Here is more evidence that downtown's redevelopment has taken off: Ideas once merely discussed are becoming a reality. One of those is an eight-screen movie house, tentatively called Eclipse Theater, that would include bar service and a restaurant. Plans will go before the city Planning Commission next week, when the developer will seek a special-use permit for the property. Sharet Holdings II LLC is the developer of the 53,855-square-foot project on 0.80 acre on the southwest corner of Gass Avenue and 3rd Street, on the same block as Newport Lofts, a downtown high-rise.
The stage production is the brainchild of Derek Stonebarger, a minority owner of Downtown's Atomic with a 20-year background in theater, film and television.
A policy of randomly checking the bags of people entering the Downtown Container Park is no more. Michael Downs, executive vice president of operations for Downtown Project, said the policy is being dropped.
Downtown Las Vegas now has six, not seven, restaurants whose menus include pizza. Luna Rossa, on the first floor and southwest corner of Neonopolis, has closed.
Slotzilla almost has its legs. Workers started testing the 1,750-foot-long zipline today, hoisting a man-sized and weighted dummy into the elevator, shipping it up 12 stories, then harnessing it and letting it go.
The new Downtown Container Park has a random bag-checking policy that has upset some customers who have voiced their ire online — and park operators are listening.
Kevin Plencner sounds like a missionary ready to help bring about the second coming. His Oak Brook Realty and Investments is gearing up to be a major part of downtown's rebirth. Not only does the Illinois-based company own the multistory, public parking garage directly north of the Clark County Justice Center, it also owns a block of Casino Center Drive that it wants to convert into a mid-rise, affordable housing, commercial and office complex.
Murals, several stories high, courtesy of artists commissioned by organizers of October's Life Is Beautiful festival, transformed some of the ugliest, most base parts of the city's urban core into must-see works.
Although we’re still waiting for the indoor ski hill and bar-in-an-elevator-car Tony Hsieh mentioned a few years ago, there are a few rarities coming to East Fremont Street soon.
Joe Schoenmann doesn’t just cover downtown, he lives and works there. Schoenmann is Greenspun Media Group’s embedded downtown journalist, working from an office in the Emergency Arts complex.
