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Union Village will be one of the first integrated health care and mixed use developments in the country. Developers unveiled its master plan on Thursday, April 7, 2011, at Henderson City Hall.
By Conor Shine (contact) 
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 | 11:05 p.m.
Union Village
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The vision for a $1.5 billion medical, residential and commercial complex at U.S. 95 and Galleria Drive took its first major step toward becoming a reality Tuesday night when the Henderson City Council finalized the sale of a 151-acre plot to developers.
The sale of the city-owned plot to Union Village LLC and its partners for $11.6 million officially sets in motion the next phase of the planned development, which would be anchored by a hospital and senior retirement community.
David Baker, a partner and developer in the project, said the next steps will involve conducting various engineering and environmental studies on the site.
“This allows us to move forward in a big way,” he said. “You can’t go forward until you know you have a deal.”
The sale was passed unanimously as part of the council’s consent agenda, which Baker attributed to planning and the amount of buy-in the project had garnered.
In the works for more than a year, the Union Village plans were first unveiled to the public in April. Described as an “integrated health village,” the mixed-use development will be centered on a state of-the-art Rose de Lima Campus operated by St. Rose Dominican Hospitals.
Residential apartments, a midrange hotel, restaurants, retail and medical offices are all also included in the plans.
The city retained five acres of the plot to house the planned $63 million Henderson Space and Science Center, which is being developed separately.
Originally appraised at $30.1 million, the land was sold at a discount because developers will have to pay $17.5 million for grading work on a large gravel pit at the site before construction can begin.
The city will begin filling the pit in the next few months after authorizing $4.6 million for the work in November.
Baker said construction on the site is slated to start sometime between December and April of next year. The first phase, including the hospital and senior community, is expected to be finished in four years, with further expansion happening over the following four years.
The land, with a big hole in it, is appraised at over $30 million. The city is spending another $4.6 million to fill the hole. (Will the appraised value now go up since the land will no longer have the big hole in it?) Then they are selling the land for just over $11 million. It appears that someone is getting rich at the taxpayers expense. Oh well, I guess it's just politics as usual in Nevada.
We have completely unfinished projects all over the place while people start new ones... We have a ton of foreclosures but builders keep building.
Whatever I guess... YaY for the a retail, health center thing... Just what I was hoping for.
Am I the only one who would rather shop online? Ive also started looking towards importing my food being as most of the food here is straight garbage. Amazing what you can do online.
But next time i break my leg and want to go shopping for a new house and tie, i'll be sure to go here first. My one stop shop and doc.
At least the ferris wheel is coming...
The map has the location wrong. The project is actually on the other side of 95, behind Central Christian Church. If you go to their website UnionVillage.net you will note its correct location.
This project will be a great boon to Las Vegas. It will create 17,000 jobs and generate nearly $10 billion dollars in tax revenue over 25 years.
Nail in the coffin for the Village @ Lake Las Vegas. The Village cannot even compete with the District and now more shopping coming to that side of Clark County!!!