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And while we're at it, let me show you the cool old abandoned motels next to Fergusons! (and what my dream would be for that area if I won the lottery)

Still waiting for my Golden Goose to come in, shit.

I love retro shit like this. 

It's funny to me that these new multi-billion dollar casinos act like they can't build a sign like this, because it would bankrupt them.

Or the $12 a year in maintenance would.

This is the kind of stuff people in Vegas want for crying out loud!

Feels like it sometimes.

There's this entire under-utilized area for several blocks East of Container Park.

I have a vision for what I'd love to see, if I ever get the (lottery) money....

Retro Motels + Year Round Indoor/Outdoor Halloween Attraction.

Read on to learn more about my vision!

If you go one block East past Fergusons, you get into this abandon motel district. 

One of the best examples of untapped potential in all of Las Vegas, to me, this area would be perfect for retro-motels and a year round outdoor Halloween Attraction.

Can we talk a little about the history of the area, we need something good to happen there, after this type of stuff! If I could, I would rebuild each of these as 1950's style motels (small 2-3 story, vintage style rooms with modern amenities, etc.), and put a destination attraction directly across the street in the empty 2.7 acre lot.

District:

• https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/downtown-projects-closed-fremont-street-motels-remain-stagnant/ 

• https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/devastating-motel-demolitions-wipe-out-pocket-of-old-vegas-3726862/ 

• https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/las-vegas-motels-demolition-22087741.php 

Lucky Motel:

• https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/firefighters-battle-blaze-in-building-east-of-downtown-las-vegas/

Star View Motel:

• https://www.fox5vegas.com/2026/07/31/rtc-transit-bus-crash-near-downtown-las-vegas-injures-14-people/ 

• https://www.ktnv.com/news/bus-crash-in-downtown-las-vegas-sends-14-to-local-hospital-says-lvmpd 

• https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/14-suffer-injuries-after-crash-involving-transit-bus-in-downtown-las-vegas-3857589/ 

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Tlh-IzdKc 

• https://news3lv.com/news/local/fire-breaks-out-downtown-las-vegas-fremont-street-maryland-parkway-lvfd-firefighters-southern-nevada 

Ok you read this far, you're one of the three people whose ever going to see this, I'll share a taste of my plans with you...

Night Market - either in Llama Lot Parking Lot, or somewhere on the Fremont Motel footprint...

The 2.7 acre vacant lot directly across from the Fremont & Star View Motels...

Spooky Booths would be done in the style of Gardner Village in West Jordan Utah (https://www.gardnervillage.com/) 

Vendors I'd like to lease to:

• Alien Consignments (from Travel Nevada Businesses, I have a whole list)

• Antique Consignments (spooky themed only)

• Blaspheme Boutique

• Characters Unlimited

• Cemetary Pulp

• Halloween Emporium & Haunted Tea Room

• Tom Devlin's Monster Museum, etc.

Rough idea for Japanese Alleyway style dining Yokochos...

Some potential vendors to lease to...

List of ideas for the 1st story of potential 4 story Haunted House (on back left corner of the 2.7 acre vacant lot footprint) - 1st story would be like 1990's suburban neighborhood on Halloween night with actual interactive Trick-Or-Treating using these concepts as the "houses"...

Ideas would be leasing floors 2-4 to locals pre-existing haunt operators:

• Egan Escape Productions

• Halloween Maze LV

• Universal Horror Unleashed

Or maybe doing proprietary haunts themed around things like: 

• Halloween Town? 

• Haunted Paris? 

• Phantom of the Opera style Haunt, etc.?

Former (needs to be brought back as parking for the motels/attraction) Llama Lot, you know, because Tony Hsieh had an Alpaca named Marley, that lived with everybody in the (former) Airstream Park (Tiny House Park), next to Container Park.

Possibly with sort of rotating vendor Thai Style Night Market to help local businesses and build excitement upon arrival?

Was this ever a tiny (non-dairy) spooky themed ice cream scoop shop & skate park?

If not, why not?? 

It needs to be!

Hydrant Club next to Container Park.

Would be great to see this as a doggy daycare for people staying at or visiting the complex - instead of exclusive dog training facility, which I think it is presently... I think this would encourage more visitors to the area, and would make the area seem more friendly/accessible with dog-oriented people coming and going, having more a presence in the area then what it currently has.

People tend to feel safer/better with dogs around, in my mind.

So much room for activities... here are some of the things on my mind:

• Retro shops - leased to existing local businesses, to draw on their collective strengths and drive foot traffic, things like:

  • Aroma Retail

  • Art Shop (for our internal prop creation, maintenance, repair people can visit)

  • Black Spade Tattoo

  • Caricatures (spooky scenes only)

  • Chicha San Chen

  • Consignment Antiques (Antique Alley Mall, Barter Beer Mall, Goatfeathers, Old School Vintage, etc.)

  • Gilcrease Orchard (running a "Better Cheddar" Style Country Store)

  • Horror Vibes Coffee

  • House of 1,000 Pins (would need to bring that back)

  • Milkshakes (Cream Me, Plant Power type, etc.)

  • Movie Prop Museum (would need to bring that back)

  • Museum Collab for display cases (Anything spooky themed - Art/Atomic Testing/Casino Collectables/Neon/Pinball/Punk Rock, etc.?)

  • Nightmare Toys (would need to bring that back) One of Us Comics + Rogue Toys + Toy Shack + Writer's Block Bookshop (all spooky items only)

  • Pastries (Blooming Buns, Nutriente Pastry Studio, Rosalie French Cafe style, etc.)

  • Pharmacy Museum + Soda Jerk (I'd love to get this moved here: https://wpmuseum.org/exhibits/mcgill-drug-store/) 

  • Rocket Fizz

  • Rooted Lounge (would need to bring that back)

  • Tarot Readings 

  • Tchotckes (Gambler's General Store, Spinetti's, etc.)

• I'd like to see a footprint for things that are uniquely Vegas, like the Neon Museum, Area 15, Techatticup Mine, specific Vegas restaurants, etc.

• I'd like to enhance the space in front of each motel with things like:

  • Airstream Boutiques

  • A Saloon

  • Bee + Butterfly Garden

  • Classic Car Photo Ops

  • Cooling Stations (Walkthrough)

  • Diner

  • Food Trucks (Permanent)

  • Mobile Book Shop

  • Neon

  • Neon Museum Footprint

  • Photo Booths

  • Playground (behind the motels, but walled off and supervised/access control for safety, etc.)

  • Rail Bikes/Walking/Skating Paths

  • Ride - TBD

  • Thai Style Night Market

  • Uniquely Decorated (destination) Individual Themed Restroom Concepts

  • Yokochos

When I said I drew this all up one summer, here's what I would include across the entire Motel District, in general:

• 10' tall Neon Cactus x7 (various shapes/design)

• Caricature Photo Stall

• Classic Car Photo Ops

• Cooling Stations x7 (like Minus 5 Ice Bar, but they can enter one end, exit the other, in a straight line for 10 seconds type of thing)

• A walking path and a roller skating path (separated by the "Small Wall of China" a cool intricately themed decorated 3 foot wall similar to the Great Wall of China, etc.

• Fire Pits

• Food & Beverage

• Hop On/Off Trolley(s) from Motel District to Fremont Street (think Plaza to Fergusons)

• Japanese Alleyway ("Yokocho") x3 – like those little alleys with food stalls that have 6 seats each and everything is packed in really close together, with overhead lights / decorations, etc.

• Live Music Stages (small x2)

• Murals

• Passive Cooling with Breeze Blocks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEU-VOvb83o) 

• Pedestrian bridges over the top of each connecting street (to connect Ferguson’s to Traveler’s, The Lucky Chip to Fremont Motel, etc.)

• Phonebooths (that print Polaroids)

• Photo Ops

• Playgrounds (micro) x2 with a few pieces of unique playground equipment each 

• Popcorn Cart (like Plaza used to have the Popcorn Carriage Wagon, w/custom mix-ins, etc.)

• Retro Neon Signs (Neon Musuem Collab?)

• Retro Neon Signs (Original)

  • 24’ Alien (possible cowboy hat, but definitely a golden wire lasso!)

  • My dog Chippy's Head as the sign for The Lucky Chip

  • 24’ Moon wrapped in Neon Wire, etc.

• UFO Craft (Working) Photo Op (get someone from Area 15 to collab?)

• Go inside, move around, sit in cockpit

• Alien music/sounds inside

• Lights, fog, etc.?

• Unique Restrooms (like mirrored cubes where you can't see inside from the outside, but you can see outside from within - also decorated with cool themes inside like Rainforest, Pirate, Nordic, NYC Subway, etc.)

• Water Bottle Filling Stations

• Yakhchal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhch%C4%81l) 

• Yard Games

• Zipline

For the Lucky Motel - I'd make this the flagship property, and call it "The Lucky Chip" - after my dog Potato Chip.

I'd put a giant neon sign of her head on the property and make this a straight up 1950's time capsule - (everything straight from the 50's & 60's only), a retro diner, authentic soda jerk, malt shop / milkshakes, country store (with gifts, jams, jellies, pickled goods, cheeses, breads, etc.), tchotchkes shop selling small art pieces, custom souvenirs, etc., 1950's wedding chapel, antique shop, bakery, retro barbershop, penny candy shop, 1950's black and white tv's in every rooms (but with the rest of the fixtures as nice as Circa), antiques and vintage art in the rooms, and a martini glass pool like Plaza used to have... (with glam photo shoots, selling retro bathing suits, etc.)

The aforementioned, Potato Chip!

Potata Chip!

Chippy!

Trukey!

Crunch-O!

Crunch-a-do!

Crinkle!

Noodle!

Potato, with 8 O's!

Chewkey!

My soul dog.

I'd do a Thai Night Market on this block next to Fremont Motel, with semi-permanent food truck stations and rotating vendors (like a Food Truck incubator to help them get successful before opening a full restaurant), fire pits, tables, yard games, a walking path and a roller skating path, etc.

For the Star View - I'd do a galaxy themed (non-dairy) ice cream shop, rooftop observatory / observation decks / rooftop arcade, telescopes, Airstream campers guests could book overnight, Airstream boutique shops, fire pits, a planetarium, and give it a space theme, UFO art, props, etc.