Las Vegas Pitches Relocation to Silicon Valley Tech Executives

This article is part of an occasional series about the New Geography of Technology. Read earlier installments on Milan, Tel Aviv and Shanghai.

The dusty drive out to the base of Nevada’s Red Rock Canyon was once dubbed the road to nowhere. About 12 miles from the glitz of the Las Vegas Strip, this was an undeveloped patch of sun-parched desert through the 1980s; now, mansions of the city’s richest residents — Celine Dion and Marc Andreessen reportedly among them — are threaded among the suburban streets and cul-de-sacs of a 22,500-acre master-planned community called Summerlin.

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