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[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

North Las Vegas planning for prosperous future

Strategy is to incorporate turnkey approach to downtown redevelopment

BY ARNOLD M. KNIGHTLY
LAS VEGAS BUSINESS PRESS (NV)
January 16, 2006

When Mayor Michael Montandon discusses managing population growth while
promoting economic expansion in North Las Vegas, it is a tale of two cities.

On the one hand, there is the downtown area with Cheyenne Avenue to the
north, Pecos Road to the east, Owens Avenue to the south, and bordered
by Commerce Street and Losee Road to the west. Then, there is everything
else to the northwest.

...

The City of North Las Vegas Planning and Development Department has
carved out an 800-acre redevelopment zone that runs along downtown's
main roadways and into some residential areas. The city's Redevelopment
Agency recently received a $200,000 brownfield grant from the federal
government to help assess sites for potential developers.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.lvbusinesspress.com/articles/2006/01/16/news/news01.txt

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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