section dividers - City of Las Vegas

Commercial facilities are typically divided into three principal categories: neighborhood scale,community scale, and regional scale:• Neighborhood scale commercial facilities provide convenience goods and personal servicesto meet the daily needs of an immediate neighborhood area. Neighborhood scale(convenience) centers are developing in West Las Vegas in four locations (Map LU-A, category#6) and strip commercial is developing in four locations (Map LU-A, category #3)• Community scale commercial facilities offer a greater depth and range of goods and servicesto serve the needs of several or more neighborhoods. Community scale shoppingcenters are developing along Owens Avenue between H and J Streets (Map LU-A, category#1) and along Rancho Road from north of Washington Avenue to south of BonanzaRoad (Map LU-A, category #2)• Regional scale commercial facilities provide a full range of goods and personal services fora market which spans the metropolitan Las Vegas area. Regional scale commercial facilitieshave developed in the form of commercial and light industrial uses along the Bonanza Roadcorridor (Map LU-A, category #4) where there is easy access to the regional freewaysystem at both Rancho Road and at D StreetAlso, the potential exists in the large, still vacant land Parcel A (Map LU-A, Land Use ExistingConditions Section) for regional and/or community scale commercial facilities (including clean,low intensity assembling, warehousing and research facilities) in the form of business/officeparks.Initial concepts for commercial development and redevelopment at the neighborhood and/orcommunity scale which are now being pursued by City staff and City Council in West Las Vegasinclude (see Map UD-C in the following Urban Design/Visual Image Element):• The assemblage of 22 acres of land on the south side of Owens Avenue, between H andJ Streets, for development of the “Town Center” (as proposed in the Downtown DevelopmentPlan), and the selection of a developer to construct the “Town Center”, with a Vonssupermarket as the first phase, is now underway• Redevelopment and expansion of the adjacent Nucleus Plaza site on the north side ofOwens Avenue has been completed• Revitalization of Jackson Avenue between B and H Streets as a commercial/entertainmentdistrict 11Jackson Street east of the “Town Center” was, in the 1950’s and the 1960’s, a vital and successful entertainmentdistrict where famous African American entertainers performed, and hotels , restaurants, and nightclubsflourished. In conjunction with other West Las Vegas activities, there is potential for the reestablishment ofJackson Street as a commercial/entertainment district to serve both the local market and the African Americansvisiting Las Vegas.Groundbreaking for Magic’s Westland Mall began withdemolition of the previous City of Las Vegas Business CenterDept. of Economic & Urban Development32 Landuse revised 2-3-98