The CEO of Las Vegas, Nev. shoe company Zappos has been bending the ear of Santa Fe Mayor Javier Gonzales during his trip to Sin City, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal .
The paper highlights the differences between the two cities—"Gonzales would be forgiven for thinking he'd arrived on another planet"—but says a $350 million downtown development project financed by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh "might work for his favorite New Mexico city," said the mayor.
Hsieh's project sank money into tech businesses along a strip of downtown Vegas. Re/Code
in September that Hsieh stepped down from the lead role of the project amid layoffs and talks of it "bleeding money."
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The Review-Journal also reports that "people from Santa Fe can expect to see affordable housing with studio space for artists to take shape within a year," the mayor said.
On Nov. 25, SFR
that the mayor spent $5,529 in taxpayer money with his travels. Since then, in addition to the Las Vegas trip, he's also traveled to New York.
Santa Fe Reporter