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43FLOODING IN

THE VALLEYLas Vegas is situated

in a desert and gets the least average annual

precipitation among any major U.S. city. So

how and why does it flood? In five minutes,

we’ll make you an expert on desert water danger

and what the city has done to protect against

it — as well as what people can do to stay safe.

FEEDING TIMEContest eating goes

beyond hot dogs and soggy buns. The athletes — yes,

they engage in specific workout regimens

tailored to their competitive goals — set

records for sushi, bacon, pumpkin pie and even cow

brains. We examine their training, eating and

recovery techniques, and share some places locals

can test themselves.

CULTIVATING YOUNG MINDSSchools across Clark

County are discovering that teaching children to

work in a garden is benefi-cial to students learning a

variety of subjects, from biology to business.

MORE LIFEn Pets available

for adoption, P33

n Calendar of events, P40

n Puzzles, P66

PASSION FOR PULLING

The World Armwrestling League is putting the sport in

the spotlight, and competitors are starting to cash in.

REBUILDING A FOUNDATION

Commercial real estate in Southern Nevada is

slowing making a comeback from the Great

Recession, but this time, banks are being more

cautious about whom they lend money to. For

instance, local executives say they will

fund projects only if developers already

have tenants lined up.

ON THE COVERElite eaters put to

shame that guy in

front of you at the

buffet line.

OPINION

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26A day in the EREach work shift brings myriad challenges for doctors at University Medical Center.

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

Room for growth in the resort corridorSeveral sites on or near the Strip present opportunities for new casinos or other big buildings.

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

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

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JUNE 28- JULY 4

WEEK IN REVIEW

WEEK AHEAD

NEWS AND NOTES FROM THE

LAS VEGAS VALLEY, AND BEYOND

J U N E 2 2 - J U LY 4

ENTERTAINMENT

CLIMBING HIGH

Festival goers climb into an interac-tive art sculpture during the Electric Daisy Carnival. (YASMINA CHAVEZ/SPECIAL TO THE SUNDAY)

JUNE 20

DOCTOR

ARRESTED

A Las Vegas doc-tor was charged with child por-nography after al-legedly sedating a teenage patient and videotaping himself having sex with her, Metro Police said.

JUNE 22

TIME FOR

A CHANGE?

Renewed concerns over the Confed-erate flag spilled over to UNLV. Sen. Harry Reid sug-gested regents consider changing the university’s Rebels mascot.

JUNE 23

RECORD

LOW

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

JUNE 25

ACA

STANDS

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

JUNE 25

REBEL

DRAFTED

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

Clark County’s un-employment rate in May, the lowest level

since May 2008.

6.6%

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ENTERTAINMENT

EARNING THEIR WINGS

Contestants line up for pictures during the Hooters International Swimsuit Pageant at the Hard Rock Ho-tel. Meagan Pastorchik, of North Charleston, S.C., won the $30,000 first-place prize. (STEVE MARCUS/STAFF)

BUSINESS

TESLA

MAKING

AN IMPACT

Tesla Motors has created almost 600 jobs for Nevadans so far in connection with its lithium-ion battery plant being built near Reno, according to the Governor’s Office of Economic Development. The company, which was lured to the state with a $1.3 billion tax break, is required to fill at least half of its positions with Nevada residents.

SPORTS

CHASING THE PUCK

The National Hockey League’s Board of Governors formally agreed to begin accepting expansion-franchise applications. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman mentioned three cities — Seattle, Quebec City and Las Vegas — as having shown the most interest.

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

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

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

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

JUNE 24

GRAHAM

GAMING

BAN

Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican who is running for the GOP’s nomination for president, introduced a bill to ban Internet gambling. A related bill already was introduced in the House of Representatives.

Number of students in the Clark County

School District in 2014 who

were considered homeless or in transition, according to

school officials.

WARNING: SKINNY JEANS CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTHA 35-year-old Australian woman lost strength and feeling in her legs after squatting repeatedly in skinny jeans. Doctors diagnosed her with compart-ment syndrome caused by muscle constriction and exacerbated by her pants. But doctors say there’s no need to ditch skinny jeans. Such swelling is rare.

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Approximate number of

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LOCAL

STRETCHING THEIR BOUNDARIES

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JUNE 28- JULY 4

BY CONOR SHINE | STAFF WRITER

L

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

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

With no tornadoes or hurricanes to contend with, floods are Las Vegas’ most damaging and most dead-

ly natural disaster.Las Vegas experienced four floods in 2014,

two of which were declared emergencies by the National Weather Service, the most se-

vere category of alert. Most fl ooding happens during the monsoon

season, from July to September, but fl oods can strike any time of year .

The problem was worse 30 years

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

Since its formation, the district has spent $1.7 billion building a fl ood control system that today includes doz-ens of detention basins and hundreds of miles of chan-nels. The system is about 75 percent complete. During intense storms, there still are parts of town where fl oods sub-merge streets.

FLOODING IN LAS VEGAS

The geography of the Las Vegas Valley basin is similar to

a bowl tipped slightly toward its edge. Storm water fl ows downhill

through the valley from west to east, converging in the Las Vegas Wash be-fore pouring through the Clark County

Wetlands and into Lake Mead.

WHY DOES LAS VEGAS FLOOD?

SPRING MOUNTAINS

Storm

comes o

ver the mountains and dum

p w

ater into the valley.

WHO MONITORS FLOODING?

The Flood Control District’s job is to make sure water fl ows

from one side of the valley to the other in as orderly a fashion as pos-sible, away from areas with lots of buildings or people. The system is

designed to handle a 100-year storm, which has a 1 percent

chance of happening in any given year.

SEVERAL TOOLS ARE USED TO CARRY AND

CONTROL STORM WATER

DETENTION BASINSDetention basins act as temporary storage

when water pours into the valley faster than it can drain out

to the lake. The basins fi ll during storms,

then slowly divert the water to channels at a manageable rate.

The detention basins typically span 10 to

50 acres and are up to 50 feet deep.

CHANNELSSeven large concrete channels form the backbone of the regional fl ood control

system, collecting water from storm drains and detention basins. The channels converge in the Las Vegas Wash and fl ow to Lake Mead. During storms, the other-wise dry channels can fi ll up quickly and

create rapid currents that move thou-sands of cubic feet of water per second. In most areas, the channels are open and uncovered, allowing water to fl ow easily into them over their sides. Where fl ood channels meet roads or developments, the fl ow is routed underground through

four-sided concrete box culverts.

STORM DRAINS

Storm drains are the feeder system of the

fl ood con-trol network, using curbs and gutters

to carry water off streets and

into under-ground drains that lead to

fl ood control channels.

DETENTION BASINS

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The geography of the Las Vegas Valley basin is similar to

a bowl tipped slightly toward its edge. Storm water flows downhill

through the valley from west to east, converging in the Las Vegas Wash be-fore pouring through the Clark County

Wetlands and into Lake Mead.

why does las vegas flood?

laKe Mead

how is the systeM

funded?In 1986, voters approved a

quarter-cent sales tax increase to fund the regional flood control district. The dedicated funding is unique com-

pared with most flood districts, which are paid for with annual appropriations from local governments. Predictable revenue allows the Clark County Regional Flood

Control District to plan its construc-tion over decades and tackle projects in a more efficient

manner.

flood insurance

Most homes in Las Vegas aren’t in designated flood

zones, meaning homeowners aren’t required to buy federal flood insur-

ance. But buying a flood policy, which can cost as little as $300 to $400 a

year for homes in low to moderate risk areas, is worth considering. The flood

control district offers resources to help homeowners buy flood

insurance and research the history of flooding near

their homes.

The most recent deaths due to flooding came in 2012 when a pair of people were killed in separate incidents

during a summer of heavy storms. A Henderson teenager died after being swept into a flood channel on Pittman Wash. At the Desert Rose Golf Course, a

landscaper died after being swept away by flood waters. Flood officials say there are a few basic steps people

can take to stay safe when the waters start rising.

Don’t Drive into flooD watersMost injuries and deaths from flash floods come from

motorists who don’t heed warnings or roadblocks and drive onto submerged streets. While from a distance

flood water may not look like it’s moving fast, it can travel as fast as 30 miles per hour — fast enough to lift a car

and send it tumbling off the road. Drivers “think they’re in this big, heavy car and that they’re almost invincible,” Parrish said. “They don’t understand that cars can float.

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

stay away from channels anD basinsFlood control facilities are scattered throughout the valley, with detention basins near soccer fields, dog

parks and walking trails. The basins are permanently marked with no trespassing signs, but the warnings are

especially important to heed when the basins start to fill with water. Water flows rapidly through the flood control system, making it nearly impossible for even experienced

swimmers to escape if they fall into a channel. Banks around some of the channels are unlined and can become unstable during storms, increasing the risk that someone trying to get a close look at the storm waters may fall in.

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

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

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

staying safe

current systeM includes

still to be built

Flash flooding has

killed 39 people in Clark County

since 1960, mostly from drowning.

gaps in the systeMDespite the progress made over the past three decades, there still are many parts of the valley that remain unconnected to the regional drain-

age system, causing streets to flood when heavy rains arrive. The gaps in the system are caused

by the piecemeal measures put in place by cities before the flood control district was formed, as well as continued development on the edge of

the valley that’s being built faster than the flood district can keep pace. For instance, a stretch

of Grand Teton Drive in the northwest suffered frequent flooding because of a one-mile gap in

the drainage system. The gap recently was fixed, thanks to $15 million of construction to install

new drains under the road.

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detention basins

31

detention basins

596

miles of channels and storm drains

210

miles of channels and storm drains

129

miles of natural washes

25

years estimated completion

the development of the regional flood control network has resulted in more than 51 square miles of land in clark county being removed

from federally designated flood zones, saving people millions of dollars annually on insurance premiums.

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GET READY TO

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DOWN

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12Miki Sudo’s favorite competition food is ice cream. “It was just pleasant,” she said.

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

JUNE 28- JULY 4

BY JACKIE VALLEY AND DELEN GOLDBERG | STAFF WRITERS

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

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IS COMPETITIVE

EATING DANGEROUS?It can be. Binge eating can rip the

lining of the stomach, particularly if someone has undiagnosed ulcers. Drink-ing too much water could dilute electro-lytes in the blood and cause fatal water

intoxication. Vomiting or faulty swal-lowing can cause asphyxiation, and

food can get lodged in the lungs and cause pneumonia.

Tim “Eater X” Janus

competes in the 2012

Nathan’s Famous Hot

Dog Eating World

Championship. The

competition is staged

every Fourth of July.

Janus finished in second

place after eating 52 hot

dogs and buns.

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STOMACH CAPACITYThe key to successful competitive eating is

stretching your stomach. Most competitors do that over time by guzzling increasingly large amounts

of water or milk — up to a gallon at a time, usually in only a

minute or two.Competitors also eat

huge amounts of food. The key is low-calorie, high-fiber, water-rich meals. Yasir Salem, who

in 2013 won the Cannoli Eating Competition, trains

by eating 6 to 8 pounds of steamed broccoli and cauliflower

topped with a couple of pounds of sauerkraut in about 20 minutes. Others stretch their stomachs with watermelon, lettuce, cabbage or grapes.

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

PRACTICE RUNSMost competitors do dry timed runs at home before a

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

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

HIT THE BUFFETIn the week leading up to a competition, Juan

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

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

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

WORK OUT Exercise is crucial for competitive eaters, to maintain their body weight and limit belly fat, which can impede food intake. Rodriguez said he spends about 12 hours a week exercising, doing mostly weight

training and a little bit of cardio. A person’s abdomen can only fit so

much, and the leaner it is, the more food can be shoved in.

Many competitors work out an hour or two before a competition to increase their

appetite and stimulate their muscles.

HOME STRETCHMost competitors cut way back on food in the days

leading up to a competition. Chestnut stops eating solid foods and consumes only

water and protein supplements. Sudo fasts 24 hours before each contest.

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

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

TRAINING

101It sounds counterintuitive, but competitive eaters are skilled,

trained athletes. Most work hard at their craft and devote a significant amount of time

to preparing for competitions.

DO NOT TRY THIS AT

HOME. These people are professionals, and

consuming too much water can

be deadly.

3620 S. Jones Blvd.702-233-8787, pho87.net

EAT THIS: PHOzilla, a heaping bowl of pho, in 1,987 seconds (just over 33 minutes)

IF YOU SUCCEED: Win a progressive cash jackpot (which recently hovered around $1,870).

IF YOU FAIL: Pay $50 plus tax.

11011 W. Charleston Blvd.702-979-3609,mercaditorestaurants.com/redrock

EAT THIS: Forty tacos in 40 minutes

IF YOU SUCCEED: Win a $200 restaurant gift card and an invitation to compete against other winners this fall. The prize? Tacos for life.

IF YOU FAIL: Pay $40 for the tacos.

It’s unlikely the average diner can down 103 hamburgers in eight minutes like competitive eating champ Joey Chestnut or swallow 57 cow brains in 15 minutes like gurgitating guru Takeru Kobayashi. But how about a six-pound burrito in 45 minutes? Or 87 ounces of noodle soup in a half-hour? That’s more doable. In fact, it has been done here. A growing number of Las Vegas restaurants have added oversized food challenges to their menus. It’s marketing brilliance — and gastronomical torture.Here’s a taste of what’s out there for those who want to put their stomachs to the test:

TEST YOURSELFMERCADITOAT RED ROCK RESORT

PHO 87

Wear comfortable

clothes. Bottoms with elastic

waistbands are preferable.

Stand while

competing. Sitting limits the

space in your stomach and

colon.

Hop in place. Gravity and force

can help speed up swallowing.

Chipmunk. Food in a

competitor’s mouth when time is called counts,

so stuff it in.

Be flexible. Be

able to adapt quickly to variables

such as portion size and meat

tenderness.

Move around. It helps the food settle and allows

more to fit in.

Competition habits of successful eaters:

* The catch? They have to swallow everything

within 30 seconds.

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PICKLED JALAPENOSIN 8 MINUTES

PATRICK BERTOLETTI


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15Sonya Thomas, “the black widow” of competitive eating, says

she can fit up to 19 pounds of food and liquid in her stomach. COVER STORY

JUNE 28- JULY 4

11011 W. Charleston Blvd.702-979-3609,mercaditorestaurants.com/redrock

EAT THIS: Forty tacos in 40 minutes

IF YOU SUCCEED: Win a $200 restaurant gift card and an invitation to compete against other winners this fall. The prize? Tacos for life.

IF YOU FAIL: Pay $40 for the tacos.

3770 Las Vegas Blvd. South702-730-7420, montecarlo.com/restaurants/the-pub.aspx

EAT THIS: An 8-pound burger and fixings in 45 minutes

IF YOU SUCCEED: Win a T-shirt.

IF YOU FAIL: Pay $29 for the food.

3770 Las Vegas Blvd. South702-730-7979, diabloslasvegas.com

EAT THIS: Twenty chicken wings soaked in “Death Sauce,” made from habanero chili puree and ghost chili extract, in 20 minutes

IF YOU SUCCEED: Win a T-shirt and your photo on the Wall of Fame.

IF YOU FAIL: Pay for the wings and mug for the Hall of Shame.

MERCADITOAT RED ROCK RESORT

THE PUB AT MONTE CARLO

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Juan Rodriguez once ate a jar of peanut butter

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If the competition food was processed and heavy in sodium nitrates,

competitors drink lots of water to relieve bloating. Green tea pills also

help, Rodriguez said.

If the contest food was very flavorful or greasy, competitors eat bread to

soak up the oils and spices.

Most competitors nap after a competition, as eating such copious

amounts can be a workout.

Many eaters use laxatives or stool softeners after a contest.

Most competitors say they do not vomit after a competition.

Whole milk: Neutralizes spicy foods.

Sugar-free flavored drinks or water: Best for salty foods; low calories

allow more to be eaten.

Coffee or tea: Best for sweet foods.

Two organizations regulate professional competitive eating. The International

Federation of Competitive Eaters, also known as Major League Eating, allows

competitors to dunk food in liquid before swallowing. The Association of Independent Competitive Eaters uses “picnic-style” rules that require food

to be eaten normally without mashing, dunking or mutilation.

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

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

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

Rodriguez grabs a pre-cut rib in his left hand, and in

one swift motion, pulls the meat off with his right hand and pushes it into

his mouth.

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THIRSTY?

Sudo takes two hot dogs from their buns

and eats the meat in quarters while

dunking the first bun in liquid. She eats the first soggy bun while dunking the second

one. “It’s not the most delicious way to eat a hot dog, but it’s the only way to be

competitive,” she said.

HOT DOGS

Flappers are more complicated. Sudo

separates the bones with her thumb,

places the flapper in her mouth and pulls

the meat off with her teeth.

Sudo won the 2013 Hooters wing-eating contest in Las Vegas after eating 192 wings in

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

Joey Chestnut set the record (69) in 2013 at the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot

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motion. PICK THE RIGHT LIQUIDSudo dunks food in strawberry or

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Other types of liquids give competitors an advantage.

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while hot liquids can burn.

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Sometimes competition can be too much even for an expert

to handle. Vomiting during an eating contest isn’t common but does occur.In Major League Eating, anyone who

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It’s Friday the 13th, and Dr. David Obert is driv-ing to work. The date doesn’t worry him. As an

emergency room physician at University Medical Cen-ter, Las Vegas’ public hospital, he can see crazy any day.

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

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

Obert, assistant medical director of the emergency medicine department, tries to predict the intensity of his day by scanning the highway billboards that list wait times at other local emergency rooms. Thirty-nine minutes. That alarms Obert because it’s almost

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

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

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

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

“I was hooked,” Obert recalled.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The emergency room at University Medical Center is typically a busy place, with attending physicians such as Dr. David Obert, center, doing their best to diagnose,

treat and dispatch dozens of patients per shift. (PHOTOS BY L.E. BASKOW/STAFF)

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

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

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

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

But as the woman tearfully explains a list of other symptoms — dizziness, nausea, a change in her hair texture — Obert begins thinking otherwise. He’s sitting next to her because it’s less intimidating, and he needs her to feel comfortable enough to share everything. He also summoned the help of a Spanish translator, a frequent necessity given the hospital’s large number of Hispanic patients.

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

He orders a blood test to test for a thyroid disorder. Several hours later, the results indicate Obert’s hunch was correct: The woman’s hormone levels indicate hy-perthyroidism. Obert starts her on medications, and the woman and her husband leave the hospital.

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

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

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

By the end of Obert’s eight-hour shift, he has seen 20 patients and mentored several medical residents. UMC is a teaching hospital, and training the next gen-eration of doctors is a big part of Obert’s job.

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A man who was found ebbing in and out of con-sciousness at a bus stop wakes from his daze when Ob-ert visits him. The man is confused.

“Do you know where you’re at?” Obert asks.The man doesn’t respond, so Obert helps him: “This

is a hospital. Do you know what city you’re in?”“This is Los Angeles, Calif.,” the patient says.Obert poses more questions, trying to piece together

what happened. Soon, the man’s memory becomes less fuzzy. He remembers being at a casino with a flask of Fireball whiskey, playing blackjack. He was winning. But somehow he got kicked out, so he headed toward the bus station. He may have taken a few Xanax pills, too.

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

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

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

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

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

TOUGH LOVE AND MEDICAL CARE DELIVERED DAILY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Drs. Darren Mahoney, left, and Obert confer about the status of a patient. The ER at UMC treated nearly

75,000 adult patients last year, as well as more than 31,000 children.

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BY J.D. MORRISSTAFF WRITER

T he $4 billion Resorts World Las Vegas project made a big splash in May when a ceremonial groundbreaking ushered in what, upon comple-

tion, would be the Strip’s biggest development in years. ¶ But the Resorts World site, formerly home to the Stardust and the scrapped Echelon project, isn’t the only spot in the heart of Southern Nevada’s tourism corridor that could be developed over the next couple of years. ¶ In several areas on the Strip and within close prox-imity to it, opportunities exist for new casinos or other big buildings to pop up. Some developers are pressing forward with major plans, although several projects remain shrouded in mystery. ¶ Real estate broker Mi-chael Parks of CBRE Group described the environment for development on the Strip as positive but controlled. He drew a strong contrast between what’s happening today and the situation before the financial downturn. ¶ “We’re not seeing a new potential project be announced every other week like we were at the peak of the market when there was always a new condo project or resort project going up,” Parks said. “I think the banks are just being more cautious on which projects they’re going to provide financing for. But we are seeing an increased level of interest in companies wanting to put a stake in Las Vegas.” ¶ Here’s a look at some of the remaining development opportunities on and around the Strip.

Room to grow on resort corridor

PROJECT JACKPOT 18 ACRES

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

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

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

HARMON HOTEL TOWER.97 ACRES

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

The Harmon hotel should have opened there as part of the CityCen-ter complex developed by MGM Re-sorts International and Dubai World. But work on the building stopped in 2008 when construction defects surfaced, indicating that the steel used in the initial 26 stories wouldn’t support the rest of the building.

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

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

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

LAS RAMBLAS AREA60 ACRES

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

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

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

NEW FRONTIER35 ACRES

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

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

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

RIVIERA 26 ACRES

After six decades in operation on the north Strip, the Riviera hotel closed May 4. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority bought the aging property for $182.5 million with plans to replace it with convention space. The resort eventually will be demol-ished or imploded, but the authority hasn’t disclosed a timeline for when the Riviera will come down.

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Construction topped out on the tower of the planned Fontainebleau resort in 2008, but it was never com-pleted because of the financial crisis.

Billionaire and activist investor Carl Icahn bought the property out of bankruptcy in 2010 but hasn’t done anything with it.

LUCKY DRAGON 2.5 ACRES

Not far from where Genting Group is building the massive Resorts World, another project with an Asian theme is taking shape. Only this one, on Sahara Avenue just west of Las Vegas Boulevard, is much smaller.

Called Lucky Dragon, the project showed signs of life recently when visible construction work began for the approximately 200-room bou-tique hotel. It’s unclear when it will open.

JACKIE ROBINSON’S ARENA 27 ACRES

In late 2013, former UNLV basket-ball and NBA player Jackie Robinson announced plans to build a privately funded, $1 billion-plus resort and arena, and later revealed plans to lure an NBA franchise to play there. A ceremonial groundbreaking for the project took place last fall, next to SLS Las Vegas.

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BY CONOR SHINESTAFF WRITER

After a thwarted launch last year and four months of intense lobby-

ing at the Nevada Legislature, Uber now can legally operate its ride-hailing service in Nevada, thanks to a pair of laws signed last month by Gov. Brian Sandoval.

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

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

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

Uber will have to negotiate separate deals with McCarran International Air-port officials and Strip casino compa-nies before drivers can begin picking up riders at those locations.

THE NEW LAWSA pair of bills passed by the Legisla-

ture cleared the way for Uber and other ride-hailing companies, known formally as transportation network companies, to come to Nevada. The laws set insurance, background-check and vehicle-main-tenance standards for drivers, and im-posed a 3 percent surcharge on all fares.

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

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

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

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

GETTING TO THE STRIPDuring the few weeks Uber operated

in Las Vegas before being shut down by state officials, drivers gave thousands of

rides to residents from all corners of the valley.

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

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

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

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

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

San Francisco International Airport welcomed Uber drivers last fall after

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

Resorts on the Strip are sorting through issues of logistics and liability before al-lowing Uber to enter their private proper-ties and serve guests.

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

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

“Everything’s going well so far,” Beh-rend said.

Taxi cab drivers gather May 29 in front of Caesars Palace to protest Uber, the ride-hailing service trying to break into the Las Vegas market. Laws signed by Gov. Brian

Sandoval opened the door, but there remain details to be worked out before Uber drivers can pick up customers on the Strip. (L.E. BASKOW/STAFF)

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

pay the amount specified in this notice, you could lose your home, even if the amount is in dispute.” (That’s required by law).

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

several new rules governing HOA foreclosure. Unfortunately for the reader who asked today’s question, the bill doesn’t take effect until Oct. 1.

HOA foreclosure is no joking matter. Once the process has started, HOAs tend to foreclose quickly, leaving many (former) homeowners upset and confused when they’re evicted by new owners. Adding to the misery, as of this writing, most HOA foreclosures are perma-nent, meaning there’s no right of redemption.*

Hope is not lost, though. It’s usually pos-sible to negotiate with your HOA to stop the sale and work out a payment plan — sometimes for less than what you owe. The truth is, most

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

If your HOA board won’t work with you, there may be other options avail-able to stop or delay an HOA foreclosure, including bankruptcy and filing a lawsuit. Before going down those paths, however, I encour-age you to try to handle the situation out-side of the court system.

*When Senate Bill 306 goes into effect in October, homeowners will have 60 days after the date of foreclosure to pay the auction-sales price plus other expenses as noted in NRS 116.31166 to get their home back.

If you have a question you’d like to see answered by an attorney in a future issue, please write to [email protected].

Please note: The information in this column is intended for gen-eral purposes only and is not to be considered legal or professional advice of any kind. You should seek advice that is specific to your problem before taking or refraining from any action and should not rely on the information in this column.

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’Tis the season for day clubs, pool parties and BBQs, especially here in Las Vegas. With the

Fourth of July weekend quickly approaching, there’s a seemingly endless lineup of events. ¶ But wheth-er you’re attending or hosting, keeping everyone safe and sound should be a top priority. As a party host, it’s your job to make sure your guests have a great time and are able to get home safely. There may be no worse feeling than knowing your friend took his or her last drink in your home before causing a seri-ous car crash. ¶ Creating a safe party-environment can help prevent drunken driving.

Request that all guests come

and go with a designated driver, and be sure the DD has the car

keys.

Make sure the designated driver isn’t

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ARE YOU SOBER YET?

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‘The family hero’: Teen saves dad’s lifeBY IAN WHITAKERSTAFF WRITER

Karim Hussein had been asking to accompany his father on trips for his videography business for years.

In the past, Sam Hussein always said no. But while preparing for a recent trip to Southern California to film a wedding, he finally relented.

On March 14, 16-year-old Karim, then a Palo Verde junior ROTC cadet, and his father were filming the bride and groom near the shore of the Pacific Ocean when Karim saw a rogue wave out of the corner of his eye.

“I tried to pull (my dad) away, but I just wasn’t fast enough,” Karim said.

The wave washed both father and son off the rocks and into the sea. Karin swam back to shore and quickly recovered on the beach, then realized his father remained helpless in the water. So he dove back in.

“I got to him and realized that he was in complete shock,” Karim said. “His leg was floating in the water as if it were a fish.”

Sam Hussein had broken the bones in his leg in three places during the fall. He said he remembers seeing Karim swimming out toward him but can’t re-

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

“Afterward, it hit me that in that split second, I could have lost my dad and my own life,” Karim said. “I saw my dad there drowning, and I didn’t even think, I just jumped back in the wa-ter.”

Three surgeries and as many months later, Sam Hussein remained in a wheelchair but was strong enough to place a Golden Valor Award, the JROTC’s highest accolade for bravery, around Karim’s neck.

The ceremony in the Palo Verde gym drew a small gather-ing of Karim’s Air Force JROTC classmates and school offi-cials. JROTC instructor and retired Air Force captain Gordon Doughty said it was the first time he heard of a student in Ne-

vada earning the award.After college, Karim wants to join the military and work in medicine, pos-

sibly in orthopedics. He mostly deflected praise for his actions but gladly ac-cepted handshakes and hugs from his friends.

“His name in Arabic means generous, and I see him being that every day,” said Shymaa Hussein, Karim’s mother. “He’s our hero. The family hero.”

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CHILD DEVELOPMENT 101

Children develop rapidly during the first four years of their lives and experience many major milestones along the way. “During this time, children develop socially,

linguistically, cognitively and physically,” said Lesa Brookes, MD, a pediatrician at Healthy Kids Pediatrics. Because children undergo so many drastic changes, it’s important for parents to be diligent about regular check-ups, keeping vaccines up to date, and observing, playing and engaging with the child. Parents should be aware of the many important milestones that can ensure a child is developing properly.

Should my child be talking? Crawling? Smiling?A look at the milestones many parents ponder as their little ones age.

1-2 MONTHSThe baby can roll from

his side to his back, can lift his chest up using his arms,

and when held upright, can hold his head up. He coos and babbles

at people he recognizes and is able to focus his eyes on his par-ents and objects. He is startled

by sudden noises and is beginning to smile.

2 YEARSHe can run, walk up and

down stairs and is beginning to speak in two- to three-word sentences. He can speak clearly

enough for strangers to understand at least half of what he is saying. His play is becoming more sophisticated; he engages with others and can build structures with blocks. By 2 1/2 years,

he should be getting comfortable with potty training and work-ing on maintaining daytime

dryness.

6 MONTHSHe can move ob-

jects and toys between his hands and begins

showing signs of hand-eye coordination. He can pull himself up to sit. He

may begin to show stranger anxiety.

2-3 MONTHSHe can hold his head

up for prolonged peri-ods. He turns his head to hear sounds and can

meet and follow an adult’s gaze.

1 YEARHe can stand hold-

ing furniture and stand unassisted for a few seconds before falling. He can say two

or three words repeatedly. When he drops toys, he looks to where they fell. He under-

stands and complies with simple commands and

waves goodbye.

5 MONTHSHe can hold his head steady and pursue

objects successfully. He begins to notice

colors.

4 MONTHSHe can roll from his stom-

ach to his back and can rest on his elbows. He can laugh, make

different sounds while verbalizing, and verbalizes to engage others. He

can follow moving hands with his eyes, and his color-vision is close

to fully formed. He expresses happiness appropriately and

is beginning to reach for objects.

18 MONTHSHe can walk alone, pick

up toys without falling over and is beginning to hop with

both feet. He babbles, often using intelligible words, and can recognize

familiar songs. He may try to sing along or hum. He can drink from a cup using both hands and can feed himself with

a spoon. By this age, potty training should be introduced.

Note: Children with autism usually are diagnosed

at this age.

9-10 MONTHSHe can wiggle, crawl

and sit unsupported. He looks for dropped toys and exhibits apprehen-sion around strangers.

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

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2 YEARSHe can run, walk up and

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enough for strangers to understand at least half of what he is saying. His play is becoming more sophisticated; he engages with others and can build structures with blocks. By 2 1/2 years,

he should be getting comfortable with potty training and work-ing on maintaining daytime

dryness.

3 YEARSHe can speak in

sentences and will ask questions con-stantly. He will play cooperatively and

imaginatively.

4 YEARSHe will be able to

skip, hop on one foot, and dress and undress without assistance. His

speech should be clear, and he should be potty trained completely but may still experience occasional

nighttime wetness.

18 MONTHSHe can walk alone, pick

up toys without falling over and is beginning to hop with

both feet. He babbles, often using intelligible words, and can recognize

familiar songs. He may try to sing along or hum. He can drink from a cup using both hands and can feed himself with

a spoon. By this age, potty training should be introduced.

Note: Children with autism usually are diagnosed

at this age.

12 months: Mama and dada, plus two or three other words

15 months: Mama and dada, plus four to six other words

18 months: Mama and dada, plus 10 to 20 other words

2 years: 50 words and starts to combine words to make two-word sentences

3 years: About 250 words and starts to combine words to make three-

word sentences

SPEECH DEVELOPMENT“At 9 months, babies will start to

form simple words such as ‘mama’ or ‘dada,’ but these words are

nonspecific, meaning they don’t associate the words to mom or dad

yet,” Brookes said. “By 12 months, babies are able to say mama and dada with specific relationship to

mom and dad.” If at 15 months old, the child does not say any words,

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BY KATIE VISCONTISTAFF WRITER

Walter Bracken Elementary School third-graders cup soil in their hands, preparing planters and

tending to budding roots. Their school is not typical. Traditional classrooms are filled with

desks and whiteboards. Bracken has bur-ied tradition in favor of growing some-thing new: classroom gardens. It is among dozens of Clark County schools that, thanks to lo-cal nonprofit Green Our Planet, have a on-campus gardens.

Since it began in Janu-ary 2013, Green Our Planet has helped build gardens in 64 Clark County schools.

The goal is to teach local chil-dren about environmental issues, health and conservation, and expose them to STEM (science, technology, engi-neering and math) topics. Students learn about plant growth and decomposition, participate in weekly farmers markets selling produce they grow, and receive instruction from local chefs and farmers about food and nutrition.

Fifth-graders even are tasked with protecting the gardens after school from

younger, strawberry-stealing students.

HOW IT’S DONEGreen Our Planet teams with local and

national companies to provide a fund-gathering platform so schools can raise money for garden projects. Clark County partners include most of Las Vegas’ large resort companies, Pardee Homes, the NV Energy Foundation, Whole Foods, Honey

Salt, Zappos and Jamba Juice. Projects vary in price, but each garden bed tends to cost

about $900. Most schools have five or six raised beds that measure 3 to 4 feet wide. The price fluctuates

depending on the materials used. Installation and main-

tenance is done by local com-pany Garden Farms of Nevada.

STEM LESSONSKindergartners are the caretakers; they

get to explore the garden, help with clean-up and learn the basics of what plants need to survive. First-graders learn about the plant life cycle, from digging a hole to harvest. Second-graders are “bug detec-tives,” learning about what insects eat and how they affect the ecosystem.

By third grade, students are in charge

of composting and analyzing the weather, climate and soil. Fourth-graders explore natural systems, observing patterns in na-ture and the flow of energy in their garden. In fifth grade, students become entrepre-neurs; after developing a business plan, they run a farmers market at their school selling the produce they have tended to during their elementary school careers.

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

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

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

WHAT’S NEXTDuring the upcoming school year, eight

schools are slated to expand their out-door garden classrooms. Students will be able to learn beneath trees, surrounded by fruits and vegetables they helped grow. The classrooms also will have a large white board, seating, murals and tables.

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Students prepare a planting area during a summer garden camp at Crestwood Elementary School. Green Our Planet, a Las

Vegas nonprofit organization, has helped establish gardens in dozens of area schools. (STEVE MARCUS/STAFF)

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Cultivating young minds ENCOURAGING RESULTS

n In a Kentucky elementary school, students’ test scores improved 25 percent in science, 21 percent in reading and 40 percent in social studies after integrating a school garden into the curricula.

n School gardening has been shown to increase students’ self-esteem, help them develop a sense of ownership and responsibility, help foster relationships with family members and increase parental involvement.

n Exposure to school gardens increased students’ interest in eating fruit and increased the variety of vegetables they eat.

83 PERCENT

of the U.S. population lives in metropolitan areas, meaning most children have little contact with nature.

The average American child spends

8 HOURS

per day in front of an electronic screen.

30 PERCENT

of Americans between the ages of 2 and 19 are overweight or obese

1 IN 8

American children takes medication to combat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Source: Green Our Planet

SOBERING STATISTICS

The average American child

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Dickey Spiroff, of Homestead, Fla., tries to overtake a competitor during the World

Armwrestling League’s Las Vegas regional at UNLV’s Cox Pavilion. (L.E. BASKOLW/STAFF)

SPORTS

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PASSION FOR PULLING

Setting your grip is key to winning an arm wrestling

match. A bad grip likely will result

in a loss.

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

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

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

PHYSICAL TRAININGTo understand arm wrestling training, all

you have to do is look at the sport’s best competitors. They are big.

In most cases, they achieve their strength and physique the same way athletes in any sport get big: a lot of weightlifting.

Specifically, big arm wrestlers tend to fol-low the low reps/high weight model that personal trainers tell the average gym-goer to avoid because of risk of injury. While it’s never bad to be able to run a mile at a quick pace, most arm wrestling matches are over in less than 15 seconds. That means it’s more important for arm wrestlers to have quick bursts of high energy than longer outputs at a lower gear.

Smaller-sized com-petitors don’t put up the same weight but typically share the same goal. Many favor horizon-tal rope climbing to increase strength and grip.

Pull-ups are a staple of any puller’s work-out because they work practically every muscle arm wrestlers want to target. More isolated lifts include rows to develop back muscles, plus lots of curls for the biceps, wrist and forearms.

“You’ve got to find people who want to train all the time,” Cook said.

MENTAL GAMESDuring the left-handed heavyweight finals

in last month’s regional competition, defend-ing champion Devon Larratt made simply getting the match started difficult.

Pullers are supposed to place their hands together, clasp thumbs first, then grip their fingers to start the match. But even a slight angle in the wrist can give an immediate advantage, and there’s some gamesmanship in trying anything to gain that advantage.

Larratt played the villain and kept looking for the small edge while the

crowd grew restless. A fellow competitor yelled, “This ain’t

for $20,000. He ain’t going to play games in July.”

Larratt won the best-of-three final for a $3,500 prize and a shot at more — in part because he gained a mental edge from the start.Part of working your way

up through arm wrestling is being able to shake off losses,

Cook said.“When you’re in the sport of arm

wrestling, you’re used to losing,” he said.Larratt swaggered onto the stage and

acted the part of the bad guy, yelling, “You just better get stronger, that’s what you’ve got to do,” after winning the first pin. Then, he immediately lost the next one.

There’s a lot of back and forth in arm wrestling, and shaking off the last outcome is vital, as Larratt did on his way to his decisive victory.

MATCH TECHNIQUEEvery arm wrestler must step onto stage

with a game plan, Cook said.For most pullers, the basic plan is to get into

either the hook or the top roll position.The hook starts with bending your wrist

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

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

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

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

All simultaneously and potentially in the blink of an eye.

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

BY TAYLOR BERN | STAFF WRITER

It’s a cross-section of humanity you’re unlikely to find

competing anywhere else, and it’s that spirit of meritocracy

that makes arm wrestling feel like a perfect American pastime.

If a competitor commits three fouls

in a match, he automati-cally loses. Examples of fouls include: a foot coming off the

floor; delaying the match by leav-ing the table; dropping your com-peting shoulder below the level

of the elbow pad when in neutral or in losing position; or false

starts before the referee instructs the match to

begin.

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$10,000 mobile hot seatDate: Tuesdays in JulyInformation: Players must accept the hot seat offer from the mobile app to qualify. From noon to 5 p.m., five people will win $50 in slot play. At 6 p.m., 10 people will win $100 in slot play. Winners will be announced over the intercom and must swipe at a kiosk to redeem their prize.

Cruisin’ for Cash kiosk gameDate: July 5-Aug. 1Information: Choose a cruise director and “sail” through three ports of call or “cruise” through four days at sea. Each port is a guaranteed prize; all-day sea prizes award drawing entries into weekly Cruisin’ for Cash draw-ings. Win up to $10,000. Other prizes include slot play, dining credits, resort credits, points and more. Earn 250 points for each swipe.

$67,000 Cruisin’ for Cash drawingsDate: Saturdays, July 11-Aug. 1Time: 7:15 and 9:15 p.m.Information: Earn entries by playing the Cruisin’ for Cash kiosk game. Win a share of more than $16,000 and slot play.

50+ $2,500 senior slot tournamentDate: July 13Time: Noon-4 p.m.Information: Play in one 3-minute slot session. The top 25 places will share $2,500 in slot play.

Point multipliersDate: WednesdaysInformation: Earn 5x points on video poker and 10x points on all reels.

Sun shade giveawayDate: July 9Information: Earn 250 points to re-ceive a sun shade.

Fourth of July dauber giveawayDate: July 4Information: Free dauber during all sessions.

PALMS

Play For Prizes – Free PlayDate: June 29-July 3Information: Points earned Monday through Friday may be combined and redeemed for up to $190 in free play per day.

Gift daysDate: SundayTime: 12:01 a.m.-6:59 p.m.Information: Earn 100 points on slots or 500 points on video poker and receive a hair clipper set.

SILVERTON

Senior MondaysTime: Drawings at 2, 4 and 6 p.m.Information: Random names will be drawn for a chance to win cash and free play. Players 50 and older also will receive dining discounts.

$10,000 Reel & Win Slot Tournaments Date: TuesdayTime: 11 a.m.Information: The top 30 players will qualify for cash and slot play. The first-place player will win $1,000.

SLS

Gift giveawaysDate: SaturdayInformation: Earn 250 slot points or 500 video poker points to receive a gift.

Point multipliersDate: Throughout JuneInformation: Earn 2x points all month. Every Thursday, guests who have made a $40 advance-deposit wager or higher can win up to 1,000 slot points. Guests who make a $40 advance-deposit wager or higher be-tween 4 and 7 p.m. and 8 and 11 p.m. Sundays also are eligible.

$130,000 Caddies and CashDate: SundayTime: 7 p.m.Information: Earn 25 slot or video poker points or bet an average of $15 for at least one hour on a table game to enter. Ten winners will be selected during each drawing and can choose one of 10 keys, each with a prize, one being a Cadillac ATS.

BOYD GAMING

Young at HeartDate: WednesdaysLocation: Orleans, Suncoast, Gold Coast or Sam’s TownInformation: Loyalty card members can earn up to 50x points and receive

dining and other discounts.

SUNCOAST

$16,000 Table games drawingDate: SaturdayTime: 7 and 9 p.m.Information: Win $250. Earn drawing entries by playing table games. Earn 4x entries on Mondays and Tuesdays.

Point multipliersDate: TuesdayInformation: Members of the 50+ Club can earn a mystery multiplier.

GOLDEN GATE AND THE D

Email Yourself a MillionDate: Through Aug. 31Information: Swipe your loyalty card at a kiosk for a chance to win $1 mil-lion, free play, comp dollars, food and more. A valid email address is required.

THE D

Win Derek’s HellcatDate: Through Aug. 29Information: Earn tickets for monthly drawings that culminate with a chance to win a 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat.

STATION CASINOS

MyGeneration WednesdaysDate: Ongoing Locations: All Station properties, Fi-esta Henderson and Fiesta RanchoInformation: For loyalty card holders age 50 and older. Swipe your card at a kiosk to earn up to 10x points on slots and 6x points on video poker, and discounts on dining, movies and bowling. Slot tournaments from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., with a top prize of $1,000. The first entry is free; receive up to four additional entries by earn-ing 50 additional base points for each.

$1.3 Million Music Mania giveawayDate: SaturdayTime: 10 a.m.-midnightInformation: A kiosk game and draw-ing. Win up to $5,000. Drawing is at 8:15 p.m.

Gift giveawayDate: July 2Time: 10 a.m.-10 p.m.Information: Earn 300 points for a six-pack of Pepsi, Diet Pepsi or limited-edition Budweiser bow-tie cans.

SOUTH POINT

50+ weekly slot tournamentDate: Thursdays

Time: 10 a.m.-4 p.m.Information: Open to Club Card members age 50 and older. The first entry is free with a swipe at a club kiosk; collect a second by earning 250 points and a third by earning 500 points. Top prize is $1,500; the total prize pool is $5,200.

Bingo Super GalaDate: July 6-7Time: Doors open 8 a.m.Information: Entries cost $295 and include access to the two-day gala, one pack of bingo cards and one food voucher and dauber per day. The bin-go spectacular will offer a $250,000 daily prize pool. The gala will include 10 warm-up games with a total purse of $10,000; 19 Super Gala games worth $10,000 each; one $50,000 coverall game; and one $10,000 “Sec-ond Chance” game. Warm-up games begin at noon each day; the Super Gala starts at 1:15 p.m.

REAL GAMING

Get $20Date: Through June 30Information: Sign up for an account at realgaming.com, join a game and receive a $20 credit.

ORLEANS

Gift daysDate: TuesdayTime: 11 a.m.-7 p.m.Information: Earn 300 points to re-ceive a gift.

Point multiplierDate: SundayInformation: Earn 15x points on penny reels.

PLAZA

Spin to WinDate: DailyTime: 8:15 p.m.Information: Win up to $1,000.

50-plus slot tournamentDate: WednesdaysTime: 10 a.m.Information: The best combined score from two sessions wins $1,000.

DOWNTOWN GRAND

Grand ThursdaysDate: ThursdaysInformation: Loyalty card members 50 and older receive point multipli-ers, dining and gaming discounts, and entry into slot tournaments.

Get a Grand from the GrandDate: Through Dec. 31

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CASINO PROMOTIONSInformation: For new loyalty card members. Earn up to $1,000 back on all reel and video reel games. Requires a minimum loss of $50. The rebate will be split over three redemption periods to total 100 per-cent of the player’s loss.

SAM’S TOWN

Cool cash giveawayDate: MondayTime: 11 a.m.-11 p.m.Information: Twelve table games players will win each hour. Players can win more than once.

Bonus tourneyDate: Sunday and TuesdayInformation: As an eligible penny slot machine is played, a tournament icon meter will grow. Once the meter is full, the player can press a spin but-ton on the tournament game three times. Cumulative scores will be added up at the end of the tourna-ment. Top prize is $750 in play.

Poker High Hands bonusDate: Through AugustInformation: Players who get a royal flush, straight flush or four of a kind while playing seven-card stud and hold ’em will receive a bonus payout.

$3 Million Blackjack Bonus drawingDate: Saturday and SundayTime: 6:15 p.m.Information: Earn entries by playing slots and table games. Five winners at each drawing; win up to $50,000.

Video Poker ShowdownDate: FridaysTime: 4-8 p.m.Information: Earn 10 points for the first entry and 50 points for each additional entry in a video poker tournament at 8:15 p.m. Top prize is $1,000 in play.

STRATOSPHERE

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

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

ELDORADO

$8,000 giveawayDate: SaturdayTime: 4:30-9:30 p.m.Information: One winner will be cho-sen every hour. Earn entries through slot and live keno play. Win up to

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Information: For new loyalty card members. Earn up to $1,000 back on all reel and video reel games. Requires a minimum loss of $50. The rebate will be split over three redemption periods to total 100 per-cent of the player’s loss.

SAM’S TOWN

Cool cash giveawayDate: MondayTime: 11 a.m.-11 p.m.Information: Twelve table games players will win each hour. Players can win more than once.

Bonus tourneyDate: Sunday and TuesdayInformation: As an eligible penny slot machine is played, a tournament icon meter will grow. Once the meter is full, the player can press a spin but-ton on the tournament game three times. Cumulative scores will be added up at the end of the tourna-ment. Top prize is $750 in play.

Poker High Hands bonusDate: Through AugustInformation: Players who get a royal flush, straight flush or four of a kind while playing seven-card stud and hold ’em will receive a bonus payout.

$3 Million Blackjack Bonus drawingDate: Saturday and SundayTime: 6:15 p.m.Information: Earn entries by playing slots and table games. Five winners at each drawing; win up to $50,000.

Video Poker ShowdownDate: FridaysTime: 4-8 p.m.Information: Earn 10 points for the first entry and 50 points for each additional entry in a video poker tournament at 8:15 p.m. Top prize is $1,000 in play.

STRATOSPHERE

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

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

ELDORADO

$8,000 giveawayDate: SaturdayTime: 4:30-9:30 p.m.Information: One winner will be cho-sen every hour. Earn entries through slot and live keno play. Win up to

$1,000 in cash and free play.

Cash Blower WednesdaysTime: 12:30-7:30 p.m.Information: One player will be selected every hour to step into the cash blower.

Gift giveawayDate: SundayInformation: Earn 200 points to re-ceive a free gift.

WILDFIRE

Dollar blackjackDate: OngoingInformation: Available at select tables.

MyGeneration MondaysDate: OngoingInformation: For players 50 and older. Earn 6x points on slot machines and video poker, receive discounts on bowling and dining, and win up to $250 in free slot play.

WESTGATE

Rockin’ 777 slot tournamentDate: Tuesdays, Wednesdays and ThursdaysTime: 4-8 p.m. Information: Free for loyalty club members. The top five winners will receive $100 in free slot play.

RAMPART CASINO

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

Pirate’s Treasure progressive drawingsDate: Last Wednesday of the monthTime: 6:15 and 8:15 p.m.Information: Ten winners will be chosen at each drawing. The progres-sive jackpot increases every month it doesn’t hit.

$6,500 Galleons of Gold mid-month drawingDate: Second Wednesday of the monthInformation: Players who earn 2,000 base points during the previous calen-

dar month can participate in the fol-lowing month’s drawing. Ten winners will be chosen.

CLUB FORTUNE

Top of the Hill slot tournamentDate: Tuesdays and WednesdaysTime: 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Information: Win cash prizes.

JOKERS WILD

Free shirt giveawayDate: TuesdayInformation: Earn 300 points to re-ceive a T-shirt.

Jumpin’ Jokers cash giveawayDate: SaturdayInformation: Nine players will be chosen, one winner on the hour every hour from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and one on the hour every hour from 6 to 10 p.m. Win up to $1,000 or $1,200 slot play.

Gift giveawayDate: SundayInformation: Earn 200 points to re-ceive a gift.

MAX CASINO

AT THE WESTIN

Happy Hour specialsDate: DailyTime: 6-8 p.m.Information: Select tables will offer $3 craps and 25-cent roulette.

GOLDEN NUGGET

New player rewardsDate: OngoingInformation: Sign up for a players card and spin to win up to $1,000 in free play.

EL CORTEZ

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

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

Spin ’n’ WinDate: OngoingInformation: Earn 100 slot points in one day for a chance to spin a virtual prize wheel.

Sizzle, Smoke & SubDate: Ongoing

Information: Earn 1,500 points in a day and receive your choice of a free pack of cigarettes, a free Jackie Burg-er Special or a $5 Subway voucher.

BINION’S

Mother Lode swipe and winDate: OngoingInformation: Club members can win up to $2,500 daily. Earn points for chances to swipe the prize machine, with a maximum of three swipes daily. Earn five points for a chance to win $50, 40 points for a chance to win $100 and 300 points for a chance to win $2,500.

JERRY’S NUGGET

Up to 5x pointsDate: Fridays and SaturdaysTime: 4 a.m.-11:59 p.m.Information: Rewards members who swipe their cards at a kiosk receive 3x points, 4x points or 5x points on slot and video poker games.

VENETIAN AND PALAZZO

Progressive poker variantDate: OngoingInformation: Caribbean stud, Ultimate Texas Hold’em and three-card poker players can make $5 side bets for a chance to win a progressive jackpot.

TREASURE ISLAND

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

SILVER SEVENS

Nifty 50 slot tournamentDate: WednesdaysTime: 10 a.m.-5:45 p.m.Information: Earn entries with play. First prize is $1,000.

Point multipliersDate: Thursdays and SaturdaysInformation: On Thursdays, earn 3x points on video poker and 7x points on reels. On Saturdays, earn 4x points on video poker and 10x points on reels.

CAESARS PALACE

Fuel rewardsDate: OngoingInformation: Link a Total Rewards card to a Shell credit card and save up to 50 cents per gallon of gas.

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

T o appreciate how high a priority is placed on Latino issues by Republican presi-dential candidates, just look

at how many of them attended a recent national Latino leadership convention in Las Vegas.

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

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

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

don’t like leaving their comfort zones.Organizers of the 32nd annual conven-

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is little doubt a majority of Americans are sympathetic toward those who wish to become legal U.S. residents, or even citizens. Consider:

n A CBS News/New York Times Poll conducted April 30 to May 3 found that 57 percent of respondents wanted immigrants who entered the country illegally to be allowed to stay and even-tually apply for citizenship.

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

It is more clear than ever that Ameri-cans have compassion for those who yearn to live in our country, work hard, pay taxes and educate their children. Study after study has shown immigrants help build, not weaken, our economy.

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

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

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SUNDAY, JUNE 28

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

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

TUESDAY, JUNE 30

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

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

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

WEDNESDAY, JULY 1

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

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

THURSDAY, JULY 2

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

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

*Also: Saturday and Sunday.

Yankee Doodle at the Pool: Celebrate Independence Day with water games and activities. Noon-4 p.m., Carlos L. Martinez and Darrio J. Hall Family Pool at Gary Reese Freedom Park, 889 N. Pecos Road, 702-229-1755; noon-4 p.m., Municipal Pool, 431 E. Bonanza Road, 702-229-6309; noon-4 p.m., Pavilion Center Pool, 101 S. Pavilion Center Drive, 702-229-1488; noon-4 p.m., Garside Pool, 250 S. Torrey Pines Drive, 702-229-6393; 1-5 p.m., Doolittle Pool, 1950 N. J St., 702-229-6398; 4-8 p.m., Baker Pool, 1100 E. St. Louis Ave., 702-229 1532; $2 for ages 4-17, $3 for ages 18-49, $2 for ages 50+, free for ages 3 and under.

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

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

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Dancers perform during the Ribbon of Life show in 2012. Golden Rainbow, an organization dedicated to helping Southern Nevadans affected by HIV and AIDS, presents the annual fundraiser. (STAFF FILE)

LATIN BLUSH

CONTENT CREATED AND PRESENTED BY SOUTHERN WINE & SPIRITS

INGREDIENTS

1 1/2 oz Avión Silver tequila

3/4 oz Campari

1 oz freshly-squeezed lime juice

1 oz strawberry syrup

1-2 oz lemon-lime soda

By the end of the night, tequila has a way of making even the best of us blush, and this drink is no excep-tion. The tequila is softened and supported by the sweet strawberry flavor and mild lemon tang, while the pep-percorn adds a welcome kick of spice.

Combine all of the ingredi-ents in shaker with ice. Cover and shake thoroughly. Pour through a strainer into a tall, 12-ounce glass over ice. Gar-nish with sliced strawberries and ground pink peppercorn.

METHOD

Richard Reed, docents of the National Atomic Testing Museum, will share their recollections of working at the Nevada Test Site and the site’s impact on Las Vegas. 7 p.m., free, Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamin-go Road, 702-507-3459.

FRIDAY, JULY 3

Liberty festival: Enjoy fireworks, a horseshoe tournament, family-friend-ly activities, swimming, music and more. Noon-8 p.m., free, Petrack Park, 150 State Highway 160, Pah-rump, visitpahrump.com.

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

SATURDAY, JULY 4

Downtown Summerlin farmers market: Celebrate the red, white and blue with organic produce like red watermelon, white onions and blueberries, and get everything you need for a Fourth of July barbecue. The market will be open under the shaded canopy at the north end of Downtown Summerlin. 9 a.m.-2 p.m., free entry.

Cocktail created by Francesco Lafranconi, executive director of mixology and spirits education at Southern

Wine & Spirits.

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*Also: Saturday and Sunday.

Yankee Doodle at the Pool: Celebrate Independence Day with water games and activities. Noon-4 p.m., Carlos L. Martinez and Darrio J. Hall Family Pool at Gary Reese Freedom Park, 889 N. Pecos Road, 702-229-1755; noon-4 p.m., Municipal Pool, 431 E. Bonanza Road, 702-229-6309; noon-4 p.m., Pavilion Center Pool, 101 S. Pavilion Center Drive, 702-229-1488; noon-4 p.m., Garside Pool, 250 S. Torrey Pines Drive, 702-229-6393; 1-5 p.m., Doolittle Pool, 1950 N. J St., 702-229-6398; 4-8 p.m., Baker Pool, 1100 E. St. Louis Ave., 702-229 1532; $2 for ages 4-17, $3 for ages 18-49, $2 for ages 50+, free for ages 3 and under.

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

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

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Dancers perform during the Ribbon of Life show in 2012. Golden Rainbow, an organization dedicated to helping Southern Nevadans affected by HIV and AIDS, presents the annual fundraiser. (STAFF FILE)

Richard Reed, docents of the National Atomic Testing Museum, will share their recollections of working at the Nevada Test Site and the site’s impact on Las Vegas. 7 p.m., free, Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamin-go Road, 702-507-3459.

FRIDAY, JULY 3

Liberty festival: Enjoy fireworks, a horseshoe tournament, family-friend-ly activities, swimming, music and more. Noon-8 p.m., free, Petrack Park, 150 State Highway 160, Pah-rump, visitpahrump.com.

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

SATURDAY, JULY 4

Downtown Summerlin farmers market: Celebrate the red, white and blue with organic produce like red watermelon, white onions and blueberries, and get everything you need for a Fourth of July barbecue. The market will be open under the shaded canopy at the north end of Downtown Summerlin. 9 a.m.-2 p.m., free entry.

Summerlin Council Patriotic Parade: The parade will feature more

than 70 floats, oversized balloons,

bands and more. 9-11 a.m., free,

begins at Hillpointe Road and Hills

Center Drive in the Trails village of

Summerlin, 702-341-5500.

Henderson Fourth of July celebra-tion: Multiple stages of live entertain-

ment, concessions and a fireworks

show. 6-9 p.m., free, Mission Hills

Park, 551 E. Mission Drive, cityof-

henderson.com.

Stars, Stripes & Sparks: Enjoy live

music from local band the Garage

Boys and fireworks. 6 p.m., free,

Knickerbocker Park, 10695 Dorrell

Lane, providencelv.com.

Mandalay Bay fireworks show: Mandalay Bay Beach will launch

fireworks, with a performance by 311.

8 p.m. doors, 9 p.m. show, $55-$64,

Mandalay Bay, 3950 Las Vegas Blvd.

South, mandalaybay.com.

Caesars Palace fireworks: Watch

fireworks erupt over the Roman

Tower. The best view is from the

hotel’s front fountains. 9:15 p.m., free,

Caesars Palace, 3570 Las Vegas Blvd.

South, caesars.com.

Fireworks at the Linq: The Linq will

host an Independence Day celebra-

tion with fireworks after the Caesars

Palace show. Fireworks will launch

from the High Roller lot. 9:30 p.m.,

free, the Linq, 3535 Las Vegas Blvd.

South, caesars.com/linq.

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“I AM FOND OF PIGS. DOGS LOOK UP TO

US. CATS LOOK DOWN ON US. PIGS TREAT

US AS EQUALS.” — WINSTON CHURCHILL

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BY ELI SEGALL | STAFF WRITER

Las Vegas bankers couldn’t write loans fast enough during the real estate bubble, doling out funds for construction projects even if borrowers didn’t have a way to pay them back. ¶ Today, after the massive real estate bust, waves

of bank failures and the worst recession in decades, that spigot is merely dripping. ¶ Southern Nevada’s banks

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$1.75BValue of investment firm

Tracinda Corp.’s stake in

MGM Resorts. Kirk Kerkori-

an, the corporation’s owner,

died June 15.

1Number of drivers ruled to be employ-

ees of Uber in California. The California

Labor Commission ruled that Barbara

Berwick is an employee of the ride-

sharing company. Other workers are

considered independent contractors.

7%Nevada’s unemploy-

ment rate in May, a

0.1 percent drop from

January. The national

unemployment rate

was 5.5 percent.

30%Share of U.S. businesses owned by

women, according to an American

Express study. Female entrepre-

neurs generate about $1.5 trillion a

year, an 80 percent increase since

1997, the study found.

Rebuilding a foundation

Construction continues on

a medical project financed

by Meadows Bank. (MIKAYLA

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

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47 48 56Q&A WITH TERRY DOWNEYThe president and general manager of Aliante Gaming discusses the importance of innovation in the gam-ing industry, his company’s commitment to serving the armed forces and the personality trait he tries to avoid when making hiring decisions.

THE NOTESPeople on the move, P46

MEET: SOLA SALONSThe Great Recession took a toll on the beauty industry and salons closed across the valley, but Russell Nordstrom and Trey Campbell came up with a way to help keep styl-ists in business.

TALKING POINTS■ Commercial real estate is rebounding, P49

■ What you should know about CRE law, P49

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, P55

The List: Third-party commercial property managers, P60

NOTEWORTHY STORIES

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VINTAGE VEGAS: LANDMARK HOTEL MET ITS DEMISE IN 1995

Construction of the Landmark Hotel

began in 1961 by developer Frank Caracciolo.

Howard Hughes opened the 31-story, saucer-

topped resort — then the tallest building in

Clark County and the highlight of Las Vegas’

skyline — in 1968.

Pictured here Feb. 16, 1972, is the pool, a

local and tourist hot spot for people watching.

But the hotel became mired in fi nancial

problems, and owners declared bankruptcy

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

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

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Tom Wagener is senior vice president of industrial services at Gatski Commercial. Wagener has a Cer-tified Commercial Investment Member designation. Jennifer Lehr joins Gatski as an associate broker in the professional and medical office division.

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

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

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

Burke Construction Group is building St. Anthony of Padua Parish Hall on behalf of the Roman Cath-olic Diocese of Las Vegas. Located on 10 acres at Fort Apache Road and Centennial Parkway in northwest Las Vegas, it will include an arched sanc-tuary space with seating for almost 1,000 people. It will cost almost $5 million, was designed by John Landsell of LGA and is managed by senior project manager Doug Schmoldt. Burke also is building the Summerlin Aquatic Center for the Howard Hughes Corp. The 25,000-square-foot public facil-ity was designed by Erik B. Peterson of AIA. The $7 million project will be managed by project manager Patrick Schueppert.

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

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

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

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

Bob Hawkins is a senior director at Cushman & Wakefield. He specializ-es in leasing and sales of office and industrial real estate and repre-sents only landlords and sellers. Nicholas Barber and Jeremy Foley are directors at Cushman & Wakefield. They specialize in leasing and investment sales of office and retail properties. Dan Hubbard is senior director of retail services. Hubbard is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers and the Commercial Alliance of Las Vegas.

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

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

DC Building Group Lead Esti-mator Charlie Stewart is a certi-fied professional estimator, one of only 14 in Nevada. Stewart’s designation is certified by the American Society of Profes-sional Estimators.

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

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

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

FOLEYHAWKINS

NEWMAN

STEWART

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

NAIOP Southern Nevada’s 2015 Spotlight Awards

honor members for achievements, projects and

deals completed during the prior year. The hon-

orees are: Frank Martin, Lifetime Achievement;

JMA Architecture Studios, Architecture Firm of

the Year; Colliers International, Brokerage Firm

of the Year; Walker Engineering LLC, Engineering

Firm of the Year; Bank of Nevada, Financial Firm

of the Year; Martin-Harris Construction, General

Contracting Firm of the Year; Harsch Investment

Properties LLC, Principal Firm of the Year; Steve

Neiger, Developing Leader; The Equity Group’s

Jason Otter, Broker of the Year – Retail; Voit Real

Estate Services’ Higgins & Toft Team, Broker of

the Year – Industrial; CBRE’s Randy Broadhead,

Brad Peterson, Darren Lemon and Amy Lance,

Broker of the Year – Office; Jeff Foster, Principal

Member of the Year; CCIM’s Jennifer Levine, As-

sociate Member of the Year; Sallie Doebler, Spirit

of Spotlight; Prologis, Trendsetter Firm; Vadatech

corporate headquarters and manufacturing facil-

ity, Sustainable/Green Building; Brooklyn Bowl,

Tenant Improvements - Retail/Entertainment;

Mainor Wirth Injury Lawyers, Tenant Improve-

ments – Small; McDonald Carano Wilson, Tenant

Improvements – Medium; Barclaycard call center,

Tenant Improvements – Large; Nevada System of

Higher Education Southern Nevada headquarters,

Public Use/Government; SLS Hotel, Redevelop-

ment Project; Downtown Container Park, Mixed-

Use Development; Las Vegas Harley-Davidson,

Retail Building; Carpenters Union International

Training Center, Industrial Building; EVAPS Profes-

sional Law Office core and shell, Office Building;

Vadatech corporate headquarters and manufac-

turing facility, NAIOP Works Award.

NAIOP SOUTHERN NEVADA’S 2015 SPOTLIGHT AWARDS

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

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

Why do you think Aliante has been successful?

Aliante is a stand-alone property owned by a small group of investors who have given the management team broad latitude to proceed ag-gressively, and swiftly, as business conditions change and as guest inter-ests change. Also, Aliante has a strong financial foundation, and a dedicat-ed, well-trained base of employees, which allows us to provide attention to the unique needs and interests of our guests. For example, we deter-mined very quickly that our guests, both local and from out of the area, were tired of the exact same promo-tions being offered by our competi-tors month after month, just with the name of the promotion and artwork changed. So we’ve been innovative with our promotions, and our casino guests have responded with apprecia-tion.

Another area where we differenti-ate our property from the competi-tion is in food quality. We made the decision early on that we were going to buy fresh food and let our chefs not only cook but also create. It varies from the standard of buying every-thing pre-cut, prewashed, in cans and bags and just throwing it together in a pot. We like to say “our chefs work with knives, not scissors.”

What charitable organizations does Aliante support?

We are involved in a wide variety of community charities, from large organizations such as United Way to individual events such as deliver-ing holiday presents to children at Nellis Air Force Base. We have also partnered with Red Cross, SafeNest, ONEHOPE, Opportunity Village and

many others.

What prepared you for your position at Aliante?

I grew up in Las Vegas, have a hos-pitality degree from UNLV and have spent my entire career working in the industry.

I was always in love with the hospi-tality industry. I remember reading the Reader’s Digest version of “Hotel” when I was very young and being influenced by it. My mother worked in hotels her entire career, and I was enthralled with the stories she brought home.

What is the most challenging part of your job?

Las Vegas is perhaps the most com-petitive hospitality market in the country, so we need to be constantly staying a step ahead of our competi-tors and attuned to the interests of our guests — both locals and out-of-town visitors, in making sure we are not only relevant but also cutting-edge.

For instance, our innovative kiosk-based games and promotions provide our guests with entertainment and a somewhat unique experience.

What has been the most rewarding part of your job?

Building a fantastic team that is taking Aliante from the depth of the recession to setting revenue and earn-ings records almost monthly.

How has the industry changed during your career?

Technology has changed so many things, especially with regard to the manner in which we find, keep, reward and communicate with our guests. I appreciate the technology tools that are available today, but the caveat has to be that you don’t forget who you are or what we are here for. We are in the business of providing hospitality.

Describe your management style.Manage by walking around — being

among all the people; customers and team members alike. That’s where our business really happens. If you aren’t in touch at that level, you are in the wrong business.

I have not always been a general manager. I worked my way through the ranks and have gained a great ap-preciation for what it takes to help a guest have an enjoyable experience and how difficult each employee’s job can be at times. And, early in my career, someone told me that “corn grows tall in the farmer’s shadow.” As my career has evolved, I have tried to cast a larger shadow.

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

I’m not really sure, but I’m having the time of my life right now. I tried to retire once already, but I really missed interacting with folks on a grand scale

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

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

Jazz guitarist, history professor, writer … so many things, so little time. I would love to write a sitcom about the gaming industry. People have no idea what it entails. Or I would love to do anything in the sports field, be-cause I love being outdoors.

Whom do you admire and why?

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

What is your biggest pet peeve?Negative people. Pessimists tend

to stifle the motivation of others and create an unwelcome environment. Thankfully, I rarely need to confront negativity in person. The culture of encouragement, support and opti-mism that we have created at Aliante tends to weed out the “lemon suck-ers.”

What is something that people might not know about you?

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

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

Aliante is in close proximity to Nel-lis Air Force Base, so we frequently have the opportunity to provide hos-pitality to service men and women, and their visiting families. We al-ways extend them a special welcome. Aliante is also proud to have been the site of many special events hosted by the Nellis Air Force Base leadership.

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

Q&A WITH TERRY DOWNEY

‘Don’t forget who you are, or what we are here for’

Terry Downey, president and general manager of Aliante, has little time or

patience for pessimism. (STEVE MARCUS/STAFF)

Terry Downey had retired after a long and successful career with Station Casinos. But he was talked back into working and be-came president and general manager of Aliante Gaming, which runs Aliante Casino and Hotel in North Las Vegas. The resort focused on ways it could set itself apart from others.

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BY THE NUMBERS

$150 MILLIONEstimated cost to transform

Cashman Center into a hub for drone and technol-ogy research. A proposal to turn Cashman into the

Unmanned Aerial Robotics Resource Center took first place in a federally spon-sored contest for commu-

nity revitalization.

$9.3 MILLIONAmount of Allegiant funds under scrutiny by corpo-rate-governance activists,

particularly CtW Investment Group. The money came from multimillion-dollar

contracts between Allegiant and side businesses oper-ated by its CEO, Maurice

“Maury” Gallagher.

3,400Additional Starbucks loca-tions that will allow cus-

tomers to place orders via mobile app.

$700 MILLIONNV Energy’s income last year, more than all of the resorts on the Las Vegas

Strip.

700McDonald’s locations

worldwide that are expect-ed to close. For the first

time since 1970, McDonald’s will shut down more restau-rants this year in the United

States than it will open.

31Times, out of 38, that

Nevada has chosen the can-didate who ultimately wins the presidency. Though the presidential election is more

than a year away, several hopefuls, including Hillary Clinton, Marco Rubio and Ben Carson, already have

visited Las Vegas.

$100 MILLIONFine the Federal Com-

munications Commision imposed on AT&T Mobil-ity LLC. The FCC said the mobile company misled consumers into buying

plans for unlimited data, but when customers reached a certain level of use, the

data would slow to speeds that contradicted advertise-

ments.

Describe your business.

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

Who are your customers?

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

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

How is Sola Salons different from other salons?

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

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

What is the hardest part about

doing business in Las Vegas?

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

What is the best part about

doing business in Las Vegas?

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

What obstacles has your business overcome?

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

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

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

Sola Salons are stand-alone suites where stylists, manicurists, estheticians, massage therapists and others can rent

space without feeling like someone else’s employees. (COURTESY OF SNAP REAL ESTATE PHOTOGRAPHY)

SOLA SALONSAddress: Six locations in Southern Nevada

Phone: 702-468-9529Email: [email protected]

Website: solasalons.comHours and days of operation: Salon

professionals have the freedom to set their own hours

Owned/operated by: Russell Nordstrom and Trey Campbell

In business since: 2008

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Commercial real estate is rebounding

What you should know about CRE law

C ommercial real estate in Southern Nevada is back in a big way.

For the first time since the recession, NAIOP Southern

Nevada, the Commercial Real Estate Association, has a growing membership base. We stand now at around 380 professional members, up from 320 in 2013. That speaks volumes about our industry. Companies no longer are struggling just to survive but again are invested in nurturing and growing the commercial real estate and development community in Southern Nevada.

The industrial market is well into recovery mode and even is expanding. Speculative industrial buildings are being developed at 150,000 square feet and larger. In addition, many Las Vegas-area distribution centers have expanded recently, including TJ Maxx, which just added 400,000 square feet of new space.

The retail market, too, is well into recovery and looks to expand if current trends continue to improve. Southern Nevada retail feels healthy, with vacancy rates at less than 10 percent, though some inline retail developments without strong anchors still are struggling. Big-box retail is a casualty of the recession and an ever-changing landscape, which is why we are excited to see creative adaptive reuses of such spaces. Look for the former Boulevard Mall Dillard’s space to be converted for office use, for example.

Speaking of office, certain sectors, such as Central Las Vegas, will continue to struggle due to a lack of rent growth compounded with short-term leases. Some submarkets, such as those surrounding the 215 Beltway, downtown Las Vegas and the Strip corridor, have seen vacancy rates remain at nearly half of the 20 percent valley average. The efficiency trend continues, with companies packing more bodies into less overall space since the recession.

The multifamily market is poised to make some major contributions to the valley in the

near term. Multifamily developers secured land during the downturn now are in a position to build, and in a big way. More than 9,500 units are projected to be built through 2016. The beltway curve of the 215 is going to see the most activity, with more than half of those units slated for the Southwest submarket. This level of activity will affect construction costs and labor availability.

The single-family builder activity has slowed after being the most active buyers through 2013 and 2014. They seem to be content with current inventory. Prices paid by homebuilders have been in the high $200s to low $400s per acre.

Here’s to more growth in 2015. Charles Van Geel is president of NAIOP Southern Nevada

and vice president of commercial leasing and sales at American Nevada Company.

C ompared with other states such as California, Nevada doesn’t have many laws regulating commercial real estate.

But if you are involved in commercial real estate in Nevada, you need to know these laws and understand how they could affect your business.

n Nevada’s “One Action Rule”: This rule generally requires that the holder of a mortgage or deed of trust first exhaust its rights to real property collateral before proceeding against a borrower on underlying debt. If such a holder brings an action to obtain a money judgment before proceeding against the real property collateral, the mortgage or deed of trust is discharged as a lien against the real property upon entry of a final judgment. Some acts do not constitute an “action” for and may be brought without violating the rule.

n Commercial foreclosure process: In Nevada, most commercial foreclosures are conducted as nonjudicial foreclosures. The trustee of a deed of trust generally must record certain notices, provide copies of such notices and wait certain time periods before conducting a sale. The purchaser at such a sale takes title to the property free of any and all junior liens or encumbrances, and there is no right of redemption.

n Deficiency judgments: If the commercial foreclosure sale amount is less than the amount of the outstanding secured indebtedness, the holder of the mortgage or deed of trust

may pursue a deficiency judgment against the borrower and guarantor. Such holder must file a complaint for a deficiency judgment within six months of the date of sale. With the recent passage of Assembly Bill 195, the amount of the deficiency judgment is limited to the lesser of: (a) the amount by which the secured indebtedness exceeds the fair-market value of the property sold at the time of the sale, with interest, or (b) the difference between the amount for which the property was sold and the amount of the secured indebtedness, with interest.

n Transfer tax: In Nevada, real property transfer tax is imposed on each deed or land sale installment contract. The amount, $2.55

for every $500 of value in Clark County, varies by county. Some real property transfers are excluded from such tax, including certain transfers between an entity and certain of its affiliates.

n Mechanic’s liens: Landlords and their property are not subject to mechanic’s liens arising from tenants’ improvements. Generally speaking, this procedure requires that a landlord record a notice of nonresponsibility and that a tenant: (a) establish and fund a construction disbursement account or record a surety bond, and (b) record a notice of posted security. Both landlord and tenant must also comply with the other detailed statutes regarding this procedure.

Note: These laws are subject to change. Angela Turriciano Otto is a shareholder at the law firm of

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.

GUEST COLUMN: CHARLES VAN GEEL

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BY CY RYANSTAFF WRITER

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

They range from levies on taxi rides to divorce actions. And local governments are authorized to ask voters to approve tax in-creases for many reasons.

n There’s a 3 percent tax on taxicab and ride-hailing car fares. The tax was imposed to help fully fund a $27 million request by UNLV to start a medical school.

n Customers who transact business with the state Department of Motor Vehicles will be assessed $1 to help pay for a massive new computer system.

n In a joint divorce action, there will be an additional fee to reopen terms. The per-son who files a request to amend a divorce decree will be charged $129. The individual who responds to the new case will have to pay $59. The money goes to the court sys-tem.

n Boxing promoters will pay the state 8 percent of the gross gate receipts, up from 6 percent.

n The live entertainment tax ranges from 5 to 10 percent on admissions, depending on the size of the venue. Effective Oct. 1, the rate is 9 percent for all admissions, includ-ing outdoor events.

n There is an immediate tax increase of $1 per pack of cigarettes.

n Counties will be permitted to create a district to impose a sales and use tax to pay off bonds to help finance water projects that cost more than $50 million. The tax must be cleared by the Interim Finance Committee of the Legislature.

n Counties and cities with master and recreational plans may impose a residen-tial construction tax for new or expanded parks. The tax would apply to construction of homes, apartment complexes and the de-velopment of mobile home spaces. The tax would be 1 percent of the valuation on the building permit or $1,000 per residential unit, whichever is less.

n Rural counties will be able to ask voters in 2016 if they want to approve an increase in the gasoline tax.

n The state business license fee for corpo-rations will increase from $200 to $500.

Slew of new taxes and fees to take effect July 1

UNLV raises twice its goal for medical school scholarshipsBY IAN WHITAKERSTAFF WRITER

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

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

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

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

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

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

He said similar campaigns usually take universi-ties two to five years on average to complete.

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

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

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

“We have had a very good month,” said Atkinson.At $100,000 per scholarship, the donation from

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

Until now, most of the donations have been from private individuals giving smaller sums. The dona-tion from the Engelstads is the first major donation in the school’s history, and comes from a family with a history of philanthropy at UNLV.

In 2009, the family gave $12 million to create the Engelstad Scholars program at UNLV, the largest endowment of its kind in the state, according to the university.

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

“For people who have made their living here, to have to look elsewhere as soon as you are ill is re-ally a tragedy that needs to be rectified,” she said. “We want to have quality doctors in Nevada, and it seems to us the way to start that is the medical school.”

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

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

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

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

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

A recently announced $10 million donation from the Engelstad Family Foundation will provide 100

scholarships for the first four graduating classes at the UNLV medical school. (COURTESY OF AARON MAYES)

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BY ELI SEGALLSTAFF WRITER

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

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

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

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

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

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

According to CtW, the trio has dis-played a “collective failure to guard against” the “poor use” of company mon-ey.

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

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

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

Allegiant’s audit committee is tasked with giving independent oversight of

Allegiant board intact despite group’s push to oust membersairline finances. Among other areas, it oversees outside auditors, moni-tors financial reporting and approves contracts worth at least $125,000 with companies owned or partially owned by major Allegiant investors, board members or top executives, or their immediate families.

Having a company’s former CFO

on the panel “should not happen,” said Michael Pryce-Jones, director of corporate governance at Washington, D.C.-based CtW.

Marvin, for one, has “approved ques-tionable deals” with Gallagher’s side ventures and “revealed (her) lack of independence and objectivity,” he said.

Asked to comment on Bryce-Jones’

remarks, the airline said “the issues raised by CtW are merely tactics of the (Teamsters) that distract from our on-going efforts to reach a contract agree-ment” with Allegiant’s pilots.

The pilots voted in August 2012 to join Teamsters Local 1224 but still do not have a collective bargaining agree-ment under the union.


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These days, bankers are steering clear of speculative developmenthave drastically cut back on construc-tion and development lending since the market tanked. They’ve boosted profits and overall lending, but when it comes to real estate development, bankers aren’t opening the vault near-ly as often as they did during the go-go years last decade.

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

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

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

Those numbers — a snapshot of loans outstanding — do not include the much larger Nevada State Bank. Its total loan portfolio has dropped 23 percent since early 2009, to $2.3 billion — and its development financing has plunged 89 percent, to almost $101 million by first quarter’s end, according to the FDIC.

Las Vegas banks are not alone, as lenders have been scaling back con-struction financing in other parts of the country that also were hit espe-cially hard by the real estate bust.

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

A big reason for the drop here: Un-like during the boom years, bankers are steering clear of speculative devel-opment.

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

do after the bubble burst.Menon said his bank — by far the

biggest of Las Vegas’ smaller, home-town lenders, with $467 million in assets — “will not touch” speculative developments. Neither will Kirkwood Bank of Nevada, the smallest of the pack with $69 million in assets.

Unless a project is preleased, “we wouldn’t do new construction,” said Kirkwood chief credit officer John Dru.

“Bankers are a lot smarter now, and customers are too,” Dru said.

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

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

Local community banks still de-vote most of their lending to real es-tate deals, but they seem to be writing mortgage loans more often than fund-ing construction.

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

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

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

Borrowers still have plenty of op-tions for finding loans, as Southern Nevada’s community banks are mi-nuscule compared with the likes of Wells Fargo Bank and Bank of Amer-ica. Meadows, for instance, has only four branches — two in the valley — and $402 million in total deposits. Wells Fargo, with 80 branches in Clark County and $12 billion in local depos-its, has about 6,300 branches nation-ally and $1.2 trillion in total deposits, according to the FDIC.

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Construction has picked up the past few yearsDeveloper Doug Roberts, who re-

cently broke ground on two local speculative warehouse projects, said financial giants such as JPMorgan Chase Bank and Bank of America are issuing construction loans in the val-ley.

Lenders are more disciplined, though, requiring far more cash up front than they did during the bubble. Back then, banks would finance 80 to 85 percent of a project’s construction costs. Now, they’re down to about 55 percent, said Roberts, a partner with Panattoni Development Co.

n n n

Though still a shadow of what it was during the bubble, construction has picked up valleywide over the past few years. Most of the work involves tract housing, apartment complexes and warehouses.

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

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

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

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

“If you can get it done faster, you’re not wasting money sitting around try-ing to fund a loan,” Lindemann said.

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Backed by easy money, Las Vegas

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

The industry was all but wiped out during the recession, with wide-spread bankruptcies, foreclosures, vacancies and abandoned construc-tion projects.

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

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

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

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

tled, court records show.In 2013, a lawyer for Johnson told

VEGAS INC that Silver State’s failure wasn’t his client’s fault.

“It was exclusively the economy,” he said.

The FDIC’s Office of Inspector General, however, blamed the bank’s demise on sloppy real estate lending. In a 2009 report, it said Silver State failed primarily because of manage-ment’s “high-risk business strategy.” Executives pursued aggressive loan growth, concentrating in higher-risk commercial real estate loans and had “weak risk management practices and controls,” the report said.

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

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

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

Inspector General.Commercial buildings emptied

out as companies laid off workers en masse or shut down altogether. With little demand for new space and practically no money being offered to build, construction largely ground to a halt in Las Vegas.

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

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

The warehouse market in particu-lar has gained speed over the past few years, with developers breaking ground on several projects, and land-lords signing more tenants and rais-ing rents.

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

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

Overall, lenders have noticed an upswing in competition among banks for construction loans and a bump in requests from prospective borrow-ers. Community bankers expect de-velopment lending to stay flat or to tick higher, though no one is forecast-ing a surge of deals.

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

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

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

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

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Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)

Annual Conference & Exposition 2015 Las Vegas Convention Center June 28-30 18,000

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Records and TransactionsBANKRUPTCIES

CHAPTER 7E. Building Systems LLC8020 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 250Las Vegas, NV 89117Attorney: E. Buildings Systems LLC Pro Se

CHAPTER 11Redrock Enterprises LLC10852 Willow Heights DriveLas Vegas, NV 89135Attorney: Timoth S. Cory at [email protected]

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 12:00 p.m.Two-year open-term contract for safety vestsState of Nevada, 8345Annette Morfin at [email protected]

2:30 p.m.Live channel catfishState of Nevada, 8348Nancy Feser at [email protected]

THURSDAY, JULY 23:00 p.m.Current production model 4x4 pumperClark County, 603715Sandra Mendoza at [email protected]

3:00 p.m.Commercial real estate appraisal services specializing in long-term ground leases for retail, o�ce and industrial developmentsClark County, 603700Sandy Moody-Upton at [email protected]

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SALES$10,350,000 for 183 units, multi-housing 4350 Boulder Highway, Las Vegas 89121Seller: BPLV LLCSeller agent: Doug Schuster, Curt Allsop, Vittal Ram and Diane McK-inney of Newmark Grubb Knight FrankBuyer: The Bascom Group LLCBuyer agent: Did not disclose

$7,760,000 for 160 units, resi-dential 3417 E. Cheyenne Ave., North Las Vegas 89030Seller: Parkwood Apartments LLCSeller agent: Patrick Sauter, Art Carll and Devin Lee of NAI VegasBuyer: Las Vegas Residential

PropertyBuyer agent: Patrick Sauter, Art Carll and Devin Lee of NAI Vegas

$3,900,000 for 2.47 acres, industrial 111, 115, 121, 125 Corporate Park Drive, Henderson 89074Seller: Sage Industrial Holdings LLCSeller agent: Did not discloseBuyer: Elevon Corporate Park LLCBuyer agent: Greg Pancirov and Mike DeLew of Colliers Interna-tional

$560,000 for 7,695 square feet, multifamily residential 1114 E. Clark Ave., Las Vegas 89101Seller: Lu and Dale SiewertSeller agent: James Slack, Michael LaBar and Michael Shaffner of Avi-sion YoungBuyer: Michael KaplanBuyer agent: Jay Mitterlehner of American Realty Properties

$220,000 for 1,600 square feet, o�ce 4218 W. Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas 89102Seller: Enerson 2009 Family TrustSeller agent: Did not discloseBuyer: Absolute Primary Care CenterBuyer agent: Tom Naseef and Jeff Naseef of Colliers International

LEASES$123,920 for 1,549 square feet, retail for 60 months, NNN Invest-ment4388 E. Craig Road, Suite 135, Las Vegas 89115Landlord: Craig & Lamb LLCLandlord agent: Bruce Parker of Parker RealtyTenant: Little Caesar Enterprises Inc.Tenant agent: Nelson Tressler and Mike Zobrist of Newmark Knight Frank

$111,000 for 5,050 square feet, industrial for 38 months3555 Reno Ave., Suite G, Las Vegas 89118Landlord: PrologisLandlord agent: Greg Tassi of CBRETenant: FNOM WorldwideTenant agent: Joe Leavitt and Chris Lexis of Avision Young

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24 Karat Entertainment Business type: OfficeAddress: 3939 Gaster Ave., Las VegasOwner: Albert Boline 3D Puzzle Business type: General retail salesAddress: 775 S. Grand Central Parkway, Suite K16, Las VegasOwner: Frsdp Inc.

42 Aspens Productions LLC Business type: OfficeAddress: Did not disclose, Las VegasOwner: Michael Renken A Royal Flush Bail Bonds Inc. Business type: Bail bond agencyAddress: 810 S. Main St., Las VegasOwner: David Clarke A98 LLC Business type: OfficeAddress: 7103 S. Durango Drive, Suite 108, Las VegasOwner: Carlo Andaya Abelaroado RodelesBusiness type: Property mainte-nanceAddress: 435 Waterbrook Drive, HendersonOwner: Abelaroado Rodeles Acoustical Services of Las Vegas Business type: Contractor Address: 115 E. Wigwam Ave., Las VegasOwner: Did not disclose Advanced Computer Services LLC Business type: Oral solicitationAddress: 5427 Wesleyan Court, Las VegasOwner: Clell Stratton All American Builders Business type: Contractor Address: Did not disclose, Las VegasOwner: Southwest Builders LLC Allvoitel Inc.Business type: Public utility telecomAddress: 13644 Neutron Road, DallasOwner: Allvoitel Inc. Alpha Smoke Shop Business type: Tobacco salesAddress: 3250 N. Tenaya Way, Suite 101, Las VegasOwner: Royale Singhs Inc. Alternative Pathfinders LLC Business type: Instruction servicesAddress: 2400 N. Tenaya Way, Suite 101, Las VegasOwner: Melody Helmick Alterra Pest ControlBusiness type: Property mainte-nanceAddress: 5190 S. Valley View Blvd. Suite 106, Las VegasOwner: Alterra LLC American Regional Center-Las Vegas LLC Business type: Consulting serviceAddress: 2000 S. Eastern Ave., Las VegasOwner: Longsheng Lei Andraly Cleaning Solutions Business type: Residential prop-erty maintenance

Address: Did not disclose, Las VegasOwner: Irma L. Chavez Angela Fong-Himber Business type: Real estate salesAddress: 10750 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 180, Las VegasOwner: Angela Fong-Himber PLLC Anne A. Bove Business type: Real estate salesAddress: 9525 Hillwood Drive, Suite 120, Las VegasOwner: Anne A. Bove April Business type: Psychic artsAddress: 6848 W. Charleston Blvd., Las VegasOwner: Deborah R Treadway Arrow Stage LinesBusiness type: AutomotiveAddress: 60 Corporate Park Drive, HendersonOwner: Arrow Stage Lines Atevan Home Health Care LLCBusiness type: Home health careAddress: 2152 Anserville Ave., HendersonOwner: Atevan Home Health Care LLC Battle Born Pigeon Control LLCBusiness type: Property mainte-nanceAddress: 3310 China Drive, Las VegasOwner: Battle Born Pigeon Control LLC Betty Kincaid Business type: Real estate salesAddress: 9420 W. Sahara Ave. 100, Las VegasOwner: Betty Kincaid Big Shot Computer and Video Service Business type: OfficeAddress: Did not disclose, Las VegasOwner: Big Shot Video Services Inc. Billy D’s Soul Food Kitchen Business type: Food servicesAddress: 6475 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 150, Las VegasOwner: Agb LLC Black Ecco Business type: General retail salesAddress: Did not disclose, Las VegasOwner: Black Ecco LLC Blaqcat Ultra Hookah Lounge Business type: Tobacco salesAddress: 6340 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 140, Las VegasOwner: Buhl Hookah LLC Blue Ribbon K9 Business type: OfficeAddress: Did not disclose, Las Vegas

Owner: David Rivisto Bluestone Dental Lab Business type: ClinicAddress: 3140 Polaris Ave., Suite 1, Las VegasOwner: Jin Seo Bonneville Real Estate Capital Business type: Professional servicesAddress: 777 N. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 325, Las VegasOwner: Bonneville Mortgage Company Bozarth Construction Inc.Business type: ContractorAddress: 2810 W. Charleston Blvd., Las VegasOwner: Justin Bozarth Brady Realty GroupBusiness type: ApartmentAddress: 1901 Haren Drive, Hen-dersonOwner: Brady Realty Group LLC Brydan Solutions Inc.Business type: General retail salesAddress: 3014 S. Rancho Drive, Las VegasOwner: Arneil M. Jaski Cafe 525 & Catering Business type: Alcohol beverage catererAddress: 1044 S. Sixth St., Las VegasOwner: Hart & Hart Chakra PoufBusiness type: Online retalAddress: 201 S. Gibson Road, Suite 2211, HendersonOwner: Keshia Zane Characters Unlimited Inc. Business type: Coin amusement machineAddress: 310 Fremont St. and 300 Fremont St., Las VegasOwner: Olaf Stanton Chelsea Carsello Business type: Real estate salesAddress: 10750 W. Charleston-Blvd., Suite 180, Las VegasOwner: Chelsea Carsello Christine Stonemetz Business type: Real estate salesAddress: 10000 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 130, Las VegasOwner: Christine Stonemetz Cindy L. Pierce Business type: Real estate salesAddress: 10000 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 130, Las VegasOwner: Cindy L. Pierce Cole Haan Company Store Business type: General retail salesAddress: 785 S. Grand Central Parkway, Suite 2119, Las VegasOwner: Cole Haan Company Store LLC

Records and TransactionsConcrete HouseBusiness type: ContractorAddress: 652 Finch Island Ave., HendersonOwner: Ronald Garrett Reed

Continental Studio of Beauty Business type: Cosmetological establishmentAddress: 921 W. Owens Ave. 130, Las VegasOwner: Josephine Langforoad Cook Security Group Inc.Business type: Burglar alarm serviceAddress: 3230 W. Desert Inn Road, Suite 160, Las VegasOwner: Cook Security Inc. Cornerstone Cpas LLC Business type: Professional servicesAddress: 9030 W. Cheyenne Ave., Suite 210, Las VegasOwner: Christine Miles Custom Cabinets & Closets LLCBusiness type: ManufacturingAddress: 4550 Donovan Way, North Las VegasOwner: Custom Cabinets & Closets LLC Cynthia Hernandez Business type: Independent mas-sage therapistAddress: Did not disclose, Las VegasOwner: Cynthia Hernandez D Smokeshop Business type: Tobacco salesAddress: 3510 E. Bonanza Road, Suite 101, Las VegasOwner: D Enterprises LLC Dav Sports Trade Co. Business type: Sporting goodsAddress: Did not disclose, Las VegasOwner: Davod Ghasemi David Clarke Business type: Bail bond agencyAddress: 810 S. Main St., Las VegasOwner: A Royal Flush Bail Bonds Inc. Dd’s Discounts #5260 Business type: General retail salesAddress: 562 N. Eastern Ave., Las VegasOwner: Ross Driveess For Less Inc. Dean Legal Group Ltd.Business type: Professional servicesAddress: 725 S. 8th St., Suite 200, Las VegasOwner: Aaron R. Dean Delicate SensationsBusiness type: Beauty suppliesAddress: 4333 Laguna Garden Ave., North Las VegasOwner: Allena Felder


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Continental Studio of Beauty Business type: Cosmetological establishmentAddress: 921 W. Owens Ave. 130, Las VegasOwner: Josephine Langforoad Cook Security Group Inc.Business type: Burglar alarm serviceAddress: 3230 W. Desert Inn Road, Suite 160, Las VegasOwner: Cook Security Inc. Cornerstone Cpas LLC Business type: Professional servicesAddress: 9030 W. Cheyenne Ave., Suite 210, Las VegasOwner: Christine Miles Custom Cabinets & Closets LLCBusiness type: ManufacturingAddress: 4550 Donovan Way, North Las VegasOwner: Custom Cabinets & Closets LLC Cynthia Hernandez Business type: Independent mas-sage therapistAddress: Did not disclose, Las VegasOwner: Cynthia Hernandez D Smokeshop Business type: Tobacco salesAddress: 3510 E. Bonanza Road, Suite 101, Las VegasOwner: D Enterprises LLC Dav Sports Trade Co. Business type: Sporting goodsAddress: Did not disclose, Las VegasOwner: Davod Ghasemi David Clarke Business type: Bail bond agencyAddress: 810 S. Main St., Las VegasOwner: A Royal Flush Bail Bonds Inc. Dd’s Discounts #5260 Business type: General retail salesAddress: 562 N. Eastern Ave., Las VegasOwner: Ross Driveess For Less Inc. Dean Legal Group Ltd.Business type: Professional servicesAddress: 725 S. 8th St., Suite 200, Las VegasOwner: Aaron R. Dean Delicate SensationsBusiness type: Beauty suppliesAddress: 4333 Laguna Garden Ave., North Las VegasOwner: Allena Felder

Diversity Wicked Tattoos Business type: Tobacco salesAddress: 300 S. Decatur Blvd., 4401 N. Rancho Drive, Suite 2310 and S. Las Vegas Blvd., Suite 102 , Las VegasOwner: Shahram Inc. Dolan Law Group Ltd.Business type: Professional servicesAddress: 7495 W. Azure Drive, Suite 110, Las VegasOwner: Dolan, Courtney E. Stanley ProjectsBusiness type: ManagementAddress: 2725 S. Mona Lisa St., HendersonOwner: E. Stanley Projects Inc. Edward James Orasi Jr. Business type: Real estate salesAddress: 10000 W. Charleston-Blvd. 135, Las VegasOwner: Edward J. Orasi Jr. Encore Group Of California LLPBusiness type: Project manage-ment consultingAddress: 2380 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway, Suite 100, HendersonOwner: Encore Group Of California Llp Eragance Apparel Business type: General retail salesAddress: 8486 Antique Cameo Ave., Las VegasOwner: Chanel Thorley Evelina Sulrzycki Business type: Real estate salesAddress: 10750 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 180, Las VegasOwner: Evelina Sulrzycki Evision MediaBusiness type: Website designAddress: 818 Roaring Falls Ave., HendersonOwner: Mark Evans

Fortress Home ServicesBusiness type: ContractorAddress: 7255 N. Monte Cristo Way, Las VegasOwner: Jon Weisberg

BUILDING PERMITS

$15,400,000, commercial - altera-tion333 W. Gowan Road, North Las VegasCapitol Steel Constructors Inc. $1,200,000, residential3900 W Oakey Blvd., Las VegasCEI Builders $792,259, wall/fence265 Fox Hill Drive , Las VegasDesert Plastering LLC $517,847, residential- custom1620 Villa Rica Drive, Henderson

Pebble Creek Holdings LP $500,000, tenant improvement1941 N. Decatur Blvd., Las VegasFP Contracting Inc. $468,663, residential - custom2673 Boboli Court, HendersonPebble Creek Holdings LP $434,902, single-family residen-tial production6911 Winter Rain St. , Las VegasRichmond American Homes of Nevada $431,550, professional2990 Bicentennial Parkway, HendersonBicentennial Animal Hospital LLC $394,027, residential - custom7 Lido Mord, HendersonLevel Development Group LLC $390,423, residential - custom1491 Reims Drive, HendersonBlue Heron $372,956, residential - custom210 W. Desert Rose Drive, Hen-dersonDesert Rose Customs LLC $325,000, tenant improvement4660 N. Rancho Drive, Las VegasSustain Builders LLC $282,795, residential - custom1131 Dufort Hills Court, HendersonDR Horton Inc. $270,000, tenant improvement4648 N. Rancho Drive, Las VegasSustain Builders LLC $270,000, commercial - new3950 N. Bruce St., North Las VegasWindset Nevada Properties Inc. $259,865, commercial - alteration2705 W. Lake Mead Blvd., North Las VegasMarco Contractors Inc. $250,000, tenant improvement875 S. Grand Central Parkway, Suite 1660, Las VegasCM Builders $238,324, residential - custom230 W. Desert Rose Drive, Hen-dersonDesert Rose Customs LLC $237,600, commercial825 Gibson Road, HendersonPac-Van Inc. $225,000, single-family residen-tial - addition9324 Verlaine Court, Las VegasLittle Mountain Development LLC $216,000, commercial825 Gibson Road, HendersonPac-Van Inc.

$202,503, residential - production301 Mandarin Hill Lane, HendersonPardee Homes of Nevada $202,281, residential - production306 Mandarin Hill Lane, HendersonPardee Homes of Nevada $191,302, residential - custom1141 Harwood Hills Court, Hender-sonDR Horton Inc. $186,518, single-family residential - production10741 Irving Park Ave., Las VegasToll North LV LLC $186,273, single-family residential - production5536 Bruin Lakes St., Las VegasRichmond American Homes of Nevada $185,647, single-family residential - production12283 Lorenzo Ave., Las VegasPulte Homes of Nevada $185,647, single-family residential - production344 Rezzo St., Las VegasPulte Homes of Nevada $183,373, residential - production309 Mandarin Hill Lane, HendersonPardee Homes of Nevada $182,740, single-family residential - production9809 Guiding Light Ave., Las VegasRichmond American Homes of Nevada $176,485, single-family residential - production9801 Guiding Light Ave., Las VegasRichmond American Homes of Nevada $175,000, tenant improvement4656 N. Rancho Drive, Las VegasSustain Builders LLC $173,935, residential - new3717 Blissful Bluff St., North Las VegasRichmond American Homes of Nevada $173,935, residential - new2511 Endearing Court, North Las VegasRichmond American Homes of Nevada $173,114, residential - production302 Mandarin Hill Lane, HendersonPardee Homes of Nevada $171,070, single-family residential production9113 Mastodon Ave., Las VegasDR Horton Inc. $171,070, single-family residential production

9114 Mastodon Ave., Las VegasDR Horton Inc. $169,989, commercial - remodel874 American Pacific Drive, Hen-dersonKittrell Jenson Contractors LLC $169,621, residential - production1110 Echo Pass St., HendersonKB Homes Nevada Inc. $168,673, residential - new1020 Pine Vista Court, North Las VegasPardee Homes of Nevada $168,673, residential - new1017 Pine Vista Court, North Las VegasPardee Homes of Nevada $167,685, single-family residential - production12240 Toselli Court , Las VegasPulte Homes of Nevada $167,685, single-family residential - production304 Rezzo St., Las VegasPulte Homes of Nevadaada $167,685, single-family residential - production346 Rezzo St., Las VegasPulte Homes of Nevadaada $167,459, residential - production812 Loch Katrine Ave., HendersonDR Horton Inc. $161,809, residential - new1024 Pine Vista Court, North Las VegasPardee Homes of Nevada $160,949, single-family residential - production9119 Mastodon Ave., Las VegasDR Horton Inc. $160,949, single-family residential - production9120 Mastodon Ave., Las VegasDR Horton Inc. $160,949, single-family residential - production9108 Mastodon Ave., Las VegasDR Horton Inc. $159,585, residential - production341 Values Circle, HendersonWoodside Homes of Nevada LLC $159,363, residential - production3222 Porto Vittoria Ave., Hender-sonToll Henderson LLC

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

CompanySquare feet managed Properties Property managers Top executive

1 The Equity Group8367 W. Flamingo Road, Suite 201Las Vegas, NV 89147702-796-5500 • teglv.com

8.2 million 141 7 Barbara M. Barron, president

2 MDL Group3065 S. Jones Blvd., Suite 201Las Vegas, NV 89146702-388-1800 • mdlgroup.com

7.9 million 123 7 Carol Cline-Ong, CEO, principal

3 Gatski Commercial Real Estate Services4755 Dean Martin DriveLas Vegas, NV 89103702-221-8226 • gatskicommercial.com

6.9 million 247 6 Frank P. Gatski, president, CEO

4 CBRE3993 Howard Hughes Parkway, Suite 700Las Vegas, NV 89169702-369-4800 • cbre.com

6.3 million 61 13 Meaghan Levy, director of asset services

5 Avison Young3993 Howard Hughes Parkway, Suite 350Las Vegas, NV 89169702-472-7979 • avisonyoung.com

3.1 million 30 3 Joseph E. Kupiec Sr., principal, managing director

6 Colliers International3960 Howard Hughes Parkway, Suite 150Las Vegas, NV 89169702-735-5700 • colliers.com/lasvegas

2.9 million 33 5 Mike Mixer, executive managing director

7 Virtus Commercial1333 N. Buffalo Drive, Suite 120Las Vegas, NV 89128702-787-0123 • virtusco.com

2.6 million 69 6 Chris Emanuel, president, broker

8 Sun Property Management8936 Spanish Ridge Ave.Las Vegas, NV 89148702-968-7305 • sunpm.net

2.1 million 43 4 Susan M. Cotton, principal, managing director

9 Sansone Real Estate Services9017 S. Pecos Road, Suite 4500Henderson, NV 89074702-914-9500 • sansonecompanies.com

1.9 million 12 2 Roland Sansone, president

10 Juliet Realty LLC8375 W. Flamingo Road, Suite 200Las Vegas, NV 89147702-368-5800 • julietcompanies.com

1.7 million 11 Did not disclose Jason Ahlstrom, principal

11 TNP Nevada302 E. Carson Ave., Suite 330Las Vegas, NV 89101702-951-9900 • tnpre.com

1.4 million 12 3 Mala Zheleznyak, vice president

12a Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Ne-vada Properties - McGarey Group2140 E. Pebble Road, Suite 160Las Vegas, NV 89123702-735-0411 • mcgareypartners.com

1.2 million 63 4 Mark Stark, CEO

12b Cushman & Wakefield Commerce3773 Howard Hughes Parkway, Suite 100SLas Vegas, NV 89169702-796-7900 • comre.com

1.2 million 18 2 David L. Jewkes, senior vice president

14 Nevada Development & Realty Co.2500 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 211Las Vegas, NV 89102702-362-4144 • ndrlasvegas.com

978,301 13 1 Tedd Rosenstein, president

15 Commercial West Brokers10120 S. Eastern Ave., Suite 200Henderson, NV 89052702-289-7007

474,000 5 1 Julie Barbagallo, owner, broker

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Not valid on holidays or during special events. Expires 8/31/2015.

3290 W. ANN ROAD

NORTH LAS VEGAS, NV 89031

(702) 395-0492

www.pteglv.com

6788 NORTH 5TH STREET


(702) 633-0901

www.pteglv.com

Buy One Get One

FREE Drink

at Sean Patrick’s

Wine, well or domestic beer

*Expires 7/31/15. Please present coupon at time of order. No cash value. Management reserves all rights.

May not be combined with any other offer. See bar host for details.

VALID AT 3290 W. ANN ROAD and 6788 NORTH 5TH STREET. Settle to 1581.

FREE Appetizer

at Sean Patrick’s

Buy one appetizer and get the second FREE

*Expires 7/31/15. Please present coupon at time of order. No cash value. Maximum value at $9.99 on free appetizer.

Management reserves all rights. See bar host for details.

VALID AT 3290 W. ANN ROAD and 6788 NORTH 5TH STREET ONLY. Settle to 1580.

3290 W. ANN ROAD


(702) 395-0492

www.pteglv.com

6788 NORTH 5TH STREET


(702) 633-0901

www.pteglv.com

Buy One Get One

FREE Drink

at Sean Patrick’s

Wine, well or domestic beer

*Expires 7/31/15. Please present coupon at time of order. No cash value. Management reserves all rights.

May not be combined with any other offer. See bar host for details.

VALID AT 11930 SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS PKWY. and 8255 W. FLAMINGO ROAD ONLY. Settle to 1581.

11930 SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS PKWY.

LAS VEGAS, NV 89141

(702) 837-0213

www.pteglv.com

8255 W. FLAMINGO ROAD

LAS VEGAS, NV 89147

(702) 227-9793

www.pteglv.com

FREE Appetizer

at Sean Patrick’s

Buy one appetizer and get the second FREE

*Expires 7/31/15. Please present coupon at time of order. No cash value. Maximum value at $9.99 on free appetizer.

Management reserves all rights. See bar host for details.

VALID AT 11930 SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS PKWY and 8255 W. FLAMINGO ROAD. Settle to 1580.

11930 SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS PKWY.

LAS VEGAS, NV 89141

(702) 837-0213

www.pteglv.com

8255 W. FLAMINGO ROAD

LAS VEGAS, NV 89147

(702) 227-9793

www.pteglv.com

$5 OFF Any

Purchase of $30

or More

Present this coupon at time of purchase. Management reserves all rights.Cannot be combined with any other discount or offer.

169 E. TROPICANA, LAS VEGAS, NV 89109

(702) 262-9100

6030 W. WINDMILL LN., LAS VEGAS, NV 89139

(702) 222-3030

8544 BLUE DIAMOND, LAS VEGAS, NV 89178

(702) 629-2992

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6825 REDWOOD ST., LAS VEGAS, NV 89118

|

I-215 & S. RAINBOW

(702) 475-3015

www.ABCHyundai.com

Start of Summer Specials

VALID SATURDAY 7AM–6PM

20% OFF

Any of the Following Factory

Recommended Services

15,000 miles | 30,000 miles | 45,000 miles60,000 miles | 75,000 miles | 90,000 miles

*Valid for Hyundai owners through 7/7/15. See dealer for complete details. Cannot be combined with any other offer. Must present at time of service.

6825 REDWOOD ST., LAS VEGAS, NV 89118

|

I-215 & S. RAINBOW

(702) 475-3015

www.ABCHyundai.com

Start of Summer Specials

A/C Cooling System

and Battery Check

included when you bring in this coupon.

*Expires 7/7/15.

725 S RACETRACK RD. HENDERSON, NV 89015

(702) 566-5555

www.clubfortunecasino.com

$5 FREE

Slot Play

for New MembersMust become a Player Rewards Card member to redeem.

Existing Player Rewards Card Members do not qualify.

Cannot be used in conjunction with any other free slot play offer.

Management reserves all rights. Limit of one (1) New Member

free slot play offer per person and Player Rewards card.

Group #5353. Valid 6/28/15 - 7/4/15.

Use PLU#2976 if barcode fails to scan.

99¢ for a

Small COOLATTA

®

or Frozen Beverage

*(Plus appl. tax). Limit one coupon per customer per visit. Coupon and

barcode must be presented at time of purchase. Shop must retain coupon.

No substitutions allowed. No cash refunds. Void if copied or transferred and

where prohibited or restricted by law. Consumer must pay applicable tax.

May not be combined with any other coupon, discount, promotion combo

or value meal. Coupon may not be reproduced, copied, purchased,

traded or sold. Internet distribution strictly prohibited. Cash redemption

value: 1/20 of 1 cent. © 2015 DD IP Holder LLC.

All rights reserved. Expires: 7/18/2015

Las Vegas Smoke Shop

1225 N. MAIN STREET, LV, NV 89101

(702) 366-1101

Snow Mountain Smoke Shop

11525 NU-WAV KAIV BLVD, LV, NV 89124

(702) 645-2957

www.LVPaiuteSmokeShop.com

$

1 OFF

per Carton*

(Cigarettes Only)*Must be 18 years of age or older. NO LIMIT on any brand of carton

purchased. Excludes filtered cigars. Cannot be combined with other offers

or discounts. Limit one discount given per customer per day. Must present

this coupon for redemption. Cannot be redeemed for cash. No photocopies

accepted. EXPIRES 7/31/2015

SERVING LAS VEGAS SINCE 1978

THE ONLY TRIBAL SMOKE SHOP IN LV

$1 OFF PER CARTON* (Cigarettes Only)

*Must be 18 years of age or older. NO LIMIT on any brand of carton purchased. Excludes filtered

cigars. Cannot be combined with other offers or discounts. Limit one discount given per customer

per day. Must present this coupon for redemption. Cannot be redeemed for cash. No photocopies

accepted. EXPIRES 7/31/2015

$

31 Off

Your Next

Removal

*Not valid with any other offer. Limit one coupon per customer.

Expires 12/31/15.

(800) 468-5865

www.1800gotjunk.com

$40 All You

Can Drive

Tuesdays from 6p - 10p*Valid at both LV locations only. Must have Local I.D. # of races may vary.

Subject to availability and may be cancelled without notice. Restrictions may apply

4175 SOUTH ARVILLE, LAS VEEGAS, NV 89103

7350 PRAIRIE FALCON RD., LAS VEGAS, NV 89128

(702) 227-RACE

www.PolePositionRaceway.com

One Free Order

of Fried Pickles

with purchase of regular priced entrée.

*Dine in only. Must present coupon to redeem offer. Not valid with any other offer. Excludes holidays and special events.

Management reserves all rights. Not including tax or gratuity. One voucher per guest per visit.

3850 LAS VEGAS BLVD. SO., LAS VEGAS, NV 89109

(702) 597-7991

www.dickslastresort.com

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Each row and each column must contain the

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