Clark County Approves Project to Replace Condo Project Destroyed in Fire with New Apartments
LAS VEGAS, NV – Following a highly-destructive fire that laid waste to a long-dormant high-rise condominium project that was never completed, Clark County commissioners have approved a plan to construct a new apartment building in its place.
Las Vegas developer Brock Metzka, owner of Edward Homes, was given the go-ahead to build a five-story, 255-unit apartment building in the southwest Las Vegas Valley, along Maule Avenue near Buffalo Drive. Metzka originally purchased the 5.5-acre plot of land this past summer for $7 million, according to Clark County records.
The property upon which the new apartment building will be erected was originally the site of Spanish View Tower, a proposed project consisting of three 18-story condos by developer Rodney Yanke, who broke ground on the endeavor in the mid-2000s.
This took place during a period where multiple developers were in the midst of constructing many skyscrapers in Southern Nevada – known at the time as the “Manhattanization” of Las Vegas – but when the market crashed and the economy tanked during the Great Recession, many of these ambitious projects never came to be.
Among the aborted projects included Yanke’s Spanish View Tower; work ceased after the site was excavated and development of an underground garage had only just started. From there, Spanish View Tower existed only as a giant hole in the ground for over ten years, but in 2017 a plan by Las Vegas developer Tim Deters was approved by Clark County for build a 600-unit mixed-use apartment complex. Work was delayed for numerous years, but once construction finally commenced, a fire destroyed the in-progress building in June 2023.
Metzka’s new efforts on the property represent the re-building of Deters’ project, albeit with several changes from the previously-approved 2017 plans, including reducing the number of buildings on the site from three to one.
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