Hunt confirmed Thursday that the sale closed and that Tolles hopes to break ground on its 1.9 million-square-foot warehouse and distribution complex in about a year to a year-and-a-half. But as Tolles partner Cory Hunt previously said, truckers coming in from Southern California could drop off products at the industrial park and get back in a one-day round trip, and the project site already has access to utility service. There isn’t much in Jean, a remote outpost some 25 miles south of the Strip whose only residents are the inmates at a state prison. The sale by the Herbst family, operators of the Terrible Herbst gas station chain, closed Feb.
purchased roughly 142.3 acres of real estate off Interstate 15 in Jean for $44.7 million. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) Reno developer has taken ownership of a big property south of Las Vegas with plans to demolish a closed hotel-casino and build a sprawling industrial park. The closed down Terrible's hotel and casino shown on Wednesday, Feb.
