Join the Americas Young Leaders Group and explore the exciting world of AREA15, an immersive entertainment district, where attendees will closely interact with several individual experiences. Following will be a deep dive with designers of the Pepper Club by celebrity chef Todd English at The English Hotel in the sought-after Symphony Park area. The tour will close with an amazing lunch before attendees head back to Resorts World for the kickoff of the Fall Meeting. You don’t want to miss this!

Tour Symphony Park, a 61-acre infill piece in the heart of downtown Las Vegas that is today the city’s center of arts, culture, and medicine with leaders from the city of Las Vegas Economic and Urban Development team. Once a brownfield, the site sat dormant for decades as the city of Las Vegas evolved around it. Today, Symphony Park is home to the magnificent Smith Center for Performing Arts (one of the country’s most acoustically sound theatres), Discovery Children’s Museum, and a recently announced Las Vegas Museum of Art funded in part by Elaine P. Wynn and Family Foundation in partnership with Los Angeles County Museum of Art that is currently under an Exclusive Negotiating Agreement with the city. Symphony Park is also home to two completed apartment buildings with three others currently under construction or in development, the famed Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health designed by Frank Gehry; Vic’s Las Vegas, a restaurant/lounge ideal for dining before or after the show at The Smith Center; and coming soon, a dual-branded hotel (Marriott/Westin).

The master-planned community of Summerlin, a development of Howard Hughes Holdings, is one of the country’s most enduring and successful master-planned communities, now in its 34th year and still ranking as one of the country’s best-selling based on new home sales (number 4 in 2023). At the heart of the community is Downtown Summerlin, a 400-acre urban center that includes a dynamic, walkable retail destination with more than 125 stores and restaurants; two major professional sports venues—City National Arena, practice facility of the Vegas Golden Knights, and Las Vegas Ballpark, home of the Las Vegas Aviators; multiple class A office buildings, including state-of-the-art 1700 Pavilion that opened in 2023 and is already more than 90 percent leased; three luxury apartment complexes; and, coming soon, a new retail center anchored by Whole Foods Market. Hear from Hughes executives on their exciting plans to develop two additional urban centers in the southern and western regions of this acclaimed 22,500-acre community.

The Pathways to Inclusion Tour is thoughtfully curated to showcase women and multicultural developers in commercial real estate who have made significant contributions to their local communities. This year’s tour will spotlight the revitalization of Chinatown, Nevada Hand- one of the state’s largest affordable housing developers and the newly reimagined Las Vegas Arts District. Lunch will be hosted during the tour. This tour is by invitation only for the ULI Fall Meeting Nevada Pathways to Inclusion cohort. 

Hear from Nevada’s leading affordable housing developers about how they are addressing the local housing crisis. Decatur Commons consists of 480 units (240 family units and 240 senior units) of high-quality affordable housing for low-income families and seniors located on a 20-acre infill site in the heart of Las Vegas. Neighborhood amenities include proximity to the health department, schools, parks, retail stores, grocery stores, and a Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) bus route right outside the door. Designed with long-term sustainability in mind, Decatur Commons features energy-efficient appliances, windows, LED lighting, solar panels, and desert landscaping. Nevada HAND’s Resident Services are available to every resident at no cost and provide year-round life-enriching programs and access to community services in the areas of education, health and wellness, economic stability, and community engagement. In recognition of its excellence, Decatur Commons won the 2023 NAIOP Spotlight Award for Mixed-Use Development and a 2023 CoStar Impact Award for multifamily development.

As one of Nevada’s largest and leading apartment developers of both market-rate and affordable housing for low-income seniors and working families, Ovation Development and its nonprofit partner, Coordinated Living of Southern Nevada, ensure affordable housing communities maintain the exceptional quality associated with market-rate projects. To date, Ovation has completed 14 affordable housing communities, bringing to market more than 2,000 affordable apartment units. With seven more projects in the planning stages or under construction, by early 2028, Ovation will add an additional 1,500 affordable residences, providing much-needed financial relief for low-income residents in Southern Nevada, including families, seniors, and those who are employed but unable to find affordable housing. This tour will visit Tempo IV, an affordable senior living community with 208 units across two buildings, which will be completed in 2024.

Water Street, Henderson’s historic “main street USA,” was put on the map during World War II with the building of industrial plants that manufactured magnesium and other chemicals used in the war effort. Once a thriving civic hub, time and urban sprawl left Water Street in need of revitalization. Years of concerted redevelopment efforts, meticulous planning, and invaluable public/private partnerships have transformed the Water Street District into a vibrant, walkable, and friendly historic heart of Henderson. Significant new development in the area, including more than a dozen new restaurants and bars, multifamily housing projects, a hotel currently under construction, and America First Center, a two-sheet ice rink, have all contributed to the burgeoning success of the area. America First Center is a regional draw for the valley’s growing interest in sports and home of the AHL’s Henderson Silver Knights—the farm team to the Vegas Golden Knights. The Henderson City Hall Campus has recently been renovated to include a magnificent Water Street Plaza that has become a community gathering spot for sports-viewing parties, festivals, and family-friendly celebrations. One of Water Street’s visionaries is famed Southern Nevada architect Windom Kimsey, who staked his claim by literally building his personal home on Water Street, connected to his busy architecture firm, restaurant, and coffee shop. For more details on this popular valley destination, visit waterstreetdistrict.com.

Located in the heart of downtown Las Vegas, The Mob Museum is an immersive experience exploring the ongoing power struggle between organized crime and law enforcement from the Mob’s origination to today. Hear the facts, the fiction, and the gray area in between that showcase the events and characters that played an integral (and infamous) role in shaping Las Vegas into the city it is today.

Founded in 1996, The Neon Museum is dedicated to collecting, preserving, studying, and exhibiting iconic Las Vegas signs for educational, historic, arts, and cultural enrichment. On its 2.27-acre campus, The Neon Museum has an outdoor exhibition space known as the Neon Boneyard (“boneyard” is traditionally the name for an area where items no longer in use are stored); the North Gallery, home to the immersive audiovisual experience “Brilliant!,” which uses projection mapping technology to animate more than 40 nonoperational signs; the Boulevard Gallery outdoor exhibit and event space; and its Visitors’ Center inside the former La Concha Motel lobby. The museum collection also includes nine restored signs installed as public art in downtown Las Vegas.

Explore the unique history of how Las Vegas became Sin City through the city’s two most exciting museums.

Hoover Dam is a testimony to a country’s ability to construct monolithic projects amid adverse conditions. Built during the Depression; thousands of men and their families came to Black Canyon to tame the Colorado River. Now, years later, Hoover Dam still stands as a world-renowned structure. The dam is a National Historic Landmark and has been rated by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of America’s Seven Modern Civil Engineering Wonders.

This tour will be led by the Bureau of Reclamation. Established in 1902, the Bureau of Reclamation is best known for the dams, powerplants, and canals it constructed in the 17 western states. These water projects led to homesteading and promoted the economic development of the West. Today, Reclamation is the largest wholesaler of water in the country, bringing water to more than 31 million people. Reclamation is also the second largest producer of hydroelectric power in the United States, annually providing more than 40 billion kilowatt hours generating nearly a billion dollars in power revenues and producing enough electricity to serve 3.5 million homes. Reclamation’s mission is to assist in meeting the increasing water demands of the West while protecting the environment and the public’s investment in these structures.

Visit Las Vegas’s premier residential development and learn about how Las Vegas is elevating high-end residential development. MacDonald Highlands, located in the foothills of the McCullough Mountains, is a prime example of upscale living in Las Vegas’s Henderson community, with custom luxury homes and upscale amenities. This tour will begin at SkyVu, a limited collection of luxury estates set high above the Las Vegas Valley with panoramic views of the Las Vegas skyline, to see the four model homes ($30 million) completed by Christopher Homes. Next, this tour will hear from Blue Heron, Las Vegas’s leader in customized homes. This tour will conclude at the DragonRidge Golf Club to learn about DragonRidge itself and the upcoming development of the Four Seasons at MacDonald Highlands. See for yourself how developments within MacDonald Highlands are leading the way in luxury residential development in Las Vegas, making dream homes realities.

Join us on a tour of Area 15, an experiential retail space unlike any other. The space features immersive art experiences, outlandish rides, and bizarre dining and beverage options. The tour will begin in small groups, include Q&A for the engineers and Area 15 leadership, and then end with self-exploration of specified venues. You will learn about the design services, permitting, traffic planning, and more that allowed the space to come to life. A catered lunch will be provided.

Visit two of Las Vegas’s new innovative industrial developments. Apex Industrial Park, a unique 18,000-acre gem with 7,000 acres of developable land, includes Lower/Southern Apex, Middle Apex, and Upper Apex. The city of North Las Vegas has invested more than $63 million as part of a public/private partnership to bring water and sewer infrastructure to Apex Industrial Park. Additionally, the city is working with the Southern Nevada Water Authority on a $250 million investment that is bringing additional water and sewer infrastructure to Apex. Development has followed construction of the water line.

Mosaic Commerce Center is a high-image, two-phase development conveniently situated just off the newly completed Tropical Parkway Interchange. Mosaic Commerce Center is located within minutes of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Nellis Air Force Base, and a short distance to I-15 and I-215, providing excellent proximity to the Las Vegas Strip and McCarran Airport. Driven by sustainable and water-conscious principles, this development is driven by best practices in utility, efficiency, flexibility, and aesthetic appeal and cost.

The development of the LINQ Hotel, Promenade, and High-Roller on the Las Vegas Strip revitalized hospitality, retail, and entertainment development on Las Vegas’s main drag. This tour will visit a variety of locations to explore the best of entertainment, food, and shopping, and to learn about how this area was designed to be a unique urban entertainment district. This tour includes lunch, followed by a tour of the High-Roller, the highest observation wheel in the world, for a one-of-a-kind view of Las Vegas.

Las Vegas is known globally for “the Strip.” The economy thrives from the tens of millions of visitors the city hosts each year. A long-forgotten area of the city has been the Arts District and the associated downtown core. While some public buildings have dotted the civic core, much of the immediate downtown land has been surprisingly underdeveloped. In this tour, you will see the tactical measures the city of Las Vegas has made to encourage new development and renovations of existing building stock. The neighborhood was poised to see acceleration prior to the Great Recession. Then development stalled abruptly. Las Vegas is a resilient city that now sees widespread development (both large and small) that will create a momentum that sustains future economic cycles. The hope is that the downtown area can be seen as the heart of local Las Vegas—an area that draws from vibrant history with a keen eye on the future and risk taking. This tour will review the overall context of the Arts District including galleries, breweries, The English Hotel, street art programs, and multifamily residential projects. The tour will cover the variety of influences shaping this expanding neighborhood.

Las Vegas has always been known as an entertainment capital, but over recent years it has begun to emerge as a sports capital of the world. Visit Allegiant Stadium (Las Vegas Raiders) and Las Vegas Ballpark (Las Vegas Aviators, affiliate of the Oakland Athletics) to tour completed successful sports development and hear from professional sports teams leaders, including those already mentioned along with Oak View Group, which has plans to build an NBA-ready stadium connected to a resort/hotel on South Las Vegas Boulevard.

The University of Nevada Las Vegas’s Harry Reid Research and Technology Park will be a 122-acre, fully master-planned business, research, and technology community developed and managed by the Gardner Company in partnership with the UNLV Research Foundation. The Park is a physical environment to attract expanding and relocating high-tech companies to the region, foster innovation, support start-up companies, drive mutually beneficial collaborations between industry and UNLV, and provide students with applied learning opportunities. The Park will be a place where business and technology unite, supporting innovators and entrepreneurs. The Tech Park will foster research and technology development and create a business community that advances highly skilled and educated workforce development that diversifies and strengthens southern Nevada’s economy. This vibrant community will mix technology with emerging enterprises, bringing fresh ideas and perspective that advance innovation.

Explore the integration of residential, office, and retail in Las Vegas’s premier mixed-use development. The award-winning UnCommons development is a primary example of creating pedestrian-friendly enclaves within new developments. In many cities, the urban context itself provides a mix of use. In Las Vegas, much of the development needs to create its own identity and assert itself as a destination. UnCommons is a vision for a live/work/play neighborhood.