When Don Wilkerson, president and chief executive officer of Gaston Wilkerson Management Group, decided after 33 years that it was time to step away from the day-to-day duties of running a business, there was only one option he considered for taking over his company’s property management responsibilities.
Jim Ferguson, senior vice president of engineering with Stericycle of Bannockburn, Ill., said the company’s new hospital, medical and infectious waste incineration facility at Tahoe Reno Industrial Center is the 35-year-old company’s flagship incineration operations.
Bill Miles’ construction career began more than four decades ago, and after more than 38 years at the helm of Miles Construction, the 70-year-old has stepped away from his day-to-day duties in order to focus on other interests.
Brian Edwards knows a little bit about beer — good beer, that is.
Nevada’s arid climate and proximity to a potential lithium supply chain are primary reasons why San Jose-based Lyten chose Northern Nevada for its planned lithium sulfur battery manufacturing gigafactory, said Celina Mikolajczak, Lyten’s chief battery technology officer.
Anyone who has driven by a packed casino parking lot in August knows how busy the peak of special events season is in Northern Nevada.
The $55 million project to widen, resurface and improve more than a mile of the interstate began in late September and is expected to continue through mid 2026.
Construction of Nevada’s next big mine is well underway near the town of Orovada in Humboldt County.
In a time where many industrial developers are postponing plans for new construction, Tolles Development Co., is pushing forward with a new speculative building at Tahoe Reno Industrial Center.
When medical cannabis became legal in the state of Nevada in July 2015, handling cash from pot sales was akin to a fantastical Hollywood script due to regulations that made the cannabis industry a cash-only business.
Two recent office property sales in Reno’s financial hilltop district further demonstrate the continued strength of Northern Nevada’s economy.
When Reno resident Allison Greene attended the inaugural Reno Startup Week in 2023, all she had was a concept and some optimism.
Investment sales in Greater Reno-Sparks typically average about $600 million per quarter among all classes of commercial real estate. However, the high cost of capital, along with more stringent equity requirements for obtaining commercial financing, has slashed deal volume in the Truckee Meadows.
The high interest rate environment of the past few years has led to some big changes in regional construction lending. Local banking executives told NNBW that as interest rates spiked and the cost of borrowing increased, they began to more closely scrutinize potential construction projects, along with the developer’s track record. Oftentimes, they added, regional developers have been required to put much more skin into a project than in the past in order to obtain construction loans.
Current global demand for lithium is about 1 million tons per year, a number that’s expected to triple by 2030.
Summer 2025 will look a lot different than the last 100 years at Wingfield Park in Reno.
Home sales across Northern Nevada remain relatively flat due to high interest rates, but median prices continue to creep upward.
If you’ve ordered a specialty coffee, smoothie or blended drink anywhere in the West recently, chances are it was flavored with a syrup made at Monin Americas’ western region production facility in Spanish Springs.
Northern Nevada’s emergence as a haven for data center development recently took another step forward with the announcement from PowerHouse Data Centers to develop a 900,000-square-foot shell facility on 49 acres at Tahoe Reno Industrial Center.
Echo Suites Extended Stay by Wyndham is one of the fastest-growing hotel brands in the U.S. and Canada, and the flag will open its first property in Reno in the summer of 2025.
Home offices may still be the preferred working location for many Northern Nevada professionals, but for those who want to work in an office, downtown Reno is proving the place to be.
Since 2017, CapRock Partners has acquired, entitled or developed more than 5 million square feet of industrial property in Southern Nevada. Reno-Sparks had long been a target market for the company, though, as it continues its expansion plans.
Reno land broker Mark Krueger has been able to order off the senior menu for quite some time now, but contrary to the rumor mill, Krueger is definitely not contemplating retirement.
Big box industrial development in Northern Nevada has slowed to a snail’s pace compared to the frenetic activity of the past few years, but industrial developers still see opportunities to build smaller warehouse spaces that can be divisible to smaller industrial tenants.
Completion of NV Energy’s Greenlink West power transmission line from Southern Nevada to the Fort Churchill substation near Yerington will allow for additional solar and renewable energy development in Northern Nevada.
When Dan Angelesco founded DA Builders five years ago, he couldn’t help feeling a bit like Rudy Ruettiger, the undersized walk-on at Notre Dame who made the Fighting Irish practice squad on sheer determination and grit.
Darrin Peterson started his career at window and door manufacturer Marvin in 1986 as a part-time laborer before becoming a full-time dockhand a few years later.
The developer of the Port of Nevada says the inland port east of Fernley not only alleviates routine shipping delays along Interstate 80 but also allows substantially more goods to flow into Northern Nevada from the Port of Oakland.
Andrew Cross began working at Truckee-Tahoe Lumber Co. and Design Center back in 2006 as a yard laborer.
Roswell has long been ground zero for ufology tourism, but the city of nearly 50,000 residents and seat of Chaves County in southeastern New Mexico will soon be known for more than crashed extraterrestrial vehicles, alien corpses, and cover-up conspiracy theories.
After years of work to find the right location, the owners of the Flowing Tide Pub are finally bringing their tavern concept to the burgeoning and underserved Spanish Springs market.
When Gatlon Reyman, preconstruction manager at Reyman Bros. Construction, was in high school, he decided to enter a speech and debate competition. Although his initial attempts fell flat, he persevered — and eventually won his first debate.
Steel has topped out on the new front door to University of Nevada, Reno. The College of Business building going up at UNR’s Mathewson Gateway District celebrated in late April its topping out ceremony, with the last piece of structural steel flown into place by crane.
The days of hoarding hundreds of rolls of toilet paper are long gone, and that resetting of consumer demand after the pandemic is creating fundamental shifts on Northern Nevada’s industrial market.
Las Vegas-based Leggera Development will break ground in early May on an 83-unit townhome project that’s at the front door of the master-planned Five Ridges development off Highland Ranch Parkway in Spanish Springs.
McDonald Carano employs 75 in Reno, including 26 attorneys, as well as another 65 people in its Las Vegas office, which opened in 1982. The firm also has an office in Carson City.
Jo Lown took control of the business near the end of 2009 when Bully’s was 14 days into chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.
66 lithium-ion battery cells per second. 5.5 million per day. 2 billion per year.
Longtime Reno general contractor Dennis Banks is approaching retirement age for some people, but Banks isn’t quite ready to begin writing the final chapters of his lengthy construction career.
Los Angeles-based developer Industrial Realty Group is adding to the redevelopment of the greater Midtown area with a new 4,500 square feet retail building on East Plumb Lane.
There was a time when drivers could get almost anywhere in Reno-Sparks in about 20 minutes. Those days are well in the rearview, however.
The Great Recession that began in 2008, followed by a drought year in 2009, almost spelled the end for Western Turf.
John Dunlap, founder of venture studio D4 Media, said the late February launch of Dunlap Gun Storage stemmed in large part from a plethora of inquiries from firearms owners for responsible storage of their guns.
Burning Man’s gain could be Washoe County’s pain when it comes to geothermal development.
Dragonfly Energy has gained so much traction providing lithium-ion batteries for the RV industry that its batteries now come as standard equipment with every iconic Airstream travel trailer that’s shipped from the company’s manufacturing facility in Jackson Center, Ohio.
Jacobs Entertainment’s deal to swap a to-be-constructed housing development on Second Street for the aging Sarrazin Arms Apartments on Third Street will provide the Reno Housing Authority with 65 new affordable housing units – but keys likely won’t be turning locks for several years.
When Jacob Williams was injured in the line of duty while working for the California Highway Patrol in 2016, he transitioned from the patrol car to an administrative position. In 2020, however, Williams transferred from Sacramento to Truckee and found himself back in the patrol car. An early retirement followed soon after.
Amanda Hilton’s career journey from mine site accountant to general manager of the Robinson copper mine west of Ely to president of the statewide Nevada Mining Association is a story of perseverance and ability that’s more than two decades in the making.
When Jeffrey Snyder began working as executive director for OB-GYN Associates nearly 17 years ago, the practice had eight physicians. Today, it has 16, along with five nurse practitioners and three ultrasound technicians.
Renown Regional Medical Center’s service area is more than 100,000 square miles, stretching from Elko to Bishop to Lake Tahoe.
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