🏠 The Clark County Commission has approved a housing project on the site of the now-demolished Eastside Cannery. Homebuilder Lennar Corp. is looking to develop a 279-lot subdivision on the 29-acre property.
Located off Boulder Highway, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that plans call for two-story single-family houses, two park areas and a trail. Eastside Cannery closed at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and owners Boyd Gaming never reopened it, citing weak market demand.
⚖️ The high-profile murder case for hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur is scheduled to begin today, August 10. Shakur was shot and killed in Las Vegas in 1996, and his murder has remained unsolved.
Police arrested Duane “Keffe D” Davis for the crime in 2023. Michael Sanft, who took the case pro bono, will represent him.
Due to anticipated high public interest and limited courtroom space, officials have implemented a daily lottery system to distribute available seats.
The court will stream live video of the proceedings to an overflow room on the second floor of the Regional Justice Center, as reported by KVVU-TV.
🏫 Clark County students are returning to school today, August 10. And new laws were put into place this summer to increase road safety in school zones.
Under Nevada’s Assembly Bill 6, law enforcement will hand out double the fines and driver’s license demerit points for school zone traffic violations.
County Commission Chairman Michael Naft says these changes send the message that the safety of students is a shared responsibility of all community members.
Clark County School District reminds drivers: U-turns are illegal in school zones; double parking and blocking crosswalks are prohibited; obey the posted speed limit; and stop for a school bus with flashing lights or its stop arm extended.
🎰 In a city full of extravagant casino properties, there may be none more legendary than Caesars Palace. The megaresort, which celebrated its 60th anniversary on August 5, has not only influenced so many other casinos — and spawned a huge entertainment company bearing its name — it’s made a huge imprint on pop culture. Through constant expansions, additions and risks taken, it remains to this day one of the largest and most popular resorts on the Strip.
The idea was a resort themed top-to-bottom to the Roman Empire, one of the rare Las Vegas properties at the time to stray from Western, desert and exotic motifs. It was the vision of Jay Sarno, a cabana motel entrepreneur who dreamt a little bigger when it came to his next project in the early 1960s.
It didn't hurt that he had access to more than $10 million from the Teamsters fund. Nonetheless, Caesars Palace opened on Aug. 5, 1966, and found immediate success. The next year, Sarno built upon that success by signing daredevil Evel Knievel to jump the fountains in front of the casino, which resulted in an iconic image of a motorcyclist flying across the visually striking property. Hear the full conversation with KNPR's Mike Prevatt here.
🧪 The Nevada Health and Bioscience Corporation will open its academic lab in the first quarter of 2027. That’s according to the company's latest announcement, as reported by KNPR's Anne Davis.
The two-story building that will soon become the NHBC Academic Laboratory is currently just a shell. But once completed, the $44 million facility will include a blood center, a drug toxicology facility, spaces for molecular and transplant testing, and academic training opportunities.
James Waddoups is NHBC’s president and CEO. He said the lab should improve Nevadans’ diagnostic wait times. “The broader community will benefit from the quicker response times on testing, keeping that testing here in Nevada, not having to send it out of state, taking many days,” Waddoups says.
Plans for the biosafety lab include BSL-3-level safety precautions, the second-highest safety ranking, for the study of highly contagious pathogens like tuberculosis. The site is located just east of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine’s medical education building, which NHBC also developed.
Once built, the lab is expected to run 1.5 million tests in the first year alone, with officials saying its capacity will likely increase from there.
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