Study: Events center, hotel feasible for Nugget Project
The Appeal's Brian Duggan has a story that a new study commissioned by the Nugget Project developer shows a hotel and events center could be feasible and lure convention business to Carson City.
This seems to conflict with P3 Development's presentation to the citizens advisory committee last month, where the developer said the hotel would not be feasible for at least five years.
Of course, the addition here is an events center, and the possibility of attracting conventions to the area. I know from my discussions that some sort of events/convention/performing arts center would probably gain more support among those who are currently skeptical of the project.
But the story also raises the question of how to pay for this new addition to the project, leaving the door open to using public money for the events center. But how they can make this work when there seems to already be a gap in public funding for the library/discovery center and the parking garage? It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
Then next citizens advisory committee meeting hasn't been scheduled yet. The delay in getting final plans for the project before this committee makes it more likely to push a final vote of the Carson City Board of Supervisors to January, when there will be two newly elected members.