Straddling Clark and Lincoln counties, Coyote Springs spans more than 40,000 acres and calls for nearly 160,000 homes. This will comprise its first residential village, said Emilia Cargill, chief operating officer and general counsel at Wingfield Nevada Group, the company behind the long-sought master-planned community.

And after bouts of litigation involving everything from water rights to accusations of fraud, embezzlement and a burly guy named Ray, Coyote Springs’ developers are still pushing ahead.Ĭlark County commissioners are scheduled next month to consider renewing a 575-home subdivision map for Coyote Springs. Sixteen years later, Coyote Springs has a golf course and infrastructure but not a single house. “But this here truly is a lovefest,” he said. Harry Reid organized the event that hot July day, saying developers for this kind of a project would usually have federal regulators “throwing spears at them.” (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) SPRINGS - In the summer of 2006, government leaders made their way to a remote spot outside Las Vegas to celebrate plans for a built-from-scratch city. Flood control base at Coyote Springs water detention basin is seen on Wednesday, Aug.