Kistler Aerospace Corp. will be launching low earth orbit commercial satellites in three years - either from Spaceport Nevada at the Test Site or from Australia's outbacks. Kistler's co-founders helped develop space laboratories. Those monorail plans for the east side of the Strip are chugging right along. It would extend the MGM-Bally's monorail to Convention Center and the Sahara Hotel. No state funds would be used, but state bonds would cut borrowing costs.
Construction is still a couple years away, once paperwork hurdles have been cleared.
Close to five million riders a year use the free ride. Hopefully, it will cut Strip traffic, cut auto pollution, and add another tourist attraction to the city. The six-acre site was home to a car rental company. Up Paradise a few blocks, the family that owns the Terrible Herbst gas stations has bought the bankrupt Continental Hotel. They plan to renovate it, then reopen.