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VIVA…DOWNTOWN VEGAS?

Source: CityCenter Las Vegas.

In September 2013, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh moved the company’s 1,600 employees into the former Las Vegas City Hall downtown, north of the Strip. The decision was symbolic of Hsieh’s wider ambition: to breathe life back into the city’s shattered central core. Hsieh, whose company was sold to Amazon in 2009 for $1.2 billion, invested $350 million in 2012 into a downtown revitalization venture—aptly called the Downtown Project—with funds allocated to real estate development, tech, arts, education,

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