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Chinook said the building would provide mental-health and wraparound services targeted to hospitality and entertainment workers, first responders, veterans, public educators and public school students, and that nonprofit partners would operate program services from the facility.

Why it matters: Chinook framed the project as addressing an unmet need for people who work in Las Vegas’s tourism and entertainment economy. He described a public-private approach: Clark County has granted a long-term land lease, local nonprofits have agreed to provide services from the facility, and the organizers are pursuing a capital campaign and potential state support.

Project description and partners

Chinook described Space 2 as a multi-level, mixed-use facility with parking on lower floors and two large upper floors for programming and revenue-generating events. He said the design includes therapy offices, multipurpose classrooms for music and wellness programming, shared nonprofit offices, a podcast/TV studio, and large event space intended to produce operating revenue.

Chinook named the groups that have signed on or expressed interest: Community Counseling Centers of Southern Nevada, Entertainment Community Fund (announced to move a Las Vegas presence into the facility), Life by Music, the Firefighter Behavioral Health Alliance, Core Academy (Rogers Foundation) for after-school programming, the Public Education Foundation and others. He said commissioner Naft, Larry Ruvo of Keep Memory Alive and actress Annette Bening attended a recent public announcement.

Budget, timeline and revenue model

Chinook said the total project cost is currently estimated at about $50 million; privately he and partners have raised roughly $2.5 million so far. Clark County provided a 100-year land lease and the project has cleared entitlements, he said. He told the committee the organizers planned to begin construction late in the year or in Q1 2026 and aimed to open by the end of 2028.

On sustainability, Chinook said the top-floor event space, parking revenues and rentable classrooms and studios are expected to generate operating income. He said the pro forma budgets assume a staff of about 35 and estimated annual administrative costs near $1.6 million–$1.8 million; revenue targets from event rentals on the top floors were cited as a primary driver to cover those costs.

Committee questions and state involvement

Senators asked whether qualified mental-health providers exist to staff the center; Chinook responded that the identified nonprofit partners (Community Counseling Centers of Southern Nevada and others) would expand staffing and that the Entertainment Community Fund would conduct a local needs assessment to match services to Las Vegas’s unique entertainment workforce.

Chinook said the organizers are seeking state assistance and that a bill (Senate Bill 178) to request a $5 million state match was on the legislature’s docket. He described the county land deal as a major in-kind contribution and said he expects gaming and hospitality employers to be asked for private support.

Ending

Chinook asked the committee to consider the project for potential state support and said the organizers would continue to provide updates; senators expressed broad interest and offered follow-up conversations with finance and appropriations committees.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","3/4/2025 - Senate Committee on Health and Human Services","oneSentenceSummary","Mark Chinook, founder of Monday’s Dark and a host affiliated with the Vegas Golden Knights, presented plans for \"Space 2,\" a proposed community wellness and events center one block off the Las Vegas Strip at Polaris and Harmon to the Nevada Senate Committee on Health and Human Services.","taxTitle","2025 Legislature NV, Nevada","taxId",78440,"location","Nevada","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":77,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":78,"_41":79,"_43":80,"_45":81,"_47":82,"_49":83,"_51":84,"_53":85,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":86,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":87,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6651674,"RAND researcher presents state tool to estimate costs if states expand coverage to undocumented immigrants",1306,1009000,2315000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2499132-adf05c59eefe3637b0b68f640192282c&start=1009&end=2315","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2499132-adf05c59eefe3637b0b68f640192282c/thumbnail_1009000.jpg","/articles/6651674/Nevada/RAND-researcher-presents-state-tool-to-estimate-costs-if-states-expand-coverage-to-undocumented-immigrants","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6651674-7678f9a9a6b2ab114b25f6f5d9be9f52/orig.mp4?Expires=1771113666&Signature=b5Vi7TbVaTnenwzo8n3sR~mpBpsOG0S32JifpbOeNyiFWCcY42~LuVvdqVkAB--uzMtnZ7o1NKYsNoUcvHTFOeRgBM-PX6kC--31FYzxyqQsl6zxmuMVBmPJyy4FsV4ESjnvC~r599kxYsGfjVshW0FPa8YX-4LTvTmv~ypUUawmNqt-etocUYzp1~jCmXBwYgfSzMeb7PTk3vPR~A3l4HYMlNXmTTAJ1uP8rAq7WAmzZgOEz9zVWCZkjYW-HF2NokudP8g9ZN5Zrqz-zNJYH1dhM2FYEhWfwDJlWsc62YqI-s5AyD7w4As-XN~QVz3upWX4Xjaa6bC6i9t68QqTmw__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Preeti Rao, a health economist at the RAND Corporation, told the Nevada Senate Committee on Health and Human Services that undocumented immigrants are excluded from most federally funded insurance programs and that states considering filling that gap need better data and realistic assumptions.

Rao summarized RAND’s research on state-funded options—Medicaid-like coverage or marketplace-style subsidies—and demonstrated a web-based tool RAND developed to produce high-level estimates of enrollment, state spending and out-of-pocket costs for selected eligibility groups and income cutoffs.

The tool, Rao said, uses a national microsimulation model reweighted to state populations and relies on imputation where immigration-status data are missing. \"Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for most forms of health insurance in The United States,\" Rao said, adding that RAND uses Migration Policy Institute population estimates and American Community Survey cross-tabs to build state-level synthetic populations.

Why it matters: decisions to use state funds to cover immigrants carry budgetary implications entirely borne by the state, and policymakers need credible cost ranges to plan. Rao said RAND’s tool is intended to give policymakers a ballpark estimate rather than a precise budget figure because key inputs are uncertain.

Key findings and limitations

Rao noted three practical takeaways from RAND’s state work and Connecticut case study: covering children and young adults tends to be less costly than covering older adults; early enrollment and costs in some states (Illinois was cited) have exceeded initial expectations; and assumptions about lower health spending for immigrants (the \"healthy immigrant effect\") may not hold once previously uninsured people gain coverage and use pent-up care.

Rao described methodological choices: RAND excludes ACS respondents who are clearly citizens, permanent residents or hold occupations/programs unavailable to undocumented immigrants, then reweights remaining observations to match MPI state totals (she cited an example of roughly 110,000 estimated undocumented people in Connecticut). She said the tool updates population and policy maps (current as of September 2024) and allows users to override RAND’s population estimate with a jurisdiction's preferred figure.

On cost-offsets and take-up

When senators asked whether the tool accounts for savings from reduced uncompensated care or fewer emergency-room visits, Rao said it does not automatically include such offsets. She explained RAND performed back-of-the-envelope estimates of possible uncompensated-care savings in Connecticut but cautioned such estimates rely on large assumptions about what share of uncompensated care is attributable to undocumented immigrants.

On take-up and spending assumptions, Rao said RAND initially assumed lower take-up and lower spending for immigrants, but observed state programs produced higher-than-expected enrollment, and presumed pent-up demand after gaining coverage can raise early spending relative to baseline.

Committee response and follow-up

Vice Chair Taylor and other senators asked about the \"healthy immigrant effect,\" the microsimulation inputs, and how ACS and MPI data are combined. Rao said RAND imputes undocumented status and pregnancy using natality statistics, then reweights to MPI totals while borrowing ACS cross-tabs for joint distributions. She offered to provide committee members with RAND’s reports and the underlying tool documentation.

Ending

Rao emphasized that the RAND web tool is intended to inform discussion by providing flexible, scenario-based estimates rather than final budget figures. She reiterated that the tool should be treated as giving a plausible range rather than a precise prediction and said RAND would share reports and answer follow-up questions.","A RAND health economist described a microsimulation-based web tool designed to estimate enrollment and state costs for proposals to provide state-funded coverage to undocumented and recent legally present immigrants, and explained key data limitations and assumptions to Nevada senators.","actionData","errors"]

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Monday’s Dark founder outlines Space 2 community center plan for Las Vegas, seeks public and private funding

RAND researcher presents state tool to estimate costs if states expand coverage to undocumented immigrants