Nada Motel Begins Thursday!
I hope Chad Sorg will forgive me for not posting about the Nada Motel earlier, better late than never, right? Tomorrow at noon, the eagerly awaiting art show begins in downtown Reno at the historic El Cortez Hotel and the Townhouse Motor Lodge (both at Arlington and 2nd Street). Check out Nada Motel’s [...]
The Real Face of Reno’s New Downtown
Talk about snarky:
“Forget the willfully boho, barfly poseurs and snarky, pseudonymous bloggers. The McLeods are the real face of the new downtown. ”
My first response to this sentence was “WTF?” (You were trying to get some snark out of me right?). This blog (as well as this snarky, pseudonymous blogger) has been a booster of [...]
Reno’s Downtown Baseball Stadium District
For an excellent account of today’s downtown baseball stadium groundbreaking, visit Ken’s Urban Blog. Somehow Ken managed to attend the event even though he lives in Seattle. Does he astral project? Anyway, the new stadium district is what I’m most excited about–not the baseball stadium, although that will be nice too. [...]
Reno Downtown Development Update
Washoe County approved a reserve fund of $750,000 to $1.45 million to back a private bond sale that would borrow money for the new downtown baseball stadium. Traditional municipal bonds are not an option in the tougher credit market.
A party to celebrate the groundbreaking for the new baseball stadium will be held in downtown [...]
New Plans For Reno’s Downtown Train Trench
Image courtesy of the RGJAccording to the RGJ, the city has released a new $500,000 study by Freedman, Tung and Bottomley, the urban design firm in San Francisco that prepared the original “blueprint” for downtown Reno in 1991, incorporates a greenbelt, more pedestrian bridges, and retails and residential development between Idlewild Park and Wells Avenue. [...]
Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse in The Montage
Getting a Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse in downtown Reno is BIG folks. An upscale dining anchor independent of a casino is exactly what downtown Reno needs to continue its development as an attraction among tourists and locals. Fernando Leal once again proves his worth for those of us interested in seeing Reno’s downtown continue to [...]
Reno’s Downtown Fireworks Show
Actually, I have only good things to say about Reno’s downtown fireworks–who doesn’t love fireworks? However, the show broadcast on one of the local television channels was, how shall I say it? Weird. It was like someone hired a 14 year old boy from 1979 to pick the music for the [...]
Fernando Leal Comes Through on ReTrac
I’ve been pretty busy lately so the posting level on this blog has been infrequent to say the least, but I wanted to make sure that you saw Downtown Makeover Dude’s post highlighting Fernando Leal’s plans for the ReTrac train trench between Virginia and West Streets (with a little design help from John Hawkins). [...]
Downtown Updates from Downtown Makeover
My median courtesy of DMD’s new photo gallery.
Downtown Makeover Dude alerts us to the fact that Reno’s downtown library is up for a renovation. I hope they don’t touch those awesome Brady Bunch stairs that run through the middle of that building. That would be a crime. There just aren’t that many [...]
Rumors About Plaza Del Sesso
Downtown Makeover Dude is hinting at big plans on the downtown Reno plaza erectile dysfunction front. It seems that Fernando Leal, developer of The Montage, is preparing to release his plans for the Plaza del Sesso, which don’t look much like the original plans above. There may be some kind of blog [...]
Reno Plaza Erectile Dysfunction
Its time to admit it, Reno has a plaza completion problem. First, the City had to back off on its plans to construct the canopy, which was to be the architectural centerpiece of the plaza at 10 North Virginia (see image below), leaving us with what is basically a huge cement slab with [...]
