Las Vegas businessman, GOP backer buys new corporate offices

Las Vegas construction-equipment tycoon Don Ahern has bought a caller firm headquarters, giving him abstraction to location staffers of an endeavor that racks up much than $1 cardinal successful yearly revenue.

Ahern, whose holdings see Ahern Rentals and Xtreme Manufacturing, bought the nine-story bureau building astatine 333 N. Rancho Drive, conscionable disconnected U.S. Highway 95, for $17.5 million, spot records show.

The sale, by the metropolis of Las Vegas, closed past month.

Ahern — a GOP supporter who made headlines past twelvemonth erstwhile 2 of his businesses faced fines for hosting Trump campaign events that defied state-imposed pandemic restrictions — owns a portfolio of 26 companies, according to a presumption helium made successful July to the Las Vegas City Council.

Ahern Rentals has much than 100 locations crossed the United States, and the institution has income and work operations successful Japan, Chile, Germany and different countries, the presumption shows. His holdings besides see the Ahern Hotel adjacent the Strip.

All told, his Ahern Family of Companies generates $1.33 cardinal successful yearly revenue, the presumption indicated.

Ahern said successful a connection Wednesday to the Review-Journal that his program for the Rancho gathering is to “relocate our Ahern Rentals firm office from its existent facility” connected Martin Luther King Boulevard, on with immoderate different office-based roles from astir the valley.

He expects to person astir 250 employees based successful the caller building, which would besides beryllium location to his firm’s caller acquisition commercialized school, Ahern said.

“Any surplus abstraction volition beryllium disposable to rent,” helium added.

The building, formerly location to Las Vegas’ Development Services Center, spans 144,000 quadrate feet and includes a four-story parking garage, according to a March quality merchandise from metropolis officials that the spot was for sale.

It had an appraised worth of $17.3 million, the merchandise noted, good beneath the city’s $26.5 cardinal acquisition terms successful precocious 2007, soon earlier the existent property marketplace crashed and the system spiraled down into the Great Recession.

The gathering besides made a cameo arsenic the location of the Las Vegas Police Department successful the Jamie Foxx transgression thriller “Sleepless.” (The department’s existent sanction includes Metropolitan, and the 2017 movie was panned by critics arsenic “listless” and “stylishly hollow.”)

Ryan Smith, Las Vegas’ acting manager of economical and municipality development, told the Review-Journal this week that too Ahern’s offer, the metropolis besides received a $7 cardinal bid for the property.

“Obviously it wasn’t a pugnacious reappraisal of the 2 offers,” Smith said.

Ahern’s sanction mightiness beryllium acquainted to radical who person seen operation instrumentality bearing his logo astatine assorted occupation sites and retention yards successful the valley. A fewer of his businesses person besides been successful the spotlight for political-related reasons during the pandemic.

Last month, for instance, Ahern Hotel hosted a QAnon-linked convention wherever radical made unfounded claims of wide fraud successful the 2020 predetermination and formed uncertainty connected COVID-19 vaccines.

The league was antecedently scheduled to beryllium held astatine the Caesars Forum normal abstraction adjacent the Strip, with tickets selling for $650 to $3,000, but casino elephantine Caesars Entertainment dropped the lawsuit successful August, the Review-Journal reported.

Extremism experts had raised concerns astir a large edifice institution specified arsenic Caesars hosting the event, expressing worries astir it further spreading the organizers’ beardown anti-mask and anti-vaccine beliefs.

Contact Eli Segall astatine esegall@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-383-0342. Follow @eli_segall connected Twitter.