Downtown
Law
On Wings of (Legal) Eagles
August 16th, 2012
If you’re looking for free advice from a $400-an-hour attorney, you came to the right town. The city of Las Vegas recently teamed up with law firm Lionel Sawyer & Collins to offer a series of free legal seminars downtown. Read more »
Dining
Best Downtown Restaurant
July 26th, 2012
Thai-American chef Dan Coughlin—scion of the restaurant family that owns The King and I chain—has created quite the urban rage at Le Thai. Read more »
Downtown
Bridging the Gap
July 26th, 2012
Construction began recently on the Symphony Park Pedestrian Bridge. The project will take eight months to complete, and as a crucial step toward the city’s vision of linking “old” downtown with the development’s 61 acres of former Union Pacific land, it figures to be worth the wait. Read more »
Soundscraper
Fremont Country Club about to get real
July 26th, 2012
Back in 2010, Carlos “Big Daddy” Adley signed a deal with the city of Las Vegas: He gets five years of free rent if he opens his planned bar/music venue on a city-owned space (601 E. Fremont St.) by 2013. Looks like he’s going to make that deadline with a few months to spare. Fremont Country Club, an all-ages live music venue with a capacity of 1,000, is slated to open in mid-October. Read more »
Business & Services
Best Comeback
July 26th, 2012
This year, it’s a team effort, as downtown Las Vegas is on pace to boost its gaming win for the second year in a row. Read more »
Downtown
Time Travel on Fremont Street
July 19th, 2012
Downtown continues to mine a balanced—and, so far, successful—strategy of mixing Old Vegas nostalgia with modernized amenities. Nowhere is the Janus-faced approach that’s come to define downtown as apparent as at The D. The most obvious example is the split-level casino, which looks to the present on the first floor and the past on the second. Owner Derek Stevens has built on what worked for him at the just-renovated Golden Gate, mixing sex appeal, comfort food and gestures to the past. In some spots, old and new overlap: The D’s second-floor coin-op machines still take slot cards, so players can rack up new-school points. Read more »
About Town
Chasing Tony Hsieh
July 19th, 2012
I want to step carefully here, because I like most everything the Downtown Project is doing or plans to do. I can’t wait to see the shipping-container park planned for Fremont and Seventh, and I’m dying to eat at Natalie Young’s new brunch spot Eat, now building at Seventh and Carson. And anyone who sinks as much money into educational programs as Tony Hsieh has is all right in my book. But in looking at the plans for his container park, which now include a geodesic dome, I got a weird feeling, like I was looking at a world’s fair exhibit: Tony Hsieh’s take on Walt Disney’s original Experimental Prototype City of Tomorrow, only hipper. It looks like a HEPCOT—more a playful model for a future city than a concrete plan for an existing one. Read more »
Downtown
Blasting Back
June 28th, 2012
The new owners hope to keep as much of the original Atomic Liquors stuff as possible, only making changes where necessary—the bathrooms, for example, need to be expanded to meet ADA requirements. Later, they plan to create a beer garden and performance space in the vacated garage next door. Read more »
Downtown
If You Map It …
June 7th, 2012
The next time you’re in the Arts District, be sure to wander up Antique Alley. Read more »
Dining
Downtown, the Sunny Side Is Up
May 31st, 2012
Breakfast is coming to Fremont East. In September, local chef Natalie Young—a veteran of the Eiffel Tower Restaurant at Paris Las Vegas, Mr. Lucky’s at the Hard Rock Hotel and several prominent others—will open Eat, a café serving breakfasts and lunches of made-from-scratch American comfort food “with a bit of classic French technique,” Young says. Read more »
