“Some business owners really express their appreciation for us being here and making a difference. At the same time, it’s always being questioned … ‘What are you doing here? Why are there still homeless people on West Street Plaza?'" — Alex Stettinski, Executive Director, Downtown Reno Partnership
For small businesses like Pineapple Pedicabs and Biggest Little Fashion Truck, wise and strategic spending on social media advertising makes a world of difference, especially during a pandemic.
With a fast-growing population in recent years, Northern Nevada's restaurant scene has become multifaceted — traditional and offbeat, casual and stylish, covering hundreds of cuisines from various countries and regions around the world.
Some cannabis companies in Northern Nevada have had little problem attracting employees as workers in hard-hit sectors like retail and restaurants seek to switch industries.
A combination of a growing economy, more millennials starting families, and changes in where people and businesses can locate due to the remote-work revolution suggests the need for new homes in Northern Nevada and beyond will only increase. Can regional builders keep up with demand?
Northern Nevada Health System's new Sierra Medical Center being constructed in South Reno is just one example of healthcare providers in the region expanding footprints and services in response to the Northern Nevada's booming population.
Gold Alliance is moving its headquarters from the greater Los Angeles area to Reno, one of several companies to recently expand or relocate to the downtown core as the California migration continues.
In Nevada, incidents of unethical solar contractors fleecing consumers out of thousands of dollars has become an unfortunate trend over the past 10-15 years.
While many emergency departments and behavioral health clinics in Reno-Sparks have seen a surge in patients seeking help for depression and anxiety, mental healthcare providers that offer alternative treatment options are also seeing a rise in demand.
The biotech sector has drawn a lot of attention over the last two years. Along with hospitals and medical clinics, one could argue that no businesses were more essential than those working in life sciences, including Charles River Laboratories, which operates a 460,000-square-foot facility on Longley Lane.
We recently spoke with top executives at Renown Health, Saint Mary's Health Network, Carson Tahoe Health and Northern Nevada Medical Group to discuss challenges and opportunities to the the healthcare industry amid the lingering pandemic.
A lot goes into the business of composting — and demand across Northern Nevada for services offered through Full Circle Soils & Compost and Down to Earth Composting and has grown considerably over the past 18 months.
Along with purportedly boosting access to care and addressing Northern Nevada's ongoing physician shortages, officials with UNR Med and Renown Health say the entities' 50-year affiliation will go a long way to benefit the greater Reno-Sparks economy.
After taking off 2020 due to COVID, the oldest and largest small business expo in Northern Nevada returned this past Friday; we spoke with several small businesses who came out to the 15th NCET event.
A mix of employee exhaustion, varying views on vaccinations and an explosion in pay for traveling nurses has exacerbated the issue of nursing shortages that have long plagued hospitals in Nevada, even prior to the pandemic.
“On the surface, you can look at a lot of statistics that indicate that when you put public art in a neighborhood, it does increase real estate value ... But I think it’s more important that this art is beneficial to the people that are around it," notes Francine Burge of the City of Sparks.
New rules released by the U.S. Small Business Administration last month allow small business borrowers to refinance existing guaranteed debt on real estate into an SBA 504 loan.
Local attorneys Philip Mannelly (McDonald Carano) and Shannon Pierce (Fennemore) weigh in on the newest Nevada law to address wage gaps in the workforce.
In 2022, BEARPAW plans to open a distribution facility in Fernley that would create 30-50 jobs over the first five years.
The Reno Cyclery project, led by general contractor SR Construction, has a price tag of about $10.2 million.
Mounting challenges — including factory shutdowns, computer chip shortages and clogged ports — are rattling retailers as they prepare for the crucial holiday shopping season, an eight-week window that for many can account for more than half of annual sales.
The demand for tech talent and IT services has surged the past two years, accelerated by the pandemic-related push toward ecommerce and the need for tightly secure wireless and remote systems amid the WFH movement. The result? An ultra-competitive job market for tech talent in Northern Nevada and beyond.
The fifth annual BAC2Gether project was celebrated on Sept. 30 with the unveiling of four refurbished cottages at STEP2’s Lighthouse campus, thanks to pro bono work from Ryder Homes, Toll Brothers, Tanamera Construction and Di Loreto Homes, among other companies.
Starting with less than 50 students in fall 2016, enrollment in TMCC's logistics management program grew to 140 students by 2018; current enrollment for fall 2021 is 149, says professor Brian Addington.
While the pandemic triggered a boom in people getting tattoos, it also drove many others to get old ink removed. And that can mean big business, considering it can cost up to $3,000 to fully remove a tattoo.
“This is a legacy brewery — the oldest in Nevada — and one that’s still poised to do the most damage," said Reno restaurateur Mark Estee, CEO of Local Food Group, new owners of Great Basin Brewing Company.
SudShare is an on-demand laundry cleaning, pickup and delivery service that the company describes as “Uber-for-laundry.”
Reno-based GroupGets is an online group-buying platform that enables developers to group-buy cutting-edge electronics with high minimum order quantities or crowd-fund production runs for vetted hardware.
“It’s an employee’s market. They can pick and choose where they want to be, and if they don’t like it, they can pick up and go somewhere else and start basically immediately," says Heidi Rich of Chartwells Higher Education, one of 50 businesses on hand for a job fair last week in Reno.
Wes Hansen launched Wilderness Forestry Inc. in 2018 with his wife, Erica, in response to that year’s wildfire season in California. Three years later, as wildfire conditions worsen, the company's revenue rises in tow.
As projects and orders stack up in a rebounding economy in Northern Nevada, construction companies are watching rising costs for materials become increasingly hard to predict and factor into bids, exposing them to potential losses.
“Recently, staffing has become a lot more difficult in the technology field," notes Darryl Rubarth, CEO if Reno-based Synap, which turns 10 years old this year.
The need for more miners is growing in Nevada and across the U.S. as America looks to secure the domestic supply chain for rare earth elements and other important minerals in electric car batteries and renewable energy such as lithium.
Among those who made the list this year is American Duchess Company, which saw its revenue grow 356% from 2017 through 2020, says Lauren Stowell, cofounder and CEO.
For as long as he can remember, Phil Cowee has been interested in economic development. After all, Cowee’s mentor growing up was his grandfather, Julius Bunkowski, a developer in Lyon County.
Nepris is partnering with the Nevada Department of Education and Governor’s Office of Workforce Innovation to provide its career learning platform to all 567 middle and high schools dotting the Silver State.
With Delta variant cases continuing to spread across the region, the coronavirus has changed what it means to commercially clean — possibly for good.
The average annual wage of those jobs — added mostly in the advanced manufacturing and technology sectors — was nearly $64,000, notes Mike Kazmierski, president and CEO of EDAWN.
In 2014, there were only 24 escape room companies in America. Seven years later, that number has grown to more than 2,250 — nine of which are now established in Reno-Sparks.
After a year of don’ts, brides and grooms have been racing to the aisle en masse to declare “I do” in Reno-Tahoe, and that's equated to a big rebound in revenue for area businesses — though for some, the road to economic recovery will be long.
The Democratic senator met Monday with roughly 20 business leaders and developers in areas of renewable energy, battery recycling and conservation at the Reno + Sparks Chamber of Commerce.
The seeds of a downturn for Nevada's hemp industry were planted in 2018 when the federal farm bill legalized nationwide growth and cultivation.
This month, Reno Hive's expansion efforts ramped up with the opening of two new coworking spaces at 255 W. Moana Lane and 1155 W. 4th St. Meanwhile, the company's downtown space is undergoing an expansion.
The pandemic has prompted many Americans to change jobs — here are the stories of three Northern Nevadans who opted to switch gears.
Several Reno-Sparks restaurant owners and managers shared perspectives and frustrations during a “staffing emergency” brainstorming forum this week hosted by the Downtown Reno Partnership.
"This really is part of a much bigger effort to get the STEAM skills in our education system early, and motivate our kids to take advantage of this.”
Since the pandemic threw a wrench in the manufacturing industry, many in the industry in Northern Nevada are changing their tune as they work to make themselves disruption-proof, says Tom Simpkins, the new director for Nevada Industry Excellence.
The new brewpub from the team at Huntsman Tavern in Sparks will launch as Huntsman Brewing, on track to open in late August.
Over the course of 3 years, Reno and Washoe County are each paying $6,500 per month to Ledger8760, with the state paying $1,500, says company CEO Adam Kramer.
“We want to make (buying cannabis) approachable for the soccer moms or the older crowd that might have been intimidated by cannabis, previously, because of the war on drugs for so many years."
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