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The winds of change are unsettling the sands of Ivanpah Valley...
Whiskey Pete's is one of the three casinos in Primm, Nevada, which
is at the southern portion of Ivanpah Valley next to the California border. Will Whiskey Pete's still be around
in 2018 when the new Ivanpah Valley International Airport is projected to begin operations? The smart money would say no. Assuming
the airport project will proceed, Primm most certainly will be upgraded to be equal to the multi-billion dollar
airport project. In fact, over the next decade, just about everything regarding Ivanpah Valley is bound to change. Photo taken by Robert L. Candiotti in July, 2007.
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The winds of change are unsettling the
sands of Ivanpah Valley, 30 miles south of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Ivanpah Valley is mostly flat desert land that has
been ignored and discounted for decades; while, just over the hills to the north, world-famous Las Vegas, Nevada, has
long been a Wild West of Growth that has continuously surprised even its most fervent supporters.
But Ivanpah
Valley's time for transformation is coming. Some will say it is already here.
The completely new
international airport - Ivanpah Valley Airport - is actually on track to fruition.
(1) The Federal Aviation Administration
clearly concludes in its publication Capacity Needs in the National Airspace System 2007-2025, an airport supplemental
to Las Vegas' McCarran will definitely be needed; (2) the United States government has already transferred to
Nevada's Clark County ample land (approximately 6,000 acres) for the airport; (3) the Clark County Department of
Aviation has for years been thinking the whole project through, confident that a big, international airport
supplemental to Las Vegas' McCarran International is most likely inevitable; (4) right now, the FAA and Bureau
of Land Management are jointly preparing an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to evaluate the environmental issues
surrounding the project and clearly delineate the aviation needs of the area.
By the year 2018, when the
airport opens, Ivanpah Valley will have very little resemblance to what it is today.
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Robert L. Candiotti, above, currently divides his time
between The Lakes neighborhood of Las Vegas and Ivanpah Valley, located 30 miles to the south via I-15.
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The initiator of this website, Robert L. Candiotti, senses that
the new airport is needed and is inevitable. Consequently, everything about Ivanpah Valley Airport needs to be done in the
best, most environmentally enlightened, technologically advanced, creative, futuristic, humanistic, fun way possible, he is
convinced.
A native of California, Candiotti has lived in Las Vegas for ten years. He continues to live in
Las Vegas because he has become convinced it is one of the most extraordinary, energetic, hard-working, breathtaking and fun
cities on the planet.
Recently, though, his vistas have broadened. For the past two years, he has divided his time between
Las Vegas and Ivanpah Valley. He works in Primm. He has been across the I-15 portion of Ivanpah Valley hundreds of times.
He recognizes that the area south of Las Vegas to the California border is different. It feels different.
Its personality is different. Its appeal is different. It should not be, and actually cannot be, Las Vegas.
Ivanpah
Valley needs to find its own vision and its own definition. It is now face to face with the future.
Ivanpah
had better not avert its eyes.
What is about to happen in Ivanpah Valley is a big deal, Candiotti believes. Opportunities
and responsibilities such as the ones becoming evident in Ivanpah are rare, as well as awesome. He merely wants the best
possible result for Ivanpah Valley's transformation. And he feels for himself, following this story will be interesting,
enriching and entertaining.
Hence, here is IvanpahValley.com.
To go to the Contact Us page, click here.
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