Las Vegas

Las Vegas, NV – The Entertainment Capital of the World!

The city of Las Vegas has mystic qualities. It is the home to dazzling lights and glittering resorts where more than 35 million pleasure-seeking tourists wager millions of dollars every year. Yet there is another side to this Southwestern metropolitan area that is home to around 2 million people – a place with schools, parks, grocery stores, and quiet neighborhoods populated by people from every part of the world.

Las Vegas History

Mormon settlers from Salt Lake City traveled to Las Vegas to protect the Los Angeles-Salt Lake City mail route. In 1855 they began building a 150-square-foot fort of sun-dried bricks known as adobe. The work on the first railroad grade into Las Vegas began in the summer of 1904. The tent town called “Las Vegas” sprouted saloons, stores and boarding houses. The Plaza Hotel, located at Main and Fremont street in Downtown Las Vegas, today stands on the site of the original Union Pacific Railroad depot.

The railroad is the factor that led to the founding of Las Vegas on May 15, 1905. Twelve hundred lots were auctioned off in a single day in an area which today is casino-lined Glitter Gulch. Nevada was the first state to legalize casino-style gambling, and the last to outlaw gaming in the first decade of the 20th Century. Legalized gambling returned to Nevada during the Great Depression, the same year construction started on the Hoover Dam Project.

There was a small building boom in the late 1940′s including construction of several hotel-casinos on a two-lane highway leading into Las Vegas from Los Angeles. That two way road evolved into today’s Las Vegas Strip.

The most famous of the early resorts,  the Flamingo hotel and casino, was built by mobster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel. It opened around New Year’s Eve 1946.

Entertainment, shopping and restaurants have transformed Las Vegas to the number one gaming getaway in the world. It is no wonder that the recent U.S. census shows Nevada growing at a faster rate than any other state in the Union.

Las Vegas Communities:

Cay Club

A unique condo-hotel-conversion, making it a perfect investment  & part-time residences, just minutes from the Strip.

City Center

The biggest resort in Las Vegas offering several different residential possibilities. The whole project is on the cutting-edge of sustainability with LEED certifications on all of the structures.

Desert Shores

A beautiful mature master planned community built around a series of  man-made lakes on west side of the valley.

Downtown Las Vegas

The home of the original Fremont Street Experience and billions in redevelopment.

The Lakes

A collection of high-end lake-front homes in west Las Vegas.

Las Vegas High Rise Condos

Ok, they are not really a “Community” but they are a special bread of condos and thus they need their own page.

Mountain’s Edge

A master planned community in the Southwest part of the valley near Blue Diamond road and Rainbow Blvd.

Peccole Ranch

A small elegant community of homes built around a lush beautiful greenbelt with paseos and walkways connecting the tree-lined residential streets. Close to fabulous Retail!

Providence

A master planned community located on 1,200 acres of land North of the 215 beltway in the Northwest side of the valley.

Silverado Ranch

Located in South part of town near Henderson, just minutes from the airport.

Southern Highlands

Of course it’s in the South, next to the Mountains & I-15, a wide range of prices, from condos to the country club.

Spanish Trails

One of the finest neighborhoods of custom built homes in a guard-gated master planned community in southwest part of Las Vegas.

Summerlin

Positioned near Red Rock Canyon on the western edge of the city, the best selling Master Planned community in the country! Could be it’s own city!

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