Warehouse developers have been on a yearslong construction spree in Southern Nevada, and business has only ramped up during the coronavirus pandemic. The hotel won’t get demolished anytime soon Hunt said it would get torn down a couple of years into the development.Ĭlark County records and Nevada business-entity filings indicate the entire project site is owned by the Herbst family, operators of the Terrible Herbst gas station chain.Įfforts to speak with a family representative were unsuccessful Monday.

Moreover, the site has access to utility service, according to Hunt, who noted the hotel has water and a waste-water treatment plant. Truckers coming in from Southern California could drop off products at the industrial park and get back in a one-day round trip, Hunt said. “We really like the project we think it’s pioneering,” he said. is under contract to buy the sprawling project site and hopes to break ground on the first few buildings within the next 12 to 18 months, partner Cory Hunt told the Review-Journal on Monday. That property has been closed since the onset of the pandemic, and plans indicate it would be demolished and then replaced with a distribution center, according to a county staff report. The project site covers more than 140 acres around the I-15/state Route 161 intersection, encompassing vacant land and other real estate, including the Terrible’s hotel-casino site. Reno developer Par Tolles’ namesake firm has drawn up plans for a 1.9 million-square-foot warehouse and distribution complex along Interstate 15 in Jean, a remote outpost some 25 miles south of the Strip whose only residents are the inmates at a state prison.Ĭlark County commissioners are scheduled to consider project plans Wednesday. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) shuttered hotel-casino south of Las Vegas is being eyed for demolition to clear space for a big industrial park. Terrible's Truck Plaza gas station on Friday, Sept.

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