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For Las Vegas business news covering casinos, energy, housing, entrepreneurs and more turn to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

THE LATEST Business NEWS
INSIDE BUSINESS

Las Vegas Chamber names vice president

Even with market indicators red, interest in green

With the city’s housing market stumbling in 2008, you might expect local home builders to back off on extras such as ecofriendly construction methods and materials.

ALL IN THE FAMILY

Once the personal shock of Bob Gripentog’s death in an ultralight plane crash 16 years ago began to wear off, the shock to the business he built began to take over. Although the Las Vegas Boat Harbor on Lake Mead and its related entities were transferred smoothly to his widow, Betty Gripentog, the family realized it had not prepared for a generational transition.

COMING IN THIS WEEK’S BUSINESS PRESS

FLIERS’ REMORSE: The downturn has hit home, sending local economic indicators plunging back to earth and turning what was once a tourist surplus into a tourist shortage. Therefore some people, particularly airline officials, are questioning the wisdom of continued expansions at McCarran International Airport.

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