
The popularity that is growing of Vegas’ downtown Fremont Street area has required more police presence aswell. (Image: lasvegastours.onboardtours.com)
As Las Vegas continues to jump straight back through the downturn that is economic with the Strip posting its 5th annual revenue boost in a line, Sin City’s Fremont Street area downtown is experiencing a renaissance too. In fact, the regeneration that is recent of Street and its environs is attracting countless visitors, Metro Police are being forced to rethink the way they police the whole city of Las Vegas.
‘ We were really focused on vegas Boulevard [the Strip] for a number of years because that’s where we were seeing the infusion of men and women,’ Sheriff Doug Gillespie told Metro’s Fiscal Affairs Committee this week. ‘ But the dynamics have changed downtown. Now a great deal more people are planning to come downtown on a more regular foundation.’
It is not just that the people are coming there in droves; the nature that is very of tourism has changed, too. Even though the area surrounding ‘Glitter Gulch,’ as it used to be known straight back in Elvis’s day, was once a little rough round the sides, it is now being a hub of art and culture. Bail bondsmen and pawnbrokers have already been at the least somewhat replaced with galleries and clothing that is vintage, since well bars, clubs and restaurants.
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