Irwin Molasky

For more than 60 years, Irwin Molasky has played a significant role in the phenomenal growth of the Las Vegas valley. As Chairman of The Molasky Group of Companies, he has been an innovator in the creation of much of the Las Vegas skyline.

In a city where being bigger, better and first are paramount, Molasky is known as a trendsetter. He was responsible for the city’s first private hospital, the 730-bed Sunrise Hospital Surgical Center & Medical Center; Paradise Palms, the area’s first master-planned community, which captured national honors; seven golf courses and their communities; thousands of apartment communities; the first high-rise office building in downtown Las Vegas, the 17-story Bank of America Plaza; and designed and developed the state’s first and largest enclosed shopping mall, the 1,350,000-square-foot Boulevard Mall, anchored by Sears, Broadway, J.C. Penney, and Dillards. In addition, Molasky personally brought many new nationally-known ‘big-box’ retailers to Nevada including Best Buy, Borders Books, Office Depot, and Barnes & Noble. They are prominent in the company’s community power centers, such as Best on the Boulevard, Best in the West, and SunMark Plaza.

He designed and built the first high-rise luxury condominium project, Park Towers at Hughes Center. Park Towers is an exclusive and luxurious enclave of two 20-story towers of condominium residences. Town and Country named Park Towers “one of the five best buildings in the United States.”

A true community leader and entrepreneur, Molasky has made a number of influential contributions to Nevada, including building the state’s first hospice, The Nathan Adelson Hospice, that serves the terminally ill and their families. He also was a key figure in the development of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas through a donation of 45 prime acres of land at Flamingo Road and Maryland Parkway, as well as being the Founding Chairman of the UNLV Foundation. He serves on the board of the National Judicial College in Reno as well.

Molasky was a founder and served as an Officer of the Board of Directors of Lorimar Entertainment, a conglomerate of television, broadcasting and print medias. Molasky also assisted with locating McCarran International Airport at its current site and served to assist with the land purchase for the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Molasky was featured in the book “The First 100” the Review- Journal’s award-winning collection of biographies profiling 100 people who shaped Southern Nevada. He has been honored by the Lied Institute for Real Estate Studies and was recently inducted into the Nevada Business Hall of Fame.