MSG Sphere will have Las Vegas Monorail station

Gov. Brian Sandoval addresses the crowd at the ground breaking ceremony event for the Madison Square Garden Sphere, a new venue expected to open in 2021 in Las Vegas, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. The sphere shaped venue will have more than 18,000 seats and the largest LED screen on Earth that will wrap the interior of the bowl. Rachel Aston Las Vegas Review-Journal @rookie__rae
An artist’s rendering of the MSG Sphere Las Vegas distributed Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, shows the 300-foot performance venue near The Venetian. Construction begins later this year with completion planned by 2020. MSG
Politicians and company executives break ground for the Madison Square Garden Sphere, a new venue expected to open in 2021 in Las Vegas, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. The sphere shaped venue will have more than 18,000 seats and the largest LED screen on Earth that will wrap the interior of the bowl. Rachel Aston Las Vegas Review-Journal @rookie__rae
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The Clark County Commission on Wednesday approved the construction of a Las Vegas Monorail station at the MSG Sphere at The Venetian arena project.

The stop near Sands Avenue is the second planned addition to the monorail’s route along the Strip. The other is an extension to Mandalay Bay.

The MSG Sphere station will connect with a pedestrian bridge between the Sands Convention Center and the sphere. The entertainment venue’s developers broke ground on the project in September, and construction is expected to be completed in the 2021 fiscal year.

The monorail track will be 5 miles long once the new stations are finished. The route will have nine stops and connect to 42,000 hotel rooms and the Sands Expo and Convention Center, Las Vegas Convention Center and Mandalay Bay Convention Center.

The Review-Journal is owned by the family of Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson.

Contact Michael Scott Davidson at sdavidson@reviewjournal.com or 702-477-3861. Follow @davidsonlvrj on Twitter.

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Clark County Looks To Acquire Public Land For Affordable Housing

Clark County wants to build more affordable housing in the valley.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports county commissioners voted unanimously to submit a request to the Bureau of Land Management to acquire as much as 110 acres in the southern half of Las Vegas.

The land transfer could be done by the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act, which allows the federal agency to transfer land to local jurisdictions.

The maximum number of apartments that could be built across the 10 parcels is about 1,980 because of density restrictions.

The county said they are focusing on this area because of its access to employment, public transportation and medical care.

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Dinner benefit to aid Las Vegas farmer’s markets organizer

Rooster Boy Cafe’s Sonia El-Nawal is planning two benefit dinners for Kerry Clasby.
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Rooster Boy Cafe’s Sonia El-Nawal will host a pair of dinners at the Lakeside Event Center on Dec. 14 and 15 to aid Kerry Clasby in her recovery from California’s Woolsey Fire.

Clasby, known as the Intuitive Forager, has organized several Las Vegas farmer’s markets and helped bring the products of hundreds of small family farms to kitchens on and off the Strip. Tragically, a farmhouse and several other structures on the farm she leases in Malibu, California, were destroyed in the recent wildfire.

“We lost one truck, one delivery truck, three containers full of all of the stuff we use for the farm, the seeds that we’ve been collecting for a long time. All my personal stuff is gone,” Clasby explained Friday at the Downtown 3rd Farmer’s Market that she organizes every week.

“My office is gone. Printers, a lot of the office things. The electricity is gone. We’re laying wire now.”

El-Nawal says that as soon as she heard about the loss, she knew she had to get involved.

“I got up in the morning and I was like, ‘Yeah, that’s what we should do. Let’s just eat, cook, celebrate her and help her out.’ Whatever we can get is better than zero. It’s a beginning forward.”

To defray costs, she’s turned to members of the local restaurant community to donate ingredients and time. She reports Esther’s Kitchen, Sparrow + Wolf, The Stratosphere, Other Mama, Cured & Whey and Urban Seed have all agreed to donate food. And she expects some of their chefs, managers and staff will lend a hand at the events.

“It’s so humbling,” Clasby says of the response. “You can’t believe it.”

The family-style meals will be available from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. on both evenings, priced at $75 per person.

“The menu is very pop-up,” El-Nawal promises.

“It’ll be like a big ‘Chopped,’ basically. It’s a buffet meal, both pastry and food, family-style eating.”

The Lakeshore Event Center is located at 2620 Regata Drive in the Desert Shores community.

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