Spirit Magazine - December 2013 - (Page 83)
ACES HIGH
PHOTOGRAPHY (MOSSLER /HSIEH) COURTESY OF ZAPPOS
Zappos
execs Fred
Mossler and
Tony Hsieh
are bringing
vitality-and
a creature
feature-back
to Vegas'
downtown.
downtown Las Vegas were sold for a combined
$29 million. That grew to 90 properties and
$155 million in 2012. And by the midway point
of 2013, private investors had already purchased
50 more properties in the downtown corridor,
for a total of $114 million. Many of the buyers are
out-of-staters seeking locales with a vibe that
caters to Millennials-a crop of twenty- and
thirtysomethings who've been described as identifying where they want to live before deciding
what they'll do once they get there. Dan Palmeri,
a commercial real estate broker, recently told the
Las Vegas Sun that companies have historically
avoided the gaming capital as a business destination because they didn't want "Las Vegas" in their
address. "It's that sin perception," he noted in the
paper. Today, he can't find enough commercial
real estate to meet the demand.
Philanthropist Patrick Duffy, president of the
Las Vegas Art Museum and a member of the
board of directors of The Smith Center for the
Performing Arts-a $470 million entertainment
complex that opened just under two years ago in
downtown-sees the area as leading the way
in the city's exciting renaissance, a job formerly
held by the electrifying Strip and its glittery,
high-rolling hotels. "What I've been watching
is the amount of positive energy-the 'I can, we
will'-being generated here," Duffy says, sitting
in The Beat a few weeks before Hsieh's converDECEMBER 2013 SPIRIT
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Spirit Magazine - December 2013
Spirit Magazine - December 2013
Contents
Gary's Greeting
Gary's Greeting en EspaƱol
Star of the Month
Freedom Story
From the Editor
Your Worlds
Your Pictures
Media Center
Spice up your drink repertoire
Eat Drink Sleep
Cook with chickpeas
Stay Overnight in Nashville
The Numbers
Make a Case for Paper Maps
Look out for Bigfoot
Plan Interplanetary Trek
Wise Guide
Co-opt Criticism
Business
Meet your New Favourite Travel Buddy
Provoke Productivity
Tales of a Tippling City
Rediscover Sin City
The Other Side of Vegas
Your Adventure In Albuquerque
Promotional Series: Spirit of Florida
Focus On: Health Resolutions
Calendar
Fun!
Spotlight
Community Outreach
Products & Services
Flight Services
Terminal Maps
Information
Rapid Rewards and A+ Rewards Partners
Route Map
The "If" List
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