Final week, Las Vegas-based industrial actual property and improvement firm the Siegel Group introduced that it had accomplished the sale of the Artisan Hotel Boutique to Professional Hospitality Group for $11.9 million.
Alex Rizk, the proprietor of Phoenix-based Professional Hospitality Group, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he’s planning a $3 million renovation of the 64-room resort on Sahara Boulevard at Interstate 15 close to the Las Vegas Strip. He stated that when the laws are in place on the state and native stage, he’ll make the Artisan a “cannabis-friendly” vacation spot for vacationers to town.
“This can be a way of life, boutique resort,” Rizk stated.
The Siegel Group acquired the Artisan Lodge in 2009, “reworking the placement into probably the most well-known and visited boutique motels in Las Vegas,” the corporate stated in an announcement concerning the sale.
“The resort gained a loyal following amongst locals, vacationers, and boutique fans who have been drawn to the placement’s eclectic design and hip, intimate environment,” the company wrote. “The distinctive resort contained a bar-lounge with a preferred after-hours scene, a restaurant, wedding ceremony chapel, and one of many few topless swimming pools on the town.”
Hashish Consumption Lounges Licensed Final 12 months
Final yr, Nevada lawmakers handed laws that gave the state Hashish Compliance Board the authority to manage lounges that enable the onsite consumption of weed merchandise. The board is at the moment within the means of drafting laws and native governments could have the authority to enact tighter measures. Officers from Clark County, residence to Las Vegas, introduced in January that they have been preserving monitor of efforts to manage hashish consumption lounges on the state stage.
Below the 2016 poll measure that legalized leisure pot in Nevada, the consumption of hashish merchandise was solely legally permitted in non-public residences. The legalization of regulated hashish consumption lounges was supposed to offer guests a spot to get pleasure from the advantages of the state’s hashish reform.
As a state senator in 2017, Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom led the primary effort within the state legislature to legalize hashish consumption lounges. Final yr, he characterised lounges as a “recreation changer” for the state’s hospitality companies.
“Consumption lounges are so excellent for our tourism trade,” Segerblom told the Review-Journal. “The earlier we get on the market, the extra we’ll be seemed upon as a marijuana-friendly metropolis and state.”
New Proprietor Has Hashish-Pleasant Lodge in Phoenix
Professional Hospitality Group already operates a cannabis-friendly resort, the Clarendon Hotel and Spa, in its residence metropolis of Phoenix, Arizona. The resort’s web site informs potential company that the property options “cannabis-friendly rooms and facilities” that enable “vaping, dabbing, flower, and so forth.” The Clarendon additionally boasts a hashish consumption lounge that’s open to each resort company and most people.
“Since we’re at the moment a split-use resort with hashish and non-smoking rooms, we do ask that any smoking happen in your cannabis-friendly room and never within the public areas of the resort,” the website notes. “Vapes and smokeless merchandise can be utilized in outside public areas, not together with the restaurant.”
The Clarendon additionally notes that it’s “engaged on a hashish shuttle service to take resort company from the resort to an area dispensary and again once more,” in keeping with the web site.
The property opened its first cannabis-friendly rooms in July, adopted by the remainder of the west wing of the resort for a complete of 16 visitor rooms that welcome the consumption of hashish merchandise. The Clarendon can be accepting reservations for a restricted variety of rooms on the cannabis-friendly lodging reserving website Bud and Breakfast.