More than 25,000 people work at the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center, at more than 100 different businesses. But TRI is still trying to grow. And they're building a first-of-its-kind water system in the middle of the desert to do that.
The Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center is one of Northern Nevada's biggest economic drivers, home to Tesla, Switch, Google, and 100+ other businesses. Meet the man behind it, in our story from 2018.
Northern Nevada's newest industrial park is in the works in Hazen, between Fernley and Fallon.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved $600,000 in grants in northern Nevada to assess and clean up former mine sites and other potentially contaminated properties.
Come May 2016, Marmot sports clothing will be the new tenants of an industrial park opening up on Military Road in Reno.
Not only has construction work come back here in Northern Nevada, some experts in the field are already planning ahead to recruit workers to keep up with the demand.
A sprawling industrial park near Reno has become the focus of Tesla's unusually secretive site selection process for its $5 billion battery factory, but the groundwork there is no guarantee that the plant and its 6,500 jobs are coming.