Las Vegas City Hall opened on February 21, 2012
The New Las Vegas City Hall at Night
On February 21, 2012, The new Las Vegas City Hall opened after years of planning and construction. The project came in at a cool $146 million in a state-of-the-art facility on Main St. downtown Las Vegas.
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The New Las Vegas City Hall at Night
Las Vegas City Hall building at night with its blue waterfall of LED lights, makes it look like water is pouring down the front of the building.
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New Las Vegas City Hall Located at 495 S. Main St.
The new Las Vegas City Hall is now open after years of planning and construction. The project came in at a cool $146 million in a state-of-the-art facility on Main St. downtown Las Vegas. Click here to view an earlier construction photo of City Hall.
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New Las Vegas City Hall under construction on Main Street is now finished and open for business
The new Las Vegas City Hall opened today after years of planning and construction. The project came in at a cool $146 million in a state-of-the-art facility on Main St. downtown Las Vegas.
The new seven-story facility is currently opening today with seven department in the building. The rest of the city departments will move in on Monday, Feb. 27.
Once the old City Hall is vacant, remodeling will begin for Zappos’ new headquarters. The new downtown location for Zappos’ is expected to open in late 2013 with a $40 million renovation budget and bringing in over 1,200 job to the downtown area from Henderson.
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New Jersey has been at the forefront of sports betting expansion since new laws came in permitting each state to legalize and regulate the industry. Recently, New Jersey passed a huge milestone in its journey. In May 2019, the state took more wagers in sports bets than Nevada.
New Jersey has been at the forefront of sports betting expansion since new laws came in permitting each state to legalize and regulate the industry. Recently, New Jersey passed a huge milestone in its journey. In May 2019, the state took more wagers in sports bets than Nevada.
New Jersey Leading Way For Nationwide Sports Betting
New Jersey has quite literally led the way when it comes to sports betting on a nationwide level. The state took their case for legalized sports betting to the Supreme Court and shockingly, won the case. The landmark victory overturned the federal prohibition, and the courts left it up to each individual state to decide whether they would legalize and regulate sports betting within their borders.
This was certainly welcome news for New Jersey, as well as a handful of other states that were quick off the mark. Racetracks and casinos in Atlantic City opened up physical betting windows within their walls within days of the law coming into effect.
There are now at least 10 sportsbooks which have taken over $3 billion in wagers, and the number is growing rapidly. The latest to open windows are the Borgata and Bally’s Casinos.
More Revenue Than Nevada In May
It’s now been over a year since the landmark case, and New Jersey is legitimately competing with Las Vegas in terms of sports betting wagers.
According to recently published figures by Nevada’s State Gaming Control Board, Nevada pulled in $317.4 million in bets in May, whereas New Jersey took $318.9 million in bets, $1.5 million more. It’s the first time ever that any state has surpassed Nevada in sports betting wagers in a single month.
In the 12 months since legalization, New Jersey has taken more than $2.9 billion in sports wagers, amounting to $200 million in revenue. The overall impact on casinos and racetracks is unclear. Individual casino revenue has fallen in the past 12 months, but this is probably due to dilution from two new major casinos opening in Atlantic City.
Sports betting reportedly attracts more visitors to New Jersey, many from neighboring states such as New York, where sports betting is not yet legal.
Mobile Sports Betting Most Popular
Despite the growth in casino and racetrack bookies, the real heart of the industry is mobile sports betting, which accounts for the vast majority of the industry wagers and revenues.
Approximately 80% of the sports wagers in New Jersey are made using mobile apps. This trend is set to continue, as more casinos and companies get on board with online and mobile betting. Coming this fall is the major app Fox Bet, a collaboration between gaming and media partners that should further popularise sports betting. Mobile sports betting is expected to account for 90% of wagers in New Jersey in the next 5 to 10 years.
Mobile betting makes it very easy for locals and tourists alike to make bets. The law states that people who are betting have to be physically within the state to place a bet. For New Yorkers, this can mean crossing the Hudson River for long enough to get mobile reception.
Future Of Nevada Sports Betting Bright
Far from being bad news for Nevada, the nationwide lifting of the prohibition on sports betting is set to increase the sports betting industry as a whole, and act as a catalyst for growth. Vegas has a rich history of gaming, with the first license granted way back in 1931. In other words, it’s not going anywhere.
The new rules around sports betting simply allow casinos can expand their offering, especially when it comes to mobile sports betting apps. The legalization of sports betting should bring it out of the shadows and into the mainstream.
Actually, sports betting represents a very small piece of the Vegas gaming pie anyway, as little as 1% in the past. This figure has risen to over 2%, showing that the industry is growing here. Nevada took $5 billion in sports wagers in 2018, a record high for the state.
In reality, it will be difficult for New Jersey to maintain the lead that it enjoyed in May. At the moment, the state benefits from outside custom, but as states like Philadelphia and eventually New York begin to offer sports betting options, that custom will disperse. For now, all states with legalized sports betting are likely to enjoy a period of growth.
Water Street Historic District of Downtown Henderson, aerial view of Lake Las Vegas, Foothills nearby Henderson, Henderson City Hall.
On this date, April 16, 1953 Henderson, Nevada was officially incorporated on April 16, 1953 as the City of Henderson. Henderson is the second largest city in Nevada, after Las Vegas, with a population of 257,729 in the 2010 census. The city is part of the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which spans the entire Las Vegas Valley. Henderson occupies the southeastern end of the valley.
The township of Henderson first emerged in the 1940s during World War II with the building of the Basic Magnesium Plant. Henderson quickly became a main supplier of magnesium in the United States, which was called the “miracle metal” of World War II. The plant supplied the US War Department with magnesium for incendiary munition casings and airplane engines, frames, and other parts. A quarter of all US wartime magnesium came from the Henderson Plant to strengthen aluminum, using 25% of Hoover Dam’s power to separate the metal from its ore by electrolysis.
In 1988, the PEPCON rocket fuel factory in the modern-day Gibson Springs neighborhood of Henderson caught on fire. The fire quickly spread and engulfed the factory, spewing rocket fuel, smoke, and toxic fumes from the building. The factory was subsequently obliterated by a massive explosion caused by the fire, followed by six smaller explosions. The explosions sent shockwaves through the Las Vegas Valley, shattering glass and damaging buildings miles away in nearby Las Vegas. The explosions also caused some earthquakes, some of which measured over 3.0 on the Richter magnitude scale. Two people were killed, and an additional 372 people were injured.
The events of the PEPCON factory disaster spurred development in Henderson from its historical industrial development to largely residential and commercial as it is today. There are no signs of the PEPCON explosion today, and the site now consists mostly of office buildings.
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