COMING IN THIS WEEK’S BUSINESS PRESS
NEW RETAIL REALITY: The economic recession has ravaged the shopping business and may leave observers wondering what happened to all the stores. The valley's anchored retail vacancy rate has increased nearly 300 percent since the first quarter of 2007, Restrepo Consulting Group reports.
SCOOT TO THRILL: Scoot City Tours offers a new chance to cruise by twos at Red Rock Canyon. The company offers rentals of motorized tricycles that resemble amusement park bumper cars.
EXECUTIVE SNAPSHOT: CB Richard Ellis senior retail associate Penny Mendlovic describes motivation from her mother and a taste for french fries, particularly from Jack In The Box.
THIS WEEK'S BUSINESS PRESS POLL QUESTION
Log onto the Las Vegas Business Press website and let us hear your opinion on this week's question.
The Nevada Vision Stakeholders Group, a study group appointed by state legislators, released a report that proposes to increase taxes and diversify the economy in a push to bring changes that will create a better quality of life for Nevadans over the next 20 years. The group reports that the state needs major investments in transportation infrastructure, including a highway between Las Vegas and Phoenix and high-speed rail systems between Southern Nevada and Southern California and between Reno and Las Vegas. The study leaves to legislators how such major projects could be funded. Gov. Jim Gibbons made a single gesture in hearing of the report's main points -- thumbs down.
Do you agree with the recommendations of the Nevada Vision Stakeholders Group?
Answer at www.lvbusinesspress.com/poll
