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. [...]
Reno’s Downtown Is Looking Up in 2008
These two articles in the RGJ are most reads for those of you who are interested in Reno’s downtown development. Highlights are:
A location is finally named for a permanent downtown market. Its going to be on West Street in the buildings surrounding the courtyard between the old Liquid Lounge and the old G-Spot. [...]
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). [...]
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 [...]
