Keeping your business afloat in a tough economy is one thing. Keeping your business afloat in a tough economy while finding time to volunteer at an animal shelter, compete in triathlons, help a child through a kidney transplant or battle cancer? That’s another level of achievement altogether.
If you think selling a house is tough in this market, try unloading an adult two-toed sloth.
Tammy Heier stood in a pile of red rose petals and leaves, while more continued to drop. If you looked up, you could see Heier stripping the leaves off each of the long rose stems, getting the flowers ready for the standing order.
For more than 60 years, local television stations have made a fortune by broadcasting news, sports and entertainment provided by national networks, supplemented by a limited array of local programs.
Developer Jeff LaPour took an early shot at downtown redevelopment, buying the landmark Holsum bread factory on Charleston Boulevard in 2004 and converting it into Holsum Lofts, originally designed as a live-work project.
That didn’t quite pan out.
As Las Vegans ponder the continuing revitalization of downtown, one rule has become clear: Even starving artists need to eat, and art galleries alone don’t make a neighborhood.
Las Vegas isn’t slouching toward ghost-town status just yet. Despite an unemployment rate of 13.8 percent and an epic housing bust with nation-leading foreclosure rates, a couple of recent indicators hint that people continue to move to Southern Nevada.
As traditional tourists become scarcer in Las Vegas, a growing number of local hotels and motel chains are seeking salvation in a most unlikely business model: hostels.
