Plan to turn Moulin Rouge site into affordable housing questioned
A plan to purchase the Moulin Rouge site for $5.5 million to develop a casino and affordable housing hybrid was tabled Tuesday amid questions about the project.
Among concerns voiced at the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority meeting, commissioners Lawrence Weekly and Teressa Davis questioned whether the Historic Westside community, which is supposed to benefit from the housing authority’s proposal, had given input.
“I’m looking, and I don’t see the community here,” Davis said. “I don’t even see our (housing authority) residents here voicing their concerns in regards to this.”
Weekly, who also sits on the Clark County Commission and represents the district the Moulin Rouge site sits in, added that when the county looked at purchasing the property in 2017, community members “raked them over the coals” during three hours of public comment.
Read more: https://www.nevadacurrent.com/2019/07/03/plan-to-turn-moulin-rouge-site-into-affordable-housing-questioned/
A 1955 photograph of the façade of the Moulin Rouge Hotel.
