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Several large Las Vegas projects remain in review; some sites signal renewed construction activity
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City staff listed multifamily and commercial developments in plan review and highlighted projects that could boost permit volume, including an affordable housing parcel downtown, a new medical office, Universal Studios tenant activity, Desert Pines development agreement slated for council, and early permits on a 505‑acre west‑end project.
Michael Cunningham, building official for the City of Las Vegas, told board members the department continues to process a range of multifamily and commercial projects but that overall valuation and project counts are below prior periods.
Cunningham gave permit counts and valuations: 78 projects over $100,000 in review totaling $16,593,610, compared with 148 projects at $35,000,000 at the last reporting. For “large projects” defined as over $500,000 valuation, staff listed 79 permits in review with a combined valuation of $967,952,984; by comparison the previous report showed 35 permits at just over $1 billion.
He described several projects in the pipeline: Sunrise and 20th & Eighth, a two‑story, 21‑unit apartment project done with the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority; a 324‑unit Eli at Rancho project; a 230‑unit Gateway multifamily project; and a four‑story medical office at Mountain View. He also noted a new medical‑district project at the southwest corner of Alta and Tonopah (about 200 units with roughly 500 square feet of ground‑floor retail).
Cunningham highlighted redevelopment activity downtown: he said the redevelopment agency (RDA) is negotiating to buy nearly an acre on Las Vegas Boulevard for an affordable housing project and has an electrical utility incentive program to help projects in the downtown RDA areas offset the cost of undergrounding overhead utilities.
He reported progress on District 2 developments and said the Universal Studios tenant is seeking a temporary certificate of occupancy in May with a grand opening in August. He noted the Desert Pines Golf Course development agreement is scheduled for city council on June 4, and that BLM 505 (a 505‑acre west‑end project with a maximum of 3,500 residential units) is starting to submit infrastructure plans and early permits.
Cunningham said some Summerlin parcels sold to homebuilders and that Richmond appears to be moving forward with new home construction. He said staff will continue to track project inflow and that permit volume must improve to restore the enterprise fund to balance.
