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Hotels | Shows | Concerts | Golf | Dining | Tours | Tickets | About Us | More Info | Contact | Buy Now | Links Metropolis Las Vegas Mercury Last week's groundbreaking for the four-story Pioneer Plaza office building at Fourth Street and Clark Avenue was more than just another redevelopment feather in Mayor Oscar Goodman's cap. It represents what's become a trend in the downtown area near the Lloyd D. George Federal Courthouse and the Clark County Regional Justice Center--owner-occupied investment and development by the legal community. The $12 million, 70,000-square-foot building, which will house the law firms of Barker, Brown, Busby, Chrisman & Thomas and Haney, Woloson & Mullins, is the fifth owner-occupied office structure to be approved by the city of Las Vegas in the last two years and the fourth to be built in an eight-block area from Casino Center Boulevard on the west to Fourth Street on the east and from Lewis Avenue on the north to Gass Avenue on the south. Other than the Pioneer Endeavors LLC building announced last Friday, recently completed or soon-to-be-completed attorney office projects include the Raleigh, Hunt, McGarry and Drizin building at Casino Center and Garces Street, the Mainor & Harris building at Fourth and Gass, and the Koppe & Koppe building at Fourth and Garces. Nearly a year ago, the city approved the Schofield Office Building at Casino Center and Bonneville Street, but no activity has taken place there yet. A sixth office building, the Pauls Corp.'s six-story, 110,000-square-foot City Centre Place, was completed in October. Attorney Jamie Chrisman said the law firm started and matured in downtown Las Vegas and he still believes the future of the area will be bright. He predicted the Pioneer Plaza building could have a boomerang effect, bringing lawyers who fled downtown back to the area. The legal support firms of Hi-Tech Reporting and Litigation Services and Technologies LLC, as well as the law offices of Gabriel Grasso and Philip Singer, will also occupy the Pioneer Plaza building. In all, 200 people will work in the new offices. The relocation of Barker, Brown, Busby, Chrisman & Thomas out of the Bank of America Building at Fourth and Bridger Avenue is really a tale of "if at first you don't succeed, move over one block." In January, the law firm was close to an agreement with the city's redevelopment agency to build an 88,000-square-foot building and a 315-space parking garage at Clark and Las Vegas Boulevard, on a site next to the Mad Dogs & Englishmen Pub. That deal evaporated, though, when the financing didn't pencil out in the city's favor.
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