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Friday, July 30, 2010 | 9:11 a.m.
The Mob Museum has received a $500,000 grant on behalf of the Commission for the Las Vegas Centennial, the museum announced Thursday night.
The $500,000 grant brings the total value of grants and gifts awarded to the museum to $8.8 million. The grant from the Commission for the Las Vegas Centennial was generated from the sale of centennial license plates.
This most recent grant is to be specifically used for the ongoing abatement of materials within the nearly 70-year-old building and its ongoing restoration.
The Mob Museum will be housed in the former United States Post Office at 300 Stewart Avenue. It is the city of Las Vegas’ most historic building and was dedicated as its first federal building in 1933.
“The building itself is as much as part of the museum as what will be inside,” said Nancy Deaner, manager of the city of Las Vegas office of cultural affairs. “The building is also significant for the historic events that occurred there, namely the famed Kefauver hearings that for the first time in America, exposed and attempted control of organized crime.”
Earlier this month, the Las Vegas City Council approved $7.1 million for the exhibits that will go into the downtown museum.
The Mob Museum is expected to open in May or June of 2011.
The museum, which is expected to cost about $42 million to construct, is being funded through a variety of sources: local, state and federal grants, matching grants and the city's redevelopment agency.
Sun Coverage
- City approves $7.1 million for mob museum exhibits (7-7-2010)
- City council accepts $300,000 more for downtown mob museum (6-16-2010)
- Union: City spending too much on mob museum (5-25-2010)
- Goodman tours mob museum, says ‘there is no competition’ (5-25-2010)
- Downtown Mob Museum set up to be self-supporting (4-21-2010)
- Downtown museum to tell story of mob in Las Vegas, elsewhere (3-25-2010)
I understand this is all grant money that they just recieved but maybe some of the 8 MILLION dollars could of been given toward education. I feel it is imporant to preserve the Las Vegas culture but not as important as our children getting an education.
I feel that I have been robbed!
Backwards a** town. Lets build a new city hall and a mob museum but don't mind the fact our education system is awful.
This is brilliant, meanwhile education keeps getting cut and the programs at UNLV are slashed resulting in mass layoffs. Everytime there is an article about CCSD, all the shortsighted redneck morons act like they are taxed through the roof for poor academic performance. Everyone needs to pay more porperty tax, demand more from the government in terms of educational support, and get the hell out if they can't see that as a true investment in Nevada's future. Pennsylvania taxes the casinos at a rate of over 50% and they pay around 8% in Nevada. Last week there was an article about a Metro Gang Unit, in which the officer said gang kids have Scarface and Tupac posters on their walls because they idolize those figures. Investing 8 million in a mob museum in the midst of the worst recession in 20 years is a great way to break that trend. . .MORONS!
"The museum, which is expected to cost about $42 million to construct, is being funded through a variety of sources: local, state and federal grants, matching grants and the city's redevelopment agency."
Forty-two million dollars to construct--while utilizing an existing structure? Hmmmm--that's ALOT of exhibits. Wink, wink. Eh, it's ONLY grant monies(aka taxpayer-funded 'lotteries'). Spend away. Ten bucks says it will end up costing even more.
@sbfloirish
I agree with you to a point. However, taking more money from citizens to give to the "Government", in my opinion, is wastefull. Education is not strictly dollars and cents. How much of our tax money after taken from Goverent is put back? Government is not the answer. Still a waste of money on a mob museum, at least at this time.
You only have the Repukeblican Governor Gibbons to blame for the state of our education system.
Bravo Mayor Goodman for what you have done in Downtown Las Vegas. Having lived here for nearly 24 years, I have seen a great improvement all over Downtown. More needs to be done but Downtown is looking better compared to years past.
I am looking forward to the opening of the Mob Museum, while it is not Guggenheim it will be part of our city for years to come. Too bad the Guggenheim Museum did not last very long in this city, it tells a lot about the people residing in Vegas but hopefully the transfomation of Downtown including the Mob Museum will change the way people see their own city.
Thank you Mr.Goodman!!!
So which boondoggle will our alcoholic mayor be best remembered for, the Mob Museum or the new City Hall?
Will Goodman be remembered for closing F Street, for trying to stop free speech at every public meeting, for getting a no-bid contract for his buddy Irwin Molasky to build an ICE Building at the gateway of West Las Vegas, or for being mayor when Neonopolis folded?
Or will he just simply be known as the mayor who bankrupted the City of Las Vegas?
Thomas Shermspun
Great Ruins of Las Vegas Tour
Republican (who had ethics problems) Newt Gingrich said "If the mob wants a museum let them pay for it" ...you and your friend Hannity are paying for it (at least indirectly) ha ha ha Thanks a lot Newt...
Since Alcatraz and the Tower of London are big tourist draws, this should follow in the same great successful tradition...thank you Mr Reid and Mr Goodman....
Complete total waste of money!!!!!!
$42 million for that museum? Town sure has its priorities straight.
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Why is it that the casinos pay less in taxes on their earnings than people pay in sales tax when they buy something?
Yep, town sure has its priorities straight.