Nevada recovered more jobs last month as it continues the trek back from sky-high unemployment in the pandemic’s early days.
Eli Segall
Reporter: Business
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Eli Segall joined the Review-Journal in 2016, covering real estate until 2023 when he joined the paper's investigations team. He rejoined the RJ's Business desk in 2025 to cover commercial real estate and other topics. Before the RJ, he covered real estate for four years at the Las Vegas Sun. Segall has also worked for the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, The Associated Press and other news groups. He has a bachelor’s in political science from the University of Michigan and a master’s in journalism from the University of Maryland. He has earned awards from the Nevada Press Association, Best of the West, New York State Society of CPAs, National Association of Real Estate Editors and others.
Southern Nevada homebuilders last month saw the most sales activity in well over a decade.
Developer Steve Witkoff and Howard Lorber, chief executive of cigarette maker Vector Group, are looking to raise $250 million for a yet-to-be-determined real estate tech venture.
Construction crews are grading land, installing underground utilities and doing other work for Haas Automation’s 2.5 million-square-foot plant south of Henderson Executive Airport, a project manager said.
The SLS Las Vegas opened with much fanfare in 2014 but quickly spiraled downward. Now, a few miles away, Las Vegas’ newest renovated resort figures it’s starting out on stronger footing.
An estimated 9.9 percent of the valley’s workforce was unemployed in January. Only one other metro area with a population of at least 1 million has a higher unemployment rate.
Richard “Boz” Bosworth, president and CEO of Virgin Hotels Las Vegas’ ownership group, spoke with the Review-Journal about the purchase of the hotel, the renovations and the pandemic.
A Florida investor acquired the former Montevista Hospital in Las Vegas and plans to reopen it as Desert Winds Hospital.
Las Vegas’ jobless rate has fallen below double digits for the first time since the pandemic shut off much of the economy a year ago.
A furniture chain hopes to break ground this year on a “megastore” next to Ikea in the southwest Las Vegas Valley.
The COVID-19 pandemic marks the second time in a decade that Southern Nevada was among the hardest hit by a global economic crisis, though its recovery could be shorter this time.
The sale of the late Tony Hsieh’s real estate empire could prove a catalyst to build on what Hsieh started, and help downtown improve even more.
Apollo Global Management is making a multibillion-dollar wager on America’s casino capital and hoping it’s rolling the dice on the way out of a national crisis, not on the way in.
Two New York firms and a Las Vegas-based company held a Thursday ceremonial groundbreaking for the upscale 334-unit Apex at Meadows.
After starting the process to sell Tony Hsieh’s expansive Las Vegas real estate holdings, the late tech mogul’s family has now turned to his property portfolio in a wealthy Utah ski town.