JEAN – A few years ago, a horror studio filed plans to film a post-apocalyptic movie in Southern Nevada, albeit far from the glitz of the Strip: It picked an empty hotel in Jean.

The shuttered Terrible’s resort in this remote outpost south of Las Vegas was slated to be torn down for a new industrial park. But today, the hotel tower is still standing amid a sharp slowdown in the warehouse market, and the blighted building fits well with the movie that was penciled for the site.

Its ground-floor windows are boarded up, some windows on higher floors are broken, the parking lot is laced with weeds, and the back of the building is charred, following a fire. A portion of the resort was already demolished, but now, an exposed staircase surrounded by mounds of rubble leads to nowhere.

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