By: Las Vegas Now Staff
Fiesta Henderson employees will find out Tuesday night if a new apartment complex that will benefit them can be built.
The complex has been proposed by developer Trammel Crowe, who have an agreement with Station Casinos to provide Fiesta Henderson employees with priority leasing and a discounted rate.
Neighbors in the area have been torn over the project for weeks. A few residents living behind the railroad tracks on Fiesta Henderson Drive don't want the complex to be built because they think it will increase traffic, crime rates and have too much of an impact on schools in the area.
Residents from Fiesta Park, across the street from where the complex could be built, disagree. They want the complex so that the dirt lot will be used for something more positive.
“Of all the alternatives that they've offered, the apartment is the lesser of all the evils… We're going to get something built back there. That land is not going to sit empty,” Fiesta Park HOA President John Thiessen said.
Douglas Zook lives in Fiesta Park and has attended every meeting about this complex since it was suggested. He thinks that a compromise will be reached and that the building will be beneficial to the area.
“I am strongly in favor of concentrating people with their workplace. I think we have to do that for the future because of the conditions that exist with fuel,” Zook said, “There were at least 40 Fiesta employees that were there in favor of the project.”
The Henderson City Council will be voting at their regular meeting Tuesday night, and the Henderson Planning Commission has already approved the complex, with conditions. Minutes from the City Council and Planning Commission meetings surrounding this issue can be found here.
