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West Sahara Avenue looking east from South Hualapai Way, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
Date
2017-08-25
Archival Collection
Description
Looking east down West Sahara Avenue from South Hualapai Way. This view illustrates the difference between the lushly landscaped meandering sidewalks and medians of Summerlin and the less controlled areas of West Sahara Avenue's development. Straight roadside sidewalks, no median landscaping and a bus lane that begins at South Hualapai Way signal a transition from the popular masterplanned community.
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Single family residences with desert landscaping and grass near West Sahara Avenue, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
Date
2017-08-27
Archival Collection
Description
Typical single family residences at 2217 South Diamondback Drive and 2215 Marble Gorge Drive near West Sahara Avenue. This photograph illustrates the movement from front yards featuring grass to those utilizing desert landscaping. Most residential development has moved from the grass front yards commonplace with development through the late 1990s to desert landscaping.
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A mailbox in the Ascaya development prior residents building homes, Henderson, Nevada: digital photograph
Date
2017-08-05
Archival Collection
Description
Infrastructure for the Ascaya luxury home development, including mailboxes like this one along Cloudrock Court, power, gas, and roads was completed before sales of lots began. This has created the unusual site of having an entire master planned community built but no homes or residents. Ascaya, carved into the McCullough Mountain range in Henderson, Nevada, was completed with materials mined from the site.
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A mailbox in the Ascaya development prior residents building homes, Henderson, Nevada: digital photograph
Date
2017-08-05
Archival Collection
Description
Infrastructure for the Ascaya luxury home development, including mailboxes like this one along Cloudrock Court, power, gas, and roads was completed before sales of lots began. This has created the unusual site of having an entire master planned community built but no homes or residents. Ascaya, carved into the McCullough Mountain range in Henderson, Nevada, was completed with materials mined from the site.
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Ascaya advertising signs on lot off Epic View Court before home construction, Henderson, Nevada: digital photograph
Date
2017-08-05
Archival Collection
Description
Signs advertising the Ascaya luxury home development sit on a large lot off Epic View Court prior to homes being built. Infrastructure for Ascaya, carved into the McCullough Mountain range in Henderson, Nevada, was completed with materials mined from the site.
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Ascaya advertising signs on lot off Epic View Court before home construction, Henderson, Nevada: digital photograph
Date
2017-08-05
Archival Collection
Description
Signs advertising the Ascaya luxury home development sit on a large lot off Epic View Court prior to homes being built. Infrastructure for Ascaya, carved into the McCullough Mountain range in Henderson, Nevada, was completed with materials mined from the site.
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Advertising signs off Epic View Court in the Ascaya development prior to home construction, Henderson, Nevada: digital photograph
Date
2017-08-12
Archival Collection
Description
Signs advertising the Ascaya luxury home lot development sit on a prime lot off Epic View Court. Infrastructure for Ascaya, carved into the McCullough Mountain range in Henderson, Nevada, was completed with materials mined from the site.
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Fountainbleau Las Vegas Sits Dormant, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
Date
2016-02-06
Archival Collection
Description
The dormant Fontainebleau Las Vegas on the Strip as seen from the SLS Hotel and Casino valet. The Fontainebleau was announced as the Las Vegas version of a classic Miami Beach hotel. Construction started in 2007, and stopped in 2009. In November of that year, financier Carl Ichan purchased the unfinished Fontainebleau out of bankruptcy. The following year, he sold off the fittings and furnishings purchased for the hotel. In late 2015, the Fontainebleau was listed as being for sale.
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Casino Projects on the Las Vegas Strip from the Air, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
Date
2016-03-23
Archival Collection
Description
Stalled resort construction and a future demolition project cluster along Las Vegas Boulevard generally between Desert Inn and Sahara. Construction on the Fountainbleau (tall blue building, upper right) ceased in 2009, while Boyd Gaming's Echelon Project stopped construction on former Stardust site back in 2008 (left). That project was revived as the Resorts World Las Vegas. The Las Vegas Visitors and Convention Authority has scheduled the demolition of the Riviera Hotel and Casino for in summer 2016 to make way for a convention center expansion (small white buildings below Fountainbleau).
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Casino Projects on the Las Vegas Strip from the Air, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
Date
2016-03-23
Archival Collection
Description
Stalled resort construction and a future demolition project cluster along Las Vegas Boulevard generally between Desert Inn and Sahara. Construction on the Fountainbleau (tall blue building, right) ceased in 2009, while Boyd Gaming's Echelon Project stopped construction on former Stardust site back in 2008. That project was revived as the Resorts World Las Vegas. The Las Vegas Visitors and Convention Authority has scheduled the demolition of the Riviera Hotel and Casino for in summer 2016 to make way for a convention center expansion.
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