SHARE Village Las Vegas Receives Honors at ULI-Nevada Third Annual Placemaking Awards

On Wednesday, November 2, 2022, SHARE Village Las Vegas Founder, Dr. Arnold Stalk, PhD was presented with the prestigious ULI Nevada Placemaking Award for Excellence. The awards ceremony held at the World Market Center in Downtown Las Vegas celebrated a myriad of outstanding projects, achievements and leaders that have made a difference in our community.

Placemaking embraces the creation of spaces that promote people’s health, happiness, and well-being through planning, design and management.

Arnold Stalk, PhD, Founder of SHARE Village Las Vegas, commented on being recognized at the ceremony, saying, “We are truly honored to be selected and recognized by ULI Nevada. SHARE Village is committed to the development of affordable housing with supportive services and ending homelessness in America. SHARE Village has brought many positive changes and improvements to the East Downtown Las Vegas area, making it a safer place for families to live and thrive.”

Share Village Las Vegas was recognized for its building, The Wynn/PENTA Main Campus Building. Made from a repurposed ocean container, Share Village created village housing with 214 units of affordable housing. There are also two other adjacent villages, which are comprised of Share Village transitional housing which is a 56-unit repurposed motel travel lodge motel and share village family housing which is an affordable housing 20-unit community immediately adjacent to the Share Village main campus facility.

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Based in Las Vegas, ULI Nevada provides trustworthy information and offers a place where members grow professionally and personally by sharing and cultivating ideas, mentoring and problem solving. Our members gain access to opportunities for professional development through active involvement in committee work, topical programs and networking. The membership represents the entire continuum of land use and real estate development disciplines including developers, builders, investors, architects, public officials, planners, real estate brokers, appraisers, attorneys, engineers, lenders, academics, and students.

SHARE Village Las Vegas was established in 1994 and is an award-winning 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that is dedicated to the creation and development of affordable housing villages. This is a unique and innovative approach to holistic and comprehensive housing, with access to 24/7/365 supportive services provided by community partners. Public and private partnerships have been formed to develop and operate affordable housing with collaborative medical and mental health services, employment referrals and placements, and a full-service community food pantry/nutrition program. We're bringing veterans and families’ home.

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Along with these three villages, Share Village also operates a community food and market pantry. This facility is located within the Share Village main campus and in partnership with Feeding America and Three Square Regional Food Bank. Each week, two very large market pantries are held and the 500 residents the Share Village houses at night and the community at large are always welcome at these pantries.

Other ULI Nevada 2022 Placemaking awardees included: Placemaker of the year: Mayor Debra March

Transformative place private sector category: Share Village Las Vegas

Catalytic place public sector category:

Ron Quince (Ron Q) has become a man on a mission. The 40-year Las Vegas businessman, and father of two young daughters realized a few months ago that building a future for them should include a foundation of giving to the families in need around him. Quince, an accountant and entrepreneur, believes that his Filipino upbringing helped to shape a desire for giving.

“We have always taken care of each other in the Filipino community, but reaching farther out has brought me great joy,” says Quince. “I have worked very hard in my professional and family life. I also have a desire to help shape the world that my girls will grow up in,” and adds, “Seeing the results of giving to others in Southern Nevada has changed the way I look at my family, my profession, and the world around me.”

Ron Quince’s first stop was at The City Impact Center, a community center with one of the largest food banks in Las Vegas. He was able to make last Thanksgiving Day a truly special one by providing whole turkeys with all the trimmings to hundreds of Las Vegas families.

Vic Caruso, the Executive Director of City Impact Center, knows that Thanksgiving is one of the most important days to meet the needs of families in the center of the Las Vegas Valley. “We had a lot of concern that the families in our area would not be able to afford a Thanksgiving dinner,” says Caruso, “but we were blessed to have Ron Quince, a great member of the community, step up and deliver thousands of dollars’ worth of turkeys to our foodbank. Plus, he stayed all day and handed them out. Nobody ever does that!”

In addition, he was involved in giving out snacks to elementary school kids at Arturo Cambeiro Elementary school in North Las Vegas. He has a passion for working tirelessly to support our troops and works with the USO to send our troops various packages during the holidays, as well as working with Troops with Paws, an organization that provides veterans with support dogs.

Immigrating to the United States from the Philippines when he was only 5 years old, Ron Q touts himself as the true personification of the American Dream. He believes he can make help make changes and help forge policies that will make our economy work again and allow young people to live that same American Dream. He is a tax expert by Trade, and built a very successful accounting firm and therefore, has the financial expertise to do so. This is one of the reasons he will be running for office. He is currently completing his master’s degree in Emergency and Crisis Management.

He also believes that as a minority, he is the new face of the Republican Party. He wants to show the world that the Republican party is a party of diversity; a party of the people.

When asked about his political platform, Ron Q believes that climate change and abortion are issues that need to be discussed. On climate change Ron states, “I am not a climate change denier. I am a climate change realist. Of course, as a father, I am concerned for my children and my children’s children. We all want a world with clean energy and less carbon emissions. It is certainly our goal. But it is not realistic to support an all-electric world at present.” He goes on to say that we do not have the infrastructure or power grid to support going fully electric, and that the impact on Americans would be dramatic. “We would face frequent blackouts, brownouts, power outages, rising fuel costs, that would do more harm,” explains Ron. “Let’s help the environment with a process that works, not ‘woke’ wishful thinking. Let’s build a path to a better environment but continue to service our country with available resources while we work on these solutions.”

Regarding abortion, interestingly enough, Ron takes issue with his own party, but holds strong to his Catholic values as a way to navigate the troubled waters, which is the abortion rights issue. “Republicans failed to properly address this issue after Roe vs Wade was overturned,” submits Ron Q. “To be clear, as a Catholic, I am personally not in favor of abortion. However, as a father of two girls, I support women’s rights to have options, certainly in cases of rape, incest and the health of the mother.” Ron views the prospect of abortion up to the time of birth as unacceptable, but also believes that this is not just a women’s rights issue or something that women should be tasked with alone. “I also believe in accountability,” he says. “Men need to step up, and no one should use abortion as birth control. I support women, but I support babies as well. This is a conversation we must have.”

Ron Q believes that the job of a public servant is to represent the values and views of their constituents. Everyone keeps talking, but Ron wants you to know that he is listening. WWW.RONQFORYOU.COM