Summerlin ice cream festival sets attendance, consumption records

Nearly 20,000 ice cream lovers from throughout the valley attended the recent All-You-Can-Eat Ice Cream Festival featuring Summerlin Sam's Birthday Beach Bash at Summerlin Centre Community Park.

This year's festival, the 14th annual, set a record for attendance and ice cream consumption, said Kristi Overgaard, vice president of marketing for The Howard Hughes Corp., Summerlin's developer.

"We ate our way through 800 gallons of ice cream, 6,000 cones and 600 gallons of root beer donated by Albertson's," she said.

The event benefited Nevada Ballet Theatre.

"As a result of the huge turnout, the generosity of our sponsors and the ice cream lovers who attended the event, the donation to NBT will be record setting, as well," she said.

Summerlin has ranked as the nation's best-selling master-planned community 10 of the past 11 years, according to independent surveys. Set along the western edge of the valley, the community is being developed in villages and is home to eight golf courses, 107 neighborhood and village parks, more than 100 miles of trails, 16 schools, houses of worship, shopping centers, medical facilities, cultural facilities and business parks.

Available single-family homes, townhomes and condominiums are showcased by nearly 120 models and priced from the mid-$100,000s to more than $700,000. Custom-home sites in The Ridges are priced from the high $500,000s to more than $1 million, and predesigned custom homes are priced from $2.1 million. Apartments offer monthly rents starting from the low $800s.

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