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N Las Vegas, Nevada Las Vegas “AGE* October 24, 1941. McNEIL HOUSING CORP. WILL BUILD FIVE HUNDRED HOUSES WITHIN CITY One Hundred and Forty Acre Tract Fronting Charleston Boulevard on South, Extending From 9th to 15th Streets Bought for Site. McNeil Housing Corporation, an® affiliate of the McNeil Corpora­tion, which has the contract for building the sixty million dollar magnesium plant south of Las Vegas, will begin immediately the construction of five hundred dwellings to accommodate at least partially, the normal needs of Las Vegas. This is but t>ne portion *of the project which, it is antic­ipated, may include another five hundred houses and possibly more within the next six months. - According to Mr. Joe McNeil, head of the enterprise, the hous­ing corporation has purchased 140 acres of land from Mrs. Hunt, fronting for one-half mile on Charleston Boulevard and extend­ing approximately from Ninth to Fifteenth street as platted on the Las Vegas townsite. McNeil Housing (Continued from Page 1) on the housing project. The Me- . Neil Construction Company has had large experience in this lme of enterprise, having but recentlj completed the great Linda Vista project of 3,000 dwellings of fine type, completing the houses at the rate of between 30 and 40 per | day. ____________| | tjottce (Editorial) Building New Houses • It is most gratifying to all Las Vegas that the McNeil Hous­ing Corporation has undertaken to supply a portion of the Mr. McNeil states that the enters prise will be financed under the FHA plan and that application has already been made to Mr. Harry Scheeline, state director of the FHA, with every assurance that it will meet with approval.; In discussing the housing enter-- prise, Mr. McNeil stated that this in no manner affects the so-called magnesium city being planned by Besic Magnesium, Inc., to house the 7,000 to 10,000 workmen and their families who will be em­ployed in the plant. He empha­sized the fact that this housing project is designed solely to ac­commodate the present normal needs of the city’s growth, there being at present no living accom­modations available for thsoe whose business requires them to live in Las Vegas. Mr. McNeil left yesterday aft­ernoon for Los Angeles by plane to make further arrangements for beginning immediate construction (Continued »n Page 4) homes which Las Vegas sorely needs to meet the present housing emergency in the city. Before the growth now setting in has reached its peak, Las Vegas will have need not alone for the one thousand homes on the tentative program of McNeil Housing Corporation, but many others as well. In the greatness of the sixty million dollar Basic Mag­nesium plant, the other great, although lesser, enterprises are almost forgotten. It should be remembered that the flex­ible gunnery school based at McCarran Field has not as yet really begun to operate and that its hundreds of officers and men with families are still seeking for houses either to rent or purchase. Hundreds of other citizens brought here by the various lines of activity incidental to the air school and the magnesium plant will need Housing and, in the opinion of those who have given the problem closest study, Las Vegas has not yet in view enough housing to meet the emergency even including the McNeil project, the 125 homes for officers planned by the government and other enterprises not yet crystallized into action.