Desert Mesa Ghost Town

Mon, Aug 30, 2010 (7:56 p.m.)

A view of the abandoned Desert Mesa subdivision in North Las Vegas Monday, August 30, 2010. The North Las Vegas Housing Authority stared the project in 2004, an estimated $20 million plan meant to provide 123 homes, but the subdivision never got finished amid lawsuits over an alleged lack of payments to contractors and plans to sell the property on Carey Avenue and Commerce Street to a private company. The city now plans to demolish the boarded up and vandalized homes.

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1. By notfromvegas

   Sept. 3, 2010

   7:53 a.m.

   looks like turd traffic to these homes has been heavy, good place to set some traps and make tons of money for the city to pay the darn thing off. Signs of graffeti drinking drugs sex, no telling what all, may make more money than the strip.

2. By LocalVegasGuy

   Sept. 3, 2010

   2:08 p.m.

   Wow, what a fuccccckkkkkking waste of $

3. By Patrick_R_Gibbons

   Sept. 3, 2010

   2:10 p.m.

   Demolishing the homes is a stupid idea. They still have some value...

4. By rabmag

   Sept. 3, 2010

   4:46 p.m.

   Ah yes.... Another incompetent government agency wasted yours and mine tax dollars! So I wonder which politician or official stold the money that was supposed to have been paid to the contractors?

5. By VegasGM85

   Sept. 3, 2010

   5:22 p.m.

   Look at the size of the (potential) backyards!!

6. By dtayls

   Sept. 3, 2010

   7:10 p.m.

   There must be some homeless in las vegas that could use this property. Maybe with conditions... These buildings would seem to be assets, not liabilities. Pity.

7. By Harley

   Sept. 3, 2010

   7:11 p.m.

   Flashbacks of "One Horse Farmers" (1934 / Thelma Todd) that recently aired on TCM where the girls buy a country home that turns out to be a sand trap.

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8. By cinderelladream

   Sept. 3, 2010

   7:50 p.m.

   And the homeless Las Vegas families are put in ten by ten rooms while the church gets paid $5,000 a month....

9. By dipstick

   Sept. 3, 2010

   7:57 p.m.

   looks like lake las vegas 10 yrs from now.

10. By asleepatdawheel (Johnny Rico)

    Sept. 3, 2010

    8:14 p.m.

    Why dont they have the county maintenance and engineering people fix these homes so someone would have a place to live.... Whoever lives there must pay their own way and help with finishing their home.... But then again what the hell am I thinking.. Who would want their own home these days....

11. By roguerunner

    Sept. 3, 2010

    9:01 p.m.

    It's even more stupid to building new homes while your bulldozing these!

12. By bullmoose556 (michael bromley)

    Sept. 3, 2010

    10:17 p.m.

    I can understand why it is probably cheaper in the long run to tear these wrecks down. Obviously these houses have been gutted of their electrical wire and any salable items. Can you imagine having to tear out all that drywall to rewire, and then having to replace the drywall and insulation.? Perhaps having to replumb all the water and sewer? And then you'd still have an unsalable house, no thanks.

13. By casinokid

    Sept. 3, 2010

    10:52 p.m.

    Who's folly is this or should I say who's ponzi scheme is this.

14. By casinokid

    Sept. 3, 2010

    11:02 p.m.

    Deconstructing and re purpose come to mind.

15. By Bakersfield (Joe Stormont)

    Sept. 4, 2010

    2:13 a.m.

    How about a training ground for the fire department?

16. By markp

    Sept. 4, 2010

    5:07 a.m.

    i would happily buy the whole estate for the right price

17. By cpo

    Sept. 4, 2010

    6:08 a.m.

    Government run amoke. Those homes could be sold, cheap, and let someone come in and finish them, a private party not the government.

18. By milt

    Sept. 4, 2010

    9:54 a.m.

    Just like the "cash for clunkers" program, the government has plenty of our money to waste.

19. By Vegasvampire (Jay Relph)

    Sept. 5, 2010

    1:29 a.m.

    maybe they could relocate half of the west side if they fix it up.

20. By donfarang (Don Dawson)

    Sept. 5, 2010

    8:21 a.m.

    "from the low 200s" Boy, those were the days, eh? Can buy a home in Seven Hills for that now.

21. By cageordie

    Sept. 7, 2010

    8:24 a.m.

    Unfortunately there's little value left in a trashed home that was never completed. Now that home prices are heading down towards their true cost it may well be cheaper to destroy these than finish them and take the loss on selling them complete.

22. By jaquekeno

    Sept. 7, 2010

    8:27 p.m.

    I would be willing to bet someone of the likes of Bill Walters made millions and then abondoned the project at the expense of taxpayers.

23. By yahvision (Steven Rowles)

    Sept. 13, 2010

    1:16 p.m.

    The need for a change!

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