Opportunity Sites

Downtown North Las Vegas has not yet been realized as the city’s true civic center potential. Opportunities for the site include:

• Interested and engaged local businesses
• Convenient transportation access
• Potential for infill development
• New and planned investments such as the Civic Center Shopping Center

Boulder Highway has been identified as a corridor in need of attention to enhance connectivity, pedestrian safety and reinvestment. Currently characterized as a landscape of strip commercial, residential, industrial and casino uses, there are opportunities for the site that include:

• Developing the area as a gateway to Henderson.
• Providing neighborhood-serving destinations and amenities such as shopping centers, integrated into a housing development.
• Planning for housing types that mesh with existing neighborhoods.

The Las Vegas Medical District is a key employment center and home to a variety of health care institutions that recently saw significant public and private investments. Opportunities for the Medical District include:

• Create public-private partnership to spur medically-oriented development.
• Work with UNLV to secure a site for the medical school.
• Determine an approach to district parking to allow new development to move forward.

The Maryland Parkway corridor can serve as a regional spine for employment and transit connectivity and revitalization. Opportunities include:

• Encouraging transit supportive development such as a light rail system.
• Evaluating transit-oriented development and options for redevelopment
• Improving existing building façade.