by Dr. Erik Sirulnick with HealthCare Partners, and Dr. Gaston Vergara with Heart Center of Nevada. Dr. Arjun Gururaj of Nevada Heart & Vascular Center also is trained to perform the procedure.

Dr. Darin Swainston, an OB/GYN with Women’s Health Associates of Southern Nevada, per-formed one of the first surgeries in the country using Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci Xi Single Site

surgical platform on April 27. This platform was approved March 16 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administra-tion.

Jeremy Bradshaw is the chief executive officer at Desert Springs Hospital. He had been the chief operating officer since May 2014.

Dave Halabuk is the vice presi-dent and chief marketing officer of Intermezzo. He was the executive director of marketing at the Silverton.

MountainView Family Medicine & Dermatology As-sociates is open at 3150 N. Tenaya Way, Suite 340.

Bruce Gilbert, executive director of the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange, Nevada’s public health insurance marketplace, joined the National Acad-emy for State Health Policy’s Pharmacy Costs Work Group. Gilbert will help identify and develop ideas to address the growing concern surrounding pre-scription drug costs and their negative effect on state-based programs.

Kathy May is an interior design-er at Blue Heron, overseeing the interior furnishings design efforts for the homebuilder.

Arlys Spiker is branch manager for Berkshire Hathaway Home-Services Nevada Properties’ St. Rose office at 3185 St. Rose Parkway in Henderson.

Bank of Nevada was ranked the No. 1 participat-ing lender in Southern Nevada — year-to-date in 2016 — in its partnership with TMC Financing and the Small Business Administration’s 504 Program. The program provides up to 90 percent financing to business owners in the purchase of commercial owner-occupied property. TMC Financing data show Bank of Nevada provided more loans than any other participating lender in 2016 in Southern Nevada (fiscal year ending September 2016) and also was the No. 1 SBA 504 participating lender in 2012, 2014 and 2015.

Mike Sullivan merged his lobbying practice with the Ferraro Group, a public relations and public affairs company. Sullivan will oversee local government public affairs. Prior to joining the firm, he was vice president of state government affairs for Porter Gordon Silver Communications

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What is the best business ad-vice you’ve received?

“The magic is discovered outside of the comfort zone.”

I enjoy hearing people’s life sto-ries. I get inspiration from their sharing their adversity and resil-ience while stretching themselves to achieve their goals. Collectively, these people’s stories have guided me along the way.

If you could change one thing about Southern Nevada, what would it be?

I wish there was more economic di-versity. This is a recurring conversa-tion over the years. We are seeing an influx of new companies transplant-ing to our valley. I would love to see the continued expansion of technolo-gy and research to create employment alternatives to our hospitality core.

What’s the biggest issue facing Southern Nevada?

Education and crime are the first that come to mind. We have national low-testing results and graduating percentages. ... And the proliferation of home invasions and battery seem to be ever-present in our city, while concealed-weapons permits are at an all-time high.

What has been your most exciting professional project?

Being involved with Aetna Springs in Napa Valley was a highlight. Over the years, I have been fortunate to be involved with spectacular pieces of land in Napa, Boise, Tucson, Phoenix and St. George.

You recently teamed up with three other partners for Brass Cap Cos. Why did you think you all made a good fit?

Diversity. We each represent a dif-ferent tool for the job. Each of us has a different story, and we approach our craft from different angles. When I first brought everyone together, they were familiar with each other but had not worked together; we be-came cohesive pretty quickly. We are a unique group in that we are the principals and the employees. If you

can keep ego out of the process and focus on communication, we can all be efficient and have some fun along the way. I think I just referred to us as “tools.”

You’ve been working in this industry over two decades. To what do you owe your success?

I would attribute this to an af-finity for alchemy. This industry is a playground for self-starters and dreamers. I enjoy looking at a blank canvas and picturing what can be created.

What advice do you have for people wanting to break into the real estate industry?

Find a mentor! The industry is challenging enough without a road map. Having a patient, knowledge-able and scrupulous mentor can cut down your ramp-up time for being self-sustainable.

What are you reading at the moment?

I am reading “Cadillac Desert,” by Marc Reisner. It’s a history of water rights in the U.S., focusing on how Southern California acquired its wa-ter from the Central Valley.

I recently read personal-growth

manuals “The Four Agreements,” by Don Miguel Ruiz, and “The Alche-mist,” by Paulo Coelho.

What do you do after work?I attend hot boot camp and hot

yoga at 103 degrees. I also enjoy box-ing with a professional trainer; some-times my 11-year-old son joins me. I have hiked a portion of the Pacific Crest Trail between Yosemite and Lake Tahoe (I can tell you a Bigfoot and mountain lion story) and also hiked rim to rim at the Grand Canyon and Mount Whitney base to summit and back, both in a day.

I have three funny, smart little people who I love to spend time with. They are open to new adventures. Kids are amazing, and you get to re-live/rewrite your childhood in a vi-carious sort of way.

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

I have specific financial goals for myself over the next 10 years based on my desire for freedom. I am fo-cused on establishing recurring income to provide myself and my family the resources to create once-in-a-lifetime experiences. I prefer to do things rather than have things.

Our development schedule is set up to provide the fruits of hard la-

bor over the next few years. We have the opportunity to ramp up our op-erations quickly and take on multiple development projects. We would like to focus on exclusive developer rela-tionships with national and regional companies.

What is your dream job outside of your current field?

Besides the standard rock star/MLB baseball player daydreams, I would like to be a speaker and writer. I see it as an opportunity to make a difference in people’s quality of life. There are few things that make me feel more purposeful than making a positive ripple. That, to me, is the big-gest calling in one’s life.

Whom do you admire and why?I admire Blake Sartini of Golden

Gaming. He’s a man’s man who knows how to enjoy life. A maven of many disciplines, he can go on a hunting trek in search of a state record, put together a mean wardrobe and plan the food and wine for a private din-ner. He is an aggressive businessman and a dedicated family man. Pretty good joke teller to top it off.

What is your biggest pet peeve?

People in power who mistreat other people. I recall being in the service industry when I was young-er and watched well-healed patrons completely break down the servers. I used some of that to fuel my ambi-tion. I also am irked by people with poor manners and a lack of respect for elders.

What is something that people might not know about you?

I used to own a juvenile Tyran-nosaurus bataar (grandfather of the T-Rex). I had the skull showcased in my home saloon. I ended up selling it in 2009 to an oil-sands tycoon from Canada. It was around 60 million years old and was a juvenile when it perished. It stands 8 feet tall and is around 16 feet long. My kids would tell their teachers that we had a real dinosaur at the house. I can imagine the teacher rolling her eyes.

Q&A with mike chernine

‘This industry is a playground for self-starters’

Mike Chernine is a principal with Brass Cap Cos., which specializes in real estate

investment, development and management. (L.E. BaSkow/Staff)

Mike Chernine assembled what he called an “all-star” team in real estate development to form Brass Cap Cos. In the next 24 months, he says, there is a window for industrial development and ground-up retail development on which he and his team aim to capitalize.

by the numbers

22Average delivery time, in

minutes, for Domino’s Pizza. The restaurant plans on

cutting it to 10 minutes with programs in development, including an autonomous

delivery vehicle.

4Number of states

where marijuana is the source of the most drug offenses — Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and New

Hampshire — according to DrugAbuse.com.

80 centsHourly wage increase Atlantic City casino

employees have received over the past 12 years,

according to Unite Here, the workers’ union.

$50 millionAmount a computer

hacker recently siphoned from the Decentralized

Autonomous Organization, which had raised $160

million in the form of Ether, an alternative to the digital

currency Bitcoin.

4,530The peak number of rigs

exploring for oil and natural gas in the United States, in

1981. That number bottomed out at 404 in May, down from 857 in June 2015.

26 percentShare of Apple’s revenue

China accounted for in 2015. Apple is in a patent dispute in China that threatens to block future sales of the

iPhone 6 in Beijing.

21.6 percentShare of votes for a hockey-team name

“Black Knights” received in an unscientific poll of lasvegassun.com readers last year. “Aces” received 42 percent of the vote.

$1.3 billionAmount of money infused into the Southern Nevada economy by the first five Electric Daisy Carnivals staged here, according to a study by Beacon

Economics.

Describe your business.

We are a luxury linen company known for specializing in hand-em-broidered and tailored table and bed linens for the retail, special-event and hospitality industries.

Who are your customers?

Some of our Las Vegas clients in-clude Wynn Resorts, The Cosmopoli-tan, Mandarin Oriental, The Mansion at MGM, Delano, Mandalay Bay, Vdara, The Venetian and Hard Rock Hotel.

We have just completed designing a beautiful collec-tion of custom bed linens for the Villas at the Mirage.

What is your business philosophy?

Customer service is paramount and quality is key. We are committed to providing linens that are as durable as they are beautiful. We strive to maintain a positive and creative work environment, and this is reflected in our designs.

How has your experience in fashion helped you?

I spent many years in the fashion industry while liv-ing in New York and abroad, and was fortunate to have worked with some of the great designers of our time, including Karl Lagerfeld, Giorgio Armani, Thierry Mu-gler, Issey Miyake and the late Isaia Rankin. Working for these designers as a model, I was there, up close and personal, while they sketched and dreamed up their lat-est collections, and I had the opportunity to wear these great pieces of art. I was exposed to high fashion at such an early age, and with that I developed my fashion sen-sibility and attention to detail. That exposure has had a tremendous influence on what I do now.

Your work was featured at the White House. How did

that opportunity come about?

I was asked by one of my cater-ing clients based in the D.C. area to help custom-design place mats for the nuclear summit. I was sent photos of the presidential china, and between myself, the caterer and Hillary Clinton, who was then sec-retary of state, the place mats were designed. About two years later, the White House requested custom lin-

ens from us again, this time for the G8 Summit. We have seen many photos of those place mats used in various dinners at the White House. It is still a thrill every time one of those photos pops up.

What makes your design style unique?

We create high fashion for the table and bed; the dif-ference between us and other linen suppliers is that we custom-design each and every table and bed linen exclu-sively for a particular property. We collaborate with each property to translate their vision into reality, creating linens that balance aesthetic and budget requirements.

How can Nevada improve its business climate?

Keep it fresh. Continue evolving and pushing the cre-ative envelope. Steve Wynn is the perfect example of just how to do this. He is always revamping and updating his properties to keep them exciting and new.

What have you learned from the recession?

Never put all of your eggs in one basket. You must try and branch out and provide your services and products in other markets. You must be able to offer diversity in terms of product line and at various price points. Final-ly, we never forgot our retailers and event designers who put us in business 16 years ago and continue to carry our collection to this day.

Fashion design beyond the runwayMona Steck, owner of luxury-linen company Settings by Mona, displays her work. (STEVE MARCUS/STAff)

settings by monaAddress: 4090 E. Post Road,

Loft D-3, Las VegasPhone: 702-361-8195

Email: [email protected]: settingsbymona.com

Hours of operation: 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday through Friday

Owned/operated by: Mona SteckIn business since: April 2000

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Smith’S world

Mike Smith is an award-winning editorial cartoonist who also draws for the Las

Vegas Sun. His work is distributed nationally by King Features Syndicate. See

archives of his work at lasvegassun.com/smithsworld.

reader commentSWe want to hear from you. Visit vegasinc.com to post your opinion.

on daniel roth-

berg’s lasvegassun.

com story “nV

energy rolls out

program, offers tips

for cutting summer

power bills”: Don’t

you just love the

suggestion that you

use an outdoor grill

when the outside

temperature is

soaring? — FRM

on eli Segall’s

vegasinc.com story

“ten years after:

looking back at

homes sold during

bubble era’s peak”:

I have faith in Vegas.

The most important

thing is the economy

is getting stronger.

— VegasInvestor

on Jd morris’

vegasinc.com story

“alternative stadium

plan suggests $550

million in public

money instead of

$750 million”:

They’re asking for a 1

percent hotel/

tourism tax to fund

the “taxpayer” part

of the deal. Does

anyone really think a

tourist spending two

grand for a vacation

will not come

because of that extra

$20 they have to

spend on the tax?

— FrankRizzo69

on eli Segall’s

lasvegassun.com

story “why are

high-rises missing

from the construc-

tion rebound in las

Vegas?”: High-rise

condos may be

missing from “new”

development, but

they are not missing.

They are standing

mostly vacant all

over the place.

— DavidAHowes

Three things to take Las Vegas to the next level

“T hat guy on the Strip overpass you can kick in the privates for $5 ... SpongeBob, Buzz

Lightyear and Darth Vader hamming for photos and hustling for tips ... indoor gun ranges for shooting Berettas and Glocks ... outdoor race tracks for driving Ferraris and Porsches.”

“Uh, things Las Vegas already has in spades?”DING!Living in this desert basin spoils a person, what with the

weather, entertainment, nightlife, day spas, good food, quick commutes and free parking (mostly). Not to mention a guy you can kick in the groin for $5.

But that’s why we moved here, right? To be spoiled. And happy. If we wanted to be unspoiled and unhappy, we would have stayed in Massachusetts or Michigan or any other state where they hand out ice scrapers and ear muffs when you register your car at the DMV.

Yup, Vegas is the bomb. But that doesn’t mean it’s impervious to expansion. Apropos of that, here are some ideas our city planners, industry magnates and miscellaneous movers and shakers should consider at their next masters-of-the-universe meeting:

n Six Flags Mount Charleston: Adventuredome at Circus Circus is awesome. It’s fun and clean and air conditioned. But it’s not, and not trying to be, Cedar Point, Six Flags Magic Mountain or even Walley World. Real roller coasters,

the ones people throw up on, are meant to be thrown up on in the fresh air and sunshine. Even when the sunshine makes the fresh air feel like a hairdryer in your face? Well, duh, that’s why you build this off

Route 95 in the northwest, out where the elevation is high and the temps are low. No smog, no heat, no problem.

n Bali Creek or Shadow Hai: Call it whatever; we need another golf course. Like now, because it’s been like forever since something new opened. Besides, inventory is dwindling: Silverstone closed, and if you believe what you read in the papers, Badlands is next. The average round on a public course here takes 4.5 hours; if demand keeps overpowering supply, you’ll soon have to tee off at dawn to finish by dusk.

n Pink Floyd “Echoes” by Cirque du Soleil: “The Beatles Love” is big and “Michael Jackson One” is huge, but Pink Floyd could be made into a monster. All in all it’s just another brick in the wall for Cirque, which is up to eight spectacles on the Strip. The Floyd is the perfect encore. You have the music, the lyrics, the imagery. Plus, the time. The show must go on at least 90 minutes, something the band’s library can easily accommodate. Think Pink lacks mainstream appeal? Think again. You don’t sell 250 million records being niche. Imagine the orchestra belting out “Comfortably Numb” as dudes bench press each other in slow motion. People will run like hell to see this. Don’t agree? Ha, ha. Charade you are.

Roger Snow is a senior vice president with Scientific Games.

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Higher wages, more formal education and a stronger connectivity with Nevada’s English-speaking community will drive future wealth among Nevada’s growing Hispanic population, business leaders and community representatives said during a panel discussion at the Las Vegas Latin Chamber of Commerce.

“We need more vibrant entrepreneurs and more access to capital, and that starts with having the right connections,” chamber President Peter Guzman said.

More than 71 percent of Latinos are members of the Nevada workforce, compared with 63 percent of all Nevadans, according to a release from the National Council of La Raza, which is based in Washington, D.C.

“We’re a community that works hard, whether it’s one job, two jobs or three jobs,” Guzman said. “We’re entrepreneurs and we do what it takes to support our families.”

But the median household income for Latino families is just under $47,000, compared with $51,000 for all Nevadans, the release noted.

Much of the disparity is the result of a language barrier that impedes cultural integration, affects education and generally leads to lower-paying jobs, panelists said.

Beyond impediments in the workplace and classroom, Hispanics also have been victimized by scammers, panelists said.

Viridiana Vidal, state director at America’s Voice and a former Univision producer, said Hispanics, especially seniors, in Nevada were prime victims of scams.

Vidal said phony real estate agents and bankers have asked for as much as $30,000 for a down payment on a home. The victims pay the money and never hear from the person again.

Threatening phone calls from scammers pretending to be from the IRS also have cost Hispanics millions of dollars a year, Vidal said. That can set families back years, she added. “It’s important that we educate the community about this, because it’s still going on.”

Other panelists said poor education was hindering Hispanics.

“Education is key to building economic sustainability for our state and our communities,” business consultant Leo Murrieta said. “We need to put a focus on that.”

Panelists also emphasized the importance of reforming immigration policy.

“It has to be a priority, so more people can work freely and eventually move into good citizenship,” said Otto Merida, the chamber’s former president.

By J.D. MOrriSStaff Writer

The head of an influential state tourism panel suggested slashing the amount of public money for a proposed domed football stadium by $200 million, triggering strong pushback from the project’s private backers.

At a meeting of the Southern Nevada Tour-ism Infrastructure Committee, Chairman Steve Hill introduced an alternative plan to fund the much-debated 65,000-seat stadium that could attract the Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas. The plan was not received well by representatives of the Raiders and the two companies teaming up to back the project, Las Vegas Sands Corp. and Majestic Realty Co.

The alternative entails using $550 million in money through hotel-room taxes rather than the $750 million initially proposed.

Under the alternative plan, the project cost would total $1.45 billion, which includes $50 million for land acquisition and $100 million for a practice facility.

The Raiders would be responsible for $500 million, while Sands and Majestic would con-tribute $400 million.

According to details of the plan further fleshed out by Jeremy Aguero of Applied Anal-ysis, private backers could receive a 9 percent return on their investment. Any revenue avail-able beyond that would be split 50-50 between the development partners and the public sec-tor, Aguero said.

Aguero said the public portion of the stadium cost could be funded with room-tax increases of 0.7 percent on the Las Vegas Strip and 0.5 per-cent in off-Strip areas of the valley. Sands and Majestic were seeking a uniform room-tax in-crease of about 1 percent, he said.

As with the initial proposal from Sands and Majestic, the alternative plan also includes a tax-increment area that would capture revenue from sales taxes, live entertainment taxes and modified business taxes. The tax area would include the footprint of the stadium and related practice fa-cilities, according to Aguero’s presentation.

Executives from the private entities push-ing for the football stadium said they had only received the alternative plan one day earlier, and they expressed general discontent with its contents.

Raiders President Marc Badain told the com-mittee that while his team remained excited about the stadium, it was “disappointed by what we saw today.” He said the Raiders had received “very positive” feedback from others in the NFL, and he indicated that the potential $750 million public contribution was a big part of that.

“The signal that today will send, bringing the 750 down to the 550, will be negative,” Badain said. “It will be perceived as a negative. So we need to be cognizant of that and what that does

to the process.”NFL support is a crucial step in order for

the Raiders to relocate to Las Vegas: The team would need 24 of 32 team owners to vote in fa-vor of the move. (Even before that, the stadium project needs to be vetted by the infrastructure committee and ultimately OK’d by the Nevada Legislature, likely during a special session.)

At the same time, Majestic Executive Vice President Craig Cavileer reminded the com-mittee that the private backers would be on the hook for any cost overruns. But in his view, the $400 million that the alternative plan proposed to come from Sands and Majestic was too high of a starting point.

Andy Abboud, Sands’ senior vice president of government relations, also sought to push back against cynicism over the involvement of his company and its leader, Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson, in the stadium plans.

“This is not a get-rich-quick scheme; this is a get-poor-quick scheme that there are no really good returns on,” Abboud said. “I know there’s cynicism about subsidizing a billionaire, but you’re not.”

Abboud said no one at Sands would come to Adelson with a project as costly as the stadium that would only offer a 9 percent return. He said there were “no nefarious intentions by Mr. Adel-son to get rich” off the stadium.

The private backers were not the only ones who received the alternative plan negatively. Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak, a member of the infrastructure committee, said earlier in the meeting that he did not want the stadium to become “the Hill-Aguero proposal” and that he and other members of the panel were not given enough input.

Later, Sisolak raised the possibility of expand-ing the proposed tax-increment area to help make the funding plan more palatable. That con-versation also highlighted a major uncertainty for the potential stadium: the exact spot where it would be built.

Initial talks about the stadium focused on a 42-acre site that UNLV owns on Tropicana Av-enue near Koval Lane, but concerns about that land’s proximity to McCarran International Air-port helped lead stadium boosters to publicly discuss other possibilities.

Those include the site formerly home to the Riviera hotel-casino and MGM Resorts Inter-national’s festival grounds across the street from SLS Las Vegas.

Of all the possibilities — another of which is the Cashman Center site — it remains uncer-tain which is the most feasible. Cavileer said the stadium backers wouldn’t have a site final-ized this month, when the committee meets again, although he said it could be able to re-turn with a handful of finalists to inform fu-ture discussions.

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Looking to buy a slice of sordid Las Vegas crime history?

The vacant lot for sale at 2121 Geronimo Way, just over the fence from Las Vegas National Golf Club, is covered in weeds, sits near styl-ish, 1960s-era houses and is listed for $253,600, a hefty markup over what the current owners spent.

It’s linked to notorious mother-and-son grifters who, before they were sentenced to at least 120 years in prison each, left a trail of murder, ar-son, theft, insurance scams, bounced checks and even slavery in their wake. The property has changed hands sev-eral times since, and the current own-ers live in Canada.

The crime spree by Sante Kimes, who died in her prison cell in 2014 at age 79, and her son Kenneth Kimes Jr. was heavily documented — in news articles, books, a “60 Minutes” segment, even a TV movie starring Mary Tyler Moore. (The movie, “Like Mother, Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes,” was a “low-rent psychological drama,” according to Variety.)

Sante Kimes was born in Oklahoma but grew up in Las Vegas, and more

By Staff Writer

When Las Vegas’ NHL team hits the ice next year, fans will get a close-up view of perhaps the most exciting team sport around.

They’ll buy shirts and jerseys, scarf down food, guzzle booze and cheer the action — assuming, that is, the arena is packed with fans for years to come.

As a lifelong fan of the game, I’m excited to be able to watch pro hockey live, as it’s way better in person than on TV. (Anyone remember the “glowing puck” of the 1990s?) Locals who have never been to an NHL game will be wowed by the players’ skating speed, puck movement, shot-blocking, goal-tending and overall athleticism.

As a business reporter, though, I look at a Las Vegas NHL team through another lens, and two main questions linger. As many have wondered: Will locals buy tickets in droves? And will tourists want to spend a night watch-ing hockey here?

Hockey is far less popular than oth-er sports nationally, and according to

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Looking to buy a slice of sordid Las Vegas crime history?

The vacant lot for sale at 2121 Geronimo Way, just over the fence from Las Vegas National Golf Club, is covered in weeds, sits near styl-ish, 1960s-era houses and is listed for $253,600, a hefty markup over what the current owners spent.

It’s linked to notorious mother-and-son grifters who, before they were sentenced to at least 120 years in prison each, left a trail of murder, ar-son, theft, insurance scams, bounced checks and even slavery in their wake. The property has changed hands sev-eral times since, and the current own-ers live in Canada.

The crime spree by Sante Kimes, who died in her prison cell in 2014 at age 79, and her son Kenneth Kimes Jr. was heavily documented — in news articles, books, a “60 Minutes” segment, even a TV movie starring Mary Tyler Moore. (The movie, “Like Mother, Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes,” was a “low-rent psychological drama,” according to Variety.)

Sante Kimes was born in Oklahoma but grew up in Las Vegas, and more

than a few of her crimes were tied to the house in Paradise Palms, just east of the Boulevard mall. According to reports in The New York Times:

In the early 1980s, she and her husband, Kenneth Kimes, bought a 4,000-square-foot house at 2121 Geronimo Way. Roughly 15 years lat-er, after Kenneth died, Sante obtained a mortgage on the property and listed Robert McCarren, whom she had found in a local homeless shelter, on the title as the home’s owner.

She obtained fire insurance in Mc-Carren’s name, and about two weeks later, the house was torched in an arson. McCarren later told investi-gators that Kimes “held him captive, beat him and forced him to memorize prepared lies for the inevitable ques-tions,” the Times reported.

Kimes used the name of David Kaz-din, a Los Angeles businessman whom she knew, to secure the mortgage. Af-ter learning of the loan — and possibly confronting Kimes and her son, inves-tigators suspected — Kazdin was found dead in a garbage bin at Los Angeles International Airport.

Kenneth Jr. later admitted that he killed him.

According to reports, the family’s

other crimes included:• In the mid-1980s, when Kenneth

Jr. was around 10 years old, Sante Kimes and her husband were charged with enslaving several Mexican wom-en whom they had smuggled into the United States. Her husband received a three-year suspended sentence and was ordered to pay a $70,000 fine, but Sante got five years in prison.

• In 1998, around the time Kazdin was killed, Sante Kimes bought a Lin-coln Town Car from an auto dealer in Utah with a check for $14,900 that bounced. Not long after, Sante bought an $80,000 motor home in Florida with another bad check.

• Also in 1998, Sante Kimes and her son were charged with murder-ing 82-year-old Irene Silverman, of New York, in a plot to take her Up-per East Side townhouse. Her body wasn’t found, but Kenneth Jr. told a jury that, after his mom hit Silverman in the head with a stun-gun, he stran-gled the widowed socialite, wrapped her body in garbage bags and dumped her in a trash bin in Hoboken, N.J.

Ultimately, Sante Kimes was sen-tenced to 120 years in prison, and her son got about 125 years, reports said.

The 0.3-acre property at 2121

Geronimo Way has been empty for some time. A demolition permit for a “burned residence” was issued in late 2000, Clark County records show, and the site’s current listing agent, Mal-colm Boot, said he didn’t know the last time a house stood there.

Despite its unusual past, the prop-erty’s more recent history is similar to that of countless others in the Las Ve-gas Valley: soaring values followed by foreclosure, plunging prices and then a climb from the depths.

According to county records, the property sold for $146,000 in 2000 and then $300,000 in 2005, but was seized through foreclosure in 2008. It sold for $45,000 in 2009, $72,000 a few months later and then $90,000 in 2014 to a married couple in British Columbia, who are trying to sell for nearly three times what they paid.

Just looking at the site, the average passerby would have no idea it was tied to a notorious criminal family.

Perhaps fittingly, though, a “warn-ing” sign is fastened to a light pole there, saying that a neighborhood-watch program is “in force.”

“We immediately report all SUS-PICIOUS PERSONS and activities to our Police Dept.,” the sign says.

By Eli SEgallStaff Writer

When Las Vegas’ NHL team hits the ice next year, fans will get a close-up view of perhaps the most exciting team sport around.

They’ll buy shirts and jerseys, scarf down food, guzzle booze and cheer the action — assuming, that is, the arena is packed with fans for years to come.

As a lifelong fan of the game, I’m excited to be able to watch pro hockey live, as it’s way better in person than on TV. (Anyone remember the “glowing puck” of the 1990s?) Locals who have never been to an NHL game will be wowed by the players’ skating speed, puck movement, shot-blocking, goal-tending and overall athleticism.

As a business reporter, though, I look at a Las Vegas NHL team through another lens, and two main questions linger. As many have wondered: Will locals buy tickets in droves? And will tourists want to spend a night watch-ing hockey here?

Hockey is far less popular than oth-er sports nationally, and according to

federal data, 30 percent of the valley’s workforce is in leisure and hospital-ity. Many people work nights, when NHL games are played.

Moreover, the Strip already is packed with entertainment options, and visitors flock to Sin City to do things they can’t do at home.

At least initially, the sport’s novelty in Las Vegas will draw fans, and people will turn out simply to watch the first major-league sports team based in America’s gambling mecca. But overall, 5 percent of U.S. adults say hockey is their favorite sport.

That’s tied for fifth with men’s pro basketball, below auto racing (6 per-cent), college football (10 percent), baseball (15 percent) and the long-reigning champ, pro football (33 per-cent), according to the Harris Poll.

Tourists would almost surely go to hockey games here, helping make up for a possible shortfall in ticket sales to locals. There would even be people who plan their trips around NHL games, and it doesn’t hurt that Canadians are the biggest group of foreign tourists here.

About 1.9 million people visited Las Vegas from Canada in 2014, compris-ing 30.7 percent of all foreign visitors, according to the Las Vegas Conven-tion and Visitors Authority.

Still, there’s a reason people visit Las Vegas: It’s an adult Disneyland, with nightclubs, restaurants, strip clubs, Cirque du Soleil shows, comedy acts, concerts and, of course, gambling.

How many of them would want to spend three hours one night, during one of the few nights they’re here, watching a hockey game?

That being said, as a fan, I can only hope hockey takes off in Las Vegas.

My family is obsessed with the sport. My grandfathers played hock-ey, my dad and uncles grew up in De-troit playing hockey, and my brothers and I grew up in the Bay Area playing the sport. My older brother and I still skate in beer leagues; our younger brother works in college hockey, and our brother-in-law plays goalie in recreational games (whether he stops any shots is another issue).

Growing up near San Jose, I also

got to see how the NHL fared in a nontraditional market, with the San Jose Sharks.

On the ice, the team was atrocious at first — the Sharks set an NHL re-cord for losses, 71, in their second season. But they made the playoffs their third season and eventually be-came a regular contender (and playoff flameout). This year, for the first time in their 25-year history, the Sharks made it to the Stanley Cup finals.

Financially, Forbes magazine says the Sharks are worth $445 million, 14th in the 30-team league. That’s ahead of teams in such traditional markets as Calgary, Minnesota and Ottawa.

Does hockey fit better in San Jose than in Las Vegas? Perhaps. But if the sport catches on here, at the very least, more kids would play hockey, more rinks would get built and locals would have a big-league team to rally around, something they’ve never had before.

It’s also a good, albeit expensive, ex-periment: Can NHL hockey survive in a tourism-dependent, desert city?

We’ll get the answer soon enough.

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By J.D. MorrisStaff Writer

Downtown Las Vegas bid farewell to three long-running businesses in late June, as the Mermaids and La Bayou casinos closed along with the Girls of Glitter Gulch strip club.

They’re nowhere near the scale of the Riviera, recently demolished on the Strip, but their departure is none-theless sentimental.

“We’re the last of a dying breed down there,” said Rudy Nino, general man-ager of all three businesses since 2008. “We’re the only place on Fremont that has slot machines-only. We don’t have table games, we don’t have a fancy res-taurant, we don’t have a hotel. ... We’re kind of unique in that way.”

The businesses were sold in April to Derek and Greg Stevens, who also own the Golden Gate, the D and the shuttered Las Vegas Club nearby. The brothers are planning to develop a new hotel-casino in the area.

Little else is known about their vi-sion, or on what timeline it will play out. Derek Stevens has said the new development would likely include a combination of demolition, renova-tion and new construction. For him, the purchase presented an opportu-nity to “create a project that’s big-ger and a different scope” than the Las Vegas Club neighboring Glitter Gulch and Mermaids.

La Bayou, meanwhile, is across the street — right next to the Ste-vens’ Golden Gate casino. That has created the possibility that the Golden Gate could “evolve” in some fashion as well.

“At this point, I’m still in the same po-sition where there’s a number of things that need to evolve now. Now that we really have a larger real estate footprint, we can really go to work on the size and scope of the project,” Derek Stevens said. “I’m not trying to be evasive — that’s just the reality of it.”

Mermaids and La Bayou have gone by different names over the years. La Bayou carries particular historical sig-nificance: When it was called the North-ern Club in 1931, it was awarded the first gaming license in Las Vegas, according to the Nevada Resort Association.

David Schwartz, director of UNLV’s Center for Gaming Research, said the casinos were “part of the down-town ecosystem for a long time”

and characterized them as “more value-oriented properties.” He said he wasn’t surprised to see Stevens take them over.

Stevens and his brother are doing so at an opportune time for gambling and tourism in the Fremont Street area.

Once wounded badly by the re-cession and other economic factors, Downtown Las Vegas has experienced a renaissance of sorts in recent years. Some of the most visible changes have come from Zappos chief Tony Hsieh and his Downtown Project, which has

drawn locals and tourists alike to the east part of Fremont Street through substantial investments in new res-taurants, bars and retail.

The neighborhood has changed in other significant ways. Multiple downtown casinos have made major efforts to improve their hotel rooms, dining options, gambling floors and, more recently, pool areas. At the same time, city officials have tried to make the Fremont Street Experience clean-er and safer through restrictions on li-quor consumption and the controver-

sial implementation of performance zones for street entertainers.

Recent gambling and tourism fig-ures also tell a largely positive story. Gaming revenue downtown rose 6 percent to $541.8 million last year, and it’s also up about 5 percent for the six-month period from November through April of this year.

Schwartz noted that the downtown gaming market outperformed both the Las Vegas Strip and the state over-all during the most recently reported six-month stretch. Maybe because it was more successful in attracting gamblers, he said.

“The Strip is clearly not just focus-ing on gambling anymore — they’re doing a lot of stuff,” Schwartz said, referring to nightclubs, dining, retail and so forth. “I think downtown, to a large extent, is still very focused on and hospitable to gamblers.”

Additionally, hotel-room occupan-cy downtown rose 3.5 percent in 2015, while the average daily room rate in-creased 5 percent, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. Through April, occupancy was up 2.7 percent, and the average daily rate was up 11.2 percent, figures from the authority show.

“I think downtown is going to con-tinue to grow,” Stevens said. “There’s an awful lot of energy downtown with dif-ferent entrepreneurs and different lev-els of investment that the hotel-casino guys are putting into Fremont.”

Stevens and his brother have played a big role in that investment, starting with their involvement in the Golden Gate and continuing to their purchase of the old Fitzgeralds casino, which they converted to the D. The broth-ers also transformed the site of an old county courthouse near the D into the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center, an outdoor venue that has been the site of concerts and boxing matches.

Nino said Stevens was a visionary helping to lead Fremont Street in a new direction.

“It’s totally changed. And I have to say, what it was like in the ’60s and ’70s — it was good. But it needed to make the change to get where we’re at in Vegas,” Nino said. “(Stevens) wants to step outside the box and bring people downtown. He’s a real big be-liever in downtown and the Fremont Street Experience.”

The Mermaids Casino, as well as La Bayou and Glitter Gulch on the Fremont

street Experience, closed June 27, as Derek and Greg Stevens plan to build a new

hotel-casino in the area. (l.e. baSkow/Staff)

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blossomed into an 11-day fan extrava-ganza. Oh, and there’s basketball, too.

“It was just an event that was there for the GMs and the coaches to evalu-ate their players,” said Las Vegas Events President Pat Christenson. “When they approached us, it was with this idea of taking it to a different level.”

That level looks entirely different from the smaller leagues in Orlando and Utah, and each year it continues to grow. Over the past five, attendance at the Thomas & Mack Center and Cox Pavilion has nearly doubled to more than 100,000. And during what’s usu-ally a slow business month in Vegas, Las Vegas Events pegs the total economic impact of last year’s Summer League at $29.5 million, with expectations that the recent growth isn’t a fluke.

“I think it’s just starting,” Christen-son said. “I think what’s happened now is, the word has gotten out.”

Bringing the Summer League to Ve-gas in 2004 was the brainchild of agent Warren LeGarie, who along with sports marketing expert Albert Hall has con-tinued to run what is now a must-at-tend event for anyone in professional basketball. A few years after the event launched, the NBA started supporting it, facilitating a jump from six teams to 24. And now nearly every NBA general manager and many NBA veterans like LeBron James and James Harden de-scend on Vegas every July.

“This thing just has so many layers to it now that it’s really become not only a big event but a tool for teams to market to their fans, their sponsors and season-ticket holders,” Hall said.

It’s still built around the 67 games be-tween 24 teams that mostly consist of rookies and young pros trying to make NBA rosters or impress international scouts. But improvements to the games — official uniforms, a tournament for-mat and tests of new officiating tech-nology — pale in comparison to the en-vironment that’s been created.

In the concourse between courts at the Thomas & Mack and Cox you can play Pop-A-Shot, test virtual-reality headsets, get autographs from top rookies, bid on memorabilia to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital or run into a current NBA player buy-ing a pretzel. And if you hang around late enough you can hold up a sign in the background of The Starters, broad-casting nightly on NBA TV.

“We needed to create a festival atmo-sphere to where if people want to watch

eight games in one day, they don’t feel like it’s dragging,” Hall said.

Contrast that with the practice gyms that house four to 10 teams for Sum-mer Leagues hosted by the Utah Jazz and Orlando Magic, and there’s barely a resemblance. While those events have kept fans locked out, Vegas last year welcomed more than 22,000 out-of-town attendees who helped occupy nearly 35,000 hotel room nights, ac-cording to Las Vegas Events.

This year, for the first time, 25 games will appear on ESPN, ESPN2 or ES-PNU, while all 67 games will stream on ESPN3 and 30 games will air on NBA TV. After seeing promos for the Vegas event during June’s highly rated NBA Finals, Christenson had no doubt there was plenty more room to grow. “I’m

pretty confident that there will be an-other jump.… I think the NBA promotes this stronger every year.”

Awareness is key for getting people interested in the event, but it’s the ex-perience that has to keep them coming back. Sometimes the games deliver, like in 2010 when undrafted Harvard grad Jeremy Lin first made waves with an impressive performance against No. 1 overall pick John Wall, but the ancillary events must always run smoothly, like the St. Jude Table Tennis Challenge that last year raised $10,000.

“It started as a golf tournament, and it was just too damn hot to play golf,” Hall said, adding that the At-lanta Hawks’ Dennis Schroder and the Oklahoma City Thunder’s Steven Adams brought it on the table.

The Sports Business Classroom, which costs $2,500, is “essentially a training ground for people who want to get into the business of basketball,” Hall said. It’s July 8-13 and features present-ers such as head coaches and assistant GMs, as well as a deep dive into the in-tricacies of the NBA salary cap.

All told, the Summer League has made Vegas the epicenter of profes-sional basketball for a couple of weeks during a month when there isn’t a lot going on in the city. Between the out-of-town fans here to enjoy the atmosphere of the games and the out-of-town mil-lionaires here to see and be seen, the clear winner is the city.

“We really have become a big eco-nomic driver,” Hall said. “It’s Vegas’ NBA franchise to an extent.”

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Cresent Hardy’s Summer Business Series

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James Silvas will speak on how to actualize your

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ranging from professional athletes to business

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Time: 8 a.m.-6 p.m.; also July 10 Cost: Free

Location: The DevNet Zone at Cisco Live, Man-

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USA Table Tennis U.S. open Las Vegas Convention Center July 4-9 3,000

West Coast Conference 2016 Luxor July 5-10 250

Deafnation World Expo Paris July 6-8 23,000

Traci Lynn Fashion Jewelry Convention Caesars Palace July 7-10 1,200

UFC Fan Expo Las Vegas Convention Center July 8-10 30,000


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Records and TransactionsBid OppOrtunitiesJuly 72:15 p.m.Lewis Professional Building: Boiler rehabilitaion and mechani-cal upgradesClark County, 604091Sandy Moody-Upton at [email protected]

2:15 p.m.Las Vegas Boulevard pedes-trian bridge repairs and lighting upgradesClark County, 604053Ashley Blanco at [email protected]

3 p.m.ARC for luminaries/street lighting fixturesClark County, 604148Ashley Blanco at [email protected]

July 83 p.m.Audio/visual systems for District Attorney Family Support DivisionClark County, 603995Chetan Champaneri at [email protected]

July 143 p.m.Current Production model animal trucksClark County, 604155Sandra Mendoza at sda@ clarkcountynv.gov

July 213 p.m.Foster Care ServicesClark County, 604161Sherry Wimmer at [email protected]

July 292:15 p.m.Moapa Valley Roads VIClark County, 604107Tom Boldt at tboldt@ clarkcountynv.gov

2:15 p.m.Las Vegas Boulevard from St. Rose Parkway to Silverado Ranch BoulevardClark County, 604083Tom Boldt at tboldt@ clarkcountynv.gov

BankruptciesChapter 11Bridge Corner Stone2151 N. Rancho DriveLas Vegas, NV 89106Attorney: David A Riggi at [email protected]

Rancho Mart2151 N. Rancho DriveLas Vegas, NV 89106Attorney: David A Riggi at [email protected]

BrOkered transactiOnsSaleS$13,750,000 for 156,564 square feet, industrial 1051 Mary Crest Road, Henderson 89074 Landlord: DCT Commercial Landlord agent: Mike DeLew, SIOR, and Greg Pancirov, SIOR Tenant: 1051 Mary Crest Tenant agent: Did not disclose

$5,130,000 for 33,995 square feet, office 8205 & 8235 S. Eastern Ave, Las Vegas 89123 Landlord: TAG Viewpointe Landlord agent: Brendan Keating & Gino Vincent of Logic Commer-cial Real Estate Tenant: Rock Ridge Viewpointe Tenant agent: Ben Feldman

$3,250,000 for 32,808 square feet, industrial 150 N. Gibson Road, Henderson 89014 Landlord: Black Mountain EquityLandlord agent: Did not disclose Tenant: Harsch Investment Properties Tenant agent: Greg Pancirov, SIOR, and Mike DeLew, SIOR

$2,850,000 for 9,819 square feet, retail4790 S. Fort Apache Road, Las Vegas 89147Landlord: PW REO Ft. ApacheLandlord agent: Jason Otter, Chris Richardson of Logic CommercialTenant: AK HoldingsTennant agent: John Blommer & Chris Emanuel of Virtus Cos.

$2,400,000 for 25,600 square feet, industrial 6012 S. Topaz St., Las Vegas 89120 Landlord: Interpacific Management Group Landlord agent: Did not disclose Tenant: Core and Value Advisors Tenant agent: Dean Willmore, SIOR, Mike DeLew, SIOR, Greg Pancirov, SIOR, and Chelsy Cardin

$1,632,632 for 10,741 square feet, office 8906 Spanish Ridge Ave., Suite 202, Las Vegas 89148 Landlord: TAG 8906 SR Landlord agent: Brendan Keating, Marc Magliarditi of Logic Commer-cial Real Estate Tenant: WHASN Holdings Tenant agent: Jeb Betz of Juliet Realty

leaSeS$196,000 for 1,400 square feet, retail 6545 S. Fort Apache, Suite 115, Las Vegas 89148 Landlord: Monterey Vista Village Shopping Center Landlord agent: Liz Clare, CCIM, Jackie Young and Kris Watier of Avison Young Tenant: Giang Lam, DDS Tenant agent: Joseph Pessin of Realty One Group

Building permits$799,954, retail sales shell2280 Paseo Verde Parkway, HendersonVestar Green Valley

$554,086, tenant improvement202 Fremont St., Las VegasLogistical Solutions

$285,650, OTC8929 Hull Bay Ave., Las VegasDR Horton

$282,795, residential - complete - custom1220 Rose Quartz Road, Hender-sonDR Horton

$282,106, commercial alteration1408 W. Craig Road, North Las VegasEleven Western Builders

$258,286, residential - complete - production101 San Martino Place, HendersonLyon William Homes

$250,000, tenant improvement785 S. Grand Central Parkway 2155, Las VegasJames Agresta Carpentry

$240,000, commercial alteration3930 W. Ann Road, North Las VegasNDL Group

$223,796, residential - complete - production381 E. Rancho Drive, HendersonRose Line

$181,821, residential - complete - production3209 Monte Stella Ave., HendersonToll Henderson

$176,220, residential - complete - production391 E. Rancho Drive, HendersonRose Line

$174,834, residential - complete - custom351 Cannes St, HendersonBarney Bradley

$174,723, residential - complete - production

333 Homeward Way, HendersonWoodside Homes Nevada

$173,698, single-family tract9666 Ponderosa Skye Court, Las VegasCentury Communities Of Nevada

$156,203, residential - complete - production159 Littlestone St., HendersonKB Home Nevada

$149,881, residential - complete - production3213 Monte Stella Ave., HendersonToll Henderson

$146,944, single-family tract12288 Argent Bay Ave., Las VegasKB Home Nevada

$145,837, single-family tract10457 Mount Mitchell Court, Las VegasGreystone Nevada

$142,839, residential - complete - production2162 County Down Lane, Hender-sonToll Henderson

$142,483, single-family tract10432 Turtle Mountain Ave., Las VegasRyland Homes

$138,815, single-family tract9642 Bruschi Ridge Court, Las VegasRichmond American Homes of Nevada

$137,294, residential - complete - production701 Coastal Lagoon St., HendersonKB Home LV Pearl Creek

$137,241, residential - new5716 Country Lake Lane, North Las VegasBeazer Homes Holdings

$137,241, residential - new4117 Klondike River Place, North Las VegasBeazer Homes Holdings

$129,039, residential - new3640 Fuselier Drive, North Las VegasRichmond American Homes Of Nevada

$126,759, residential - complete - production1168 Scenic Edge St., HendersonPN II

$126,759, residential - complete - production140 Outcrop Ridge Ave., Hender-sonPN II

$126,759, residential - complete - production

1164 Scenic Edge St., HendersonPN II

$126,054, single-family tract10428 Turtle Mountain Ave., Las VegasRyland Homes

$125,535, residential - new2094 Maysville Ave., North Las VegasHarmony Homes

$125,317, residential - complete - production370 Clown Creek St., HendersonDR Horton

$124,319, residential - complete - production3113 Carpineti Court, HendersonKB Home Inspirada

$123,154, residential - complete - production337 Homeward Way, HendersonWoodside Homes Nevada

$121,879, residential - complete - production1052 Tropical Sage St., HendersonRyland Homes Nevada

$117,368, residential - new208 Dela Cruz Ave., North Las VegasWilliam Lyon Homes

$117,368, residential - new112 Dela Cruz Ave., North Las VegasWilliam Lyon Homes

$115,891, residential - complete - production3056 Historic Horizon Ave., Hen-dersonBeazer-Inspirada

$115,298, single-family tract10621 Forum Peak Lane, Las VegasRyland Homes

$113,173, residential - complete - production3141 Beltrada Ave., HendersonKB Home Inspirada

$113,173, residential - complete - production3129 Beltrada Ave., HendersonKB Home Inspirada

$112,841, residential - complete - production365 Wilford Springs St., HendersonDR Horton

$112,841, residential - complete - production1126 Bobby Basin Ave., HendersonDR Horton

$112,009, residential - complete - production372 Clown Creek St., HendersonDR Horton$111,954, residential - complete -

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Records and Transactionsproduction374 Clown Creek St., HendersonDR Horton


$111,777, single-family tract8276 Southern Cross Ave., Las VegasRyland Homes


$107,510, single-family tract10617 Forum Peak Lane, Las VegasRyland Homes

$107,296, residential - complete - production369 Wilford Springs St., Hender-sonDR Horton


$103,192, residential - complete - production454 Barcarolle Lane, HendersonRichmond American Homes of NV

$103,192, residential - complete - production441 Bagatelle Ave., HendersonRichmond American Homes of NV

$103,192, residential - complete - production470 Barcarolle Lane, HendersonRichmond American Homes of NV

$102,527, residential - complete - production2200 Valdina St., HendersonKB Home Inspirada

$102,300, restaurant - complete1461 S. Boulder Highway, HendersonGW B&H





$101,250, commercial - remodel2211 Somersworth Drive, Hender-sonSun City Anthem

$100,444, residential - new4113 Klondike River Place, North Las VegasBeazer Homes Holdings

$98,590, residential - complete - production1063 Admiral Emblem St., Hen-dersonBeazer Homes Holdings









$75,000, tenant improvement8988 W. Cheyenne Ave., Suite 150, Las VegasHadfield Building


$72,000, tenant improvement2910 Highland Drive, Suite H, Las VegasWilliams General Contracting

$65,120, commercial addition2845 Synergy St., North Las VegasPinnacle Architectural Millwork

$60,000, pool and/or spa340 Elder View Drive, Las VegasGreencare Designs

$60,000, pool and/or spa573 Caribbean Palm Drive, Las VegasAnthony & Sylvan Pools

$51,300, retaining wall125 N. Stephanie St., HendersonWigwam-Pure

$50,000, patio7 Fremont St., Las VegasLegend Construction & Develop-ment

$46,328, demo965 Trade Drive, North Las VegasCobblestone Construction

$45,097, pool4713 Mohawk River Ave., North Las VegasDesert Springs Pools & Spas

$42,280, demolition residential building2740 Candelaria Drive, HendersonRyland Homes Nevada

$41,080, multifamily residential repair501 E. Lake Mead Parkway, Suite 617, HendersonVictory Village 2004

$39,541, disaster4700 Alpine Place, Las VegasLewis K Construction & Develop-ment

$37,650, tenant improvement2800 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 7D, Las VegasStoffer & Stoffer

$37,629, pool3641 Greenbriar Bluff Ave., North Las VegasAnthony & Sylvan Pools

$36,185, pool and/or spa12266 Argent Bay Ave., Las VegasAnthony & Sylvan Pools

$35,750, pool and/or spa11919 Montanesa Ave., Las VegasEdgewater Custom Pools and Landscaping

$35,000, pool and/or spa5756 Bedrock Springs Ave., Las VegasPremier Pools and Spas

$35,000, tenant improvement1140 N. Town Center Drive, Suite 250, Las VegasMagnum Contracting

$34,875, wall/fence

7078 Sky Pointe Drive, Las VegasKeystone Enterprises

$32,000, pool and/or spa6112 Burnt Hills Drive, Las VegasAnthony & Sylvan Pools

$31,998, commercial building remodel3021 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway, HendersonSeven Hills Hospital

$28,300, tenant improvement2120 N. Rampart Blvd., Suite 150, Las VegasWestern Trades Construction

$26,887, pool and/or spa460 St. Moritz Drive, HendersonWorre Eric John & Marina

Business licensesDamon RitchhartLicense type: Real estateAddress: 7465 W. Lake Mead Blvd., Suite 100, Las VegasOwner: Damon Ritchhart

Dax JonesLicense type: Insurance agencyAddress: 9555 Hillwood Drive, Suite 140, Las VegasOwner: Dax Jones

Deborah Ann ButterfieldLicense type: Independent mas-sage therapistAddress: Did not disclose, Las VegasOwner: Deborah Butterfield

Dennis SciaccaLicense type: Real estateAddress: 9525 Hillwood Drive, Suite 120, Las VegasOwner: Dennis Sciacca

DitronicsLicense type: Automated teller operatorAddress: 3220 N. Jones Blvd., Suite 1, Las VegasOwner: Ditronics Financial Ser-vices

DNS Glass & 24 Hour Board Up ServiceLicense type: Repair and mainte-nanceAddress: Did not disclose, Las VegasOwner: Carlos Valtierra and Jen-nifer Valtierra

Donna ParkerLicense type: Real estateAddress: 10161 Park Run Drive, Suite 150, Las VegasOwner: Donna J. Parker

Dulce VeraLicense type: Real estateAddress: 6955 N. Durango Drive, Suite 1002, Las VegasOwner: Dulce Vera

Eco-Friendly Cleaning ServicesLicense type: Residential property maintenanceAddress: Did not disclose, Las VegasOwner: Itzel C. Diaz Giron

Eddie’s Car Wash & DetailingLicense type: Automobile detailingAddress: Did not disclose, Las VegasOwner: Aimee Estrada

Ej’s Entertainment ServicesLicense type: Inter-jurisdictional businessAddress: 7181 Dean Martin Drive, Las VegasOwner: Elizabeth Valenti & John Valenti

Elisabet QuezadaLicense type: Residential property maintenanceAddress: Did not disclose, Las VegasOwner: Elisabet Quezada

Eminent LinksLicense type: Gross sales/revenueAddress: 2560 W. Brooks Ave., North Las VegasOwner: Eminent Links

EMS Training Center of Southern NevadaLicense type: Medical trainingAddress: 5175 Camino Al Norte, North Las VegasOwner: Medical Training Center

English EsperanzaLicense type: Instruction servicesAddress: Did not disclose, Las VegasOwner: Amber Malone

EpykLicense type: PromoterAddress: 6475 W. Gary Ave., Las VegasOwner: LAF

Erotas Somatic TherapyLicense type: Professional servicesAddress: 1221 N. Decatur Blvd., Suite 2, Las VegasOwner: Hilda Quincena and Events With A Twist

Events With A TwistLicense type: CatererAddress: 1201 S. Main St., Las VegasOwner: Jennifer Colacion and Events With A Twist

Family Zum YemayaLicense type: Instruction servicesAddress: 2083 N. Jones Blvd., Las VegasOwner: Oscar D. Matamoros

Farmer Brothers Co.License type: Specialty storeAddress: 6630 Arroyo Springs St., Suite 300, Las VegasOwner: Farmer Bros Co.

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Records and TransactionsFashion GirlsLicense type: Retail salesAddress: 1560 N. Eastern Ave., Suite D16, Las VegasOwner: Cooper Enterprises

Filipino American LivingLicense type: Retail salesAddress: Did not disclose, Las VegasOwner: Filipino American Living

Filler-Up Financial ServicesLicense type: Automated teller operatorAddress: 1916 N. Decatur Blvd., Las VegasOwner: Filler-Up ATM Services

Firerock SteakhouseLicense type: Automated teller operatorAddress: 5990 Centennial Center Blvd., Las VegasOwner: Firerock Steakhouse Centennial

Floor SpecialistsLicense type: Property mainte-nanceAddress: Did not disclose, Las VegasOwner: Maria Zuleta and Edson Zuleta

Fortuna InvestmentsLicense type: Investment servicesAddress: 7465 W. Lake Mead Blvd., Suite 100, Las VegasOwner: Aeterna

Frank RempeLicense type: Gross revenueAddress: 2128 Cimarron Hill Drive, HendersonOwner: Frank Rempe

Fuelzone MartLicense type: Convenience storeAddress: 7650 W. Charleston Blvd., Las VegasOwner: Fuelzone Mart #3

Game Changer LVLicense type: Instruction servicesAddress: 450 S. Buffalo Drive, Suite 111, Las VegasOwner: Philip N. Rogone

Go Green CleaningLicense type: Residential property maintenanceAddress: Did not disclose, Las VegasOwner: Kathleen Ceffalio

Go HVACLicense type: ContractorAddress: 3863 S. Valley View Blvd., Suite 4, Las VegasOwner: Timothy Fromhart Jr.

Gracie AlemanLicense type: Real estateAddress: 8430 W. Lake Mead Blvd., Suite 100, Las VegasOwner: Gracie Aleman

Green Zone License type: Automobile detailingAddress: Did not disclose, Las VegasOwner: Wilson A. Quinonez

Guau Guau GroomingLicense type: RetailAddress: 3950 Mountain Vista St., Las VegasOwner: Moises Rapio

Hampton & Hampton CollectionsLicense type: RetailAddress: 880 Seven Hills Drive, Suite 200, HendersonOwner: Hampton & Hampton Col-lections

Helping Hands Personal Care ServicesLicense type: Personal careAddress: 5135 Camino Al Norte, North Las VegasOwner: Helping Hands Personal Care Services

Hermes System DesignsLicense type: ConsultingAddress: Did not disclose, Las VegasOwner: James Poulos

High End Cosmetics VegasLicense type: RetailAddress: 321 Fremont St., Las VegasOwner: Alon Wizen

Howard, John Jr.License type: Professional servicesAddress: 1211 S. Maryland Parkway, Las VegasOwner: John Hall Howard Jr.

Icon RealtyLicense type: Real estateAddress: 8919 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 170, Las VegasOwner: Cash Rebates Realty, Annabel K. Delbarrio and Lani Belcher

Ideal Credit RepairsLicense type: ConsultingAddress: Did not disclose, Las VegasOwner: Idealcreditrepairs

In We Go CanyoneeringLicense type: Gross revenueAddress: 1340 Allegheny Moon Terrace, Suite 3, HendersonOwner: In We Go Canyoneering

Inspections Of AmericaLicense type: Real estateAddress: 3301 W. Spring Mountain Road, Suite 13, Las VegasOwner: Inspections Of America

Irene MedinaLicense type: Real estateAddress: 1820 E. Sahara Ave., Suite 101, Las VegasOwner: Irene Medina

JPR Maintenance

License type: BusinessAddress: 8334 W. Rochelle Ave., Las VegasOwner: J Jesus Perez Regalado

J&J LVLicense type: Retail salesAddress: Did not disclose, Las VegasOwner: Jose Serrano-Buenrostro

Jackpot Thrift StoreLicense type: RetailAddress: 3965 E. Owens Ave., Suite 180, Las VegasOwner: Beverly Kellum and Willie Kellum

Jacqueline “Jacki” EvansLicense type: Real estateAddress: 8290 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 100, Las VegasOwner: Jacqueline Evans

James Walter HenryLicense type: Bail/enforcement agentAddress: 800 S. Casino Center Blvd., Las VegasOwner: James W. Henry

Janie RizzottoLicense type: Real estateAddress: 10220 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 3, Las VegasOwner: Janie S. Rizzotto

John NehmeLicense type: Real estateAddress: 10220 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 3, Las VegasOwner: John Nehme

Jons Handyman ServiceLicense type: Property mainte-nanceAddress: 10138 Monks Hood Court, Las VegasOwner: Five Star Handyman

Julia M. WadlowLicense type: Real estateAddress: 777 N. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 120, Las VegasOwner: Julia M. Wadlow

K.B. ShoesLicense type: RetailAddress: 2041 N. Jones Blvd., Suite 104, Las VegasOwner: Sandra Gress

Kenneth RizzottoLicense type: Real estateAddress: 10220 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 3, Las VegasOwner: Kenneth L. Rizzotto

Kindness HealthLicense type: Group care facilityAddress: 601 Burton St., Hender-sonOwner: Kindness Health

Kline Glaze ServiceLicense type: Gross revenueAddress: 129 Aruba Isle Drive, Henderson

Owner: Amy Kline-Alley

Lafayette Document Preparation ServicesLicense type: Business supportAddress: 1448 E. Charleston Blvd., Las VegasOwner: Layfayette Document Preparation Servcies

Lawn Care AlvarezLicense type: Property mainte-nanceAddress: Did not disclose, Las VegasOwner: Rigoberto Alvarez

Leave It To MegLicense type: Property mainte-nanceAddress: 16 Kittansett Loop, HendersonOwner: Meg Gilbert & Associates

Lg Real Estate & EnterprisesLicense type: Real estateAddress: 1818 Industrial Road, Suite 209, Las VegasOwner: Lyndon Gray

Liberty Cleaning ServicesLicense type: Property mainte-nanceAddress: 8609 Apiary Wind St., Las VegasOwner: Ba Resources

Libertymark Bail Bond StoreLicense type: Bail bond agencyAddress: 321 S. Casino Center Blvd., Suite 110, Las VegasOwner: Bhreajgyt Bonds

Love’s Home Health CareLicense type: Home care providerAddress: 500 N. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 300, Las VegasOwner: Love’s Home Health Care

LS LandscapeLicense type: Property mainte-nanceAddress: Did not disclose, Las VegasOwner: LS Landscape

LV CosmeticsLicense type: Gross revenueAddress: 2610 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway, Suite 100, HendersonOwner: LV Institute Of Permanent Cosmetics

Lynch Hopper SmithLicense type: Professional servicesAddress: 1210 S. Valley View Blvd., Suite 208, Las VegasOwner: Francis I Lynch, Charles Dee Hopper and Kyle Smith

M&B RefurbishingLicense type: Property mainte-nanceAddress: 559 Apostle Drive, HendersonOwner: Micael Frank

M. Cervantes Lawn Maintenance

License type: BusinessAddress: 1406 Angelbrook Court, North Las VegasOwner: Saul Lopez

Margie’s Detailed CleaningLicense type: Property mainte-nanceAddress: 7775 Bermuda Road, Las VegasOwner: Margaret McKenna

Maria’s Taxes and InsuranceLicense type: Insurance agencyAddress: 1021 W. Owens Ave. H, Las VegasOwner: Maria Hernandez

Mark LoweryLicense type: Real estateAddress: 7674 W. Lake Mead Blvd., Suite 109, Las VegasOwner: Mark A. Lowery

Market Gaming Dbat Smith’s #306License type: GamingAddress: 2255 N. Las Vegas Blvd., North Las VegasOwner: Market Gaming

Mary’s Garden Natural ProductsLicense type: RetailAddress: 2204 Travis St., North Las VegasOwner: Jose Aguilar Garcia

Merchants Building MaintenanceLicense type: Property mainte-nanceAddress: 3021 S. Valley View Blvd., Las VegasOwner: Merchants Building Main-tenance

Michael SmithLicense type: Real estateAddress: 10161 Park Run Drive, Suite 150, Las VegasOwner: Michael Smith

Mobile MiniLicense type: Rental and leasingAddress: 14425 Arville St., Las VegasOwner: Erik Olsson

Mr. D’s Sports Bar & GrillLicense type: RestaurantAddress: 1810 S. Rainbow Blvd., Las VegasOwner: D-Bar

Ms. OlongapoLicense type: General retail salesAddress: 1717 S. Decatur Blvd., Suite C38, Las VegasOwner: Kristina M. Syfu

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Company Year est. locallyEmployees (company-wide) Products Top executive

1 Les Olson Company2975 Lincoln RoadLas Vegas, NV 89115702-932-7431 • www.lesolson.com

2003 225 copiers, printers, scanners, large-format systems, document solutions software, managed IT services, man-aged print services

Charles Burt, branch manager

2 Henriksen/Butler Design Group241 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 103Las Vegas, NV 89102702-309-2448 • www.hbdg.com

2004 160 wall systems, systems furniture, conference furniture, office furniture, ergonomic seating, filing systems

Heather Bressler, vice president

3 Advanced Imaging Solutions3865 W. Cheyenne Ave.North Las Vegas, NV 89032702-951-4247 • www.ais-now.com

2002 81 copiers, 3D, printers, IT services, workflow solutions, VOIP

Gary Harouff, president

4 Machabee Office Environments6435 Sunset Corporate DriveLas Vegas, NV 89120702-263-8800 • machabee.com

1988 33 office furniture including ergonomic seating, workstations, architectural walls and freestanding desks

Scott Machabee, president

5 Somers Furniture6330 Polaris Ave.Las Vegas, NV 89118702-837-1717 • somersfurniture.com

1989 20 rental and custom-built office furniture — desks, chairs, reception furniture

Debbi Somers, CEO, founder

6 ANAX Business Technology8920 W. Tropicana Ave., Suite 103Las Vegas, NV 89147702-478-9000 • www.anaxtech.com

2011 13 copiers, printers, scanners, fax ma-chines, multi-function units, toner, drums, document management solu-tions, IT and phone-system services

Did not disclose

7 Cort Furniture Rental & Clearance Center6625 Arroyo Springs, Suite 130Las Vegas, NV 89113702-822-7368 • cort.com

2000 12* long- and short-term furniture rental; Cort also sells previously leased furniture

Angel DiBellonia, district general manager

8 Premier Office Systems500 N. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 125Las Vegas, NV 89107702-737-4601 • premierofficesystems.com

1996 7 multifunction printing equipment, document-solution management, color-printing equipment

Colin McTernan, owner

9 Ideal Office Equipment1200 S. 3rd St.Las Vegas, NV 89104702-384-3814 • www.idealofficenv.com

1947 6 office supplies, office furniture, toner cartridges

Ivan Eisenberg, president

*Southern Nevada employees

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