Dream’s Nightmare: Las Vegas Strip Neighbor Built Over New Resort’s Property Line
Posted on: August 28, 2022, 05:34h.
Last updated on: August 30, 2022, 11:40h.
It was a potential nightmare for Dream Las Vegas, one of the next resorts to open on the Las Vegas Strip. Its next-door neighbor, the Pinball Hall of Fame arcade, has already built at least 8 feet over their shared property boundary on the Strip’s southern edge.
According to a lawsuit filed by the resort’s developers in Clark County District Court last fall, the “unlawful occupation” prevented a drainage outlet from being constructed. The lawsuit has since been settled for an undisclosed sum.
Fortunately, the arcade’s encroachment was discovered early enough to make adjustments before construction began on Dream’s 20-story tower. Dream Las Vegas is expected to open in 2025 with 531 rooms, a 20,000-square-foot casino and a closer next-door neighbor than they originally wanted. Ground was broken on the resort in July.
In 2020, the Dream Hotel Group — a New York City-based operator of four Manhattan luxury properties and hotels in Miami Beach, Hollywood, and Nashville — bought 5.25 acres of undeveloped Las Vegas Boulevard land just south of Russell Road, adjacent to Harry Reid International Airport. The land was purchased in partnership with Southern California firms Shopoff Realty Investments and Contour, a privately owned commercial real estate development group.
Survey Says … Wrong!
Shopoff Realty founder Bill Shopoff told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he has seen minor encroachments during his 40 years in real estate, but never a building constructed over its property line. How was such a massive mistake allowed to happen?
The Pinball Hall of Fame’s attorneys blamed it on a surveying error by a contractor. According to court filings, Las Vegas-based Lochsa Engineering was hired in 2018 to survey the arcade’s project site. An affiliate brought in by Lochsa messed up the survey.
Dream’s developers notified the arcade of the encroachment last year and after the arcade verified the claim, the settlement was covered by Lochsa’s insurance company. As part of the settlement, Dream’s developers transferred the land to the Pinball Hall of Fame.
“It was a new one for me,” Shopoff told the newspaper.
A Second Surveying SNAFU?
The same surveying error saw a small portion of the Pinball Hall of Fame built on 345 square feet of adjacent land owned by the Clark County Department of Aviation. The encroachment, shown below the purple line in the lower right of the photo, occurs on a small service road in a private aviation area at the airport.
“Yes, we are aware that a portion of the Pinball Hall of Fame encroaches on DOA-owned land,” Department of Aviation spokesman Joe Rajchel told the R-J. “As this has had no impact on airport operations, we are working with them on a mutually beneficial solution.”
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Michael Metaxotos: This property, along with the rest of the Strip, is located in Paradise, Nev. This is an unincorporated town in Clark County governed by the county. The City of Las Vegas had nothing to do with allowing this error.
Where the hell is the city of Las Vegas in this mess isn't there a zoning Commission for board in Las Vegas or at least and inspector who inspects properties that are being built and making sure that they're within the easements Etc what kind of ridiculous place is this mayor running maybe she should stay out of the headlines and do the job she's being paid to do
I think realize that pinball was survey still until this thing messes up. Not to do.
Yes this is the 3rd location, and yes they were in old, ugly buildings on the east side. But the fact that the buildings are are old ugly eyesores has nothing to do with the Pinball Hall of Fame, they were ugly before, and they are ugly now, and they were leased, not owned.
In one of my very 1st real estate appraisal classes there was a case study where a man built a home on the vacant lot, there were 2 lots identical next to each other, after the home was built the owner of the lot came by and noticed someone had built a home on his lot, he knocked on the door, met the owner of the house and they agreed to exchange lots, however the owner of that lot did not have to do that, he could have said "thanks for the house" and moved in.
Isn’t this the third location for the Pinball Hall of Fame? They have left a two other locations and those are now just eyesores on the east side. How many locations are they going to build and move to? Same with Harley Davidson, they have relocated all over the valley leaving ugly buildings they have abandoned.