Discuss: Reno gaming revenues soar while Sparks is flat. Why?
RGJ file photo Washoe County’s casinos were busy yet again in May as gross revenues rose 7.5 percent from a year earlier, marking the third straight month of year-over-year gains, the state reported...
View ArticleGardnerville man buys old Reno hotel to attract Burning Man travelers, tourists
The Morris Hotel complex currently includes the UNR boxing club. (Tim Dunn/RGJ)Next door to the Reno Gospel Mission on East Fourth Street, bricks are beginning to fall off the edges of the 84-year-old...
View ArticleDowntown Reno: A home for students?
College students meet up, eat a fresh slice of pizza and compete in bingo for prizes at Noble Pie’s Rock N Roll Bingo Night every Wednesday in downtown Reno. (Molly J. Moser/RGJ)Brian Egan has a dream...
View ArticleLeases not renewed for downtown Reno's Java Jungle, Sierra Taphouse
The building that houses Java Jungle and other downtown Reno businesses. (Marilyn Newton / RGJ file photo)Three downtown Reno businesses, Sierra Tap House, Java Jungle and Jungle Vino could be moving...
View ArticleIf grocery opens in downtown Reno, what would make it succeed? [Take our poll]
Getty imagesA long-closed corner of downtown Reno that once housed a Woolworth’s store could open in the next year as a small grocer aimed at downtown residents.Reno businessman Jamy Keshmiri acquired...
View ArticleReno launches new website to solicit ideas from residents
ThinkReno.org offers an easy way to send ideas to city of Reno officials. You can also view other ideas that were submitted.The city of Reno not only understands the value of ideas from the community,...
View ArticleNew York Times raves about Reno's Midtown district
The 1099 Club was transformed into Chapel Tavern on South Virginia Street near Vassar. (Marilyn Newton/RGJ)The New York Times posted a story today about Reno's Midtown district. Check it out here. As...
View Article4 more Reno ideas: Digital downtown, driverless cars, our own Central Park
Kreg Mebust doesn’t think Reno so much needs to look at what other places are doing for innovative ideas as he thinks other places should be looking at what Reno is doing.“We’ve got the tools here to...
View ArticleCycling toward a better Reno
Members of the Reno Cycling Club ride as part of a fundraiser to benefit the first Sierra Valley Gran Fondo bicycling event, held in September. (Photo provided by Reno Cycling Club)Each year, the...
View ArticleWhere will Apple fall? Downtown Reno component nowhere to be seen
This property at Fifth Street and Evans Avenue in downtown Reno is where an Apple facility had been expected to be built. That is now in doubt. (RGJ file photo)Last year, Apple spent considerable...
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