Signs of commercial activity in the sleepy western gateway.’
First, a 2.84 acre site on Stone Valley Drive is being developed into a 164 bed memory care facility. this is just north of the park on Robb, and just south of the car wash. Originally designed to be a 75 unit SFR project, the site was sold out of foreclosure to a commercial subsidy of Ryder Homes, who turned a nice little profit flipping the deal.
Across the street, Grace Church has broken ground on a new 1500 seat worship center.
Moving south to the NW corner of Robb and Sharlands, Renown is in front of the planning commission tonight for variances to build a 15,000 SF urgent care / medical office building. Click HERE for the Staff Report. Renown has owned the site since 2004, though I think there was a sign up for several years announcing a Wells Fargo branch for the location.
Crossing I-80 to the 48.8 acre site originally proposed as a Flying J truck stop, the planning commission will hear a rezoning case tonight changing the current residential zoning to Community Commercial. Staff Report. Combined with the approved 34.64 acre TCA Properties project directly to the west and the 85 acre Vintage Point project directly east, this is becoming a huge retail development parcel. The Chalk Bluff 23.38 acre parcel rounds out the development potential (APN 212-112-03 – the property used for staging the trench project and the 1-80 projects in California). In total, these sites could accommodate over a million square feet of retail development. Lowe’s and a Target Greatland would be over 300,000 SF by themselves.
Off Robb but still in the neighborhood, Canyon Center on McCarran (SaveMart) just sold one of their last 3 remaining big box sites to Halle Properties LLC. $1,000,000 for the 4.5 acre site that includes a lot of the “canyon” part of Canyon Center (just south of Qdoba, APN 005-340-08). A Google search of Halle Properties LLC turns up a lot of references to Discount Tires, and they own 2 other Discount Tire retail outlets in the area. So my guess is a Discount Tires store!
Can West Reno support this level of commercial development? I think becoming the commercial hub for the north Tahoe / Truckee market (EEK, that sounds like STAR Bonds!) might make it feasible. There is currently a ZERO vacancy rate on this end of town for big box retail. What’s your opinion?
ourcanyon said:
Should be good as long as I don’t see it or hear it, except when I am there. JGB
ourcanyon said:
Should be good as long as I don’t see it or hear it, except when I am there.
BTW whatever happened to the Black Smith planned memory care facility in Somersett next to The Club at Town Center?
JGB
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billddrummer said:
This has been on the burner since the commercial RE market crashed in 2008. Some may recall that Best Buy was looking at opening a store in this area. Their prospects aren’t real good right now, but it would sure help the folks who don’t want to commute to South Virginia and McCarran.
There is a place for big box retail, and NW Reno is lacking some of those marquee names, which forces all those folks in Somersett to drive farther than they’d like.
One question though–why is the old KMart at McCarran still vacant after all these years? Access?
Sully said:
I went to that K Mart once, would never go there again. That location needs a store that will draw die hards. A Fry’s Electronics would work, as people will go there regardless of the crazy access, but not a Best Buy or ‘nother big box store, too many other stores that have easier access.
Walter said:
I know this is off topic, but I see where CommRow has closed down again for renovation/remodel. This is redo number 5 or 6 or 7 in the past 2 years? Hard to keep track isn’t it? But no doubt this time they will get it right. Really, for sure, this time they have it figured out. Really. This is the golden calf coming up. This is the big time winner that the Makeover Dude has been promising will revitalize downtown! This is it. Really.
RenoRob said:
I live in NW Reno and wouldn’t mind development around the Robb Dr interchange as long as it’s done nicely. A truck stop is not ideal. A Target? Sure.
Gene Thomas said:
There is a large truck stop on I-5 about midway between Los Angeles and Bakersfield. Based upon a couple of quick burger breaks there and the people I saw around the facility, I quickly sensed it was not the environment where I would want to spend much time. Unless you have been `Eight Days on the Road’ in an 18 wheeler and want a shower or a truck repair, I would say skip the giant truck stops.
RenoRob is right, “a truck stop is not ideal.”
Uncle Tom