Downtown Las Vegas may have found what it’s looking for

Downtown Las Vegas may have found what it’s looking for

A few blocks from the glitzy hotel where Prince Harry cavorted in Las Vegas last year, doing his bit for its party-town image, the neon-lit strip of casinos, bars, restaurants and malls greys into a landscape he almost certainly did not see: broken pavements, empty lots, boarded-up facades. This urban wasteland is the real downtown Las Vegas, the product of decades of dysfunction and neglect, home to poverty, unemployment and foreclosures, a dystopian hangover to the strip’s excesses in a town hit harder than most by the recession. Ocean’s Eleven feels far away. Read the full article.