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By the numbers: Expectations, challenges for Las Vegas’ WNBA team
 
By the numbers: Expectations, challenges for Las Vegas’ WNBA team

The newly relocated Las Vegas WNBA franchise will begin play in the 2018 season. New owners MGM Resorts will integrate a professional franchise into Las Vegas’ busy sports landscape that’s shared with the 51s, Lights FC, Golden Knights and Raiders. Here are some of the expectations and challenges the team will have. 1. Ticket prices: The key to any sports franchise is selling season tickets and group outings. For Las Vegas’ team, that starts with locals. “(You don’t) just open the doors and tell everybody you’ve got a game and stand there waiting to sell tickets,” 51s president Don Logan said. “You’ve got to get out, you’ve got to get out into the community and you’ve got to do everything we do. There’s no easy way.” Last year, San Antonio charged $12 to $165 for single-game tickets for 17 home games. 2. Creating an identity: Coach Bill Laimbeer inherits a team from San Antonio that hasn’t made the playoffs or had a winning season since 2012. Las Vegas’ team is also a franchise that lost its first 14 games last season before finishing a league-worst 8-26. 3. Patience will be required: Will they have to fill all 12,000 seats at Mandalay Bay for the season to be deemed successful? “They have to be realistic,” Connecticut Sun CEO Mitchell Etess said. “If they could get 5,000 bodies into every single game, that would be pretty good for the first year.”

Mandalay Bay: after the shooting
 
Mandalay Bay: after the shooting

Months after a mass shooting took the lives of 58 people, Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay still grapples with the effects. Several restaurants and amenities in the hotel are taking longer breaks this holiday season. The spa, which shut for five days last year, will be closed for a month. One restaurant will be closed for lunch for six weeks. A restaurateur says revenue in the six weeks after the shooting was down 30 to 50%. The hotel closed several floors this holiday season, including the 32nd, where the shooter stayed. Hundreds of workers’ hours were cut. Many full-time employees were put on a reserve list. The hotel boosted security, including more undercover officers. Meanwhile, Mandalay Bay’s average room price for December is up 5%.

Formula One files trademark documents for potential Las Vegas Grand Prix
 
Formula One files trademark documents for potential Las Vegas Grand Prix

Formula One racing may be coming to Las Vegas. According to documents obtained by the Review-Journal, Formula One Licensings has filed trademark applications for merchandise and other items related to a proposed Las Vegas Grand Prix A city tourism official said the possibility of Formula One returning to Las Vegas is only speculation at this point, but a Formula One spokesman confirmed Las Vegas is on its radar as a future race site. *quote* The timetable for adding a U.S. race or races to the schedule is not known, nor has a location for a proposed Las Vegas race been identified.

Fundraising for Las Vegas Victims’ Fund lags behind other tragedies
 
Fundraising for Las Vegas Victims’ Fund lags behind other tragedies

The Las Vegas Victims’ Fund currently has around $17 million 58 people were killed and 546 people were injured during the Oct. 1 shooting Thousands more were at the Route 91 Harvest festival concert and are also in need of financial help In about the same amount of time, $61 million was raised for victims and survivors of the 2013 Boston Marathon attack $61 million raised for the 3 people who were killed and 246 who were injured Between mid-June 2016 and the end of September, $29.5 million was raised for victims and survivors of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting $29.5 million for the 49 who were killed and the 68 who were injured The Las Vegas Victims’ Fund will stop collecting money Jan. 31, 2018

The Bend
 
The Bend

A retail and office project with a movie theater is planned across the street from IKEA. The southwest Las Vegas project, called The Bend, would bring entertainment and shops to a fast-growing area. Its name is a spin on The Curve, a failed mixed-use project that was supposed to be built across the street. Many people in real estate refer to this area as “the curve,” as the 215 Beltway curves here. J Dapper, a developer of The Bend

164 Pomeranians will soon be available for adoption
 
164 Pomeranians will soon be available for adoption

The Animal Foundation has taken in a whole lot of pups. 164 Pomeranians came to the shelter after police found the animals in a box truck in Sandy Valley. The woman who drove the truck was reportedly breeding the dogs in her backyard in San Bernadino and was tipped off that her property would be searched. Officials say there were three to five dogs per cage and that the cages were stacked inside the truck. The dogs had previously been placed on a legal hold, but the hold was lifted on Thursday. People interested in adopting the dogs should monitor social media and the organization’s website for updates on when they could be adopted. The dogs aren’t yet available for viewing.

Most popular Las Vegas Lyft destinations
 
Most popular Las Vegas Lyft destinations

Lyft has announced the second annual Lyftie Awards. Las Vegas’ most visited restaurant was In-N-Out… …for the second year in a row. The city’s most visited bar was Topgolf. The Fremont Street Experience was named “most visited event space.” Fashion Show Mall was named the “Only in Vegas” spot. Reef Dispensary was designated as Lyft’s “trending designation” for being the location with the biggest increase in passenger drop-offs.

20-foot Christmas castle lights up Henderson home
 
20-foot Christmas castle lights up Henderson home

Need to get in the holiday spirit? Juan and Maria Torres are already there. The Torres’ have built a 20-foot Christmas castle in their front yard, including a replica of Big Ben in London and multiple cartoon characters, like the Flintstones and the Peanuts. Juan began building the display in April in his backyard. Juan works valet on a graveyard shift and would spend at least 7 hours of his day working on the display. Juan said he built the display so that the rest of the neighborhood could get in the holiday spirit, and of course, to make his wife happy.

The National Finals Rodeo returns to Las Vegas
 
The National Finals Rodeo returns to Las Vegas

The Wrangler National Finals Rodeo has returned to Las Vegas. The 10-day sporting event, which kicks off Thursday at the Thomas & Mack Center, is expected to bring more than 170,000 people to the city, generating a frenzy among hotels to lasso in the lucrative crowd. Casinos are aiming to corral guests by offering rodeo packages that include meals and tickets, hosting top country singers and sporting events. Many of the visitors for rodeo week come from California, Texas, Montana, Oklahoma, Wyoming and Colorado. More than two dozen country singers will perform over the next two weeks, including George Strait at T-Mobile Arena, Cody Johnson at the South Point and Dwight Yoakam at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.

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