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Tony Hsieh, Former Zappos CEO and Las Vegas Visionary, Dies After Being Injured in House Fire
Tony Hsieh, a Las Vegas visionary and the former CEO of Zappos who rocketed the online shoe retailer to the big leagues with its billion-dollar sale to Amazon, has died at the age of 46. He died after sustaining injuries from a fire at his home in New London, Connecticut, his attorney Puoy Premsrirut told…
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Build For Locals And Tourists Will Come: Vegas’ Plan For Its Downtown
Between the Downtown Project’s area and the Arts District is the new Las Vegas City Hall, a gleaming mirage of a building surrounded by a forest of photovoltaics. This is where the city leadership moved after it leased its old City Hall to Tony Hsieh’s company Zappos — a move that you can’t help but…
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Visiting The Downtown Project’s New Vegas Parks: Pretty, But Private
On the Downtown Project’s website, among several lofty goals — such as adding ground-level density and creating passionate communities for downtown Las Vegas — one goal sticks out as a bit different, if not simply odd: “Create the shipping container capital of the world.”