The Lakes, Las Vegas

The Lakes is a 2 sq. mi. (5.2 km²) planned community located within the city limits of Las Vegas, Nevada. It is located in the western part of the Las Vegas Valley near the Spring Mountains and Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. The centerpiece of the community, and its namesake, is a large man-made lake. It was built from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, and at the time was at the edge of development in the valley. It consists of a mixture of single-family homes, apartments, condominiums, commercial and office.

The community is bounded by Sahara Avenue to the North, Durango Drive to the east, Desert Inn Road to the South, and Hualapai Way to the West. Several other notable masterplanned communities are adjacent, including Summerlin to the west and Peccole Ranch and Canyon Gate to the north.

Citicards, a subsidiary of Citibank, located its main Payment Processing Center here in 1990. The United States Postal Service has since created two ZIP codes to handle the large volume of mail involved. In an effort to avoid having the negative connotation of credit card payments going to Las Vegas, these ZIP codes have been assigned the place name "The Lakes, Nevada". This, however, results in the false impression that The Lakes is an independent city, when in fact it is a part of Las Vegas.

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