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June 07, 2008
New Article: Las Vegas Chinatown

The New York Times, June 8, 2008
Dim Sum Amid Las Vegas’s Casinos
Mention Sin City’s Chinatown to most Americans, and the reply is invariably, “Las Vegas has a Chinatown?”

But ask any Chinese tourist and you’ll find that Las Vegas’s Chinatown is high on their checklist. Tour buses regularly motor a mile off the Strip to stop at Chinatown Plaza, an open-air mall founded in 1994 by James Chen, a developer who envisioned a Chinatown that was different from the one he first saw when he arrived in Los Angeles as an immigrant in 1971.

“Since the whole town of Las Vegas is man-made anyway, I thought, ‘Why not build a Chinatown to serve the needs of the growing Chinese population?’” Mr. Chen said.

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