Compare Summerlin to Blue Diamond...... (Las Vegas, Sunrise Manor: apartments, foreclosures, lease)

Miami Mike · 12-13-2007, 08:22 PM

Moving to Vegas in a couple of months and am interested in single family houses in the $300,000 range and was wondering what each town offered....Thanks

PinkString · 12-13-2007, 09:05 PM

Summerlin isn't it's own town. It's part of Las Vegas.
Summerlin is more established in some parts, and new construction in other parts.

Matt121779 · 12-13-2007, 09:34 PM

Very different places. Blue Diamond is a very small town. Sort of a Mayberry feel. Just a quiet desert town and is beautifully backdropped by the mountains. No McDonalds, Target, WalMart, etc... there. You have to drive into Las Vegas for that. I think there is just a Deputy Office, Post Office, general store, and school in Blue Diamond. I do a lot of mountain biking out that way and I always say I would go crazy living there. There is simply not much there. Summerlin is a master planned community which certainly is large enough to be its own city, but its part of unicorporated Clark County. It falls under the juristiction of LVMPD and CCSD. Summerlin blends into the rest of Las Vegas where Blue Diamond is its own little community detached from the city. As Pink stated, some areas are very well established where others are all new. Plenty of shopping, restaruants, bars, casinos, in Summerlin. Summerlin is very well landscaped and attractive. Overall, a good place to be.

olecapt · 12-13-2007, 10:10 PM

I suspect OP meant Blue Diamond the road or the SW. That area is new and growing in the classical Las Vegas way...quite out of control. It will however work out in the end when everything catches up to the growth...about five years from now. In the interim..dirt, dust, tornup streets, lousey traffic overcrowded schools...and some nice reasonably priced housing.

Summerlin is master planned to a fault and everything pretty well is in before they build the homes. Not perfect but pretty good. The master plan began in the late 80s in the north and continues until today in the south. The price point in general is higher than the SW...so you get less house in Summerlin. All other factors favor Summerlin.

Both have extensive properties in your range.

You might also consider the NW and the Centennials - Town and Hills...which are roughly the same price point as Blue Diamond - SW. A little better organized though.

If it happen you meant the real Blue Diamond...don't go there. A specialty place for those with ties or a strong urge to the rural.

lvkewlkid · 12-14-2007, 12:09 AM

Blue Diamond Road is a nice area to live in, lots of shopping, Arroyo Market Place, Town Square, Blue Diamond Crossing, Las Vegas Outlet Center, and close proximity to Strip and Airport. I would stay closer to Blue Diamond and Las Vegas Blvd then further west only because of traffic and road problems...

sorryville · 12-14-2007, 10:14 AM

Here's some info on both areas for you:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerlin%2C_Nevada

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerlin_South%2C_Nevada

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Diamond%2C_Nevada

Chest Rockwell · 12-14-2007, 10:53 AM

The major development along Blue Diamond road is called Mountain's Edge. There are great deals to be had out there due to foreclosures and overall lack of interest in housing at the moment, but the infrastructure is way behind to put it kindly.

Miami Mike · 12-14-2007, 03:59 PM

the main reason I asked is because I am somewhat familiar with Summerlin but not at all with Blue Diamond. My daughter attends UNLV and she tells me that some friends are from Blue Diamond and it's great there.....I'l just have to find out which B.D. she's talking about.....see you in January or early Feb. (Can't wait, as we're currently awaiting a Nor'easter here in NJ!!!)

Julia B. · 12-15-2007, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Miami Mike

the main reason I asked is because I am somewhat familiar with Summerlin but not at all with Blue Diamond. My daughter attends UNLV and she tells me that some friends are from Blue Diamond and it's great there.....I'l just have to find out which B.D. she's talking about.....see you in January or early Feb. (Can't wait, as we're currently awaiting a Nor'easter here in NJ!!!)

I noticed that you're writing from Garfield, NJ! My uncle Leo was the postmaster there for forty years--good grief! My late parents grew up there, and moved to Lodi when they married. I grew up in Lodi and left at 17 to go to college in the Bronx...and then to move countless times after I graduated. I still have lots of relatives in the Garfield-Lodi-Saddle Brook area.

I went to Catholic school in Garfield from kindergarten through sixth grade. And I went to GHS for my first year of h.s., while waiting for LHS to be accredited...oy... If you're around my age, 52, we might have even crossed paths; although at the moment I can't even think of anyone named Mike that I knew in Garf.

Anyway, I think you will love the moderate climate in LV, which includes sunshine on almost a daily basis and air quality that I have yet to see classified as anything but acceptable since I got here in June. As you probably know from your daughter, it's not exactly swimming weather (the high temp. today is expected to be 52, which I heard a weatherperson say is about 10 degrees below normal for this time of year). If you happen to be Italian, especially of the Neapolitan variety, you will find the Italian food very lacking here. Unfamiliar and disappointing. Still, it's a tradeoff that's worth it, as far as I'm concerned.

I am currently renting a house that's in the Sunrise Manor area. For what I'm paying, I expected this "neighborhood" to be nice and to have educated (which to me, includes self-educated) neighbors. What a huge disappointment! When my lease is up, I'm moving my brother and myself to an apt. complex in Summerlin/Peccole Ranch. The area--on West Sahara--has a conspicuous lack of grafitti (graffiti?) and more of a true neighborhood feel, sort of like what we're used to back "home" in the NJ-NY metro area. And it's possible to walk to stores, movie theaters, etc., in Summerlin. If you like walking to the corner store, please be aware that most neighborhoods offer no such opportunity.

Well, good luck with the move!!

olecapt · 12-15-2007, 09:12 AM

Hey Julia - A month or so before you commit to Pecole drop me a note and let me see if I can't point you at a couple of opportunities you might like. There are a couple of well establish quiet, walk neighborhoods...you just have to know where they are. Take a drive around Buffalo and Lake Mead sometime. There are condos on the southwest corner that are buried in there and are often available for rent. There is also a nice development at the northwest corner across from Bucca.

These condos are generally more pleasant than the best of the apartments. May be too expensive but worth the check.