USDA inks lease new office building

Huckabay Properties Inc.

of Reno will develop a 15,500-square-foot office building to be leased by the U.S.

Department of Agriculture.

The facility will be developed as part of a four-acre parcel on Corporate Boulevard in the Dermody Business Park along McCarran Boulevard in east Reno.

D.A.

"Huck" Huckabay of Huckabay Properties said the General Services Administration signed a 15-year lease on the office.

It's being built, he said, to allow the USDA to meet new security regulations that were established in the aftermath of the Sept.

11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The building will house USDA operations dealing with land conservation and geophysical surveys.

Marshall Brodeur, general manager of Huckabay Properties Inc., said USDA officials like the location because it's close to a Bureau of Land Management office that handles similar work.

Amtech Construction of Reno is the general contractor on the project which was designed by architect Cliff Johnson of Blakely Johnson & Ghusn Inc.

of Reno.

The building awaits Reno building permits.

Construction is expected to be complete in late fall to early winter.

The contract for the building was brokered by Robert Lipman, president of the The Crown Partnership, which has offices in Las Vegas, Boston and Manhattan.

Huckabay Properties hopes to use the remainder of the four-acre parcel for another office building, perhaps one housing other federal offices, Brodeur said.