The landlord figures a groundbreaking is at least a year away, and no one has developed a residential high-rise in Las Vegas for several years, although some plans have been popping up. There’s no guarantee the project will get built, or at least anytime soon. 6, county spokeswoman Stacey Welling said. Sahara Ave., less than a mile east of Las Vegas Boulevard.Ĭommissioners are scheduled to consider the plans Sept. The Palms’ owner, Florida East Coast Realty, or FECR, has filed plans with Clark County to build four 45-story apartment towers and three commercial buildings on the site at 713 E. That place could now end up getting bulldozed. “Nobody thought anything of it she was a hooker or a showgirl, maybe both. One woman walked her poodle every day while wearing “the skimpiest bikini I’d ever seen,” Oscar wrote. They came from “pretty staid backgrounds,” Oscar later wrote, but were living in a complex with showgirls, casino workers and probably some prostitutes. Michael Quine Las Vegas Review-Journal Oscar and Carolyn Goodman moved to Las Vegas in the 1960s, the future mayors rented an apartment in The Palms on Sahara Avenue. Mary Azzara, who has lived in the same apartment at The Palms apartments on Sahara Avenue for over 50 years, reminisces about her years as a toga-wearing Caesars cocktail waitress on Friday, July 28, 2017.