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Ten years ago, Advanced Pro Construction, a demolition company, was used to doing small jobs in the valley — fi xing fi re damage, overfl owed toilets and broken pipes. The company wasn’t union ized, bonded or expecting big gigs anytime

soon. ¶ Then in 2006, it landed a contract with Nellis Air Force Base after participating in a government program for small businesses. ¶ Today, Advanced Pro , a woman-owned business, works on big projects, large-scale remodels

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$37KMedian salary for a recent

college graduate, about $1,000

more than an experienced

worker with a high school

diploma, according to

Georgetown University researchers.

16.4%Share of Nevada workers

represented by a union

last year, an increase from

14.3 percent a decade ago,

according to the Bureau of

Labor Statistics.

Small businesses, big deals

Shawn and Racquel Toyozaki, owners of Advanced Pro Construction, landed a contract with Nellis Air Force Base by participating in a government program for small businesses. (STEVE MARCUS/STAFF)

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05 06 14Q+A WITH DICK STEINBERGThe CEO of the WestCare Foundation discusses the state of mental health care in Southern Nevada, what can be done to improve it and the importance of tailoring the foundation’s outreach to each commu-nity it serves.

THE NOTESPeople on the move, P4

MEET: CHOCOLATE & SPICEIn a city known for reinventing itself, award-winning pastry chef Megan Romano embraces the culture by “constantly sourcing new product” and “testing new ideas.”

TALKING POINTSWhat does an investment in K-12 look like? P7

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

MORE VEGAS INC BUSINESS NEWSCalendar: Happenings and events, P13

The List: Skilled nursing facilities, P18

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EVER-EVOLVING, LAS VEGAS CONTINUES ADAPTING TO SUIT TOURISTS

As more tourists show a dwindling

interest in gambling, the latest dis-

traction from Las Vegas’ casino fl oors

debuted right in front of Bally’s.

Grand Bazaar Shops, a

55,000-square-foot outdoor retail

plaza, opened Feb. 26 with dozens of

eateries, clothing, beauty, accessories

and specialty stores .

Led by developer Larry Siegel of

Juno Property Group, the project is one

of several new or planned shopping

centers on the Strip, including the Linq,

a $550 million open-air complex; the

Park, a $100 million outdoor plaza; and

a three-story mall at Treasure Island.

Developers are betting big on shop-

ping because many visitors don’t bet

at all.

The average Las Vegas visitor spent

$141 shopping here in 2013, up from

$102 in 2009. Just 71 percent of visi-

tors gambled in 2013, down from 83

percent four years earlier, according to

GLS Research .

Still, casinos are the bedrock of Las

Vegas’ economy, and the shift won’t

cause them to go out of business

anytime soon, if ever . To change an old

saying, they don’t build those palaces

on shopping bags.

— ELI SEGALL

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Danielle T. Bello joined Cure 4 The Kids Foundation as its first full-time, in-house licensed psychologist and neuropsychologist provid-ing services to patients of the Children’s Specialty Center of Nevada and the Hemophilia Treatment Center of Nevada.

Echo & Rig chef Sam Marvin provides recipes and videos on the cooking app SideChef.

David Hornung is vice president and senior private client adviser in the private client services group of City National Bank. Hornung has more than 17 years of experi-ence in the banking, trust and estate planning industries.

Patty Cafferata is commu-nications director for Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt.

Anita Romero is chairwoman of the board of Three Square Food Bank. Romero is senior vice president of staff opera-tions and technology at South-west Gas.

Sallie Doebler is head of busi-ness development at Korte construction. She has 10 years of experience in business development for con-struction companies in Las Vegas.

Julie Goe is the Clark County Credit Union’s head of marketing operations. Aubrey Swanson is a member services representative.

Damon Haycock is chief operating officer of the Silver State Health Exchange. Haycock joined the exchange as a finance and research officer in 2012.

Andrea Garyson is front office team leader at Aliante Inte-grated Physical Medicine.

Paul Whetsell and John Bailey joined Boyd Gaming’s board of directors. Whetsell is president and CEO of Loews Hotels and Resorts. Bailey is managing partner of Bailey Kennedy, specializing in corporate and gaming law.

Brandon Trout is an associ-ate attorney in Hutchison & Steffen’s commercial litigation group.

The Association of Fundrais-ing Professionals-Las Vegas Chapter appointed its 2015 executive board. Jon Guy, major gifts officer at St. Rose Dominican Health Foundation, is president; Anne Browne, director of development at Nevada School of the Arts, is president elect; Carol Hol-latz, director of advancement and stewardship at Roseman University, is treasurer; and David VanZanten, director of the Las Vegas Historical

Society, is secretary.

Southern Hills Hospital and Medical Center Director of Pharmacy Services Daniel Kim won an HCA Innovator Award for his Antiobiogram App. Traditionally, an antibiogram is printed on a pocket card. Physicians now can access the infor-mation on iPhones and iPads.

Lee Jenkins is Bank of Amer-ica’s consumer area executive for Nevada and Northern Cali-fornia. Lee will lead 141 finan-cial centers in nine markets.

Erica Morales, manager of a McDonald’s at 2513 E. Ow-ens Ave., North Las Vegas, received the 2014 Ray Kroc Award, a performance-based award that recog-nizes top McDonald’s restaurant managers.

Cathleen Hamel is Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican’s chief nursing executive. She oversees the nursing staff at the company’s three Southern Nevada hospitals.

Rob Lujan and Jason Simon are vice presidents at JLL, working with industrial land-lords, tenants and investors on real estate needs.

Bob Sweetin is Mesquite city attorney, taking over for Cheryl Hunt, who retired.

Merideth Spriggs launched Caridad Las Vegas to provide outreach, services and educa-tion to homeless people in Las Vegas.

Jayme Sevigny is president of Video Gaming Technologies, a division of Aristo-crat Leisure.

Raymond Alden III is provost of Touro University Nevada in Henderson.

Thomas Moore is a marketing and media relations representative and Cassandra Selbach is a com-munity relations representative at Valley Electric Association.

Patty Duffey is chief operating officer, Kesha Dirkson is chief fund development and marketing officer, and Melody Sherrill is chief finance officer of Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada.

Lynn Fenstermaker is project director for Ne-vada’s NASA Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research and Space Grant programs. An associate research professor at Nevada’s Des-ert Research Institute, Fenstermaker has more than 20 years of experience studying Nevada’s climate and ecosystems.

Aimee Wenske is social media manager and Erica Ramos is public relations and social media assis-tant at Forte PR. Veronica Kawka was promoted to account executive.

Henderson Mayor Andy Hafen is chairman of the National League of Cities’ 2015 Finance, Administration and Intergovernmental Relations Committee. Henderson City Councilwoman Gerri Schroder is a member of the 2015 Community and Economic Development Steering Committee.

Brian Blount, Robert Anderlik and Bradley Bel-lisario joined Alverson, Taylor, Mortensen & Sanders as associate attorneys. Blount focuses on health care law and professional liability defense.

Anderlik practices civil litigation with an emphasis on civil rights defense. Bellisario handles personal injury, products liability, professional liability and insurance bad faith defense cases.

College of Southern Nevada President Michael Richards dedicated the student services building at the Charleston campus to Paul E. Meacham, the first black president of a Nevada higher education institution.

Rhea Agbayani is a physical therapist at Matt Smith Physical Therapy’s Windmill clinic, 1525 E. Windmill Lane, Suite 202, Henderson.

Rob Gaedtke is CEO of KPS3, a marketing and technology company. Company founder Stepha-nie Kruse is president and chairwoman of the board.

MaryBeth Sherwin is practice administrator at Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada. She oversees the southeast Henderson and central valley sites and works with Executive Director James Kilber on special projects.

Paul Johnson Drywall Inc. opened an office at 5957 McLeod Drive, Las Vegas. Ron “Chip” Brown, a 32-year veteran of the drywall and con-struction industry, is general superintendent.

The Nevada Chiropractic Council was estab-lished, with Southern Nevada board members Dr. Bobby Moore, president; Dr. Stephanie Young-blood, vice president; and Dr. Jason Jaeger, board member.

Kirsten Dimond is vice president of operations at the Sands Expo Convention Center.

Stephanie Wragg is assistant dean of curricu-lum and assessment and associate professor of biomedical sciences at the College of Medicine at Roseman University of Health Sciences.

The California Noodle House opened at the Cali-fornia Hotel.

Tom’s Urban restaurant opened at New York-New York.

Training magazine’s “2015 Training Top 125” includes Caesars Entertainment Corp., McCar-thy Building Companies, MGM Resorts Interna-tional, One Nevada Credit Union and Paychex for excellence in employer-sponsored training and development programs. Training magazine is the leading business publication for learning and development and HR professionals.

Software provider Achievers’ list of the 50 Most Engaged Workplaces in North America includes MGM Resorts International, the Cosmopolitan and Zappos.com. The award honors companies that place a premium on training and engaging employees.

The Glenn Group, a public relations and marketing firm, launched Wide Awake, a sister agency that will focus on the gaming industry.

Monte Carlo and Treasure Island landed in the top 50 hotels for group booking and meetings in 2014, according to hotelplanner.com and meet-ings.com, which provide online group travel services.

Nevada State Bank moved its Eastern/Horizon branch from 10608 S. Eastern Ave., Henderson, to 9935 S. Eastern Ave., Las Vegas.

The National Association of Home Builders and the National Kitchen & Bath Association, which bring the International Builders’ Show and Kitchen & Bath Industry Show to Las Vegas, will co-locate their shows through 2020.

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What’s the status of mental health ser-vices in Southern Nevada?

The good news is that many people have now looked seriously at the strengths and weaknesses facing Southern Nevada when it comes to mental and behavorial health services. Not all is bleak, as many improvements have been implemented.

However, we have a long way to go to really reduce emergency room overcrowding caused in large part by patients with drug addiction or men-tal health issues being dumped there. They can be served better and much more cost effectively by referring them to Community Triage Center(s), which were specifically designed for this purpose.

Additionally, key hospital administrators have stepped up to the plate to expand psychiatric services, and this has begun to relieve some of the stressors on this overburdened system. The state has also stepped up its game with many solid im-provements to the Rawson-Neal State Hospital.

What’s still needed, and how can care be improved?

Gov. Brian Sandoval appointed a special Mental Health/Behavioral Health Council to evaluate and make recommendations to him and the Legislature, but we still have a long way to go to see our commu-nity working as one to address and maintain a qual-ity system. Although all the players are coming to the table, if the effort is not sustained and continued for a long time, many of these efforts will begin to erode, and we will fall behind and go through much of the same community crisis again.

In my 37 years at WestCare, I’ve seen the same crisis come — short-term fixes implemented — and then when not adjusting for growth of our community, the same crisis reappears. Hopefully this time, everyone will stay committed and fully implement a quality communitywide behavioral health system that not only will be good for our community mental health crisis but assist and free up fire and rescue, law enforcement and other health care systems that should be focused on other critical areas of need.

To what do you attribute WestCare’s suc-cess?

We are in our 42nd year as a community non-profit health organization, delivering a variety of services to our patients and clients in 17 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. On the other side of the world, we have services in a num-ber of Pacific islands headquartered in Guam.

Our success is just a very simple formula: We look at community and human needs and see if we can be part of the solution. Although our service portfolio is diversified, our global spread has been

largely by the invitation from a community or sometimes another nonprofit provider seeking us out to see if we can help. Nothing magical ... just pure community collaboration and pooling of resources to address health and human service problems — and never saying “it can’t be done,” especially when folks are suffering.

WestCare strives to be an integral partner in each community in which we have a presence. We do not dictate our services from Las Vegas to other states or offshore territories. We let each commu-nity’s needs dictate the services, and then we try our best to be of assistance.

What are you reading right now? The Bible.

What do you do after work? Enjoy quality time with my wife, children and

grandson.

Describe your management style? As I’ve gotten a little older and blessed with a

great board of directors, I’ve also been blessed with a fantastic team of senior leadership staff members. I now find my management style evolv-ing more as a mentor, but I’m continually trying to stress to my senior team that we should all try to manage as good “servant leaders.” This goes along with our tagline of “uplifting the human spirit.”

Where do you see yourself and your com-pany in 10 years?

For me, I’m on the 50-year plan, so in 10 years, I will be completing 47 years on the job, with only three years left until I retire. However, I’m afraid WestCare’s services will still be needed in this world. And with the changing research, hopefully we will be doing an even better job treating those in our care.

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

I’d like to go back to my earlier youth/career of working at a YMCA camp, giving canoe lessons, and guiding a small group of campers down a lazy river in the woods.

Whom do you admire and why? I admire my wife, Sharon, for supporting and as-

sisting me with the devotion and passion of helping others less fortunate. WestCare has always been a 24/7 operation, and I could not keep up the pace and balance without my wife and family’s support and blessing.

What is your biggest pet peeve? Racial and cultural discrimination.

What is something that people might not know about you?

I love strumming a few chords on my old guitar.

Q&A WITH DICK STEINBERG

‘Hopefully this time, everyone will stay committed’

Dick Steinberg, CEO and president of WestCare Foundation, talks with his staff. (L.E. BASKOW/STAFF FILE)

Dick Steinberg is president and CEO of the WestCare Foundation, a nonprofit organization that aims to help those in need of be-havioral and mental health treatment. Started as the Fitzsimmons House in Las Vegas in 1973, the foundation has expanded to communities across the country and around the world. Steinberg is optimistic about the future of mental and behavioral health care in Nevada but realistic about the state’s need for continued help from organizations such as WestCare.

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Bakery rising to challenge of Vegas

Megan Romano was named Pastry Chef of the Year by the Nevada Restaurant Association in 2012. (STEVE

MARCUS/STAFF)

BY THE NUMBERS

1,000Approximate number of people employed

at the Riviera, which will close May 4 after

being bought by the Las Vegas Convention and

Visitors Authority.

$182.5 MILLION Purchase price of the Riviera, which will be

demolished to make way for new convention space.

355New homes sold

in January by Southern Nevada homebuilders, down 12 percent from a year ago, according to

Home Builders Research.

2Tenants signed to long-term

leases at the Harry Reid Research and Technology Park at West Sunset Road and South Durango Drive, Las Vegas. The 122-acre parcel was acquired by

UNLV in 2005.

6Retail outlets that signed leases to open this year

at Juhl, a downtown Las Vegas residential

high-rise.

9.6 MILLIONTons of sand and gravel to be auctioned March 3

by the Bureau of Land Management.

10,000Number of products exclusive to furniture retailer Ikea that the

Las Vegas store will sell when it opens next year.

102Number of bays that will

be available to golfers at Topgolf Las Vegas, an

indoor golf entertainment complex MGM Resorts

International plans to open next year at Koval Lane and

East Harmon Avenue.

$83.3 MILLIONStation Casinos’

net revenue in 2014. In 2013, the company

lost $104.4 million.

What experiences prepared

you to open Chocolate &

Spice?

I have been part of opening restaurants, operations and de-velopment. The key to staying in business for any length of time is being flexible and willing to take advantage of opportunities you didn’t plan on.

What makes your business unique?

Everything we make is hand-crafted using pristine in-gredients without preservatives. You can eat absolutely healthy with an egg white frittata with almond pesto and heirloom tomatoes, or indulge a bit with a chocolate nutella bombe. I believe in treating yourself to the good stuff in moderation.

We also listen to requests from our customers and keep an ever-changing menu.

What is your business philosophy?

My business philosophy is plain and simple: We offer a great product, friendly service in a welcoming setting at a price point of good value.

What’s the most important part of your job?

We are constantly sourcing new product, testing new techniques and embracing new ideas so we stay current with what’s happening in our industry. And then it’s all about training our team members.

What is the hardest part about doing business in Las

Vegas?

There is so much available; people often frequent locations that are most convenient. Back in New York, our customers went through bridges and tunnels to get to the

next best food spot. So in Vegas, we need to be more proactive to get people to try a new spot a bit out of their way.

What is the best part about

doing business in Las Vegas?

Las Vegas is always reinventing itself, and there is a real openness to new concepts.

In the past several years in particular, the local com-munity has embraced and supported those who venture off the Strip.

How can Nevada improve its business climate?

Although we do not have state sales tax, there are many individual fees that make up the difference.

What have you learned from the recession?

Experiencing the recession in Vegas was an eye-open-ing lesson. The potential for volume business is always an exciting possibility, but you can’t depend on one source for your business to survive. Therefore we have been flex-ible and open-minded to ideas we haven’t considered be-fore.

My husband is a big thinker who doesn’t see the day-to-day obstacles but rather is creative about getting to the big picture.

You are involved with multiple charities. How do

you find time to balance your bakeshop and charity

work?

Since my time is limited, I involve myself and my family in charities that hit home with where I am in my life. It is very rewarding and gives me perspective, reminding us we are very fortunate. Giving back to the community has become a mentoring moment with our kids, as well.

CHOCOLATE & SPICE BAKERYAddress: 7293 W. Sahara Ave.

Phone: 702-527-7772Email: [email protected]

Website: chocolatenspice.comHours of operation: 7 a.m.-6 p.m.

Monday through SaturdayOwned/operated by:

Megan RomanoIn business since: 2012

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SMITH’S WORLD

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

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

See archives of his work at lasvegassun.com/smithsworld.

READER COMMENTSWe want to hear

from you. Visit

vegasinc.com to

post your opinion.

On Eli Segall’s

lasvegassun.com

story “Analysis: Is

construction-defect

law stunting Ne-

vada’s housing

market?”

The bottom line is

the homeowner is

getting taken. All this

bill does is take away

from the lawyers and

give to the home-

builders. — Anthony-

joevegas

I think maybe a more

appropriate option

would be to require

a hearing before the

contractors’ board

rather than in court.

The contractors’

board is much more

efficient in handling

these matters, and

can, in some cases,

order contractors to

repair their work.

— CurtC

I assume buyers will

be smart enough, and

Realtors and builders

ethical enough, for

everyone to know the

risks of purchasing a

new home after the

implementation of

this law. I guess we

can all dream. Your

money seems safer

under a mattress

than investing in the

Nevada real estate

market. — NLVProg

On Eli Segall’s

vegasinc.com story

“Businesses opening

in downtown Las

Vegas high-rise”:

One big problem:

There is no parking

nearby. Only resi-

dents can park in the

building. ... People

won’t pay to park

and shop in Vegas.

— Michael Vesely

W hat can the business com-munity do for a bunch of fourth-graders?

That’s a simple version of the more profound question facing us today: How can we deliver on the growing commitment to improve K-12 education in our community?

At least we’ve taken the first step, which is to recognize that a strong education system can help us return to eco-nomic health. A hallmark of robust economic development is a vibrant education system from preschool through college. But our K-12 education system is ranked 50th in the nation, and that is not going to propel our children to be competitive in a 21st-century global economy.

So how do we turn our schools around?There is a dearth of financial and intellectual capital in

K-12 education. And that’s exactly where we can make a big difference — frankly, in our own self-interest. There are ways to get engaged, directly and indirectly. A logical investment in K-12 education is a direct one with the Clark County School District, either through district-sponsored programs or at the school level.

The model for this type of investment is my former em-ployer, Station Casinos, which “adopted” 10 at-risk schools in Las Vegas. The company’s annual contribution, $5,000 per school, does not include the time Station team members

spend reading to students, making repairs to facilities or adding other enhancements to schools. The result is immediate and impactful.

Cannery Resorts run a similar program for three schools. What if every major business in our com-munity did the same thing? That could create a significant shift in the success of our schools.

Businesses also can invest indirectly. For years, nonprofit organizations have provided service and support for K-12 education. But the nonprofits are in desperate need of intel-lectual and financial capital.

Nevada PEP, headed by Karen Taycher, provides informa-tion, services and training to Nevada families of children with disabilities. Nevada Succeeds, led by Brent Husson, is committed to improving the quality of the state’s education system through a variety of approaches and initiatives. Com-munities in Schools, directed by Diane Fearon, surrounds students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. These are just a few that are helping.

Would you like to help? There will be exceptional returns on your investment, not just for our children but for the future of our community.

Glenn Christenson is chairman of the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance.

What does an investment in K-12 look like?GUEST COLUMN:

GLENN CHRISTENSON

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A man logs on to Harrah’s online casino on his laptop at a highway rest area in Egg Harbor Township, N.J. (ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE)

Online gaming advocates have much to learn from AdelsonBY AMBER PHILLIPSSTAFF WRITER

WASHINGTON — On any given day, a team of well-suited lobbyists glides through Capitol Hill to deliver a shocking ultimatum for lawmakers: Ban online gaming or risk Americans’ financial and moral ruin.

“Click your mouse,” goes one oft-used slogan, “and lose your house.”

The other side of the online gaming debate is made up of smaller, dispa-rate groups that lack a similarly cohe-sive message.

But they need one, say some who are worried that without an equally startling message to grab lawmakers’ attention, they don’t stand a chance against a well-organized and richly funded campaign to ban online gam-ing.

Ban proponents are backed by mil-lions from Las Vegas Sands CEO Shel-don Adelson, who has promised to spend “whatever it takes” to ensure American families can’t use their computers and mobile devices for on-line gambling, which he considers a 21st-century abomination.

Adelson’s messaging strategy is savvy, say online gaming advocates. Most federal lawmakers don’t spend their days thinking about online gam-bling, so a startling line like one used by the Adelson-backed Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling on its website — “Your kid’s smartphone could be a casino” — is an easy way to get in the door to make your case.

“If you walk in and say, ‘Do you want to protect children and stop terrorism and money laundering,’ you’re going to hear a resounding, ‘Yes,’ ” said Jan Jones Blackhurst, an executive for

Caesars Entertainment, which sup-ports online gaming as another av-enue of revenue for brick-and-mortar casinos.

Web gaming supporters are trying to coalesce just as the high-stakes movement to get Congress to rein-state the ban on online gaming, which was lifted by a 2011 Department of Justice decision.

In February, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, reintroduced a bill from last Congress to restore the federal gov-ernment’s ban on Internet gaming. The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee plans to conduct hearings about on-line gambling’s corrupting influence on children. The bill is expected to be introduced in the Senate by South Carolina Republican Lindsey Gra-ham, a potential 2016 presidential contender.

It’s not clear how far the legislation will move this Congress. But Adelson has money to bide his time and is mak-ing a moral argument to get his way.

“Whether it is full casino gaming, poker only, or anything in between — this is a societal train wreck waiting to happen,” Adelson wrote in a 2013 Forbes column.

Three states — Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware — have legalized some form of online gaming, and as many as 10 others are considering doing so.

The arguments for keeping online gaming span the spectrum: It’s a deci-sion that should be left up to the states; well-rounded studies show no correla-tion between online betting and the end of society; new geo-location and age-verification technology keep pok-er off children’s smartphones; ban-ning online gaming will only push it offshore and underground, expanding

its potential menace.But none of those points will reso-

nate in Congress without a slogan that can make lawmakers listen in the first place, analysts say.

Asked about online gaming sup-porters’ chances without a bumper-sticker slogan, Georgetown Univer-sity Law professor Heidi Li Feldman said simply: “They’ll lose.”

The failure to build a messaging strategy is indicative of a larger prob-lem for online gaming supporters: Their movement has no leader.

That job would typically fall to the industry’s top trade group, the Ameri-can Gaming Association. But the AGA has quietly stepped out of the online gaming battle — influenced, many in-siders believe, by board member Adel-son.

There is a pro-online gaming group, the Coalition for Consumer and On-line Protection, but the organization is significantly less active than its counterpart, the Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling, which produces slick videos on the dangers of online gaming and offers resources for par-ents to keep their kids safe.

Individual companies such as Cae-sars Entertainment and MGM Resorts International, and smaller lobbying organizations like Porter Gordon Sil-ver, run by former Nevada Congress-man Jon Porter, are left to strategize their next move against Adelson.

The end game may come down to who has the best slogan.

“It doesn’t really matter what the merits of any given issue are,” Feld-man said. “The side that gets heard will be the side that gets responded to.”

BY ELI SEGALLSTAFF WRITER

Las Vegas homebuilders started 2015 on a positive note, even though plenty of weak spots remain, an ana-lyst reports.

Southern Nevada builders sold 355 new homes in January, down 12 per-cent from a year ago, according to Las Vegas-based Home Builders Re-search.

The median price of the closings was $318,190, up 6 percent year-over-year. Builders also pulled 407 new-home permits, down 9.5 percent from

a year ago, indicating a drop in con-struction plans.

By the middle of January, builders were selling at a pace of almost one house per subdivision each week, double the rate in December.

That’s on par with early 2014 and “not at any type of record pace” for the area, “but it is a very positive turnaround from the lackluster ac-tivity during the last two quarters of 2014,” Home Builders Research President Dennis Smith wrote in his report.

In 2014, after business rose fast

from the depths of the recession for a few years, new-home sales dropped 18 percent from 2013 and prices were volatile.

“Frankly, we are a bit surprised that demand has improved so quick-ly,” Smith wrote.

One reason, he said: Buyers are jumping in because they’re convinced that interest rates will rise this year, increasing their borrowing costs.

The average interest rate on a 30-year mortgage loan last year was 4.17 percent. That’s historically low but up from 3.66 percent in 2012, ac-

cording to mortgage-finance compa-ny Freddie Mac.

Smith said it’s “inevitable” that rates will climb this year, but it’s un-clear when, and it depends largely on the national economy.

Overall, the valley’s once-decimat-ed housing market has improved the past few years but remains laced with problems, including high rates of foreclosures, underwater borrowers and subprime credit scores.

Progress can easily be thwarted.“Let’s face it, the housing market is

still very fragile,” Smith wrote.

Analyst: Home sales up, but market remains fragile

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Las Vegas’ once-battered housing market has im-proved the past few years but remains riddled with problems, some of which are among the worst in the country: foreclosures, underwater borrowers, flat wages, high unemployment, lousy consumer credit.

And yet, Nevada’s homebuilding industry, the same group that flooded the valley with quickly built cook-ie-cutter homes, is blaming one issue as the biggest roadblock of all: homeowners’ lawsuits alleging shod-dy construction.

Assembly Bill 125, dubbed the “Homeowner Protec-tions Act of 2015,” overhauls Nevada’s construction-defect law in builders’ and contractors’ favor. The state Assembly and Senate passed the bill on party-line votes last month, and Gov. Brian Sandoval signed it Feb. 24.

“During my State of the State address, I challenged the Legislature with passing meaningful construction defect reform,” Sandoval said in a statement. “They have met that challenge with the Homeowner Protections Act, which discourages frivolous litigation and strengthens Nevada’s rebounding housing market.”

Supporters say the law will boost construction jobs, but outside analysts say it will hammer trial lawyers, a political and business foe of builders, and, despite the bill’s name, will make it harder for homeowners to sue for shoddy workmanship.

“I love the titles of these bills,” professor Eric Herzik, chairman of UNR’s political science department, said with a laugh.

Among other things, AB125 strips homeowners’ abil-ity to recover reasonable attorney’s fees in defect cases and changes the definition of a construction defect, eliminating the provision that such flaws are made in violation of law and local codes and ordinances.

All industries have frivolous lawsuits and eye-pop-ping attorney’s fees, and homebuilding is no different. But, Herzik said, to say construction-defect cases are strangling the housing market — while ignoring Ne-vada’s countless serious economic problems — doesn’t jibe with reality.

“That claim is so overstated, it’s really pretty laugh-able,” Herzik said.

But current law does encourage “lawsuits ahead of settlements” and rewards lawyers who quickly round up homeowners to sue, Herzik said.

UNLV researchers, in a 2013 report for the Southern Nevada Home Builders Association that the housing industry often cites, found the number of defect claims per new home in Nevada has been 38 times the nation-al average since 2006.

But behind the scenes, AB125 was a proxy fight.Trial lawyers usually support Democrats, and build-

ers and contractors align with the GOP. Republicans tried to change construction-defect law for years but came up short because Democrats blocked them, of-ten by not even giving their proposals a hearing, Her-zik said.

n n n

During the go-go years of rampant construction,

skyrocketing prices, rapid sales volume and all-too-easy mortgage lending, homebuilders couldn’t work fast enough.

At the peak, in 2005, they sold about 39,000 new homes in Southern Nevada, or more than 100 per day, Las Vegas-based Home Builders Research found.

Working that fast, the chances for error only grow. Perhaps one way to interpret UNLV’s findings is that Nevada, with its white-hot growth, was more prone to shoddy construction than most states.

Piping-maker IPEX, for instance, in early 2009 agreed to pay $90 million to help re-pipe about 30,000 homes in the valley.

“They were putting up crappy houses,” UNLV po-litical science professor David Damore said of the building industry.

Afterward, when America was mired in the worst downturn since the Great Depression, Las Vegas became the poster child for economic ruin, with widespread foreclosures, empty office buildings and abandoned construction projects. The unemploy-ment rate more than tripled, and new-home sales evaporated, falling about 90 percent.

Things are better today, but Las Vegas’ economy and housing market still have a long way to go.

And despite the litany of reasons for the market’s struggles, lobbying groups have treated construc-tion-defect litigation as public enemy No. 1.

n “Serious abuse of our state’s law on construction defects has practically halted new home starts.” — Bill Miles, president of the Builders Alliance of West-ern Nevada

n “Construction of owner-occupied multifamily housing has been shut down by an excess of abusive lawsuits under Nevada’s construction defect law.” — Tray Abney, director of government relations for

Reno’s chamber of commercen “The housing industry is an essential part of

Nevada’s economy. ... But this economic growth has been limited by a pervasive and significant problem: an excess of abusive lawsuits under Nevada’s con-struction defect law.” — Brad Spires, the Nevada As-sociation of Realtors’ legislative chairman

n “It’s very frustrating to see the construction de-fect issue blocking construction job growth gener-ally and stifling home construction startups.” — Ja-vier Trujillo, former chairman of the Las Vegas Latin Chamber of Commerce

Despite these claims, developers have big con-struction projects in the works. Over the past year or so, investors have revived several master-planned communities in Southern Nevada that stalled dur-ing the recession, including 1,700-acre Skye Canyon and 2,700-acre Park Highlands.

Homebuilders did see a steep drop in sales, vola-tile prices and reduced construction plans last year compared with 2013, but sales were up more than 50 percent from the depths of the recession.

“The market’s a little slow now, but over the long term, it’s going to have good health,” LandWell Co. CEO Mark Paris, whose company is developing the 2,200-acre Cadence community in Henderson, said last spring.

Construction jobs are a shadow of what they were last decade but are rebounding. The Las Vegas area had 43,600 construction workers as of September, up 22 percent from two years earlier, according to the Associated General Contractors of America.

The market does have plenty of weak spots, but they seemingly have little to do with home-defect lawsuits.

Las Vegas has one of the highest rates of underwa-ter borrowers, Nevada has one of the highest foreclo-sure rates in the nation, and the state’s unemploy-ment rate is tied for fifth-highest in the country.

Locally, about 60 percent of the jobs lost to the recession had been recovered by last fall, RCG Eco-nomics found. But by and large, employers aren’t ex-panding much, giving employees more hours or rais-ing pay — crimping people’s ability to buy a house.

All told, Nevadans’ personal finances are some of the worst in the nation. Two-thirds of residents have subprime credit scores, the second highest-rate in the United States, according to the nonprofit Corpo-ration for Enterprise Development.

What’s more, U.S. housing officials last year re-duced the pool of potential buyers by slashing the limit on mortgages they’d guarantee in Las Vegas, from $400,000 to $287,500 for the purchase of a single-family house.

And banks typically won’t give a mortgage for sev-eral years to someone who had a foreclosure, bank-ruptcy or short sale. Buyers have pent-up demand but are “just waiting for these time limits to expire,” Rob McGibney, Las Vegas division president for KB Home, said last summer.

Still, industry lobbyists are ignoring these issues.“It becomes a partisan fight as opposed to what’s

best for the homeowner,” Damore said.Kyle Roerink contributed to this report.

ANALYSIS

Did construction-defect law stunt housing market?

Home construction in Southern Nevada was a boom-ing industry before the Great Recession, with more than 100 new homes sold every day in 2005. (STAFF FILE)


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More than 72,000 Nevadans sign up for health insurance through exchangeBY JACKIE VALLEYSTAFF WRITER

Open enrollment for government-subisized health insurance ended with 72,127 Nevada residents selecting a plan or re-enrolling, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced.

Insurance coverage for those who signed up begins March 1.

“Our focus this year was never on numbers, but always about people,” Bruce Gilbert, executive director of the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange, said in a statement. “We believed that if we gave Nevadans access to stable technology and quality health plans, the numbers would take care of themselves.”

Last year, about 32,000 Nevadans

received insurance through the exchange marketplace, Gilbert said.

Technical difficulties plagued open enrollment last year, including in Nevada, which was using a state-maintained software system. This year, Nevada Health Link, the state-created organization to help residents find insurance plans based on income, plugged into the

federal healthcare.gov platform, where consumers could complete the enrollment process.

About 11.4 million people nationwide enrolled in plans through the Health Insurance Marketplace during open enrollment this year. The Affordable Care Act requires most U.S. residents to have health coverage or face a tax penalty.

BY IAN WHITAKERSTAFF WRITER

For the first few years of the Harry Reid Research and Technology Park’s existence, the only visible sign of de-velopment was the tastefully mani-cured entrance wreathed in agave plants, golden barrel cacti and a styl-ish welcome sign.

Until now, that welcome sign didn’t lead to much. Since the recession’s credit crunch put a stop to significant investment in the valley, the 122-acre site on Sunset Road and Durango Drive is the same desert lot it has been since the county land was ac-quired by UNLV in 2005.

Today, with two tenants signed on for long-term leases and finally be-ginning construction, university of-ficials are hoping to kickstart their vision of a research nexus that would connect the university’s brightest with eager high-tech companies.

Large concrete walls and cranes have popped up in the center of the park where Catamaran LLC, an Illinois-based pharmacy man-agement company, is setting up a 100,000-square-foot shop.

Just down Jim Rogers Way, which runs through the center of the com-plex and was named after the higher education champion in a heartfelt ceremony last month, construction is also underway on an expanded campus of the American Preparatory Academy, a K-12 charter school that opened last year.

Millions in federal grants went to finance early operations at the site, but university officials said their luck ran out when the economic down-turn scared away developers who had been in talks to begin building.

“About the time we got every-thing ready for economic develop-ment was about six months after the economy of the world collapsed,” said Gerry Bomotti, UNLV’s senior vice

president for business and finance. “Things were just in a holding pat-tern.”

Managed by the UNLV Research Foundation, the park was meant to be kept afloat by lease money, but the lack of tenants forced it into six years of dormancy. A part-time employee of the foundation stayed around to keep the park’s marketing materials cur-rent, but other than that, there wasn’t much movement at the site.

“Isn’t it great to finally see some construction going on here?” foun-dation Chairman Ted Quirk said last month during a ceremony featuring local and national policymakers such as Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., and Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak.

Catamaran brings with it 353 jobs at an average wage of $23 per hour. The company told the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance it chose the property because of Southern Nevada’s status as a shipping hub

with a “large pool” of skilled workers in pharmacology, and said it would recruit from local pharmacy schools.

The company also received a $3.4 million incentive package from Gov. Brian Sandoval’s Office of Eco-nomic Development.

“The state taking a look at eco-nomic development and attracting more tech-oriented companies … has certainly mattered over the past cou-ple of years,” said Thomas Piechota, UNLV’s vice president of research and economic development. “I think that will likely continue.”

Research parks like this one aren’t a new concept. UNLV President Len Jessup, who arrived at the univer-sity this year from a business college post at the University of Arizona, said there are ways to get public and pri-vate groups working together.

Arizona’s other flagship cam-pus, Arizona State University, has a research park that houses around

4,000 employees in 50 companies, many of whom provide space for stu-dent collaboration in high-tech areas such as solar power and digital com-munication.

Bomotti said Catamaran expressed interest in reaching out to university students through means such as in-ternships at the facility.

“It will have a tremendous impact not just on this community but this state and beyond,” Jessup said. “This is the right vision.”

UNLV doesn’t have other compa-nies in line to start building just yet, but Bomotti said interest is growing.

The school is trying to secure an office and laboratories there for the Environmental Protection Agency, which has been occupying space at a small group of buildings at UNLV for decades.

“We always believed that this is a great location in the valley,” Bomotti said. “It was just a matter of when.”

Long-dormant technology park shows signs of life

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Last year, local businesses raked in 20 percent of all money spent on contracts at Nellis AFBand additions, subcontracting under the larger, more experienced Burke Construction and expanding its skill set.

“Nellis likes encouraging larger companies to work with smaller ones,” Advanced Pro owner Racquel Toyoza-ki said. “It can help build your profile and lead to more work.”

Nellis Air Force Base, 8 miles northeast of Las Vegas, is home to 40,000 service members, families and military retirees. It has been a valley landmark since 1941, when it was a training field for B-17 gunnery dur-ing the height of World War II. Today, Nellis provides training for every type of aircraft in the U.S. Air Force inven-tory, the air units of allied nations and air and ground units of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps.

Nellis also employs about 9,500 mil-itary members and civilians, making it one of the largest employers in South-ern Nevada. It has an annual budget of $150 million for civilian contracts, many of which go to local and small businesses.

“Supporting local business brings about economic growth,” said Lt. Col. Chris Kay, commander of Nellis’ con-tracting squadron. “We’re able to give back to the community. We are creat-ing jobs and development. And we’re strengthening the relationship be-tween the Vegas valley and Nellis Air Force Base.”

In 2014, $1 of every $5 spent on contracts at Nellis went to local busi-nesses. From constructing new dorms to staffing the on-base chapel, Nellis opens bids for contracts all year. Its goal is to award 20 percent of contracts to local businesses and 60 percent to small businesses.

The federal government reserves a percentage of every budget for small-business contracts, and any contract under $3,000 is set aside for small businesses. Nellis must adhere to federal mandates designed to keep competition fair so larger companies don’t walk away with the lion’s share of federal work. There are hundreds of rules and regulations that inform how the government awards contracts, and surprisingly often, they favor the un-derdogs.

Federal contracts are desirable be-cause they often include big work or-

ders and employers who know what they want. Businesses that do federal work have peace of mind that an em-ployer won’t skip out on a check.

“With commercial work, you always have to worry about pay,” said Doug-las Allen, owner of Nellis contractor PowerChoice Construction. “But with the government, the paycheck always comes.”

Allen has worked federal contracts since 1994. He started as a construc-tion manager on a Navy job, and in 1997, his staffing agency, Power Ser-vices, landed a contract doing general staffing with Nellis. Allen has been working with Nellis ever since, now in construction with his second com-pany, PowerChoice.

Allen used HUBZone (historically underutilized business zone) certifi-

cation to give his company an edge in landing the federal deals. The HUB-Zone program helps small businesses in economically disadvantaged urban and rural areas access federal con-tracts.

Other federal certifications include the Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Certification, Woman-Owned Small Business Certification and Small Disadvantaged Business Certification. Each has its own set of criteria dictated by the Small Business Administration.

Getting certified can make all the difference when it comes to landing a contract. Federal dollars are tightly scrutinized, and bases such as Nel-lis most often opt for the lowest bid-ders for contracts. Smaller companies with certifications can get a leg up with

smaller bid pools.The federal government aims to

contract 3 percent of its annual budget to HUBZone businesses and 3 percent to Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned businesses. In 2014, contracts awarded to businesses with such certifications were worth $226.8 billion.

Allen rarely works in the private sector anymore because he has been so successful getting federal work. He said it’s not wise to try to operate in both private and public sectors.

“There’s too many times that I’ve seen other guys fail when they get a federal contract,” Allen said. “They just don’t realize how much is required doing federal work. It’s a totally differ-ent beast.”

The road to landing a federal con-tract and maintaining it is crowded with competition, and it demands lots of research and paperwork. Allen said he hired a technical writer to wade through documentation.

“Even if you’re the best guy for the job, if you don’t communicate in the way (the federal government) wants, or if you don’t meet all the specifics and standards they ask for, then you won’t get the job,” Allen said.

Lyndee Cichon, director of Diver-sify Nevada’s procurement outreach program, described what goes into the federal bidding process.

“There’s employee experience, cer-tifications of businesses, record-keep-ing standards, wage rate requirements, employee benefit requirements and levels of compliance,” Cichon said. “Before you even bid, there’s plenty of stuff to know.”

Diversify Nevada, an arm of the Governor’s Office of Economic Devel-opment, and the Small Business Ad-ministration help Nevada businesses prepare to seek federal contracts. They offer classes, one-on-one training and access to free bid matching software that saves hours of time combing through government contracts look-ing for ones that match a business’s capabilities and interests.

They also give businesses a chance to meet federal contractors face to face and discuss the details of what they’re looking for.

“Don’t overcomplicate it; you’re already in business,” Kay said. “Just learn how to do it with Nellis.”

Douglas Allen, CEO of PowerChoice Construction, has worked federal contracts at Nellis Air Force Base for many years. (STEVE MARCUS/STAFF)

3 STEPS TO PREP FOR A FEDERAL CONTRACTn Register with SAMBusinesses must to register with the System of Award Management (SAM) before they can apply for a government contract. Visit SAM.gov to start the process.

n Get certifiedIf you’re eligible for a small-business certification, get one. It will give you an advantage in landing a contract. Learn more about certification at SBA.gov.

n Ask for helpVisit the Small Business Administration or Diversify Nevada to learn more about the logistics of government contracting. For dates and times of training sessions at Diversify Nevada, visit diversifynevada.com.


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Calendar of eventsTUESDAY, MARCH 3

Nathan Adelson Hospice

11th annual Multicultural Luncheon and Expo

Time: 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $65 per person,

$500 for a table of 10

Location: Tuscany, 255 E. Flamingo Road, Las

Vegas

Information: Visit nah.org

Sherri Allen, vice president of risk management

at Healthcare Partners Nevada, will discuss how

best to approach conversations about end-of-life

wishes.

Society for Marketing

Professional Services luncheon

Time: 11:15 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $20 for SMPS mem-

bers, $30 for nonmembers

Location: 4615 W. Sunset Road, Las Vegas

Information: Email Heather Brown at HBrown@

innovanv.com

Tina Quigley, general manager of the Regional

Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada,

will give an overview of the agency and an update

on fuel revenue indexing. A tour of the RTC FAST

Center will follow.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4

Stirling Club luncheon

Time: 11:30 a.m. Cost: $26

Location: Gordon Biersch, 3987 Paradise Road,

Las Vegas

Information: Email Bruce Merrin at merrinpr@

lvcoxmail.com

Joshua Gottesman, a former CPA who now advises

companies on finances, will be guest presenter.

Bob Maheu “First Wednesday” lunch

Time: 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m. Cost: $30

Location: Las Vegas Country Club, Rotunda

Room, 3000 Joe W. Brown Drive, Las Vegas

Information: Call 702-692-8000

A monthly discussion led by people shaping the

future of Southern Nevada.

Las Vegas HEALS monthly medical mixer

Time: 6-8 p.m. Cost: $30 for Las Vegas HEALS

members, free for first 40 physicians who reg-

ister

Location: Parkway Surgical Center, 100 N. Green

Valley Parkway, Henderson

Information: Visit lasvegasheals.org

A networking opportunity for doctors and health

care industry professionals, with a tour of the

Parkway Surgical Center.

Large Vision Business Network

mixer: Gone Green Expo 2015

Time: 6-9 p.m. Cost: Free with ticket

Location: Suncoast Grand Ballroom, 9090 Alta

Drive, Las Vegas


More than 50 Clark County businesses will show-

case eco-friendly products and services.

THURSDAY, MARCH 5

American Marketing

Association luncheon

Time: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $35 for AMA mem-

bers, $45 for nonmembers

Location: Fleming’s Steakhouse, Town Square,

6515 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas

Information: Email [email protected]

Michael McCue, a partner at Lewis and Roca and

leader of the firm’s intellectual property practice

group, will present “Top 10 Mistakes Marketing

Professionals Make Involving Intellectual Property

Law.”

2015 Nevada Business

Hall of Fame

Time: 7-9 p.m. Cost: $275

per person, $2,500 for a

table of 10

Location: Mirage, Main Ball-

room, 3400 Las Vegas Blvd.

South, Las Vegas

Information: Email Anna

Drury at anna.drury@unlv.

edu

Three prominent Southern

Nevadans — Christina Hixson,

the sole trustee of the Lied

Foundation Trust; Robert

Mendenhall, owner and CEO

of Las Vegas Paving Corp.;

and Kevin Orrock, presi-

dent of Summerlin and vice

president of master-planned

communities for the Howard

Hughes Corp. — will be in-

ducted into the Nevada Busi-

ness Hall of Fame for their

contributions to the state’s

economic development.

MONDAY, MARCH 9

Nevada Institute of Personalized

Medicine seminar series

Time: 2-3 p.m. Cost: Free

Location: UNLV, Student Union Room 219, 4505

S. Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas

Information: Email Megan Svarz at nipm@unlv.

edu

Bioinformatics researcher Dongziao Zhu will pres-

ent, “Deep Sequencing Analytics to Enable Preci-

sion Medicine.”

TUESDAY, MARCH 10

Conservation, Cultivation

& Cannabis in Clark County

Time: 7-9 a.m. Cost: $20 for U.S. Green Build-

ing Council Nevada Chapter members, $35 for

nonmembers

Location: The InNEVation Center, third floor,

6795 Edmond St., Las Vegas


John Laub of the Las Vegas Medical Marijuana As-

sociation will moderate a discussion about medical

marijuana with Arnold Lopez, of NV Energy; Tom

Perrigo, of the city of Las Vegas; John Perry, a cul-

tivation and industry expert; and Nicola Kerslake,

of Newbean Capital.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11

Roseman Medical School update

Time: 8-9 a.m. Cost: Free

Location: Roseman University of Health Scienc-

es Summerlin Campus, Ralph & Betty Engelstad

Research Building, second floor, 10530 Discov-

ery Drive, Las Vegas


Dr. Mark Penn, founding dean of Roseman Univer-

sity’s College of Medicine, will talk about develop-

ment of the college and its impact on the future of

Southern Nevada.

Business networking event

Time: 6-8 p.m. Cost: Free for Social Register

members, $20 for nonmembers

Location: House of Blues, Foundation Room,

3950 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas

Information: Call Mary Grace Yniguez at 702-

256-0123

An opportunity to expand your business network

and establish valuable relationships.

THURSDAY, MARCH 12

Las Vegas Asian Chamber

of Commerce networking mixer

Time: 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $10 for Asian Cham-

ber members, $15 for nonmembers

Location: Park Place Infiniti, 5555 W. Sahara

Ave., Las Vegas


Meet new people. Share contacts, referrals and

ideas.

Dr. Mark Penn is founding dean of Roseman University’s College of Medicine. (COURTESY)

HIXSON

MENDENHALL

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$81,000 for 1,300 square feet, retail for 36 months6975 W. Spring Mountain Road, Suite B, Las Vegas 89147Landlord: W&W PartnershipLandlord agent: Liz Clare and Jackie Young of Avison YoungTenant: Premium WirelessTenant agent: N/A

$67,221 for 770 square feet, indus-trial for 60 months3231 N. Decatur Blvd., Suite 122, Las Vegas 89130Landlord: Red Feather Property LLCLandlord agent: Pete Janemark of Cushman and Wakefield CommerceTenant: Quickee Burger (QBLV2 LLC)Tenant agent: Jakke Farley of Virtus Commercial

$35,640 for 900 square feet, retail for 36 months3884 W. Sahara Ave. (Valley Oaks), Las Vegas 89102Landlord: Ebrahim and Kiandokht SarrafLandlord agent: Dan Hubbard and Todd Manning of Cushman and Wakefield CommerceTenant: Susana Guerrero dba Farm-ers InsuranceTenant agent: N/A

$28,489 for 1,269 square feet, of-fice for 17 months1333 N. Bu¤alo Drive, Suite 250, Las Vegas 89128Landlord: Lawrence B. Miller and Geraldine F. Miller, trustees of Miller Trust and Chris Hougie Landlord agent: Chris Emanuel of Virtus CommercialTenant: JoAnn Lujan of Achieve-ment BehavioralTenant agent: N/A

$6,857 for 1,062 square feet, o�ce for 12 months222 S. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 205, Las Vegas 89145Landlord: 222 Rainbow LLCLandlord agent: Pete Janemark of Cushman and Wakefield Commerce

Tenant: Kensington Chase LLCTenant agent: N/A

BUSINESS LICENSES

Banu V. Gordon Business type: Real estate salesAddress: 5550 Painted Mirage Road, Suite 140, Las VegasOwner: Banu V. Gordon

Barbara’s Staging DesignBusiness type: Miscellaneous sales/serviceAddress: 6873 Desert Thrasher Drive, North Las Vegas Owner: Barbara’s Staging Design

Benjamin Durham Law Firm Business type: Professional servicesAddress: 601 S. 10th St., Suite 101, Las Vegas Owner: Benjamin C. Durham

Big Sky PublicationsBusiness type: Magazine ad salesAddress: 2302 Desert Fox Drive, Henderson Owner: Big Sky Publications LLC

Bill SubinBusiness type: Rental propertyAddress: 2315 Ellis St., North Las Vegas Owner: Bill Subin M.D. Ltd.

Bodygrapher Business type: Instruction servicesAddress: 7980 W. Sahara Ave., Las Vegas Owner: W&I Management Corp.

Brand Generation Inc.Business type: Management or consulting serviceAddress: 1810 E. Sahara Ave., Suite 100, Las Vegas Owner: Richard Bryan

Burgerfest Business type: Mobile food vendor Address: 4181 Pioneer Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Sausagefest LLC

Cadence Pest ControlBusiness type: Property mainte-nanceAddress: 121 Pettswood Drive, Henderson Owner: Gilbert Nick Medina

Cafe 316 Business type: RestaurantAddress: 316 E. Bridger Ave., Suite 102, Las Vegas Owner: Cafe 316 LLC

Campus Pharmacy West Business type: Professional services - medicalAddress: 1701 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 100, Las Vegas Owner: University of Nevada School of Medicine Pharmacy

CC’s Beauty Boutique

Business type: General retail salesAddress: 8975 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 130, Las Vegas Owner: Christina Carletto

Children’s Learning Adventure Child Care CenterBusiness type: Commercial nurseryAddress: 3470 W. Ann Road, North Las VegasOwner: CLA Ann Road LLC, Richard Sodja

Circuit Zone Repair Business type: Repair and mainte-nance Address: 1954 E. Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Leonardo Lopez

Clayton Homes #1048 Business type: Trailer or mobile home salesAddress: 8275 S. Eastern Ave., Of-fice 200, Suite 117, Las Vegas Owner: CMH Homes Inc.

Close Cuts Barber Shop Business type: Cosmetological establishmentAddress: 1830 N. Martin L. King Blvd., Suite 114, Las Vegas Owner: Jerry Scott

Cofer & Geller LLCBusiness type: Professional servicesAddress: 601 S. 10th St., Suite 105, Las Vegas Owner: Warren Geller

Dalal Hicks Business type: Real estate salesAddress: 9420 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 100, Las Vegas Owner: Dalal Hicks

David Richards Business type: Real estate salesAddress: 1925 Village Center Circle, Suite 150, Las VegasOwner: David Richards

DG Anderson LLCBusiness type: Business support serviceAddress: 9230 W. Sahara Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Andrew T. Mathis

Dia De Muertos Arts and Crafts Business type: General retail salesAddress: 6695 Brick House Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Jaime Rosas

Digital Solutions LLCBusiness type: General retail salesAddress: 51 N. Pecos Road, Suite 109, Las Vegas Owner: Larry Christensen

Discount Cigarettes Etc.Business type: Tobacco sales/loungeAddress: 7121 W. Craig Road, Suite 105, Las Vegas Owner: Mohammad Herrawi

Dotty’s 110 Business type: TavernAddress: Multiple locations, Las Vegas Owner: Nevada Restaurant Services Inc.

DRD Dental Business type: Professional services - medicalAddress: 8670 W. Cheyenne Ave., Suite 230, Las Vegas Owner: Diana Tolentino DDS Pro-fessional Corporation

Dry Clean VegasBusiness type: Dry cleaning/altera-tionAddress: 90 S. Stephanie St., Suite 130, Henderson Owner: Paradigm Services LLC

DT Commercial LLCBusiness type: Business space rent or leaseAddress: 701 E. Bridger Ave., Suite 400, Las Vegas Owner: DTP MGMT LLC

Dynamic Metal Design LLCBusiness type: ManufacturingAddress: 4300 N. Pecos Road, Suite 38, North Las Vegas Owner: Dynamic Metal Design LLC

E&J Done Right ServiceBusiness type: Auto/truck garage serviceAddress: 4230 N. Pecos Road, Suite 6, North Las Vegas Owner: Edith L. Michel

El Dorado Banquet Hall Business type: Alcoholic beverage caterer Address: 4440 E. Washington Ave., Suite 105, Las Vegas Owner: El Dorado Enterprises Inc.

El Paisano Multiservicios Business type: General services (counter/o¨ce)Address: 650 N. Eastern Ave., Suite D, Las Vegas Owner: Misael Gutierrez

Escobars JumpersBusiness type: TruckingAddress: 2807 Sodorno Lane, Hen-derson Owner: Wilson Escobar

ET Smoke Shop Business type: Tobacco sales/loungeAddress: 1291 S. Decatur Blvd., Suite 180, Las Vegas Owner: Ermias Tsegaye

Executive Cuts Barber Shop Business type: General retail salesAddress: 921 W. Owens Ave., Suite 120, Las Vegas Owner: Angela Richard

Exotic Extensions Business type: General retail salesAddress: 1717 S. Decatur Blvd., Suite

Records and TransactionsI02, Las Vegas Owner: Thomas S. Christian

EZPawn Business type: Pistol permitAddress: 7077 W. Craig Road, Las Vegas Owner: EZPawn Nevada Inc.

Fashionarhi Business type: General retail salesAddress: 1012 E. Charleston Blvd., Suite 103, Las Vegas Owner: Rhia S. Harewood

Golden Star Smokeshop Business type: Tobacco sales/loungeAddress: 4530 E. Charleston Blvd., Suite 5, Las Vegas Owner: Estrey B. Jimenez

Grandma Bev’s Goodies Business type: Food services or caféAddress: 2413 Mango Bay Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Beverly S. Carter

Granite Countertop Services Business type: Residential property maintenanceAddress: 6300 McCarran St., Suite 2126, Las Vegas Owner: Ana M. Galdamez-Reyes

GTP O� RoadBusiness type: Mail order/Internet salesAddress: 3660 N. Fifth St., Suite 140, North Las Vegas Owner: GTP O¤ Road Inc.

Han Fei YuanBusiness type: Independent mas-sage therapistAddress: 11251 S. Eastern Ave., Suite 150, Henderson Owner: Han Fei Yuan

HD Smoke Shop & Gifts Business type: Tobacco sales/loungeAddress: 7421 W. Lake Mead Blvd., Suite 2, Las Vegas Owner: Junaid Dastagir

Hush Business type: General retail salesAddress: 7950 W. Flamingo Road, Suite 1115, Las Vegas Owner: Andrea C. Brown

Infinity Road LLCBusiness type: TruckingAddress: 67 Constitution Ave., Henderson Owner: Infinity Road LLC

Ito’s DGFBusiness type: Food services or caféAddress: 238 S. Rainbow Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: E & E Property Manage-ment & Investment LLC

Jefe’s Taco Shop

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15MARCH 1 - MARCH 7

Records and TransactionsI02, Las Vegas Owner: Thomas S. Christian

EZPawn Business type: Pistol permitAddress: 7077 W. Craig Road, Las Vegas Owner: EZPawn Nevada Inc.

Fashionarhi Business type: General retail salesAddress: 1012 E. Charleston Blvd., Suite 103, Las Vegas Owner: Rhia S. Harewood

Golden Star Smokeshop Business type: Tobacco sales/loungeAddress: 4530 E. Charleston Blvd., Suite 5, Las Vegas Owner: Estrey B. Jimenez

Grandma Bev’s Goodies Business type: Food services or caféAddress: 2413 Mango Bay Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Beverly S. Carter

Granite Countertop Services Business type: Residential property maintenanceAddress: 6300 McCarran St., Suite 2126, Las Vegas Owner: Ana M. Galdamez-Reyes

GTP O� RoadBusiness type: Mail order/Internet salesAddress: 3660 N. Fifth St., Suite 140, North Las Vegas Owner: GTP O� Road Inc.

Han Fei YuanBusiness type: Independent mas-sage therapistAddress: 11251 S. Eastern Ave., Suite 150, Henderson Owner: Han Fei Yuan

HD Smoke Shop & Gifts Business type: Tobacco sales/loungeAddress: 7421 W. Lake Mead Blvd., Suite 2, Las Vegas Owner: Junaid Dastagir

Hush Business type: General retail salesAddress: 7950 W. Flamingo Road, Suite 1115, Las Vegas Owner: Andrea C. Brown

Infinity Road LLCBusiness type: TruckingAddress: 67 Constitution Ave., Henderson Owner: Infinity Road LLC

Ito’s DGFBusiness type: Food services or caféAddress: 238 S. Rainbow Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: E & E Property Manage-ment & Investment LLC

Jefe’s Taco Shop

Business type: Food services or caféAddress: 5700 Sky Pointe Drive, Las Vegas Owner: Heliodoro Lopez

Je�rey Ramirez Business type: Independent mas-sage therapistAddress: 981 Whitney Ranch Drive, Suite 717, Las Vegas Owner: Je�rey Ramirez

Joyce McCollum Business type: Real estate salesAddress: 6628 Sky Pointe Drive, Suite 200, Las Vegas Owner: Joyce McCollum

JT’s Dollar Castle Business type: General retail salesAddress: 1437 N. Jones Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Inam Dollar LLC

Kathryn (Katie) Ramsey Business type: Real estate salesAddress: 7181 N. Hualapai Way, Suite 135, Las Vegas Owner: Kathryn Ramsey

Keane Therapies Business type: Independent mas-sage therapistAddress: 4486 W. Eldorado Lane, Las Vegas Owner: Canam1995 LLC

Kenneth Daniels Business type: Real estate salesAddress: 9525 Hillwood Drive, Suite 120, Las Vegas Owner: Kenneth Daniels

Ketzaly LLCBusiness type: General retail salesAddress: 875 S. Grand Central Parkway, Suite C12, Las Vegas Owner: Suan Ramirez

Kikai Corner Business type: General retail salesAddress: 1717 S. Decatur Blvd., Suite H30, Las Vegas Owner: Yvonne Briones

Koren Business type: General retail sales Address: 875 S. Grand Central Parkway, Kiosk, Las VegasOwner: Brandon Koren Kristina Atia Business type: Real estate salesAddress: 777 N. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 120, Las VegasOwner: Kristina Atia Lake Mead Arco #82874 Business type: Convenience storeAddress: 300 W. Lake Mead Blvd., North Las VegasOwner: Dhaliwal Enterprises Inc. Las Vegas Cleaning Service LLC Business type: Janitorial serviceAddress: 6713 Yellowhammer Place, North Las Vegas

Owner: Las Vegas Cleaning Service LLC Las Vegas Psychiatry LLC Business type: Professional services Address: 9402 W. Lake Mead Blvd., Las VegasOwner: Teresa Child Lasombrita Business type: Restaurant Address: 671 N. Nellis Blvd., Las VegasOwner: Raquel Castro Latin Fish Business type: Alcohol beverage caterer Address: 2620 Regatta Drive, Suite 114, Las VegasOwner: Latin Fish LLC Lauren Gutierrez Business type: Real estate salesAddress: 777 N. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 120, Las VegasOwner: Lauren Gutierrez Legal Process Service Business type: Professional services Address: 724 S. Eighth St., Las VegasOwner: Legal Process Service LLC Lil Green Houses LLC Business type: Rental propertyAddress: 1840 Harding St., North Las VegasOwner: Lil Green Houses LLC Lizette’s Food Service Business type: Mobile food vendor Address: 4181 Pioneer Ave., Las VegasOwner: Alex Food Catering Inc. Lopez Cleaning Service Business type: Janitorial serviceAddress: 2529 Statz St., North Las VegasOwner: Melchor Lopez, Maria Del Carmen Silverio Lowry’s Catering Inc. Business type: Alcohol beverage caterer Address: 4125 W. Charleston Blvd., Las VegasOwner: Robert Lowry Mach-1 Plumbing LLC Business type: Plumbing contractorAddress: 3752 Civic Center Drive, North Las VegasOwner: Mach-1 Plumbing LLC MDI Steel LLC Business type: ContractorAddress: 5550 Reference St., Las VegasOwner: Angelo Infante MG Services Inc. Business type: Handyman/Mainte-nance servicesAddress: 4325 W. Rome Blvd., North Las VegasOwner: MG Services Inc.

Mobile Maids LV Business type: Property mainte-nanceAddress: 28 Distinguished Way, HendersonOwner: Mobile Maids LV Mykonos Greek Cuisine Business type: Beer, wine, cooler on sale Address: 9320 Sun City Blvd., Suite 101, Las VegasOwner: Helen Menegaki National General Contractors Business type: General contractorAddress: 11759 Hugana Place, Las VegasOwner: Distinct Fortune LLC Nayle Garcia Business type: Massage therapistsAddress: 20 Hoke Edward Court, North Las VegasOwner: Nayle Garcia Nehemiah’s Leadership Center Business type: Instruction services Address: 5650 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 9, Las VegasOwner: Ministerio Internacional Evangelistico Siquem Nevada Care Center Business type: Professional services - medical Address: 1721 E. Charleston Blvd., Las VegasOwner: Nevada Integrated Behav-ioral Services Inc. Nevada Treatment Center Business type: Clinic or laboratory Address: 1722 E. Charleston Blvd., Las VegasOwner: Nevada Integrated Behav-ioral Services Inc.

BUILDING PERMITS

$1,915,689, commercial-addition4100 E. Lone Mountain Road, North Las VegasR&O Construction

$1,880,650, commercial-remodel1301 W. Sunset Road, HendersonRegal Cinemas

$1,552,901, residential-new245 S. Gibson Road, Building 1, HendersonMoser Architecture Studio LLC



$1,014,735, residential-new245 S. Gibson Road, Building 13, Henderson

Moser Architecture Studio LLC


$955,195, commercial-alteration713 E. Lake Mead Blvd., North Las VegasCli�ord & Cruz Inc.

$700,000, tenant improvement4101 Meadows Lane, Suite 120, Las VegasWestar Construction

$556,620, roof-mounted photo-voltaic system7120 Dogan Ridge St., Las VegasU.S. Renewable Energy Develop-ment

$505,815, residential-new245 S. Gibson Road, Building 12, HendersonMoser Architecture Studio LLC

$421,918, tenant improvement831 W. Bonanza Road, Las VegasTradewinds Construction

$400,000, tenant improvement4101 Meadows Lane, Suite 110, Las VegasWestar Construction

$350,000, tenant improvement555 S. Grand Central Parkway, Suite 195, Las VegasMC Construction Management

$330,000, wall and/or fence9050 Gilcrease Ave., Las VegasHirschi Masonry LLC

$300,000, tenant improvement4101 Meadows Lane, Las VegasWestar Construction

$279,024, residential-new62 Bella Lago Ave., HendersonWilliam Lyon Homes


$250,000, tenant improvement10420 W. Cheyenne Ave., Suite 110, Las VegasSGI Builders


$236,328, residential-new3019 Regency Hill, HendersonTeresa Davis

$214,900, assembly group245 S. Gibson Road, HendersonMoser Architecture Studio LLC

$208,270, residential-new896 Lynne Harbor Ave., HendersonKB Home Nevada Inc.

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VEGAS INC

16MARCH 1 - MARCH 7

Records and Transactions$205,991, commercial-addition4855 Engineers Way, North Las VegasLafargo Builders

$202,503, residential-new269 Mandarin Hill Lane, HendersonPardee Homes of Nevada




$183,373, residential-new273 Mandarin Hill Lane, HendersonCentury Communities of Nevada

$183,000, tenant improvement15 N. Nellis Blvd., Las VegasArlington Construction Inc.

$179,781, wall and/or fence5520 Iron Mountain Road, Las VegasFrehner Masonry Inc.

$179,175, residential-new4132 Del Monte Ave., Las VegasMelanie Liang


$171,818, sign2427 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las VegasYesco LLC

$168,721, residential-new12269 Catanzaro Ave., Las VegasRyland Homes

$168,721, residential-new374 Calabria Ridge St., Las VegasRyland Homes

$168,721, residential-new12277 Catanzaro Ave., Las VegasRyland Homes

$165,000, tenant improvement555 S. Grand Central Parkway, Suite 140, Las VegasShrader & Martinez Construction

$153,519, commercial-alteration4850 Statz St., North Las VegasLafargo Builders

$148,828, residential-new3194 Porto Vittoria Ave., HendersonToll Henderson LLC


$146,310, roof-mounted photovol-taic system

5020 Burr Oak Drive, Las VegasSolar City Corp.

$145,834, residential-new1057 Aubrey Springs Ave., Hen-dersonDR Horton Inc.

$145,648, residential-new4136 Seclusion Bay Ave., North Las VegasBeazer Homes Holding Corp.

$143,006, residential-new1103 Echo Pass St., HendersonKB Home Nevada Inc.

$142,483, residential-new10445 White Princess Ave., Las VegasRyland Homes

$142,050, residential-new5025 Alejandro Way, North Las VegasWilliam Lyon Homes




$138,348, residential-new1943 Galleria Spada St., HendersonToll Henderson LLC

$136,185, residential-new281 Cadence View Way, HendersonRyland Homes


$134,744, residential-new1061 Aubrey Springs Ave., Hender-sonDR Horton Inc.

$128,323, residential-new10754 Cather Ave., Las VegasRyland Homes



$123,813, residential-new8108 Turquoise Tide Drive, Las VegasDR Horton Inc.




$117,055, residential-new5740 Pleasant Palms St., North Las VegasJ.F. Shea Co. Inc.

$115,298, residential-new10505 Galleon Peak Lane, Las VegasRyland Homes

$114,936, residential-new5744 Clear Haven Lane, North Las VegasBeazer Homes Holding Corp.

$113,865, residential-new10705 Leatherstocking Ave., Las VegasRyland Homes


$113,227, residential-new8108 Fleeting Twilight Place, Las VegasDR Horton Inc.

$113,227, residential-new8115 Turquoise Tide Drive, Las VegasDR Horton Inc.

$112,841, residential-new384 Layla Bay St., HendersonDR Horton Inc.

$112,841, residential-new388 Layla Bay St., HendersonDR Horton Inc.


$110,339, residential-new6731 Sumatra St., Las VegasRyland Homes


$110,000, residential-new7560 Nicklin St., Las VegasEdward Homes Inc.

$110,000, residential-new7540 Nicklin St., Las VegasEdward Homes Inc.




$107,510, residential-new10501 Galleon Peak Lane, Las VegasRyland Homes

$107,296, residential-new386 Layla Bay St., HendersonDR Horton Inc. $105,563, tenant improvement1701 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 230, Las VegasTitanium Building Group LLC $104,857, residential-new5621 Balsam St., Las VegasRichmond American Homes of Nevada $104,857, residential-new5610 Bishop Flowers St., Las VegasRichmond American Homes of Nevada $103,232, residential-new12237 Regal Springs Court, Las VegasKB Home Nevada Inc. $102,920, residential-new8223 Southern Cross Ave., Las VegasRyland Homes $102,355, residential-new4120 Seclusion Bay Ave., North Las VegasBeazer Homes Holding Corp. $101,751, residential-new390 Layla Bay St., HendersonDR Horton Inc. $100,742, residential-new3637 Corte Bella Hills Ave., North Las VegasJ.F. Shea Co. Inc. $100,742, residential-new3645 Corte Bella Hills Ave., North Las VegasJ.F. Shea Co. Inc. $100,742, residential-new3648 Corte Bella Hills Ave., North Las VegasJ.F. Shea Co. Inc. $99,747, residential-new5617 Balsam St., Las VegasRichmond American Homes of Nevada $99,747, residential-new

5625 Balsam St., Las VegasRichmond American Homes of Nevada $99,747, residential-new5629 Balsam St., Las VegasRichmond American Homes of Nevada $99,747, residential-new5633 Balsam St., Las VegasRichmond American Homes of Nevada $96,206, residential-new392 Layla Bay St., HendersonDR Horton Inc. $91,250, commercial-remodel105 W. Basic Road, HendersonCity of Henderson $91,250, commercial-remodel105 W. Basic Road, HendersonCity of Henderson $90,495, residential-new3741 Citrus Heights Ave., North Las VegasJ.F. Shea Co. Inc.

CONVENTIONS

ASD Las Vegas - March 2015Location: Las Vegas Convention CenterDates: March 1-4Expected attendance: 46,000

Exhibitor 2015Location: Mandalay BayDates: March 1-5Expected attendance: 5,200

WPPI Wedding & Portrait Photog-raphers Conference Expo 2015Location: MGM GrandDates: March 2-4Expected attendance: 11,000

National Air Tra�c Controllers Association (NATCA) (AFL-CIO) - Communicating for Safety 2015Location: RioDates: March 2-5Expected attendance: 1,050

LMC 2015 Annual Meeting - Lum-bermens Merchandising Corpora-tionLocation: VenetianDates: March 4-6Expected attendance: 1,400

National Association for Bilingual Education - NABE 2015 ConferenceLocation: Bally’sDates: March 4-7Expected attendance: 5,000

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1 Lake Mead Health & Rehabilitation Center1180 E. Lake Mead DriveHenderson, NV 89015702-565-8555 • savaseniorcare.com

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Resident 2014 David Campbell, administrator

2 TLC Care Center1500 W. Warm Springs RoadHenderson, NV 89014702-547-6700 • tlccarecenter.com


Resident 1999 Thomas Morton, administrator

3 Delmar Gardens of Green Valley100 Delmar Gardens DriveHenderson, NV 89074702-361-6111 • delmargardens.com


Resident 1988 Michelle Stenslie, administrator

4 Life Care Center of Las Vegas6151 Vegas DriveLas Vegas, NV 89108702-648-4900 • lcca.com


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1993 Clarissa Dewese, administrator

5 Royal Springs Healthcare and Rehab Inc.8501 Del Webb Blvd.Las Vegas, NV 89134702-804-3000


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1999 Joe Ann Cole, administrator

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7 Marquis Care Plaza Regency6021 W. Cheyenne Ave.Las Vegas, NV 89108702-658-9494 • marquiscompanies.com


Resident 1999 Laurie Hassen, administrator

8 North Las Vegas Care Center3215 E. Cheyenne Ave.North Las Vegas, NV 89030702-649-7800


Resident 1980 Michael Fleming, administrator

9 Nevada State Veterans Home - Boulder City100 Veterans Memorial DriveBoulder City, NV 89005702-332-6784 • veterans.nv.gov


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2002 Mark McBride, administrator

10 Silver Hills Health Care Center3450 N. Buffalo DriveLas Vegas, NV 89129702-952-2273 • silverhillshealthcarecenter.com


Resident 1998 Kerry Laviolette, administrator

11 Silver Ridge Health Care Center1151 Torrey Pines DriveLas Vegas, NV 89146702-938-8333 • silverridgehealthcarecenter.com


Resident, family

1999 Julia Mason, administrator

12 El Jen Convalescent Hospital & Retirement Center5538 W. Duncan DriveLas Vegas, NV 89130702-645-2606 • eljenhealthcarenv.com


Resident 1969 James Toomey, administrator

13 Horizon Health & Rehabilitation Center660 Desert LaneLas Vegas, NV 89106702-382-5580 • horizonhealthandrehab.com


Resident 1970 Aaron Rance, administrator

14a Life Care Center of Paradise Valley2325 E. Harmon Ave.Las Vegas, NV 89119702-798-7990 • lcca.com


Resident, family

2000 Bina Hribik-Portello, administrator

14b Marquis Care at Centennial Hills6351 N. Fort Apache RoadLas Vegas, NV 89149702-515-3000 • marquiscompanies.com


Resident 2010 Maurice Tanner, administrator

14c Pahrump Health & Rehabilitation Center4501 N. Blagg RoadPahrump, NV 89060775-751-6600


Resident DND Marc Behn, administrator


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