Las Vegas’ modish Hollywood transplantation may live its to the highest degree transformative. Movie lead Saint Mark Wahlberg, who inwards August purchased a two-story Las Vegas residence for $14.5M, said he hopes to remaking his unexampled hometown into “Hollywood 2.0,” all over with a major motion-picture studio.

Many Hollywood A-listers make called Las Vegas place over the decades. So far, all hold through so in relative quiet, relishing the prisonbreak from TMZ cameras to prove families or savor retreat or semi-retirement inwards seclusion.

The current crop — which includes Nicolas Cage, Carlos Santana and Nick Howard Carter — follows inward the footsteps of Jerry Lewis, Tony Curtis and Redd Foxx. It’s non unusual to patch single of them out for dinner or shopping. But you’ll never insure them on the Las Vegas Strip unless they’re working.

The new josh on the city block seems to need to prisonbreak with that tradition.  Speaking on an cyberspace talking show called “Lights, Camera, Vegas,” Wahlberg told host Rachel Smith: “I unrecorded inwards Nevada. i architectural plan on making, hopefully, a shoot studio … in Nevada. We require to create a lot of jobs, and a lot of excitement. Hollywood 2.0.” Wahlberg, who owns a bit of sneaker resale market place StockX, also mentioned edifice a shoe factory.

The former Marky Saint Mark has the capital letter to pee all those dreams a reality. According to parade.com, he’s worth a whopping $400M.

In improver to his $14.5M land inward The Summit Club, Wahlberg also late paid $15.6M for a vacant 2.5 acres this summer inwards the same ritzy Summerlin community. It’s around the turning point from the estate of vocalizer Celine Dion.

Not Leaving Las Vegas

When Wahlberg called Vegas “my hometown,” he ostensibly meant it. The Oscar nominee’s mega-mansion inwards the Los Angeles enclave of Beverly Park is listed at $87.5M, according to the Los Angeles Times.

More than i of Wahlberg’s kids now reportedly pay heed Bishop Gorman High School, a $15k-a-year buck private Catholic schoolhouse close Summerlin, which explains the “Bishop Gorman!” football cheer during the cyberspace chat. (Wahlberg and his wife, role model Rhea Durham, reportedly make quatern children, aged 18, 16, 14 and 12.)

“I already went to their firstly game,” Wahlberg said during the interview, granted to encourage Me Time, a young Netflix comedy film co-starring Wahlberg and Kevin Hart.

The seed to relocate appears to make already been planted past the time Wahlberg opened a Wahlburger’s in March 2017 at the Grand Bazaar Shops at Bally’s (now the Horseshoe) on the Strip. (Wahlberg owns the fast-food chain with his brothers Donnie and Paul. The byplay spawned a realness serial that ran from 2014-19 on A&E.)

“Las Vegas is the amusement mecca of the humans and it just now continues to grow,” Wahlberg told the Las Vegas Review-Journal at the opening. “This is a come in we hold e'er wanted to be, from ahead of time on.”