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Workers who want to blow the whistle should prepare themselves before moving forward

BY JULIE ANN FORMOSO | SPECIAL TO VEGAS INC

Here’s a workplace scruples question: You discover your supervisor adding payroll hours to benefit a colleague. Or your company knowingly dumps chemical waste that could contaminate groundwater. Or the boss

fudged paperwork to win a government contract. ¶ How would you respond? You can ignore it, of course. Or you could let someone know. ¶ If it’s the latter, the situation could

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146,000 during the

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according to the Bureau

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part of a growing alternative

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05 06 14Q+A WITH DEVIN BROOKSThe president and CEO of Brooks Behavioral Health Center gives advice for those struggling with sub-stance abuse and talks about his hands-on management style and why it’s so impor-tant to him as a local to give back to the community.

THE NOTESPeople on the move, P4

MEET: SALT ROOM LVAva and Raffi Mucikyan believe so much in the healing and therapeutic benefi ts of salt that they built their business, quite literally, from it. Salt Room LV offers a variety of salt treatments.

TALKING POINTSBusiness philanthropy is a smart give and take, 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: Engineering fi rms, P18

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FORECLOSURE FILINGS HEAT UP IN JANUARY

Nevada’s notorious foreclo-

sure woes had eased over the

past few years, with fewer bor-

rowers defaulting on mortgag-

es and losing their homes to

lenders. But 2015 started with a

painful setback.

One in every 495 homes

statewide received a foreclo-

sure-related fi ling in January,

up 38 percent from December

and 8 percent from a year ago,

according to RealtyTrac. Ne-

vada had the second-highest

foreclosure rate in the country

last month, behind Florida.

There were 1,009 fi lings

statewide to start the fore-

closure process, up nearly

11 percent from December

and 255 percent from a year

ago. Creditors also seized 698

homes in Nevada last month,

up 125 percent from December

and almost 29 percent from a

year ago.

Nevada was ground zero for

foreclosures after the hous-

ing bubble burst, and even as

things improved, the state had

one of the highest foreclosure

rates in the county. Let’s hope

the Silver State doesn’t hold

the dubious No. 1 title with

an iron grip again — and that

padlocks and “keep out” signs

don’t blanket more neighbor-

hoods. — ELI SEGALL

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Women’s Health As-sociates of Southern Nevada hired Drs. Keith Brill, Amit Garg and Joc-elyn Ivie, OB/GYNs who will practice at the South Valley East and West locations in Hender-son and Las Vegas. Dr. Donna Miller is chief medical officer.

Dr. Joseph Johnson joined Dignity Health Medical Group, affiliated with the Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican hospital system. He will work at Dignity’s primary care clinic at 106 E. Lake Mead Parkway, Suite 104, Henderson.

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority elected a new board of directors. Clark County Commissioner Lawrence Weekly is chairman. Chuck Bowling, president and chief operating officer of Mandalay Bay, is vice chairman. Bill Noonan, senior vice president of administration at Boyd Gaming, is secretary. Tom Jenkin, global president of Caesars Enter-tainment, remains treasurer.

Joel Just acquired Nevada Association Services, Inc., and became its CEO. Founder David Stone remains licensed collections manager for the company, which collects over-due community association assessments through nonjudi-cial foreclosure.

Twenty-four-year law enforcement veteran Capt. Alexander Perez was promoted to North Las Vegas assistant police chief by Police Chief Joe Chronister and City Manager Qiong Liu. North Las Vegas Mayor Pro Tem Anita Wood is the 2015 president of the Nevada League of Cities and Mu-nicipalities. She was sworn in by North Las Vegas Justice Court Judge Kalani Hoo.

Scientific Games Corp. gen-eral counsel Katie Lever will serve as chair of the American Heart Association’s 2015 Go Red For Women luncheon Feb. 27.

Elray Resources Inc. launched the Ruby Experience, a VIP/concierge service specializing in gaming, nightlife and entertainment for high net-worth clients. The business, operated by Ruby Jacenko, operates in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and Sydney.

Nine people joined the Las Vegas Global Eco-nomic Alliance board of directors. They are John Bailey, managing partner, Bailey Kennedy; Shel-ley Berkley, CEO and senior provost, Touro Uni-versity; Jason Bruckman, regional vice president, Eastridge Group of Staffing Companies; Jeff Parker, vice president, Manpower Inc. of Southern

Nevada; Bart Patterson, president, Nevada State College; Randy Robison, director of state legisla-tive affairs, CenturyLink; Brad Schnepf, president, Marnell Properties; Jeff Silvestri, partner, McDon-ald Carano Wilson; and Stephen Wells, president, Desert Research Institute.

Todd Michaels is director of business development for Aid for AIDS of Nevada.

The Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers has a new board of directors under president Thomas A. Jingoli, chief compliance officer for Konami Gaming. Jingoli was re-elected for a two-year term, and one-year terms were approved for first vice president Dan Savage, vice president of corporate marketing, Scientific Games; second vice president Dave Lucchese, executive vice president of client operations, GCA; secretary Mark Dunn, execu-tive vice president and general counsel, Aristo-crat Technologies; treasurer Tom Nieman, vice president of global marketing, JCM Global; vice president of government relations Steven DiMasi, vice president of government relations, IGT; co-general counsel Mike Dreitzer, president of North American operations, Ainsworth Game Technol-ogy; and co-general counsel Harper Ko, assistant general counsel, Scientific Games.

Sean McCray is academic curriculum manager at the International School of Hos-pitality.

Quincy Branch, president and CEO of Branch Benefits Consultants, was named in Insurance Business America magazine’s Hot 100 list for 2015.

Jennifer Taylor is executive director of Clean Energy Project, a nonprofit group that promotes a clean-energy economy.

Registered nurse Lyn Ketelsen is Health Care Associates’ first chief patient experience of-ficer. Ketelsen will help ensure patients have the best experi-ence possible.

The Nevada Restaurant As-sociation elected a new board of directors for 2015. Sebas-tien Silvestri of Venetian/Palazzo is chairman, Matt Erickson of SLS Las Vegas is vice chairman of restaurants, Todd Ansteth of McCormick & Schmick’s is secretary/treasurer, and Brett Sut-ton of Sutton Hague Law Corp. is vice chairman of allieds. Ed Lepere of Lawry’s the Prime Rib received a gavel plaque for two terms as chair-man, while Jim Rees of Hash House A Go Go and Raja Majid of Origin India received directors emeriti distinctions. David Parra of Texas de Bra-zil, Timothy Moulson of Term Management, and Tony Figurelli of Epicurean Strategic Partners joined the board.

David El-lingson is a systems administra-tor at Clark County Credit Union. Norman H.

Smith II is a financial services representative.

NAIOP Southern Nevada chapter, a trade orga-nization for commercial real estate developers, owners and professionals in office, industrial, retail and mixed-use real estate, elected its 2015 officers, board of directors, committee chairs and liaisons. Officers are: president Charles Van Geel, American Nevada Company; president-elect Mike Shohet, Jones Lang LaSalle; immediate past president Mike Montandon, DC Building Group; secretary Rod Martin, Majestic Realty Co.; and treasurer John Restrepo, RCG Economics. Direc-tors are Dana Berggren, broker; Sallie Doebler, Business Source Nevada; Jeff Foster, Prologis; Jay Heller, Heller Companies; Chris Larsen, PGAL; Jennifer Levine, Voit Real Estate Services; Adam Malan, The Equity Group; Mike Mixer, Colliers International; Kyle Nagy, CommCap Advisors; and John Ramous, Harsch Investment Properties. Restrepo is finance chairman; Ramous is govern-ment affairs chairman; Doebler is government af-fairs state chairwoman; Montandon is government affairs local chairman; Matt Hoyt is membership chairman; Brandon Wiegand is communications chairman; Brett Bottenberg is golf chairman; Berggren is programs chairwoman; David Jones is education chairman; Courtney Murphy Goffstein and Leroy Taylor are spotlight awards chairs; Ja-son Otter is community service chairmain; Nicole Palacios and Tracy Skenandore are sustainable development chairwomen; Jennifer Turchin is DLI chairwoman; and Bruce Follmer and Garrett Toft are bus tour chairmen. The corporate board member is Ramous; chapter executive is Katrina Bruce, Alternative Management; chapter staff are Karen Englert, Lenora Ferry, Nan Okuda, Johna Savage and Sarah Sunderman, all of Alternative Management.

For the eighth year, Black Enterprise magazine named MGM Resorts International one of the 40 Best Companies for Diversity in the United States. MGM Resorts is the only company in the gaming industry, and the only company in Nevada, to be named to the magazine’s list this year. The list recognizes companies that demonstrate a com-mitment to diversity in their board of directors, employee mix, senior management and supplier mix.

Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas at the Linq selected Vox Solid Communications as its agency of re-cord for public relations.

“Ja-Makin’-Me-Laugh,” a comedy show at the D Hotel, chose Preferred Public Relations as its agency of record.

Spring Valley Hospital opened an Advanced Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Center to treat patients with nonhealing and chronic wounds.

AAA Nevada announced its AAA Five Diamond and AAA Four Diamond Awards for 2015. Ne-vada AAA Five Diamond Award-winning hotels are: Aria Resort, Aria Sky Suites, Bellagio, Four Seasons Hotel, Mandarin Oriental, Skylofts at the MGM Grand and Wynn. Nevada AAA Five Dia-mond Award-winning restaurants are Joel Robu-chon, Le Cirque, Picasso, Restaurant Guy Savoy and Twist. Nevada AAA Four Diamond Award-winning restaurants are Alizé, Andre’s, Aureole, Bartolotta Ristorante di Mare, B&B Ristorante, Botero, Carnevino, Craftsteak, Cut by Wolfgang Puck, Eiffel Tower Restaurant, Gordon Ramsay Steak, Jasmine, L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon, Mi-chael Mina, Michael’s Gourmet Room, Mix, Pearl, Prime Steakhouse, Sage, Sensi, Shibuya, Spago, SW Steakhouse, The Country Club – A New American Steakhouse and Wing Lei.SMITH

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Why did you choose this field?This field chose me. Growing up in

West Las Vegas instilled the desire to give back to the community. The health care industry was an oppor-tunity for me to help those in need while generating employment for others.

What’s your best advice for people struggling with sub-stance abuse?

Addictions are tough. It’s not easy to deal with any kind of addiction, but I think the most common mis-take is that people feel like they have to go through it by themselves. It is important for people to understand they aren’t the only ones suffering and that treatment will help.

Do you think it is harder to deal with substance abuse here than in other cities?

I do not. Las Vegas has several be-havioral health centers. The hardest part of our job is educating abusers that help is available.

What advice do you have for other entrepreneurs?

Be prepared to work hard and work long hours for the first five years. It’s a jungle out there; you have to be thick-skinned and help people understand your vision. You have to make it happen. Duplicate those who are successful and don’t make the same mistakes as those who failed.

What is the most rewarding part of your job?

Creating employment and generat-ing payroll. Paying my share of taxes to stimulate the economy. Being financially able to give back to the community that I serve. Furthering my education and building a legacy.

What are you reading right now?“The Millionaire Mind” by Thom-

as J. Stanley, Ph.D.

Blackberry, iPhone or Android?Android. I don’t need anything

fancy.

Describe your management style.

I am very passionate about my work, and I am very hands-on. I work to inspire and motivate my employ-ees with the idea that teamwork is important for achieving goals and influencing valuable changes. I am always open to new ideas coming from team members. I consult with them frequently and encourage and support independent thinking. I be-lieve in establishing an open discus-sion for decision-making. I recognize the skills of key team members and utilize their strengths to the benefit of the team and the growth of my business.

Where do you see yourself and/or your company in 10 years?

I hope to have acquired several

companies within the health care and real estate fields. I would love to be able to travel the globe, pursuing different opportunities as well as con-tinuing to give back to the community that I live and work in.

What is your dream job, out-side of your current field?

Having an executive position in the gaming industry as CEO of a casino. Growing up in Las Vegas, I have always been fascinated with the Strip, the entertainment and the overall aura of the Las Vegas lights.

Whom do you admire and why?There are so many people I admire

and who at some point have influ-enced my life.

Las Vegas is a melting pot; people from all over the world visit this great city. One thing I admire about

this city as a whole is how young it is in comparison to other big cities across the nation and how Vegas is able to reinvent itself several times over.

I admire the city, the governor, our elected officials and every business owner. I really feel I am a son of Las Vegas.

What is your biggest pet peeve?

Probably the constant change in technology. It is irritating when I have finally mastered an update and there is another version.

What is something that people might not know about you?

I am very determined, passionate about my work and have a burn-ing desire in me to be a great leader someday.

Q&A WITH DEVIN BROOKS

Helping the community thrive is priority No. 1

Devin Brooks, president and CEO of Brooks Behavioral Healthcare Center in North Las Vegas, says the hardest part of his

job is “educating the abusers that help is available.” (STEVE MARCUS/STAFF)

Devin Brooks, president and CEO of Brooks Behavioral Health Center, considers himself a son of Las Vegas. He has seen its people experience euphoric highs and struggle through depressing lows. He started Brooks Behavioral Health Center with the mission of providing care for those dealing with depression, anxiety, ADHD and a number of other difficulties that affect a person’s well-being and quality of life.

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Sweet success so far for Salt Room Ava and Raffi Mucikyan own spa and halotherapy center the Salt Room LV in Summerlin. (STEVE MARCUS/STAFF)

BY THE NUMBERS

1,100Pounds of dynamite used

to implode the Clarion. The

elevator tower didn’t

collapse, however, and had

to be torn down separately.

19,773 MPHSpeed of the copper shot

out of plastic explosives

used to implode a

nine-story condo tower

at the Gramercy.

5,000Approximate number

of season-ticket deposits

received during the first

48 hours of a drive

designed to lure an NHL

team to Las Vegas. The

goal is 10,000.

$2 MILLIONApproximate annual rent

for pharmacy retail space

on the Strip, compared with

about $300,000 off the

Strip.

127Acres at Lake Las Vegas

bought by investors to build

new neighborhoods.

698Nevada homes seized by

creditors in January, up

125 percent from December

and 29 percent from a year

ago.

3,000Local apartment complexes

under construction and

expected to hit the Las

Vegas housing market over

the next year, according to

Colliers International.

500,000Jobs supported by the

gaming industry in political

battleground states, includ-

ing Nevada.

17Nevada counties, including

Clark County, where small

nonfarm businesses can

apply for drought-related,

low-interest federal disaster

loans.

Describe your business.

Salt Room LV offers halother-apy for all ages, halo-massages, facials and body treatments, halo-yoga and halo-meditation, as well as art and yoga classes for kids. Salt rooms and the Salt Cave are also available for rent for private events.

What does Salt Therapy in-

clude? What are the benefits?

Salt therapy, also referred to as halotherapy, is a drug-free, holistic therapy that recreates the microclimate of a salt cave and helps treat respiratory conditions such as cold, flu, allergies, asthma, bronchitis, cystic fibrosis, sinus infections, sinusitis, rhinitis, hay fever and emphysema. The anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory properties of salt therapy treat skin conditions such as ec-zema, dermatitis and psoriasis.

What is your business philosophy?

My vision was to help people not only with their respira-tory and skin disorders, but to create a safe space for peo-ple who are also dealing with the stresses of everyday life.

“Breathe well, live well” is our slogan.

What’s the most important part of your job?

I would hardly call it a job. It is a lifestyle, and a reward-ing one. I love meeting our clients, talking to them about their concerns and seeing the smiles on their faces after they come out of a treatment.

What is the hardest part about doing business in Las

Vegas?

Finding the right people and the honest people to do

the work — especially construc-tion. Otherwise, I think if you have the right intentions and the right mindset, nothing can stand in your way.

What is the best part about

doing business here?

The diversity is my favorite part. I see all kinds of people on a daily basis, with various cultural backgrounds and different inter-ests in life. It is rewarding to see

such diversity gather together under our roof, hang out in the Salt Cave and share experiences.

What obstacles has your business overcome?

We certainly had many obstacles building our Salt Cave, since it was something no one had built before. Salt is not very easy to work with, and it had to have a natu-ral compound to go up on the walls with. We spent many sleepless nights working out details of design and con-struction, which took about six months.

What have you learned from the recession?

I started working for the banking industry during the re-cession, which gave me a lot of insight on consumers and small businesses. It was painful to see the immense increase of unemployment blue cards, which became a norm of daily transactions. It was equally painful to see so many small businesses shut down. I made it a point to educate small-business owners how important cash flow is. You should always be prepared for the rainy day, legislation changes, shifts in laws and even consumer spending. Change is the only constant thing in life. If you can’t keep up with the pace of change, you cannot catch the wave of success.

SALT ROOM LVAddress: 1958 Village Center Circle,

Suite 7Phone: 702-228-7258

Email: [email protected]: saltroomlv.com

Hours of operation: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday; 10 a.m. to

5 p.m. SundayOwned/operated by:

Ava and Raffi MucikyanIn business since: 2014

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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.

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etes’ lasvegassun.

com story “Celebrat-

ing its 60th anniver-

sary, Riviera focus of

LVCVA purchase,

implosion reports”:

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“Investors buy 127

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neighborhoods”:

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“Lenders are back to

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homeowners”:

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W hat do Wynn Resorts, Barrick Gold and Rachel’s Kitchen have in common?

All have strategic corporate philanthropy programs that not only achieve social change but also make good business sense.

Philanthropy, which takes its root in a Greek word mean-ing “love of humanity,” can take many forms for businesses and corporations: cash donations, in-kind products and services, volunteering, mentoring and more.

Finding the perfect balance of corporate giving and return on investment was a central theme at the recent Philanthro-py Leaders Summit. At the event, 175 of the community’s philanthropic leaders gathered to hear about trends and best practices from experts and discuss how every business and individual, no matter their budget, can make a difference through intentional and strategic philanthropy.

Sentari Minor, director of partner encouragement and education at Social Venture Partners Arizona, spoke about venture philanthropy, which pairs venture capital strategies with social impact. Philanthropists become investors, contrib-uting financial resources and in-kind goods and services. They also volunteer hours and management help to nonprofits.

This is a new idea for Nevada, but the concept was compel-ling and energizing for the audience.

Also at the summit, Jeremy Aguero, principal of Applied Analysis, gave an update on Nevada’s corporate philan-

thropy. In 2014, the state’s corporate sector contributed about $134 million to charitable organizations, or about $487 per employee and 0.22 percent of revenue. Also last year, more than 260,000 volunteer hours were logged by Nevada workers.

What’s the outlook for 2015? Moonridge Group, an organization focused on growing

philanthropy in Las Vegas, anticipates several trends:n An increasing focus on women as donors. We expect this

trend to grow.n Investing in leadership and diversity. From 1992 to

2011, foundation investment in leadership represented just 1 percent of overall funding. However, large national founda-tions are starting to invest in funding talent and professional development. We expect local foundations and corporations will follow suit.

n More sustainable and strategic crowdfunding. The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge raised almost $100 million with a campaign that went viral. We expect more of that this year. Corporations could lead the charge, given their resources and expertise with social media.

n Collaboration in giving and doing. We expect to see more funders working together to encourage nonprofits to collaborate and work across sectors.

Julie Murray is principal and CEO of Moonridge Group. Anna Auerbach is chief operating officer of Moonridge Group.

Business philanthropy is a smart give and takeGUEST COLUMN:

JULIE MURRAY AND ANNA AUERBACH

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Jim Murren, chairman and CEO of MGM Resorts International and chairman of the American Gaming Association, announces during a news conference at Aristocrat Technologies the launch of a national voting initiative in key presidential election states. (L.E. BASKOW/STAFF)

App being developed to offer 24/7 help for gambling addicts BY J.D. MORRISSTAFF WRITER

Gambling addicts may soon be able to get help anytime, anywhere, at the touch of their smartphone screen.

Researchers at UCLA are develop-ing an app that would allow problem gamblers to continue their treatment virtually, between regular in-person therapy sessions. The app would also help therapists by providing infor-mation that could be used to improve their treatment regimens.

Here’s how it works: A patient struggling not to gamble could open the app and rate the strength of their gambling urges, view messages from their therapist, go through guided meditation or access other treatment options. They could also use the app to track their treatment’s progress, keep journal entries and provide in-formation about their lifestyle.

“Think of it sort of like a first-aid kit for problem gambling,” said Ar-deshir Rahman, program manager for the behavioral technologies lab at UCLA’s Gambling Studies Pro-gram, which is developing the app. “The app has a lot of built-in tools and techniques that allow people to manage their behaviors in a con-trolled way.”

Rahman said developers were still in the early testing stages, but if all goes well, the app could be ready around this time next year.

He hopes the tool can improve treatment for problem gamblers by generating data on patients’ behavior in real time.

For example, the app contains a “triggers” section that patients can use when they feel the urge to gam-ble. The section asks them what kind of trigger they’re experiencing — do

they want to gamble because of cer-tain internal feelings, or is it some-thing like an external object? The app also prompts patients to rate the intensity of their gambling urge, and to choose from a series of descrip-tions that best fit their current mood.

Using such information, a thera-pist might be able to draw conclu-sions about the patient’s gambling compulsions much faster than usual. Rahman said that, in his team’s clini-cal trial, a therapist was able to note a correlation between time of day, mood and the strength of a particu-lar patient’s gambling urges after just one week of using the app.

“You can make a conclusion that this particular patient, around 2 a.m., was feeling very bored and then had very strong urges to gamble,” Rah-man said. “That’s data we never had before.”

A therapist can use such informa-tion to help develop treatment strat-egies. In the case of the person being bored around 2 a.m., that meant im-proving the patient’s sleep habits.

The UCLA team is conducting a feasibility study, in which it’s testing the app on a small group of patients to see if it has a positive effect. The next step is to test it on a larger scale.

“Worst-case scenario, this be-comes a way for us to track patients’ behaviors,” Rahman said. “Even that would be a huge improvement over what we do today.”

Carol O’Hare, executive director of the Nevada Council on Problem Gambling, said she was particularly excited that the innovation facilitates more communication between thera-pists and patients because “you can’t be sitting in your therapist’s office every day.”

BY J.D. MORRISSTAFF WRITER

If a Washington, D.C.-based casino trade group has anything to say about it, 2016 presidential candidates cam-paigning in battleground states with casinos won’t be able to avoid ad-dressing the interests of the gaming industry.

The American Gaming Association this month unveiled a national initia-tive called “Gaming Votes” at the Las Vegas manufacturing facilities of the slot machine maker Aristocrat Tech-nologies.

One of the initiative’s goals is to ensure that presidential candidates understand gaming’s positive impact on the economy and the middle class.

Geoff Freeman, the association’s president, said in 2016 battleground states, the gaming industry supports more than 500,000 jobs and $75 bil-lion in economic activity. According-ly, the association plans to “engage and mobilize” gaming employees to see that candidates are up to speed on issues important to gaming, he said.

“We’re going to call on presidential candidates to become more educated about this industry, to replace myths with facts, and to let these candidates know the gaming industry is a gate-way to middle-class jobs,” Freeman said at a news conference promoting the initiative.

“When they’re talking about issues like putting Americans back to work, reforming the regulatory burdens in this country, tax reform, infrastruc-ture — they’re talking about issues important to the gaming industry.”

Through the election initiative, the gaming association hopes to make ca-sinos a focus in battleground states, including Nevada. Freeman said part of the initiative would include educating gaming industry workers about where candidates stand on is-

sues that affect casinos, as well as po-tentially hosting town halls.

Gaming Votes is also about boost-ing a positive image for the industry. To that end, association represen-tatives homed in on the industry’s workforce diversity.

According to research from Oxford Economics, the gaming industry em-ploys minorities and women at levels higher than the national average. Ox-ford found the industry’s employee makeup is 45 percent minorities and

48 percent female.“This is an amazing tapestry of

individuals,” said MGM Resorts In-ternational CEO Jim Murren, who is also chairman of the gaming associa-tion. “We come from all walks of life, every possible imaginable perspec-tive — countries, languages, gender. We are the melting pot of America here.”

Murren said most of his employees are minorities and women.

In that same vein, the association made videos highlighting the women within gaming’s ranks. One of the people in those videos, Ana Galeski, said she was the first woman man-ager of the engineering team in Las Vegas when she started at Gaming Laboratories International.

“It’s exciting knowing, and seeing firsthand, that more and more wom-en are becoming leaders,” she said.

Gaming Votes is part of a larger effort by the gaming association to shape the casino industry’s public perception. Last year, the association launched its “Get to Know Gaming” campaign and ran ads in Massachu-setts while voters were considering a ballot measure that would have banned casinos in the state.

The association also spread ear-lier reports from Oxford Economics showing the casino industry sup-ports 1.7 million jobs nationwide.

Gaming industry plans to be heard in ’16 election

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Got beer? Forgot shampoo? Take your pick of Strip pharmaciesBY ELI SEGALLSTAFF WRITER

Three buddies make their way to the front registers, their small shop-ping carts packed with vodka, wine, soda, chips, bags of ice and a whole lot of beer. Others stroll the aisles looking at the hundreds, maybe thousands, of shot glasses, flasks, ashtrays and shirts for sale, many with familiar Las Vegas themes — booze, gambling, sex and partying.

“Party Like A Rock Star” says a 64-ounce, or half-gallon, flask. “SIZE MATTERS” declares one that can hold 128 ounces — a full gallon — of alcohol.

The store is on the Strip, but it’s not your typical liquor depot or Vegas par-ty shop. It’s a Walgreens pharmacy.

Las Vegas’ resort corridor is pep-pered with Walgreens and CVS Phar-macy stores, with more on the way. The chains are drawn to the Strip for its heavy foot traffic and tourists’ uni-versal need for water, snacks, medicine and the not-so-infrequent hotel-room party.

Landlords want them because na-tional pharmacies are stable tenants that do big business, sign long-term leases and can easily afford the area’s eye-popping rents.

They pay about $300,000 a year in rent for a typical residential store but around $2 million a year for space on the Strip, said broker Ray Germain, a senior associate with Marcus & Mil-lichap.

“Their sales at these locations are just phenomenal,” he said.

Walgreens has five stores on the Strip, all on the east side of the boulevard. The company plans to open another one in the area this spring, in a newly built re-tail plaza at the northeast corner of Sa-hara Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard, across from SLS Las Vegas.

CVS has two stores on the Strip, both on the west side — one next to Monte Carlo just outside CityCenter, and the other at the base of Sky Las Vegas, a luxury condo tower across from the mothballed Fontainebleau.

The retailer plans to open another

store on the west side of the Strip at the end of March, in the new three-story mall at Treasure Island, CVS Health Corp. spokesman Mike DeAngelis confirmed.

There is one more CVS being planned for the Strip, and it could “potentially” open in 2016, DeAngelis said.

The resort corridor is a gold mine for such stores — there are about 38,600 hotel and motel rooms on and just north of the Strip, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, and it’s the valley’s main concentration of jobs, with tens of thousands of workers cycling through each day.

Germain said one of his current list-ings — the Walgreens property at Con-vention Center Drive — at one point had the highest sales totals of any in the chain. That distinction now apparently belongs to the Walgreens between the Venetian and Palazzo, he said.

Walgreens has about 8,200 stores and booked $76.4 billion in sales in the year ending Aug. 31, according to a

regulatory filing. Pharmacy properties also sell for big

dollars on the Strip.In separate deals in 2012, landlords

sold the Walgreens property between the Venetian and Palazzo for $71 mil-lion and the Walgreens at Convention Center Drive for $28 million. Last spring, investors sold the CVS prop-erty in Sky Las Vegas for $30 million.

Current owners of the Walgreens property at Convention Center do not have a listing price, but Germain said his clients are aiming for more than $40 million.

Not all of the Walgreens and CVS locations on the resort corridor have or will have pharmacies, but they sell items you’d see in any neighborhood store — gum, juice, bottled water, cos-metics, shampoo.

And, this being the Strip, they also sell items fit for the epicenter of this tourist and party town — souvenirs, booze, whatnot.

“Alcohol would be one of our (top) sellers,” a store manager said.


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BY IAN WHITAKERSTAFF WRITER

A year ago, Greg Friesmuth spent most of his time in the Cage, a cramped room in UNLV’s science and engineering building, where he tested homemade drones for a company he had just founded called Skyworks Aerial Systems.

Now he’s a graduate and spends most days in the Pit, a windowless room full of workbenches and com-puters inside Skyworks’ new office in Henderson, where the startup took up a lease last summer.

A lot has changed.Today, the 25-year-old has investors

to persuade, six full-time employees to manage and customers — mostly universities — to satisfy. Skyworks also has its first product: the QuaRK, a sophisticated quadrotor drone.

Ten drones have been produced. UNLV bought four to use in classes it’s introducing as part of a new minor in unmanned aerial systems.

“We’ve actually gone from an idea to a business,” Friesmuth said.

The Pit is where QuaRKs are assem-bled after their frames arrive from a 3D printer offsite. Loose wires and circuits are piled among power tools and the occasional toy drone lying around to teach new employees how to fly.

Walk through the Pit and there’s a good chance you’ll step on a Lego. Most of Friesmuth’s employees are either current UNLV students or re-cent graduates, like Chief Operating Officer Jinger Zeng, a mechanical engineer who helped a team at UNLV design an efficient home that nearly won a Department of Energy “solar decathlon” competition. The team

plays around with Legos on a regular basis, designing drones with them or just having fun.

Before producing the QuaRK, Sky-works won several competitions, in-cluding $80,000 from the Southern Nevada Business Plan competition.

Skyworks’ primary focus is indoor drones, in part because the Federal Aviation Administration’s strict reg-ulations on outdoor use can make it risky for investment firms to pour money into a company that could be regulated out of business. Focusing indoors also makes Skyworks stand out.

“The thrill of being part of some-thing new is really exciting,” said Rakitha Perera, an electrical engi-neering major at UNLV who works as the company’s full-time media direc-

tor. “You start learning, then refining and you keep going.”

Although it’s run by twenty-some-things and one 18-year-old, the team’s approach to business is meticulous.

While other companies are busy churning out cheap drones to keep the world’s hobbyists stocked for the next decade, Skyworks is sitting back, tweaking code and streamlining.

“A camera is an easy thing to throw in a drone,” Friesmuth said. “If you want a drone that does anything else, that solution doesn’t exist.”

There is a lot of money to be made in developing technology that can ac-complish what Friesmuth calls the “dirty, dangerous and dull.” For in-stance: Why risk sending a human to survey an unstable mineshaft when a drone equipped with a collage of high-

tech sensors could do it?The QuaRK, which costs $9,000,

has four rotors and a square founda-tion containing the flight software. Skyworks designed the QuaRK to be easily customized by attaching dif-ferent modules and sensors. Even the software can be tweaked.

A laser-scanning module can be attached to construct a 3D map of a certain area, for example. Another possibility is a radiation sensor that could measure the level of damage in a nuclear reactor after a disaster like Fukushima.

When you buy a QuaRK, Friesmuth says, you’re buying a toolbox. That means Skyworks can serve a wide variety of clients who can adapt the drone to serve their needs.

“It’s a new approach to quadrotors,” he said. “There haven’t really been any other drones out there that have this modular concept.”

Skyworks is courting more inves-tors and working to get the QuaRK classified as an experimental aircraft, which would exempt it from some fed-eral restrictions.

Around $200,000 has been invested into the company, mostly from private individuals. Skyworks is hoping to raise about $1 million.

Now that it has sold its first drones, the next step is using information gathered from customers to strength-en the company’s business model. Af-ter that, Friesmuth said the company could be ready for serious venture capital investment.

“Right now there’s a lot of money go-ing into other companies, so we need similar financials to compete,” Fries-muth said. “Drones are going to be as big as phones and computers.”

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Greg Friesmuth displays the QuaRK (Quad Rotor Research Kit) drone at Skyworks Aerial Systems, a company producing research drones. (STEVE MARCUS/STAFF)

BY KYLE ROERINKSTAFF WRITER

Federal lands officials are selling raw construction materials to the highest bidders in Southern Nevada again, another sign the building in-dustry is back from the dead.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Manage-ment next month plans to auction nearly 9.6 million tons of sand and gravel from government-owned pits off Lone Mountain Road, west of the 215 Beltway in northwest Las Vegas, the agency said.

The auction is March 3 at the BLM’s office at 4701 N. Torrey Pines Drive. Prospective buyers must pay at least 94 cents per ton.

If everything sells, the auction will generate at least $9 million in pro-ceeds.

Sand and gravel can be used in the construction of highways, high-rise buildings, power plants, airport runways and bridges, among other things, the BLM said.

Agency officials used to auction the raw materials “all the time,” but

demand dried up, so they switched to direct, noncompetitive sales, said Kirsten Cannon, a BLM spokeswom-an in Las Vegas.

Demand has now returned, she said, “so that’s why we’re moving back to auctions.”

Last summer, for instance, the agency auctioned off 30,000 tons of gravel stockpiles in Pahrump for $2.57 per ton — or $77,100 — to Wul-fenstein Construction Co., Cannon said.

Southern Nevada’s construction

industry remains a shadow of what it was during the real estate bubble last decade, but it has grown the past few years after suffering huge job losses during the recession.

The Las Vegas area had 43,600 con-struction workers as of September, up 22 percent from two years earlier, according to the Associated General Contractors of America.

By comparison, even in spring 2008 as the market was heading south, the valley had 94,500 construction work-ers.

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Investors buy 127 acres at Lake Las Vegas for new neighborhoods BY ELI SEGALLSTAFF WRITER

Southern California investors have acquired a big swath of land at Lake Las Vegas, the upscale and long-struggling Henderson development.

R.Y. Properties and its partners re-cently bought 127 acres for $12.5 million at the south edge of the once-foreclosed and formerly bankrupt 3,600-acre com-munity. It has plans for residential devel-opment, according to a news release.

The land, which has already been grad-ed and prepared for homes, is just east of the shuttered Falls Golf Club, near the main entrance off Lake Mead Parkway.

The deal was announced this month by the brokerage firm Hoffman Co., which represented sellers with the Atalon Group.

The sale closed Dec. 22, property re-cords show, and amounts to $98,425 an acre. That’s well below the $169,101 an acre that Southern Nevada land sells for on average, according to Colliers Interna-tional data.

Brokers said Kimberly Yu, an executive with Alhambra, Calif.-based R.Y., indi-cated the group plans to develop three residential communities — Verona, with 127 lots; Providence, 112 lots; and Ser-rano, 105 lots.

This is R.Y.’s first land purchase at Lake Las Vegas, according to the sellers, who could not confirm whether the new own-ers plan to build homes themselves or sell the land in pieces to builders.

“The land business has similarities to the Buddhist philosophy of birth, death and rebirth, and there is no place where this is more clear than Lake Las Vegas,” Hoffman broker Aman Lal said in the news release.

Lake Las Vegas was designed as an el-

egant Mediterranean village with a 320-acre, man-made lake but wound up one of the biggest real estate flops in one of the hardest-hit markets in the country.

Former developers lost the project to foreclosure after defaulting on $540 mil-lion in loans in 2007. Atalon acquired the project in early 2008 but pushed it into bankruptcy protection six months later.

The community emerged from bank-ruptcy court in summer 2010, reportedly under the control of Dallas investment firm Highland Capital Management and lenders led by Credit Suisse.

Along the way, golf courses and other businesses closed, tourism plunged and housing foreclosures soared.

The project later showed signs of im-

provement, with rising home prices and hotel occupancy inching higher. Also, Wall Street billionaire John Paulson ac-quired roughly 1,000 acres with plans to sell much of it to homebuilders. His company’s holdings include the Falls golf course and the Reflection Bay Golf Club, which closed in 2009 but reopened last fall.

Nevada retains strong bond ratingBY CY RYANSTAFF WRITER

CARSON CITY — Nevada has retained a strong rating for the sale of bonds to finance construction projects, officials said.

“We will continue to borrow at the lowest rate, saving taxpayers millions of dollars,” state Treasurer Dan Schwartz said.

Three rating agencies said the state’s financial position was stable. Fitch gave Nevada a rating of AA+, Moody’s a rating of Aa2 and Standard and Poor’s a rating of AA.


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WHISTLEBLOWERS, FROM PAGE 1

If you’re going to blow the whistle, talk to a governing agency before you talk to your bossget dicey as you make the leap from employee to whistleblower. Soon, you could have a target on your back.

The National Conference of State Legislatures defines whistleblowers as people — usually employ-ees or former employees — who report fraudulent or illegal activity by their employer, the government or an organization.

If a whistleblower reports a violation of federal law, there are provisions to protect them from re-taliation. The Department of Labor lists the regu-lations on its website — dol.gov/compliance/laws/comp-whistleblower.htm.

But Nevada is one of 15 states without a state stat-ute guaranteeing protection for whistleblowers. That means there’s risk to public- and private-sec-tor employees who could face retaliation, including being fired, for calling attention to illegal or corrupt workplace conduct.

If the employee believes an action against him is in retribution for speaking up, he’d have to prove wrongful termination in court.

There are rules to be followed. Lawsuits in whis-tleblower wrongful-termination cases have been thrown out of court because employees failed to first report the information to an outside government authority, before reporting it to a workplace supe-rior. For instance, if a casino employee witnesses a co-worker or boss doing something illegal, he is sup-posed to report it first to the Nevada Gaming Con-trol Board, not his employer, to buttress his claim of wrongful termination if he is dismissed.

So what should you do if you want to blow the whistle on a workplace problem you think is illegal in Nevada?

Attorneys Nick Crosby of MAC Law, Mary Kinas of Kinas Law Office, Richard Segerblom of the Law Office of Richard Segerblom and Andrew Rempfer of Cogburn Law Offices offer these suggestions:

n Talk to a governing agency. Report your concerns, in writing, to a governing agency that oversees your line of work. That identifies your mo-tive as for the public good.

n Identify yourself. When you report to the gov-erning agency, provide your name. You will not have a case if you make the complaint anonymously.

n Tell your boss. Make your boss aware you have contacted a governing agency.

n Talk to a lawyer. Seek consultation from an attorney who practices in the specified field.

n Keep evidence. Save emails, texts and any other evidence you have that points toward the problem and/or action sought against you.

n Document. Document everything in writing.• Document comments your employer makes that

show he is disgruntled about your whistleblowing. (Under Nevada law, you are allowed to record in-person conversations with your boss without his or her knowledge.)

• Document if you suddenly are criticized for ac-tions you have been doing for years that weren’t a problem before you blew the whistle.

• Document if you are demoted, have your pay cut or are switched to a less favorable shift.

• Do not print or scan company emails because you could be accused of stealing company property. Instead, write down the dates and email addresses in the emails so your lawyer can retrieve the evi-dence legally.

n Have witnesses. Keep track of people who could help prove your case. For example, if com-ments about your whistleblowing are made in a col-

league’s presence, that could work to your benefit.n Be prepared. Whistleblowers could spend

months in a courtroom and feel alienated from col-leagues. Before reporting a workplace issue, ask yourself if you are ready for what may lie ahead.

Despite the potential challenges, if you win a case for wrongful termination, you likely would receive a financial award. If you were fired, you would be com-pensated for lost wages and could receive compen-sation for emotional distress. Your employer also might have to pay punitive damages.

More importantly, you can sleep well at night knowing you did the right thing.

The need for whistleblowers to go to legal au-thorities before taking complaints to employers became especially clear in the 1989 case involving Jerry Wiltsie, a Las Vegas poker room manager at the Maxim.

He told higher-ups in the company that his supervisor was participating in illegal activities. Wiltsie was fired, which he claimed was retaliation for calling out his boss. He sued the hotel’s owner, Baby Grand Corp., for wrongful termination.

But because Wiltsie did not report his suspi-cions to an outside regulatory authority — in this

case, the Nevada Gaming Control Board — the Nevada Supreme Court ruled that even though he may have been fired for whistleblowing, he wasn’t entitled to protection.

“Because appellant (Wiltsie) chose to report the activity to his supervisor rather than the appropri-ate authorities, he was merely acting in a private or proprietary manner,” the court ruled.

Had Wiltsie reported to the gaming board, he would have been seen as acting on the behalf of public good, and the outcome of the case may have been different.

The setting sun highlights the sign at the Maxim in 1999, not long before the resort shut down. A decade earlier, a poker manager at the Maxim was fired after claiming his supervisor had been participating in illegal activities. The state Supreme Court ruled his termination legal. (STAFF FILE)

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Calendar of eventsMONDAY, FEBRUARY 23

Business Connections of

Nevada professional business mixer

Time: 6-8 p.m. Cost: Free

Location: Regus at the Canyons at Summerlin,

1180 N. Town Center Drive, Suite 100, Las Vegas

Information: Visit bcn-nv.com

Make connections and form strategic alliances

with Southern Nevada businesspeople.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24

Speed networking event

Time: 6-8 p.m. Cost: $28 for members of The

Social Register, $38 for nonmembers with RSVP,

additional $15 at the door without RSVP

Location: TPC at Summerlin, 1700 Village Center

Circle, Las Vegas

Information: Call Mary Grace Yniguez at 702-

256-0123

A one-on-one meet and greet with business pro-

fessionals.

Men of Business inaugural luncheon

Time: 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Cost: $30

Location: Siena Italian Restaurant, 9500 W.

Sahara Ave., Las Vegas

Information: Visit dannyvegaslive.com

An open forum to discuss business and trade in

Las Vegas and around the world. The event will

feature guest speakers and include two network-

ing sessions.

Lunch and Learn: Understanding Sales

Time: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $25

Location: Desert Research Institute, 755 E. Fla-

mingo Road, Las Vegas

Information: Email [email protected]

Speaker Michael Hepner will discuss how to lead a

sales team, the right way to sell and the secret to

getting referrals.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25

Communicating in a Crisis

Time: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $35 for Turnaround

Management Association members, $45 for

nonmembers, additional $5 at the door for walk-

ins

Location: Las Vegas Country Club, 300 Joe W.

Brown Drive, Las Vegas

Information: Visit tmaofnevada.com

A panel will discuss best practices for internal and

external communications during a crisis.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26

Henderson Chamber of

Commerce network mixer

Time: 5-8 p.m. Cost: $10 for Henderson Cham-

ber members, $20 for nonmembers, additional

$10 for walk-ins

Location: Lucky Foo’s Restaurant & Bar, 8955 S.

Eastern Ave., Las Vegas

Information: Email disraelson@henderson-

chamber.com

An opportunity to share contacts, referrals and

ideas.

2015 Women’s Chamber of

Commerce of Nevada legislative luncheon

Time: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $30 for Women’s

Chamber members, $40 for nonmembers

Location: Cili at Bali Hai Golf Club, 5160 Las

Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas

Information: Visit womenschamberofnevada.org

A discussion about business issues being consid-

ered by the state Legislature, with an economic

outlook for 2015.

Las Vegas Hospitality

Association membership mixer

Time: 6-8 p.m. Cost: $45 for LVHA members,

nonmembers can register with Michelle Sharples

at [email protected] for free entry

Location: Brooklyn Bowl, 3545 Las Vegas Blvd.

South, Las Vegas

Information: Visit mylvha.org

A carnival-themed mixer to encourage new mem-

bers.

TUESDAY, 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

for Healthcare Partners Nevada, will discuss how

best to approach conversations about end-of-life

wishes.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4

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

Information: Call 702-639-6964

More than 50 Clark County businesses will show-

case eco-friendly products and services.

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.

THURSDAY, MARCH 5

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 Ballroom, 3400 Las Ve-

gas 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 inducted into the Nevada Business

Hall of Fame for their contributions to the state’s

economic development.

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CHAPTER 119432 Sparkling Waters LLCNever Late Printing LLC5010 S. Decatur Blvd., Suite ALas Vegas, NV 89118Attorney: Seth D. Ballstaedt of The Ballstaedt Law Firm at [email protected]

BID OPPORTUNITIES

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 232:30 p.m.A one-year open-term contract for assorted fabricState of Nevada, 8303Annette Morfin at [email protected]

3 p.m.Financial advisory servicesClark County, 603571Chetan Champaneri at [email protected]

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 242:15 p.m.Shadow Rock Park south parking lot replacementClark County, 603585Sandy Moody-Upton at [email protected]

3 p.m.Annual requirements contract for hazardous waste disposal servicesClark County, 603359Sandra Mendoza at [email protected]

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 273 p.m.Annual requirements contract for janitorial services at Parkdale Community CenterClark County, 603596Deon Ford at [email protected]

BROKERED

TRANSACTIONS

SALES$3,300,000 for 7,432 square feet, o�ce/retail545 Marks St., Henderson 89014Seller: Green Valley Covenant Group LLCSeller agent: Melissa Campanella of The Equity GroupBuyer: Malcai Interstate Properties LLCBuyer agent: Lisa Anderson of MDL Group

$1,200,000 for 6,336 square feet, o�ce2900 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway, Suite 101, Henderson 89052Seller: TAG Horizon Ridge LLCSeller agent: Jason Brooks of The Equity Group

Buyer: Horizon Holdings 2900 LLCBuyer agent: Aaron Goldberg of Avison Young

$1,066,250 for 8,530 square feet, industrial6651 Schuster St., Las Vegas 89118Seller: DDM Investments LLCSeller agent: Dan Doherty of Col-liers International Buyer: KBHN Group LLCBuyer agent: Cathy Jones, Paul Miachika, Jessica Cegavske and Roy Fritz of Sun Commercial Real Estate Inc.

$700,000 for 5,226 square feet, industrial6580 Spencer St., Las Vegas 89119Seller: Martinez Development LLCSeller agent: Lisa Hauger and Tim Behrendt of Sun Commercial Real Estate Inc.Buyer: NV Greenleaf Inc.Buyer agent: Kevin Buckly

$675,000 for 9,192 square feet, industrial6494 Boulder Ranch Ave., Hender-son 89074Seller: Vegas Close Outs LLCSeller agent: James Gri�s of MDL GroupBuyer: Larsen’s Real Estate Hold-ings LLCBuyer agent: Elizabeth Moore and Jennifer Levine of Voit Real Estate Services

$475,000 for 6,347 square feet, industrial2749 N. Lamb Blvd., Las Vegas 89115Seller: MCA Lamb LLCSeller agent: Brian Ri¡el of Colliers InternationalBuyer: PAS Partners LLCBuyer agent: Kevin Higgins, Garrett Toft and Zac Zaher of Voit Real Estate Services

$235,000 for 2,610 square feet, o�ce3608 Sunset Road, Las Vegas 89120Seller: Sunset Pecos II LLCSeller agent: Jason Lesley of Col-liers InternationalBuyer: 3606 Sunset LLCBuyer agent: Bridget Richards of Colliers International

LEASES$3,368,788 for 41,500 square feet, retail for 120 months4245 S. Grand Canyon Drive, Suites 111-114, Las Vegas 89147Landlord: E-Grand Ventures LLCLandlord agent: Nelson Tressler and Michael Zobrist of Newmark Grubb Knight FrankTenant: Flip N Tag LLCTenant agent: N/A

$691,956 for 2,580 square feet, retail for 120 months3565 S. Rainbow Blvd., Las Vegas

89147Landlord: W&W PartnershipLandlord agent: Liz Clare of Avison YoungTenant: Veritasfaythefourteen LLC dba Tropical SmoothieTenant agent: Nelson Tressler and Michael Zobrist of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank

$408,621 for 4,796 square feet, industrial for 84 months6450 Cameron St., Suite 100/101, Las Vegas 89118Landlord: York Decatur Crossing LLCLandlord agent: Mike DeLew and Greg Pancirov of Colliers Interna-tionalTenant: Home Team Pest DefenseTenant agent: James Gri�s of MDL Group

$355,000 for 3,960 square feet, retail for 60 months4460 S. Durango Drive, Suite H, Las Vegas 89147Landlord: Durango PlazaLandlord agent: N/ATenant: Tequila’s Mexican Restau-rantTenant agent: Tony Amato of Avison Young

$305,370 for 1,131 square feet, retail for 64 months4480 Paradise Road, Suite 475, Las Vegas 89119Landlord: Eagle GroupLandlord agent: Je¡ Mitchell and Preston Abell of Virtus CommercialTenant: Marketing Guruss Inc.Tenant agent: Dave Neuenkrich of The Commercial Group

BUSINESS LICENSES

R&F Appliances Business type: Secondhand dealerAddress: 2009 E. Charleston Blvd., Las VegasOwner: RYF LLC

Raster Business type: Management or consulting service Address: 1001 S. Main St., Las VegasOwner: Raster LLC

Redfern EnterprisesBusiness type: Wholesale/retail salesAddress: 4114 N. Pecos Road, Suite 102, North Las VegasOwner: Redfern Enterprises Inc.

Reese’s Wigs and More Business type: General retail sales Address: 4011 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 6 , Las VegasOwner: Silver State Homes Inc.

Reliable Equipment Inc. Business type: Repair and mainte-nance Address: 5955 Hauck St., Suite 107, Las Vegas

Owner: Richard Cothran

Residence Review LLCBusiness type: Professional services Address: 4762 Cortina Rancho St., Las VegasOwner: Ti¡any Grigory

Rich Mountain DistributionBusiness type: Wholesale vape salesAddress: 12 Bishopsgate Terrace, HendersonOwner: Rich Mountain Distribution LLC

Robert Steven Mercer IIBusiness type: Insurance salesAddress: 5440 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 300, Las VegasOwner: Robert S. Mercer II

Robert Wayne Footwear Business type: General retail sales Address: 705 S. Grand Central Park-way, Suite 1078, Las VegasOwner: L&M Footwear Inc.

Rosalba Leonor Alvarado Business type: Real estate sales Address: 1820 E. Sahara Ave., Suite 101, Las VegasOwner: Rosalba Alvarado

Rudy International Motivational SpeakingBusiness type: Motivational speak-ingAddress: 170 S. Green Valley Park-way, Suite 300, HendersonOwner: Rudy International Motiva-tional Speaking Ltd.

Saint Therese Learning Institute Business type: School Address: 6600 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 134, Las VegasOwner: Saint Therese LLC

Sharon Ayasso Business type: Real estate sales Address: 777 N. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 120, Las VegasOwner: Sharon Ayasso

Smith’s 305 Fuel Center Business type: Automotive garage/service station Address: 3550 E. Bonanza Road, Las VegasOwner: Smith’s Food & Drug Centers Inc.

Smoke & Decor Business type: Tobacco sales/lounge Address: 6430 Sky Pointe Drive, Suite 120, Las VegasOwner: ESD Enterprises Ltd.

Southern Nevada Lacrosse As-sociation Business type: Nonprofit commu-nity services Address: 2715 Barrow Downs St., Las VegasOwner: Eric Winchell

Stephen WarnerBusiness type: Solicitors and ped-dlersAddress: 2101 W. Warm Springs Road, Suite 3724, HendersonOwner: Stephen Warner

Tacos Karina’s 2Business type: Restaurant/food court-serviceAddress: 2245 Las Vegas Blvd. North, North Las VegasOwner: Herrera’s Group Inc.

Tate Snyder Kimsey Architects Business type: Professional services Address: 709 Valle Verde Court, Las VegasOwner: James P. Pusich

The Best Mobile Food Service Business type: Mobile food vendor Address: 439 Rock Quarry Way, Las VegasOwner: Smart Group Inc.

The Lunch Crew Business type: Food services or cafe Address: 8450 Westcli¡ Drive, Las VegasOwner: The Lunch Crew Catering Inc.

The SuncoastBusiness type: Food services or cafe Address: 9090 Alta Drive, Las VegasOwner: Coast Hotels & Casino Inc.

Thirty Nine Twenty Eight LLCBusiness type: Film and video pro-duction consulting, video editingAddress: 19 Quail Hollow Drive, HendersonOwner: Thirty Nine Twenty Eight LLC

Tina’s Gourmet Sausage House Business type: Convenience store Address: 2101 S. Decatur Blvd., Suite 22, Las VegasOwner: Brats LLC

TNT RVBusiness type: Mobile RV serviceAddress: 905 Billings St., Hender-sonOwner: Thomas Lowrie

Vale Landscaping and MaintenanceBusiness type: Lawn maintenanceAddress: 517 N. 28th St., Las VegasOwner: Valeriano Vasquez

Wholesale Tire DistributorsBusiness type: Wholesale/retail salesAddress: 2640 W. Brooks Ave., North Las VegasOwner: LV Tire Inc.

William Healy Business type: Real estate sales Address: 10750 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 180, Las VegasOwner: William Healy

Records and TransactionsXitlalic Lopez Perez Business type: Bail agent/enforce-ment agent Address: 1600 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Suite 140, Las VegasOwner: Xitlalic Lopez Perez

Xtreme Clean TeamBusiness type: Janitorial serviceAddress: 323 River Glider Ave., North Las VegasOwner: Edward Montgomery

$10 & Up Business type: General retail sales Address: 324 Fremont St., Las VegasOwner: The Marshall Retail Group LLC

21St Century Wellness LLCBusiness type: Wellness consulting and natural supplement salesAddress: 1316 Passiflora Drive, HendersonOwner: 21st Century Wellness LLC

4Wheelair.ComBusiness type: Automotive parts/serviceAddress: 1891 Nature Park Drive, North Las VegasOwner: Charles Butler

A Naughty Secret BoutiqueBusiness type: Mail order/Internet salesAddress: 4325 W. Rome Blvd., North Las VegasOwner: Jamie Staten

AAA Discount StorageBusiness type: MiscellaneousAddress: 2647 Las Vegas Blvd. North, Suite B, North Las VegasOwner: Donel Development LLC

Albert B. Hamika Business type: Real estate sales Address: 10220 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 3, Las VegasOwner: Albert B. Hamika

All CleanBusiness type: Janitorial serviceAddress: 3208 Regal Swan Place, Suite 1, North Las VegasOwner: Britney L. Harris

All Green Lawn Care Business type: Residential property maintenance Address: 4442 Sun Vista Drive, Las VegasOwner: Natividad G. Sanchez

American Building Systems LLCBusiness type: ContractorAddress: 126 Cassia Way, Suite 100, HendersonOwner: American Building Systems LLC

American Nightmare Tattoo Parlor Business type: Tattoo parlor Address: 2123 Western Ave., Suite 1, Las VegasOwner: Carbone Inc.

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Records and TransactionsXitlalic Lopez Perez Business type: Bail agent/enforce-ment agent Address: 1600 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Suite 140, Las VegasOwner: Xitlalic Lopez Perez

Xtreme Clean TeamBusiness type: Janitorial serviceAddress: 323 River Glider Ave., North Las VegasOwner: Edward Montgomery

$10 & Up Business type: General retail sales Address: 324 Fremont St., Las VegasOwner: The Marshall Retail Group LLC

21St Century Wellness LLCBusiness type: Wellness consulting and natural supplement salesAddress: 1316 Passiflora Drive, HendersonOwner: 21st Century Wellness LLC

4Wheelair.ComBusiness type: Automotive parts/serviceAddress: 1891 Nature Park Drive, North Las VegasOwner: Charles Butler

A Naughty Secret BoutiqueBusiness type: Mail order/Internet salesAddress: 4325 W. Rome Blvd., North Las VegasOwner: Jamie Staten

AAA Discount StorageBusiness type: MiscellaneousAddress: 2647 Las Vegas Blvd. North, Suite B, North Las VegasOwner: Donel Development LLC

Albert B. Hamika Business type: Real estate sales Address: 10220 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 3, Las VegasOwner: Albert B. Hamika

All CleanBusiness type: Janitorial serviceAddress: 3208 Regal Swan Place, Suite 1, North Las VegasOwner: Britney L. Harris

All Green Lawn Care Business type: Residential property maintenance Address: 4442 Sun Vista Drive, Las VegasOwner: Natividad G. Sanchez

American Building Systems LLCBusiness type: ContractorAddress: 126 Cassia Way, Suite 100, HendersonOwner: American Building Systems LLC

American Nightmare Tattoo Parlor Business type: Tattoo parlor Address: 2123 Western Ave., Suite 1, Las VegasOwner: Carbone Inc.

Anderson Group Business type: Contractor Address: 2056 Highland Ave., Las VegasOwner: Anderson Construction Corp.

Angie’s Hair Action Business type: Cosmetological establishment Address: 3890 N. Bu�alo Drive, Las VegasOwner: Angela M. Saitta

Arista Management Group Inc.Business type: Sales supportAddress: 2275 Corporate Circle, Suite 280, HendersonOwner: Arista Management Group Inc.

As ElectricBusiness type: ContractorAddress: 3870 E. Flamingo Road, Suite A2, Las VegasOwner: Andy Sturgeon

Austin Art Business type: General retail sales Address: 1717 S. Decatur Blvd., Suite F3, Las VegasOwner: Sae C. Cheon

Avina’s Floors Business type: Residential property maintenance Address: 45 Parrish Lane, Las VegasOwner: Jorge Avina

BUILDING PERMITS

$1,995,000, commercial-o�ces725 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las VegasKalb Construction Company

$1,540,401, residential-apartment building245 S. Gibson Road, Building 14, HendersonMoser Architecture Studio LLC

$1,372,819, commercial-new3310 Elkhorn Road, North Las VegasBlaser Construction Inc.



$840,246, residential-apartment building245 S. Gibson Road, Building 2, HendersonMoser Architecture Studio LLC$761,776, commercial-new6180 N. Decatur Blvd., Building B,

North Las VegasBlackhawk Developers LLC

$474,208, residential-new1353 Dilevante Drive, HendersonRichard Luke Architects

$341,500, tenant improvement1300 W. Sunset Road, Suite 2950, HendersonBPC Henderson LLC

$308,750, wall and/or fence4125 Seclusion Bay Ave., North Las VegasFrank Iovino & Sons Masonry Inc.

$306,500, commercial-alteration13975 Grand Valley Parkway, North Las VegasWaveseer Properties LLC

$287,120, residential-new1218 Peach Blu� Court, HendersonSCA Design

$269,433, photovoltaic1056 Cadence Crest Ave., Hender-sonHirschi Masonry LLC

$261,150, tenant improvement2475 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway, Suite 100, HendersonCopperstone Construction Inc.

$258,098, residential-new1604 Quartz Ledge Court, Las VegasDR Horton Inc.





$239,156, residential-new639 N. Kiel St., HendersonGlobal Management & Construction

$234,054, residential-new2573 Pont Marie Drive, HendersonRichmond American Homes of Nevada

$233,615, residential-new1117 Alamosa Ridge Court, North Las VegasPardee Homes of Nevada


$226,487, residential-new296 Highspring St., Las VegasGreystone Nevada LLC


$221,911, residential-new2884 Josephine Drive, HendersonRichmond American Homes of Nevada

$218,097, residential-new449 Beautiful Hill Court, Las VegasWoodside Homes of Nevada LLC

$217,087, residential-new2872 Josephine Drive, HendersonRichmond American Homes of Nevada



$208,270, residential-new677 Coastal Lagoon St., HendersonKB Home Nevada Inc.

$207,161, residential-new3167 Dalmazia Ave., HendersonKB Home Nevada Inc.



$199,492, fireproofing5402 E. El Campo Grande Ave., North Las VegasCosco Fire Protection Inc.

$199,454, residential-new892 Lynne Harbor Ave., HendersonKB Home Nevada Inc.

$198,306, residential-new259 Calgrove St., Las VegasGreystone Nevada LLC

$198,306, residential-new264 Calgrove St., Las VegasGreystone Nevada LLC


$184,137, residential-new1112 Alamosa Ridge Court, North Las VegasPardee Homes of Nevada$184,137, residential-new1105 Alamosa Ridge Court, North

Las VegasPardee Homes of Nevada

$180,000, tenant improvement6100 W. Cheyenne Ave., Las VegasDesign Builders Ltd.

$179,104, residential-new213 Piedmont Alps St., HendersonRyland Homes

$178,549, residential-new228 Glen Lee St., HendersonDR Horton Inc.

$175,008, residential-new3258 Grayson Lake Court, Las VegasAdaven Homes LLC



$173,871, residential-new7290 Fruitful Harvest Ave., Las VegasDR Horton Inc.

$172,560, residential-new217 Dunblane St., HendersonDR Horton Inc.

$158,532, residential-new973 Everest Peak Ave., HendersonRyland Homes

$158,532, residential-new209 Piedmont Alps St., HendersonRyland Homes

$156,702, residential-new2365 Boretto St., HendersonKB Home Nevada Inc.

$156,369, residential-new829 Barrhead Ave., HendersonDR Horton Inc.

$146,722, residential-new10450 Prairie Mountain Ave., Las VegasRyland Homes

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omissions sometimes occur. Please send corrections or additions on company letterhead to Pashtana Usufzy, researcher, VEGAS INC, 2360 Corporate Circle, Third Floor, Henderson, NV 89074.

CATEGORY: ENGINEERING FIRMS(RANKED BY NUMBER OF STAFF AS OF JAN. 1)

CompanyYear established

Professional staff

Licensed engineers

Recent projects

Top executive

1a JBA Consulting Engineers5155 W. Patrick LaneLas Vegas, NV 89118702-362-9200 • jbace.com

1966 105 26 SLS Las Vegas, Grand Bazaar Shops, Hakkasan Las Vegas

Edward Butera, chairman of the board

1b Slater Hanifan Group Inc.5740 S. Arville St., Suite 116Las Vegas, NV 89118702-284-5300 • shg-inc.com

2003 105 31 Sky Canyon master-planned community, Mesquite Interchange, Brent Lane storm drain

Kenneth Hanifan, president

3 Lochsa Engineering6345 S. Jones Blvd., Suite 100Las Vegas, NV 89118702-365-9312 • lochsa.com

1995 55 20 MGM/AEG arena and park, Rock in Rio, Mandalay Bay Convention Center

Mark Hedge, principal

4 Atkins2270 Corporate Circle, Suite 200Henderson, NV 89074702-263-7275 • atkinsglobal.com

1987 53 27 Las Vegas Wash, North Fifth Street, Carson Avenue

Angelo Spata, associate vice president

5 Cardno Inc.7115 Amigo St., Suite 100Las Vegas, NV 89119702-990-9300 • cardno.com

1996 45 4 Clark County Water Reclamation District, Gramercy, LVCVA

Andrew Stuart, branch manager

6 G.C. Wallace Inc.1555 S. Rainbow Blvd.Las Vegas, NV 89146702-804-2000 • gcwallace.com

1969 35 28 UNLV Transit Center, Mountain’s Edge Regional Park, CC 215 North Bruce Woodbury Beltway

James Duddlesten, president, CEO

7a MSA Engineering Consultants370 E. Windmill Lane, Suite 100Las Vegas, NV 89123702-896-1100 msaengineeringconsultants.com

1997 24 4 Vadatech, Linq, Fashion Show Mall

Dave Melroy, president

7b Ninyo & Moore Geotechnical & Environmental Sciences Consultants6700 Paradise Road, Suite ELas Vegas, NV 89119702-433-0330 ninyoandmoore.com

1996 24 5 Southern Nevada Water Authority River Mountains Solar, Clark County Water Reclamation District BOMO pipeline, RTC Mobility Training Center

Bruce Bowman, principal geological engineer

9 Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc.6671 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Suite 320Las Vegas, NV 89119702-862-3600 • kimley-horn.com

1991 21 15 Resorts World Las Vegas, Nevada Department of Transportation safety program management, Las Vegas Strip walks

Ken Ackeret, senior vice president

10a GeoTek Inc.6835 Escondido St.Las Vegas, NV 89119702-897-1424 • geotekusa.com

1997 18 18 Nevada State College- Henderson campus, McCarran International Airport Terminal 3, United Brotherhood Carpenters Sunset training facility

Ryne Stoker, president

10b Harris Consulting Engineers LLC6630 Surrey St., Suite 100Las Vegas, NV 89119702-269-1575 • harrisengineers.com

1983 18 8 Clark County Detention Center phase II, Konami Gaming expansion, Lucky Dragon

Floyd Harris III, president

12 John A. Martin & Associates of Nevada4560 S. Decatur Blvd., Suite 200Las Vegas, NV 89103702-248-7000 • jamanv.com

1983 16 7 Omnia Night Club at Caesars, SLS Las Vegas, CityCenter litigation expert consultation

Steve Schiller, president

13a Henderson Engineers Inc.5555 Redwood St., Suite 201Las Vegas, NV 89118702-697-2187 • hei-eng.com

2008 14 7 Las Vegas Sands, MGM Hakkasan Hospitality corporate office, Allegiant Air corporate headquarters

Jason Zoeller, vice president, director of Las Vegas operations

13b L.R. Nelson Consulting Engineers Inc.6765 W. Russell Road, Suite 200Las Vegas, NV 89118702-798-7978 • lrneng.com

1987 14 9 Cadence, Gallery apartments, city of Henderson Pittman Wash

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