[jhiker1o]

I would like to see Wind Farm on top of Table Mountain and build a recreational area/park on top of Table Mountain. Homes are already near the foot of Table Mountain anyway. Might as well develop the top part of it. The recreational area will have beautiful views on all sides, the valley, the Strip, a view of Red Rock Canyon and beyond.


Wind Farm - US Dept. of Energy

[dynimagelv]

wind farm maybe....park maybe....windfarm and park...not a good idea...too many people would get hit by [formerly flying] birds.....birds n windfarms dont mix well....

[ScoopLV]

Originally Posted by irishspy

Retirement, Retirement, Retirement. The biggest group of people who are ever going to retire is happening now. Especially on the East coast make it more attractive for them to move to Vegas. You already have the weather,entertainment,restaurants and scenery. Now open the housing market these people have $$$ to invest in homes and condo's. People do not get laid off from retirement and if you noticed the largest population in casinos have grey hair!!!. These people are educated so you will not be attracting rif raft.

Be careful what you wish for -- retirees never, ever, ever vote for school improvements or any other kind of infrastructure for that matter. If they move here in droves, we'll be Arizona. (And you think our government is bad NOW.)

I think the way to improve Vegas is with tech. We're already a valley -- let's put "Silicon" in front of it. Do everything we can to entice high-tech design companies to move here. We have to move away from being a one-note economy. Tech and green energy, that's the future. Why let some other state reap the benefits?

ScoopLV

[J78Jason]

Would be hard to get tech companies to come to Nevada. Nevada is near the bottom of the barrel in college degrees and one of the main resource for a tech company is an educated workforce/population.

Sure they could try to lure people from other states, but you're better off positioning yourself where the workforce and expertise is already established. They may save on taxes in the short term but the increased expense of recruiting would be rough as well as the strong possibility that you'd have to settle for lesser candidates as the elite people are more inclined to want to live in the bay area with the "big boys". This would probably leave your company in worse shape over time.

[jhiker1o]

Originally Posted by dynimagelv

wind farm maybe....park maybe....windfarm and park...not a good idea...too many people would get hit by [formerly flying] birds.....birds n windfarms dont mix well....

You enclose the area of the wind farm and build the park around it not necessarily below it!! The area on top of Table Mountain is large enough for both the Wind Farm and the park.

[Willy702]

Every diversified economy has good schools feeding it. Every single one. Even Pittsburgh which looked bleak for a long while at least has a nice core of schools to supply talent and its emerging as a decent city with a fairly diverse economy.

There is no magic wand, no magic tax policy, no magic change in thinking which will create diversity in the LV economy. Just hard work, lots of investment and time. Guess what? Few in Vegas have such patience and even fewer have a willingness to invest in the long term.

[eventusstultorummagister]

Originally Posted by J78Jason

Would be hard to get tech companies to come to Nevada. Nevada is near the bottom of the barrel in college degrees and one of the main resource for a tech company is an educated workforce/population.

Perhaps impossible. We are losing all our top engineers now to foreign companies:

Overseas Tech Firms Ramp Up Hiring in Silicon Valley - WSJ.com

"To be globally competitive you really need to have a footprint in (Silicon) Valley"

[eventusstultorummagister]

There is no way to envision the future of Las Vegas without considering the U.S. as a whole (or sum of it's parts). The deficit is out of control and it appears that lawmakers are determined to pursue cuts for those who can least afford it (Seniors, Social Security, Veterans, Medicare).
Even at that they still don't come close to solving the problem.
It was a nice run...

[happyhunting]

Would be hard to get tech companies to come to Nevada. Nevada is near the bottom of the barrel in college degrees and one of the main resource for a tech company is an educated workforce/population

This is right on. Tech companies always locate next to top universities producing top students. I've alway thought they should move the med school down from UNR to UNLV, then invest in building a tech campus. The problem is they are cutting budgets, staff, classes as is. They won't invest in that.

[cecnj]

There is no reason whatsoever that Vegas cannot become a destination for superior higher education opportunities. There is one basic need to start that process: will. If the populace had the will, it would be done. That goes for anything worth doing. Those beholden to the model of Vegas is a gambling town, always was, always will be are unnecessarily limiting their vision of the potential for this great city. We can be the entertainment/gambling capital of the world and the next great center for higher learning. I'm on board.