Las Vegas

HENDERSON, NV-While the healthcare firm will manage the planned 171-acre UnionVillage development, HKS will provide design services.

LAS VEGAS-Minneapolis-based Ameriprise Financial Inc. has acquired an office building in Las Vegas for its new call center.

SEATTLE-Brook I LLC lands the loan to fund construction of and permanent financing for a 118-unit apartment complex in this week’s roundup of commercial real estate news in the West.

LAS VEGAS-The Linq—a retail, dining, entertainment and hospitality district here—plans to employ about 3,000 construction workers and create 1,500 permanent jobs once it opens.

PORTLAND, OR-Local investors buy the Commerce Building in Dowtown Portland and plan LEED upgrades in this week's roundup of commercial real estate news in the West.

LAS VEGAS-Chris Lexis and Joe Leavitt are named vice presidents and according to a prepared statement, the move lends proof that Lee & Associates is maintaining its profitability and nationwide growth.

LAS VEGAS-The seller describes the deal as institutional quality and a rarity in a supply-constrained market.

LAS VEGAS-The seller imposes special conditions on the 18 investors who were competing to buy the center in an affluent neighborhood.

RENO, NV-The 1.2 million-acres of land purchased by Fountain Investments represents a trend of investors seeking hard assets in the US and as hedges against inflation, says a source.

LAS VEGAS-The increase is attributed to strong demand coupled with a decreasing supply; and new president Kolleen Kelley is urging GLVAR’s 11,500 members to make at least one extra purchase a month to help boost the local economy.

As noted last week, now it’ s New York glomming on Las Vegas’s business with talk of a casino-convention complex near JFK Airport. Once lotteries were a ready gambit employed by states to raise revenues—all those dollar entries for Powerball can add up. But now more places go all in, defaulting to unadulterated gambling as a way to generate some jobs-any jobs and create tax base—any tax base.

As noted last week, now it’ s New York glomming on Las Vegas’s business with talk of a casino-convention complex near JFK Airport. Once lotteries were a ready gambit employed by states to raise revenues—all those dollar entries for Powerball can add up. But now more places go all in, defaulting to unadulterated gambling as a way to generate some jobs-any jobs and create tax base—any tax base.

LAS VEGAS-EHB, which is already working on the $550 million open-air Tivoli Village, says a new enclosed 700,000-square-foot Las Vegas Renaissance mall will hit the market right.

LAS VEGAS-According to CBRE’s Las Vegas Strip Gaming Revenue Analysis, despite the volatility of the stock market in recent months, the Vegas Strip is showing year-to-date gains in mass market table games and slots.

LAS VEGAS-Joe Derhake of Partner Engineering and Science, Inc. discusses his upcoming Science of Real Estate blog on GlobeSt.com.

The latest housing price numbers reinforce the image of relative strength among the primary global gateway markets and the continuing weakness of formerly hot growth areas, many of which showed the largest population gains in the 2010 census.

LAS VEGAS-Retailers are taking lease renewals a lot more seriously since the recession, says Michael Burden of Excess Space.

LAS VEGAS-Buxton President and CEO Charles Wetzel says that gateway markets are getting the most love from shoppers.