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2/5/2012 4:16 AM  
 
Challenge for Sparks: New special events
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Sparks hosts some of northern Nevada’s most popular special events, and city officials have been stumping hard the past few months to lure more special events to the city in order to boost tax revenues. But finding new special events is no easy task.
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Geothermal setback
2/3/2012 11:57:50 AM
U.S. Geothermal, the Boise-based developer of the San Emidio geothermal project near Gerlach, says that two large capacitors in the plant's variable frequency drive were defective and need to be replaced. U.S. Geothermal expects to resume commissioning the 8.6 megawatt plant later next week.

Minquest divesture
2/3/2012 11:54:14 AM
Minquest Inc., a privately held mining company headquartered in Reno, has agree to sell its interests in its Patagonia property in Arizona to Regal Resources Inc. of Vancouver. Regal will pay Minquest $800,000, and Minquest will retain a 1.5 percent royalty on mineral returns from the property.

Park Place sale
2/3/2012 10:01:25 AM
Park Place Assisted Living in Reno has been acquired by Ensign Group of Mission Viejo, Calif., in a cash deal. The 60-unit property is 45 percent occupied.

Coming next week in NNBW: Aviation-industry cluster continues to grow.
2/3/2012 10:01:12 AM

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California Avenue retailing among brightest in region
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Location isn’t everything, but for most retailers it may help buoy business in the worst of times. Unless every privately-owned store or restaurant in Reno opens its books, it is impossible to know whether shops on California Avenue have survived the rough waves of recent years more than retailers in other parts of the city. But, with a few notable exceptions, stores along the Old Southwest thoroughfare look like they’ve weathered the economic storm better than most.
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Fire-recovery firms say Caughlin lessons help newest efforts
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Companies that provide fire cleanup and restoration services say the lessons learned in the Caughlin fire of November 2011 helped them quickly mobilize for victims of the more recent Washoe Drive fire. In the case of Servpro, mobilization meant bringing in Servpro workers from throughout northern California to create a large pool of disaster-cleanup labor. For furniture rental supplier CORT, it meant tapping its Sacramento warehouse for truckloads of additional furniture and housewares.
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Construction team tip-toes at Renown
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Conflicting interests, defined: Construction team needs to jackhammer out a concrete wall. A few feet above them, a nurse needs to take care of a seriously ill child. The ill child always took precedence as Clark & Sullivan Construction of Sparks worked for 10 months to complete a $5.2 million renovation project to create a dedicated floor for children’s services at Renown Medical Center.
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Consultants focus on rich
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“The rich,” F. Scott Fitzgerald was misquoted as telling Ernest Hemingway, “are different than you and me.” Liz Christoffersen and her team at Reno-based Empower Consulting Group have found success as they work with a growing number of clients around the world who want to learn how to sell to those people who are different than you and me.
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