Las Vegas SUN: Redevelopment area could be expanded
Monica Caruso passed this along from Las Vegas. I wrote a paper that mentioned among other things the City of Las Vegas' use of a downtown redevelopment district to compete with the County for tax dollars. The new mega-casinos are on the Strip, which is outside the city limits in county jurisdiction, so that's where the tax dollars go. The redevelopment district is an effort to recapture some of that by using various mechanisms to attract money and rebuild the downtown casinos. Anyway, here's an article about what's underway--expanding the district.
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The Las Vegas City Council on Wednesday will consider a resolution to expand the Downtown Redevelopment District to include three large parcels near downtown.

The move would allow projects improving those areas to tap into redevelopment incentives through 2031 and, if necessary, seek the use of eminent domain to take property from the current owners at fair market value.