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ver a few decades, the city of Las Vegas has changed and grown in a short period of time. From the hot spots on the strip, to the renovations and scenery changes in the neighborhoods out in the suburbs of Henderson, Summerlin, and other branches of the Las Vegas Valley. Mike Chernine, partner at Brass Cap Development, a local industrial development firm, has seen these various shifts in the Valley not only from the perspective of a resident, but also that of an aspiring and successful businessman. “I’ve been living in Las Vegas since 1981,” Chernine said. “I’m a real estate investor and developer, slash entrepreneur. I have several companies and one of them is called Brass Cap Development where we build industrial projects. My other company is CherCO where I just help put on other peo-
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Mike Chernine, Brass Cap Development
ple’s projects and give them the funding that they need.” One of Brass Cap Development’s most recent projects is called SanTico, a 2.5 acre industrial space at the intersection of South Rainbow Boulevard and West Sunset Road. “ T h at project is just a two-acre parcel that we bought about a year and a half ago over by Sunset and Rainbow. We just completed a 40,000 square foot building on it and put it in escrow to sell it,” Chernine said. “It’s an industrial building, but it’s in a retail location which means it’s just a higher traffic area. So we built the building, but right now
it’s in escrow with an artist, a young famous artist - a painter. He’s going to print his prints in his warehouse and store his art.” Looking at these kinds of higher end projects, it’s easy to forget that a few decades ago, Las Vegas wasn’t the constantly busy and bustling city that it is now today. “When we moved here from Eugene, Oregon, which we had been there for one year prior, so when I got off the airplane - I mean then the airport was you walked off the airplane, out the gate, you walked like a couple hundred feet, then you walked out of the front of the airport
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and the parking lot was right there. I think there were probably about 280,000 people in town at the time and we lived in the outskirts over at Alta [Drive] and Rainbow [Boulevard] which is definitely not an outskirt anymore” Chernine said. Since the 80’s, the Las Vegas Valley has continued to thrive and produce successful businesses. This has resulted in the building of many retail and commercial centers in various neighborhoods across the city. “I live in the suburbs, I live in a master plan community, I live in a golf club community, and I live up in the mountains, so we spend a lot of time hiking up at Red Rock which is 10-15 minute drive from where I’m at,” Chernine said. “All my favorite restaurants are within one or two miles and I literally live my life within about two miles from my house. All three of my kids
