Las Vegas officials hope a mass-producing “urban farm” located in a park in the Historic Westside will help address food scarcity in the area.
The development was secured through a public-private partnership involving MGM Resorts International, which donated $500,000 to the City of Las Vegas for the purchase of two climate-controlled hydroponics containers that grow produce, house plants and flowers year-round.
The park that now houses the farm operation closed in 2013 to remove homeless encampments but was reopened last month with a new name, James Gay Park — a tribute to James Authur Gay III, who was born in 1915 and later “played a fundamental role in desegregating the Las Vegas Strip” during the 1960s.
