Tony Hsieh’s Downtown Project has pumped money and foot traffic into Las Vegas’ core. But for the most part, his group isn’t doing anything with a cluster of shuttered motels on Fremont Street. Downtown Project bought the motels not knowing what it would do with them. It has launched redevelopment efforts at the Fergusons. But otherwise, its Fremont Street motels are boarded-up and fenced-off “We have a massive portfolio of real estate; a lot of them are ripe for future developments. We can’t do it all at once.” — John Curran, Downtown Project’s real estate portfolio manager
