Proposed legislation would ensure the tax still applies if the property is transferred to a business entity that was “formed for the purpose of avoiding those taxes.”
Eli Segall
Reporter: Real estate
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Eli Segall joined the Review-Journal in August 2016 after covering real estate and other business topics for four years at the Las Vegas Sun. He also worked for the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, The Associated Press and other news groups. Segall has a bachelor’s in political science from the University of Michigan and a master’s in journalism from the University of Maryland. His awards include 2017 Story of the Year from the Nevada Press Association.
Construction crews recently turned the low-slung Cable Center Shops, Boulevard food court and outdoor Fatburger eatery with slushie bar into piles of rubble.
Much of the hotel tower is enclosed, and the resort’s agave plant logo, spanning 18 feet tall and 42 feet wide, is installed at the top of the building.
The Houston billionaire is acquiring the Hard Rock hotel-casino at Lake Tahoe and will transform it into a Golden Nugget-branded property.
One side of the street has massive resorts, but the other side has low-slung motel buildings, a boarded-up tavern and a never-finished Ferris wheel project.
A long-shuttered motel site on the Las Vegas Strip is getting a new owner: a North Dakota tribal nation that owns nearly 22 acres along the south edge of the famed resort corridor.
The office features more than 130 sports “trading” desks for oddsmakers and a 7,500-square-foot cafeteria and event space.
The housing market started the year on a slow note, and though mortgage rates have been volatile lately, buyers have been returning.
Clark County cleared the way for a guitar-shaped hotel tower to be developed at The Mirage, a project that would spell the end of the resort’s iconic volcano attraction.
Las Vegas developer The Calida Group will soon start construction on its five-story, 400-unit apartment complex near the Strip.
The developer said he owes approximately $25 million to $30 million for work on the resort, and that construction “will restart once the terms of the financing are finalized.”
Vincent Tatum, a Virginia native and Army veteran, is the new president of Grand Canyon Development Partners.
The north Strip isn’t overrun with tourists, and it still has big pieces of land. But the area has gained momentum.
Construction crews have put up the first few buildings at The Bend, a roughly 10-acre, $60 million project on Sunset Road just west of Durango Drive.
The Clark County Building Department issued a demolition permit last week for the domed, Roman-themed structure.