This series consists of VHS video tapes, audio cassette tapes, some CD-Rs, a floppy disk, and a DVD that document Mark Fine’s career and his campaign for mayor of Las Vegas, and to a lesser extent, his community involvement and his family. Items are dated from 1987 to 2012 although many items are not dated. Advertisements and news segments make up the majority of the series.
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Mark Fine’s other development projects and business ventures in Southern Nevada, including Summerlin, Continental National Bank, and Park Towers at Hughes Center, are documented in the series through promotional materials, memos, meeting agendas, meeting minutes, annual reports, business plans, proposals, data books, design and marketing plans and guidelines, financing prospectuses, building and site plans, and investment brochures from 1980 to 2013.
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Publicity materials, business plans, reports, proposals, and project binders from 1979 to 1990 document Mark Fine’s work as President of American Nevada Corporation (ANC) and the development of Green Valle in Henderson, Nevada. ANC records also include design standards, memos, financial information, budgets, site plans, projections, and some correspondence. The corporation itself and its subsidiaries are documented in the series, as well as specific real estate development projects of Green Valley.
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The meeting minutes and by-laws document the establishment of the Nevada Institute for Contemporary Arts at the University of Nevada Las Vegas in the late 1980s. Mark Fine was invited by the University president, Robert Maxon, to be a member of the Steering Committee and also served as chair of the committee.
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In 1984, with the advice of his father ringing in his ears, Brad Nelson uprooted his wife and two children from their Denver home and moved them to Henderson, Nevada, where he would begin a new adventure in shaping the new master-planned community of Green Valley with Mark Fine and American Nevada Corporation (ANC). Nelson, lifelong Nebraskan and only child of his parents, arrived armed with a Bachelor's degree in landscape architecture with urban planning option, a Master's degree in urban planning, and fifteen years of planning and executive experience with the national firm of Harmon, O'Donnell and Henniger Planning Consultants. He arrived in time to plan Green Valley's first village, the Village of Silver Spring. By the time he left ANC for Lake Las Vegas in 1999, his work was done and most large parcels had been sold. As Nelson puts it, by 1999 ANC was "out of land, and I'm a land guy." Lake Las Vegas had plenty of undeveloped land, so "land guy" Nelson a chief operating officer
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