The nearest hospital is an hour away to send or pick up mail, residents must drive to post office boxes across the Nevada border. The Union Pacific railroad train regularly barrels down the tracks that border the town, its whistle splitting the air. There is only one paved road, and little aside from sand, shrubs and cholla cactuses for miles. Mollison grew up in Melbourne, Australia, and Nipton’s topography - studded with eucalyptus, a tree mostly native to the Land Down Under - reminds him of home. “Of all the people I know who would have bought a town, Ross makes sense.” “My first week on the job, we had coffee, and he said, ‘Look, I want to hear every stupid idea you’ve got,’” said David Anthony, general manager of “Atomic Saloon Show,” a Spiegelworld production at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. His employees say he pushes them to constantly go weirder and wilder in their thinking, and is often willing to make huge investments of both time and money to see how that thinking plays out. He is unabashed about his taste for the refined, and his distaste for the conventional. He has a fondness for foul language, especially the word that begins with the letter F. The resurrection plan has not gone unnoticed by the town’s handful of locals, who have watched men like Mr. “Maybe we stick a trapeze in the middle, or a high wire that’s 1,000 feet off the ground.

I want Nipton to look like it does now, but more beautified, with a globally significant, interesting restaurant that is somewhere between Francis Mallmann and the French Laundry,” he said, referencing well-known restaurateurs as he described plans for multiple eateries, a hotel, solar panels and a runway for small planes, all with a big top twist. “I’m not approaching it like a developer. This unincorporated town, with no local government and a penchant for attracting homesteaders who prefer to stay off the grid, can become a retreat for circus performers to workshop new acts and a luxury attraction for tourists who could stop there on the way to Las Vegas, Mr.

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