Bill O'Driscoll
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Northern Nevada logistics sector has high hopes for a prosperous 2018
Northern Nevada’s network for storing and distributing goods sees a big year ahead in 2018.Developers are bullish, and one in particular, Panattoni, will show it with mammoth new warehouses planned for north and south Reno.Meanwhile, for those who operate within those buildings, the past year was already a good one. But at least one company,… → Read More
Job growth drives Northern Nevada economy
Job growth was a common thread driving Northern Nevada's economy in October, reflected in tightening unemployment rates regionwide. In the latest monthly state report, the October unemployment rate in greater Reno-Sparks metropolitan area fell below the 4 percent barrier for the third time in 2017. Job growth swelled at a annual rate of 1.5 percent.… → Read More
October proved prosperous for Washoe County tourism
The greater Reno-Sparks area's tourism interests continued their robust ways in October as taxable room revenues and visitation numbers showed solid year-over-year rises. Reports from the Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority showed visitor counts across Washoe County rose by 6 percent compared with October 2016. In addition, visitor totals for the first 10 months of… → Read More
October proved prosperous for Washoe tourism
The greater Reno-Sparks area’s tourism interests continued their robust ways in October as taxable room revenues and visitation numbers showed solid year-over-year rises.Reports from the Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority showed visitor counts across Washoe County rose by 6 percent compared with October 2016.In addition, visitor totals for the first 10 months of 2017 showed… → Read More
Washoe October home sales down, prices up
A tight existing-home market continues to push prices upward across Washoe County, a report by the Reno/Sparks Association of Realtors shows.The RSAR report for October showed total sales of existing single-family dwellings countywide rose 4 percent from the same month in 2016 but fell 12 percent from September.At the same time, the countywide median sales… → Read More
Washoe October home sales down, prices up
A tight existing-home market continues to push prices upward across Washoe County, a report by the Reno/Sparks Association of Realtors shows.The RSAR report for October showed total sales of existing single-family dwellings countywide rose 4 percent from the same month in 2016 but fell 12 percent from September.At the same time, the countywide median sales… → Read More
October proved prosperous for Washoe tourism
The greater Reno-Sparks area’s tourism interests continued their robust ways in October as taxable room revenues and visitation numbers showed solid year-over-year rises.Reports from the Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority showed visitor counts across Washoe County rose by 6 percent compared with October 2016.In addition, visitor totals for the first 10 months of 2017 showed… → Read More
Reno’s old Star Dust Lodge goes down
For the third time in two months, a frayed remnant of mid-20th century Reno has been wiped from the downtown map. Like the dilapidated Carriage Inn and Donner Inn in September, heavy machinery took down the long-neglected Star Dust Lodge as part of Jacobs Entertainment Inc.'s vision to transform the Fourth Street corridor west of… → Read More
Reno-Tahoe Airport passenger traffic up 6 percent in September
The numbers just keep rising at Reno-Tahoe International Airport. The latest data show passengers passing through the airport in September totaled 345,280 — an increase of 6 percent from September 2016. Moreover, for the first nine months of 2017, Reno-Tahoe International Airport saw more than 3 million passengers for a 10 percent increase over January-September… → Read More
Retiring early: Nevada among top 10 best states, report shows
Nevada, on the strength of being one of a handful of states with no state income tax, is again among the top 10 states in the nation for early → Read More
August was hot for taxable sales in Washoe
Restaurants across Washoe County did a brisk business in August, helping feed a double-digit jump in taxable sales in a month packed with special events led by Hot August Nights. The monthly report by the Nevada Department of Taxation showed it was a robust month, too, for other key sectors generating taxable sales as the… → Read More
Coalition focuses on transportation issues
Northern Nevada’s commercial development interests are getting proactive about transportation issues that can impact their work.The result is the Transportation Planning Coalition, a 20-person group of private industry and → Read More
Public-private coalition seeks to get ahead of Washoe transportation issues
Northern Nevada’s commercial development interests are getting proactive about transportation issues that can impact their work. The result is the Transportation Planning Coalition, a 20-person group of private industry and public transportation officials whose aim is to communicate ahead of, instead of in hindsight to, the challenges of the region’s road system with development. “There’s… → Read More
PODS setting up shop in Reno
A Florida-based portable moving and storage business plans to open a West Coast operations center in south Reno. PODS Enterprises LLC plans to hire more than 300 workers in the first two years of operation, according to the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada, which announced PODS’ move at the annual EDAWN Existing Industry Awards… → Read More
Sparks company recycles electronics for Mother Earth’s sake
The poster in the lobby of Intelligent Lifecycle Solutions says it all: → Read More
En route to Reno-Sparks: Philly-style soft pretzel franchises
A Philadelphia phenomenon is coming to the streets of Reno and Sparks. Operators of Philly Pretzel Factory have targeted Reno-Sparks as a prime location for as many as six franchises in the next year. The region's size and rapid growth, as well as its coveted youth market, make it a natural for selling pretzels, they… → Read More
Choice frontage property along Meadowood Mall is filling up in Reno
Four decades after Meadowood Mall opened in south Reno, the adjoining land fronting onto Reno's busiest intersection is finally filling in. Come 2018, a new Home2 Suites by Hilton will open at McCarran Boulevard and Meadowood Mall Link. To the west toward the McCarran-South Virginia Street intersection, developers envision a possible office complex, high-end restaurant… → Read More
Reno-Tahoe tourism indicators light up in August
August brought the heat in more than just the weather. The height of the summer tourist season propelled a blistering 10.1 percent rise in gross gaming revenues in August across the Reno-Sparks region compared with a year earlier, a state report shows. The findings in the monthly report from the Nevada Gaming Control Board parallel… → Read More
Downtown Reno bears Don Carano’s imprint
Two of downtown Reno's most prominent marquees bear the imprint of Don Carano, the legendary casino empire builder who died at age 85 on Tuesday, Oct. 3. Carano, a second-generation Italian-American born in Reno in 1931, was already a prominent lawyer in the McDonald Carano firm when, aided by a loan from then-First National Bank… → Read More
Auto sales roaring in Northern Nevada
Automobile sales are roaring once again in Northern Nevada after sputtering through the Great Recession.For the past five fiscal years dating to June 2012, taxable sales on all vehicles → Read More