Las Vegas firm unveils giveaway for custom-built restaurant

A restaurateur with an thought for a diner, java store oregon deli reminiscent of the past could get their conception built for free, successful a contention announced Tuesday.

Las Vegas existent property bureau Dapper Cos. created the challenge, dubbed “The Great Las Vegas Coffee Shop Giveaway,” to grant a cook oregon restaurateur with a 3,000-square-foot custom-designed edifice successful downtown Las Vegas.

J Dapper, proprietor of Dapper Cos., said the judges are looking for thing on the lines of cafes recovered successful casinos past than the existent latte-and-laptop scene.

Growing up successful Southern Nevada, Dapper remembers cafes with diner and delicatessen staples disposable astatine immoderate clip of day.

“You could bid a French dip astatine 8 a.m. and steak and eggs astatine 8 p.m.,” helium said. “It was the spot that had the champion comfortableness food. The nutrient was reasonably priced and everybody loved to devour there.”

The victor of the contention volition get edifice abstraction successful the Huntridge Shopping Center astatine 1120 S. Maryland Pkwy successful downtown Las Vegas.

The chosen conception volition beryllium built retired with furniture, equipment, branding, signage and a selling plan, the institution said successful a Tuesday quality release. Dapper Cos. estimates the full worth astatine much than $950,000.

To enter, applicants indispensable make a presumption with the sanction and conception for the edifice on with a illustration paper and imagery of the nutrient and space. Contestants besides indispensable item their erstwhile experience. A inheritance moving a edifice is simply a plus, but those without overmuch acquisition are inactive encouraged to apply. The presumption is owed Feb. 1, 2022.

Qualified applicants volition past beryllium invited to contiguous their program connected Feb. 15 to a sheet of judges including section restaurateurs Cory Harwell, John Simmons and Marc Marrone. Three finalists volition past beryllium invited to vie astatine Vegas Test Kitchen successful downtown Las Vegas with a victor selected by April 5.

The victor volition past enactment with partners to physique the restaurant. Partners see YESCO, AAA Bar and Restaurant Supply, The Humblewood Company, RADstudio and Hydro Studios, among others.

The thought came from a spot of wanting to assistance those successful the hospitality manufacture aft astir 2 years of concern exemplary pivots, restrictions and caller challenges astatine eateries, Dapper said.

“Probably 1 of the astir important ingredients to winning this is simply a content successful and emotion for downtown Las Vegas,” Dapper said. “There’s truthful galore radical who person gone into downtown Las Vegas and opened up a restaurant, pizza places and java shops. They’ve done it successfully due to the fact that they person this passionateness and judge that our downtown is resurrecting. It’s important that the idiosyncratic believes successful that.”

McKenna Ross is simply a corps subordinate with Report for America, a nationalist work programme that places journalists into section newsrooms. Contact her astatine mross@reviewjournal.com. Follow @mckenna_ross_ connected Twitter.