Real Estate Millions

After a hard night of card playing at the World Series of Poker tournament, Eli Elezra comes home to his mansion in Green Valley’s The Fountains community.

Green Valley is recognized as Southern Nevada’s first master-planned community. The 7,100 acre community, created in 1978 by the American Nevada Co., was built before Summerlin, in the early to mid-1990s.

The latest trends in pool and landscape design are all about finding new ways to bring the indoors out, while maintaining a sleek, contemporary look, Realtors and builders say.

From his large office on the top floor of his Canyon Gate home, Las Vegas architect Paul Steelman built a good chunk of the Strip.

Anyone who has driven down Sixth Street just south of Charleston Boulevard may have noticed it — an oversized bright white building with cherry red accents surrounded by a decorative iron fence.

If the ability to reinvent yourself is key to business success, Debbi Somers’ Las Vegas-based furniture company is a prime example. Somers Furniture began as a rental business supplying conventions.

The Ridges village in Summerlin was conceived as an exclusive, luxury community that would include custom and semicustom homes built on 793 acres, and be at the master-planned development’s far western boundary

Construction on the facility in the Henderson luxury community is planned to begin late this year, Sales Manager Darin Marques said.

The Howard Hughes Corp., which is developing Summerlin, and Discovery Land Co. of Scottsdale, Ariz., plan to build about 250 homes near Tropicana Avenue and Town Center Drive, just south of The Ridges, in the foothills near Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.

When a single, guard-gated entrance is not enough security, what’s an executive to do? Buy a house at Promontory Point, the most exclusive enclave within The Ridges with not one, but three entry gates to cross.