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March 29, 2024

Zappos

Zappos employees Graham Kahr, a social scientist, and Ashley Kahr, a receptionist, walk to the parking garage on Stewart Avenue from the Zappos temporary offices on Carson Avenue. A security guard follows behind them in downtown Las Vegas on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012. Graham Kahr said he's a downtowner by choice and this is home to him, "a place where I feel safest."
Zappos' employees finding downtown's no Corporate Circle in Henderson
Oct. 4, 2012
Barely 10 steps beyond the door of Zappos’ Downtown Project office, Krissee Danger walks past a man who asks for a spare cigarette as she pulls one out of her purse. “This is my last one,” she says. Would she have given one if she had more? “No.” A block farther, a homeless man, burnished and brown from sun and dirt, has his blackened brown shorts unbuttoned and open.
‘Screamont Experiment’ hopes to cash in on Las Vegas’ haunted house craze
Sept. 30, 2012
Like the rest of the country, Las Vegas is taking full advantage of the nation’s thirst for the undead, monsters and hacked body parts drenched in fake blood, the bounty that comes with lavish indulgence in the Halloween season. In 2011, estimates put the national take from the Halloween business around $6 billion. Customers buy costumes, makeup and hanging skeletons and monsters like a starving man devours food. Then there are the haunted houses.
On Casino Center Drive during a bus tour of downtown Las Vegas real estate projects on Thursday, September 13, 2012.
The Zappos effect: Companies follow the retailer downtown
Sept. 24, 2012
The economic revival sweeping downtown Las Vegas has ushered into the area restaurants, bars, entrepreneurs and residents. High-rise towers are filling up with renters and ground-floor tenants. Bars are taking over vacant buildings. New restaurant ideas are being hatched, and tech startups might soon outnumber casinos. Much of the activity is centered around Zappos, the online shoe and clothing retailer moving downtown from Henderson late next year and bringing with it hundreds of young, well-heeled employees.
An artist's rendering of the shipping container development planned for Seventh and East Fremont.
Less litter cluttering the Strip as Metro begins handing out warnings
Sept. 16, 2012
It has been a little more than a month since Clark County commissioners approved a litter ordinance largely targeting the men and women who distribute “girls-to-your-room”-type cards to tourists.
Designer shoes serve as decorations atop cubicle walls at the corporate offices of Zappos.com in Henderson.
Zappos opening a pop-up shop in the Cosmopolitan
Sept. 10, 2012
Zappos is moving into its first casino with a pop-up store and giveaways for gamblers of up to $10,000 inside the Cosmopolitan.
Las Vegas council hopes to replicate downtown progress in new redevelopment district
Aug. 15, 2012
Stretches of Las Vegas streets totalling some 883 acres were designated today as a new redevelopment area with hopes that the kind of economic renaissance happening in downtown’s redevelopment area will be duplicated.
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, poses in the Ogden in downtown Las Vegas Thursday, June 7, 2012.
Finally buying into the Zappos hype
June 20, 2012
As a journalist, my job is to be skeptical, and given the incessant flimflammery in Las Vegas, I think I was entitled to be extra wary of the Tony Hsieh-Zappos-downtown craze. My outlook is deeply influenced by the “Simpsons” episode when the charismatic charlatan Lyle Lanley sells Springfield a rickety monorail (sound familiar?), so I always try to question what’s in that delicious Kool-Aid. For years I’ve been reading glowing profiles of Hsieh, the prodigy founder of an Internet company he sold to Microsoft for millions before becoming CEO of online retailer Zappos.
What's behind Tony Hsieh's unrelenting drive to remake downtown Las Vegas?
What's behind Tony Hsieh's unrelenting drive to remake downtown Las Vegas?
April 20, 2012
By now all of Las Vegas knows that Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos, is intensely interested and invested in downtown. He is moving his company there. He’s using a chunk of his fortune to help transform the urban core.
A discarded shopping cart frames a Home Depot anchor store at The Arroyo Market Square Saturday, April 7, 2012.
Technology, shifts in buying habits put pressure on big-box stores
April 8, 2012
Big-box stores, the elephants of the suburban retail savanna, face growing threats to their survival. The evolution of technology, combined with society’s growing comfort with buying online, are taking their toll.
Tony Hsieh purchased the Motel 6 property on 707 E. Fremont for $5.2 million.
Zappos CEO buys motel, strikes deal to bring young talent downtown
March 27, 2012
Zappos’ efforts to remake downtown Las Vegas take another step forward with a real estate deal and plan to lure more young talent to the area. The Downtown Project will announce today a partnership with Venture for America to bring new college graduates to assist startup businesses.
Mayor Carolyn Goodman makes her entrance with two men dressed as boxers during Preview Las Vegas 2012 at the Cox Pavilion in Las Vegas Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012.
‘Preview’ headliners upbeat about a Las Vegas comeback
Feb. 9, 2012
Las Vegas may have taken a powerful body blow when the economy was down for the count, but speakers of Thursday’s Preview 2012 say the city is making a comeback.
Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh speaks Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010, at the Las Vegas City Council meeting, when it was officially announced the existing City Hall building would be used as the corporate headquarters for online retailer Zappos.com.
Las Vegas City Council approves final deal bringing Zappos downtown
Feb. 1, 2012
With some calling the vote "historic," the Las Vegas City Council today unanimously approved the final deal to relocate Zappos to downtown. "This was a huge effort," Mayor Carolyn Goodman said of the complex financial transaction involving about eight acres of city property.
Phones back on at Zappos after security breach
Jan. 20, 2012
Almost a week after Zappos.com shut down its phone lines in the wake of its computer system being hacked, the clothing and shoes retailer has turned on its phones again.
Zappos ranks No. 11 on list of best companies to work for
Jan. 19, 2012
Days after Henderson-based Zappos suffered a public relations blow inflicted by a security breach, the company drew far more positive attention when Fortune ranked the online retailer No. 11 on its list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2012.
Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh responds to questions from the media on Monday, January 16, 2012, one day after the online retailer's website was hacked. The cyber-attack did not compromise Zappo's credit card database, but the hacker may have accessed users' personal data such as name, address, billing and shipping addresses, phone numbers, the last four digits of their credit card numbers and online passwords.
Class-action suit filed over Zappos computer data leak
Jan. 18, 2012
An attorney wasted little time this week in suing Amazon.com and its Zappos.com subsidiary over a data breach potentially affecting some 24 million Zappos.com customers.