Dubai Buys Time for Ivanpah Valley
Near Primm, NV. If they ever get around to building the Ivanpah Airport — and who knows if they will, with Vegas’ economy still tanking — this will become satellite long-term parking or a Sbarros or something equally valuable.
Incidentally, that’s some good news about the Dubai debt collapse, though it translates to lost jobs for some innocent folks in Vegas: Dubai World owns a lot of MGM Mirage, and had about $8 billion in development in progress on The Strip. If that falters, the impetus for building a superfluous airport up against the Mojave National Preserve slackens.
It’s been a strange few months in my adopted and temporarily estranged home. A speculation-addicted emirate collapses and the Ivanpah Valley is affected. Antonin Scalia debates the future of the place where I camp. It’s enough to make a guy a solipsist.
