The movie studio would be built at the Harry Reid Research and Technology Park in southwest Las Vegas, but that depends on a bill clearing the Nevada Legislature.
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UNLV is proposing to enter into a 99-year ground lease for 42 acres of university-owned land near the Strip that would generate over a billion of dollars of revenue.
More than half of the 120-acre tech park in the southwest valley is still undeveloped but a film studio and more are in the works.
Michael Easter has appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience — the world’s most popular podcast — twice, to talk about his two books.
Boyd Gaming will bring its innovation center to a building at UNLV’s Harry Reid Research and Technology Park in a joint innovation and training effort.
Thanks to $2.1 million in federal funds, UNLV will be opening a new space aimed at helping businesses in the Historic Westside.
UNLV was awarded a $1.18 million grant from the National Science Foundation to help expand a program that helps researchers and students turn their ideas into a commercially viable product.
UNLV students were challenged to innovate a new way to diversify Nevada’s economy in the university’s first entreprenuerial pitch contest.
A challenging relationship between donors and Nevada System of Higher Education regents ultimately helped propel a multimillion-dollar capital project for UNLV’s medical school building.
Black Fire Innovation Hub, which opened last year, represents UNLV’s first foray into the world of business accelerators in the gaming and hospitality space.