Joe Downtown

Lead Photo Joe Downtown: Keeping the door and keeping the peace at the Griffin

Joe Schoenmann | Wed, May 15, 2013 (3:09 p.m.)

You don't wanna mess with a bouncer whose pro wrestling finishing move is called Death From Above.

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Lead Photo Joe Downtown: Urban transformation could make Las Vegas for Las Vegans

Joe Schoenmann | Wed, May 8, 2013 (2:45 p.m.)

Las Vegas Strip casinos aren't there for locals, but more and more, Downtown development is.

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Lead Photo Joe Downtown: Life is Beautiful commercial shoot showcases the vibrance of Downtown

Joe Schoenmann | Wed, May 1, 2013 (3:58 p.m.)

The festival's video will air in early June.

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Lead Photo Joe Downtown: A news tour through the neighborhood’s darker, dirtier past

Joe Schoenmann | Wed, Apr 24, 2013 (2:37 p.m.)

Let's just say the area has seen more than a food truck battle.

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Lead Photo Joe Downtown: Tony Hsieh envisions real progress for Las Vegas. How dare he?

Joe Schoenmann | Wed, Apr 17, 2013 (2:50 p.m.)

Turning casinos into community? The guy must hate Las Vegas.

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Lead Photo Joe Downtown: For one startup, staying in Vegas might be more trouble than it’s worth

Joe Schoenmann | Wed, Apr 10, 2013 (1:41 p.m.)

Screwy immigration regulations are weighing down British app developer Bluefields.

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Lead Photo Joe Downtown: With development creeping east, the Bunkhouse no longer feels far away

Joe Schoenmann | Wed, Apr 3, 2013 (2:35 p.m.)

The Bunkhouse was purchased by the Downtown Project in January.

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Lead Photo Joe Downtown: Is Downtown too insular for its own good?

Joe Schoenmann | Wed, Mar 27, 2013 (1:34 p.m.)

It was stunning to watch a local creative look over both shoulders before talking to me about what’s going on Downtown. “I don’t think they really want to hear anything negative,” he said, sitting at the bar of the Beat coffeehouse.

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Lead Photo Joe Downtown: Is Romotive’s departure a sign of the future?

Joe Schoenmann | Wed, Mar 20, 2013 (3:12 p.m.)

Romotive took a $500,000 investment from Tony Hsieh, built itself up, and is leaving town.

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Lead Photo Joe Downtown: Stephen Siegel sees diamonds in the rough

Joe Schoenmann | Wed, Mar 13, 2013 (4 p.m.)

The businessman is renovating 247 apartment units.

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Lead Photo Joe Downtown: Following up on recent columns

Joe Schoenmann | Wed, Mar 6, 2013 (3:58 p.m.)

Downtown is a whirlwind of activity. Take a moment to take stock!

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Lead Photo Joe Downtown: 36 Downtown developments you should know about

Joe Schoenmann | Wed, Feb 27, 2013 (1:22 p.m.)

It’s been just over two years since Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh announced the movement of his headquarters from Henderson to Downtown. In that time, Downtown has changed—greatly in some areas, more slowly in others—and growth and interest in Downtown business has outpaced predictions made before the Zappos declaration in late 2010.

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Lead Photo Joe Downtown: The call of Downtown persuades successful professionals to uproot their careers

Joe Schoenmann | Wed, Feb 20, 2013 (4:36 p.m.)

For Michael Downs, former vice president of operations at Bellagio, Downtown Las Vegas used to barely register on his day-to-day radar. Yet downtown is his new work home. He’s shed the suit and tie for, on most days, jeans and a hoodie as the new executive vice president of operations for Downtown Project. Like Downs, others are drastically changing their lives to become part of the Downtown community.

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Lead Photo Joe Downtown: Ecomom and the stresses of entrepreneurship

Joe Schoenmann | Wed, Feb 13, 2013 (3:34 p.m.)

Matthias Galica flew to Las Vegas for an answer. He hoped being in the same city, in the same coffeeshops, seeing the same people that Jody Sherman saw would provide some solace, resolve the question that had dogged him for more than a week.

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Lead Photo Joe Downtown: City’s four-day week has some Downtowners frustrated

Joe Schoenmann | Wed, Feb 6, 2013 (1:32 p.m.)

"Thursday is the new Friday," according to one Downtown businesswoman.

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In writing his book, Oscar Goodman ‘found myself to be a hero’
Oscar Goodman’s autobiography, “Being Oscar,” is being released Tuesday by Weinstein Books. The former three-term Las Vegas mayor sat down with me for an extensive interview that covered topics including representing the mob as a lawyer, his 12 years at City Hall and his half-century love affair with his wife, …
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Two Las Vegas chefs and possibly a third will be seen in the next edition of “Top Chef Masters” this summer on Bravo. RM Seafood champion Rick …

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Cocktail of the Week May 15, 2013
by Sabrina Chapman

The Golden Pillar: An architectural cocktail built for XS

This Sunday, XS nightclub celebrates the grand reopening of its after-dark pool party, Night Swim. Along with the bash comes a new offering of signature cocktails served by the pitcher, ...
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