Author

Jeff Chain, CCIM

President

Jeff brings 45+ years of commercial real estate experience as a broker, developer, and asset manager. He has owned and operated over 1M square feet of office and retail properties and assembled, master planned, and developed more than 7,500 acres of land. His signature project entitled 84 separate parcels into a 2,400-acre master planned community. Jeff is a past member of the CCIM Board of Directors and Honorary Commander of 57 MXG, Nellis AFB.

• August 28, 2026

  The Vacant-Land Paradox: Why Las Vegas Has Plenty of Dirt and Almost No Sites

  Drive 20 minutes from the Strip in any direction and the dominant view is open desert — roughly 4.6 million acres in Clark County are vacant, about 90 percent of the land area. But approximately 94 percent of that vacant land is federally controlled, and the land legally available for private development is bounded by the SNPLMA Disposal Area: just 6.3 percent of the county. Las Vegas isn't running out of land — we ran out of easy land long ago.

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