Las Vegas Consultant Jeremy Aguero, A Strong Vegas Sports Industry Booster, Shares Sobering Data At Economic Alliance Event On Challenges Facing Las Vegas’ Housing, Health Care, Education Scenes
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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer
He’s a strong advocate of the growing Las Vegas sports industry, making a case before the Nevada Legislature in 2023 to designate $380 million in public assistance to help the MLB Athletics build a $1.5 stadium on the Strip.
Jeremy Aguero then got a job with the Athletics as a consultant.
He has enthusiastically boosted stadiums and sports teams in this market as revenue generators and generally has been a promoter of the Las Vegas economy.
But at Thursday’s annual Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance gathering, Aguero, with his typical fervent oratory delivery, offered a realistic and sobering portrait of the challenges facing this market in the areas of housing attainability, health care and education.
Aguero pointed out the financial challenges facing so many Las Vegans to buy a new house. The median price of new house sales was $480,000, out of reach for many locals. Aguero also touched on land availability and homelessness in metro Las Vegas.
In health care, Aguero pointed out the shortage of doctors in the market and thorny educational issues of school classrooms with many students and not enough teachers to fill the empty positions in Las Vegas’ schools.
These were sobering observations backed by Aguero’s typical slide show and numbers. He’s a regular on the Las Vegas talk market, offering presentations to everyone from members in government agencies to civic and business organizations like LVGEA.
Aguero said Las Vegas ranks next to Fairbanks, Alaska in terms of diversity, while the LVGEA President/CEO Tina Quigley said a national ranking placed Las Vegas’ economic diversity grade at C-.
Aguero ended his presentation at the LVGEA Perspective event with his sweet spot — Las Vegas’ tourism agency, with references to even the Las Vegas Aces and their four Olympians who won a gold medal on the U.S. women’s basketball team at the recent Paris Olympics.
After the two-hour event with talks by Aguero; Clark C. Otley, MD., chief medical officer of Mayo Clinic Platform for Mayo Clinic; and Tony Vinciquerra, chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment; Aguero met the media to chat.
The economic development organization said 900 people attended the session at the Caesar’s conference center on the Strip Thursday morning.
