The South Point Arena and Equestrian Center partnered with Star Nursery to create a custom entrance for 1,200 climate-controlled stalls. The Star Nursery Walk of Stars leads into the main arena, as well as two new arenas in the Priefert Pavilion. Upgrades to the facility include new lighting, murals, trees, bushes, artificial grass and railroad ties.
BMM Testlabs, a gaming testing laboratory and technical consultancy, partnered with Gambling Indaba, a trade conference and expo in Africa, to provide training.
Meadow Valley Contractors Inc. is building the Exit 118 Interchange on Interstate 15. It includes a diamond interchange at Milepost 118 and an extension of Lower Flat Top Drive.
Gaudin Porsche opened near the 215 Beltway and Rainbow Boulevard.
Zuu Fitness opened at 4985 S. Fort Apache Road, Las Vegas.
The Keep Memory Alive Event Center won a Venue of Excellence award from the Wedding Industry Professionals Association.
Inna Gadda di Pizza and Pawn Donut & Coffee are tenants at Rick Harrison’s Pawn Plaza.
Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health and UNLV received $11.1 million from the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to fund a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence. The five-year funding commitment is the first COBRE grant awarded in Southern Nevada and will pay for three resource cores and three research projects related to Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases.
The International School of Hospitality launched a Certified Hotel Concierge credential, which establishes a global professional standard for hotel concierges. The credentialing program is the result of a joint effort among the school, Les Clefs d’Or USA and the American Hotel and Lodging Educational Institute.
UNLV tied for second place in U.S. News and World Report’s annual Best Ethnic Diversity listing, a jump from sixth last year. UNLV has placed in the top 10 for the past five years.
2015 HealthInsight Quality Award recipients include MountainView and Southern Hills hospitals in Las Vegas and North Vista Hospital in North Las Vegas. HealthInsight Quality Award recipients are selected for demonstrating high-quality health care and excellence in performance on publicly reported Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services quality-of-care measures and patients’ perception of care measures.
The Governor’s Office of Energy awarded property tax incentives to 11 Caesars Entertainment resorts for introducing energy and water savings measures. The resorts received the incentive after meeting state regulations and receiving Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver or Gold equivalencies from the U.S. Green Building Council. The Las Vegas properties that received incentives are Caesars Palace, Flamingo, Harrah’s, Paris, Linq, Planet Hollywood and Rio.
FirstService Residential provides HOA management services for Chapel Hill Homeowners’ Association. The gated community has 280 condominium units at Fort Apache and Russell roads.
ChiAm, a fast casual Chinese restaurant that specializes in dim sum, opened at 6010 W. Craig Road, Suite 150, Las Vegas.
Raising Cane’s opened at 3535 W. Tropicana Ave., Las Vegas.
Panattoni Development Co. and Hillwood Investment Properties partnered to develop a speculative bulk warehouse facility at South 15 Airport Park. The 480,000-square-foot building will be on a 28-acre site. The South 15 Airport Center, directly east of the Henderson Executive Airport, already is home to a 320,000-square-foot FedEx Ground facility.