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The Business: Ken’s Construction Control, based in booming Southern Nevada, serves lenders, construction companies and individuals involved in construction projects by inspecting to make sure the work is done right and dispersing funds. The Players: Ken Rick, a Nevada Southern University (now UNLV) business major who became involved in the construction control business … [Read more...] about Persistence Key to Success: Businessman sees challenges, not limitations

World in Motion From portable phones to portable offices AT&T WIRELESS: Keeping up with demand Cell phones are for people in motion, designed to go everywhere the user goes. Normally, when in motion the system works so that the user moves from one frequency site into another with the system sensing the change and performing a handoff to the next frequency. But … [Read more...] about Teleconnections

Just because you get older," says Dr. Lawrence Weiss, director of the Sanford Center for Aging, "doesn’t mean you become sick, sexless, decrepit or unable to function. We want to dispel those stereotypes and myths." The center was originally established in 1984 as the Geriatric and Gerontology Center, co-sponsored by the School of Medicine and the College of Human and … [Read more...] about Adding Life to Years: The SanfordCenter for Aging

At first, the concept resembles an identity crisis: a bank designed to look more like a warm and friendly retail store with customer service representatives dressed in casual attire, play areas for children, and a sales area stocked with consumer-oriented financial products such as software, books and magazines. But this is no case of mistaken identity. It’s part of a bigger … [Read more...] about Washington Mutual: Market’s dissatisfied customers are boon for new bank

For Paul Perkins, managing general partner for Colliers International in Reno, selling potential industrial clients on Northern Nevada is an easy job. He talks about the things that attracted him to this area in 1977 — quality of life and the incredible scenery of the Sierras. Then he takes them to places like Montreux and lets the landscape do the rest. Perkins says people … [Read more...] about Paul Perkins: Broker’s jobs include real estate, community boosting

While you can’t predict the future, you certainly can plan for it. And, the best way to ensure that you’ll be fiscally secure is to have in place a sound financial plan. A good plan provides an accurate snapshot of your current financial situation, focuses on your goals and estimates their costs, and then establishes strategies for meeting those goals. What goes into a plan … [Read more...] about A Financial Plan: What’s in it for me?

One-stop shopping for financial transactions is becoming more of a practical reality for investors with recent law changes. On November 12, 1999, President Clinton signed into law the Financial Services Modernization Act. In Nevada, the act affects not only the Secretary of State’s office in the Securities Division, but also the Insurance Division and the Financial Institutions … [Read more...] about Financial Services Modernization

Sight and vision are not the same thing. Sight is a matter of acuity — how clearly you see and the health of your eyes. Vision is determining how to use the images your sight presents to you. A person can have 20/20 sight (ability to see a 3/8-of-an-inch letter from 20 feet away) and still have poor vision. "It’s a learned system," says Dr. Richard Meier, a fellow of the … [Read more...] about VisionTherapy: Seeing the good life

Nevada architects are breaking new ground in designing the state’s commercial real estate, taking their cut from area on the cutting edge of commercial design – such as Southern California – and unveiling a whole new look. With this new look high in demand, old-fashioned builders may be left out in the cold. Here, architects and brokers share their opinions on what’s hot and … [Read more...] about Best in Design Commercial Real Estate: Commercial real estate developers are learning that image is everything when it comes to attracting customers and tenants.

Sunny days continue to dominate Nevada’s economic forecast, but into each life some rain must fall. Even in the desert, even in Nevada. Though economic downturns and recessions are inevitable, it doesn’t mean individual businesses must suffer. The key to weathering such financial storms is preparation, and you don’t have to be a Boy Scout to realize the ideal time for planning … [Read more...] about Preparing Your Business for Recession: Learn to Weather the Hard Times Before They Arrive

On New Year’s Day, 1960, Del Webb Corp. opened the first Sun City community in the country, located in Phoenix, Ariz. The developer expected maybe 5,000 or 10,000 people to show up for the opening. Estimates show that somewhere around 100,000 people were on hand for the event, and more than 250 homes sold that first weekend. But even with that history, when Del Webb Corp. … [Read more...] about Sun City Summerlin: Gambling on Nevada

The Business: Claire’s Flowers Inc., a Las Vegas florist with 10 employees at 4500 W. Charleston Blvd. The shop provides a wide variety of flowers, plants, gourmet baskets and other decorations for special occasions. The Players: Greg and Linda Anderson, who have operated the shop since 1986. The couple inherited the business from Linda’s parents and grandparents, who opened … [Read more...] about Rising from the ashes: Flower shop owners learn to carry on in spite of two fires.

What a thought! Here starts a series of commentaries I will be writing over the next few months. Everyone, including myself, has a complaint or criticism about our current and past presidents. The complaints include things they have, and haven’t done. During the daily course of operating a business, when one encounters problems, a valuable skill is the ability to creatively … [Read more...] about If I Were President: Part One of a Series

According to the government Accounting Office, privatization is commonly defined as "any process aimed at shifting functions and responsibilities, in whole or in part, from the government to the private sector." The most common form of privatization (though there is argument about the label) is contracting out, which typically entails a competition among private bidders. With … [Read more...] about Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better: Private Companies and Public Services

The name of the street on which I live is not particularly appealing. "Parvin" is probably a long-dead land developer who has unthinkingly condemned me to a phonetic two-step spelling protocol. In the Internet world, the assigned site addresses are even worse. Your "real" Internet address consists of a string of numbers interspaced with periods. This is fine for computers but … [Read more...] about Laying claim to your domain: Failure to procure federal trademark registration could cost you your Internet identity