Local entrepreneur gets no help
6:50 am May 10th, 2012Are any of our current elected officials really “focusing like a laser” on helping local entrepreneurs “create new jobs” in Las Vegas?
Ask Raj Patel.
Raj Patel owns the City Center motel downtown, near the El Cortez. He’d like to create more jobs with an Indian restaurant, there. He’s also developed a two-story strip mall at Craig Road and Tenaya, out in the northwest suburbs, not far from the Santa Fe Station.
Raj Patel has invested more than $4 million in Las Vegas. But if your image of a “millionaire businessman” is some fat guy puffing a cigar, you’d be shocked to walk into the Saffron Restaurant at Craig and Tenaya and ask the bartender for Mr. Patel. Because the young guy tending bar and managing the restaurant IS Raj Patel. The dentist with the offices upstairs? That’s his wife.


