Downtown Carson City

With summer here, why not take a stroll through downtown Carson City and enjoy local wine tasting, food and history on Saturday, July 3 and every first Saturday of the month during the Downtown Wine Walk, sponsored by the Carson City Downtown Consortium.

One of Carson City's most popular events, Taste of Downtown, will be on Saturday, June 19. This is a tour of downtown Carson City with 25-plus excellent restaurants giving you a taste of their specialities. Now in its 17th year, Taste of Downtown covers 11 city blocks with five live bands at various locations. The band that will be featured on Third Street will play until midnight.

With summer around the corner, why not take a stroll through downtown Carson City and enjoy local wine tasting, food and history on Saturday, June 5 and every first Saturday of the month during the Downtown Wine Walk, sponsored by the Carson City Downtown Consortium.

Purchase a wine glass and map for $10 and enjoy the wine tasting, hors d'oeuvres, art galleries, gift shops, casinos and restaurants. Call (775) 883-2211 or go to www.downtowncarsoncity.com.

Photo: Al Canary of Bella Fiore Wines talks with some of the wine walkers from last month's Downtown Wine Walk.

While the Carson City Board of Supervisors are on track to ante up $75,000 this week to move the Nugget Project to the next phase, I'm finding that the more I dig into the details, the more the numbers don't seem to add up.

Specifically, I'm looking into part of the project that calls for getting three state agencies to lease space in this proposed 177,000 square foot development in downtown Carson City. I use the word "proposed" in a very loose sense here, since it's likely to change once P3 Development begins the real process of feasibility planning for this project. In fact, as I am writing this, there's a new story out from Northern Nevada Business Weekly quoting the developer that the office portion would be 175,000 square feet, with an additional 50,000 square feet of retail space, to go along with the 60,000 square feet for the library/business incubator/digital media lab portion of the project.

The developer chosen for the Carson Nugget Redevelopment Project will be on hand tonight to answer questions about the project.

Rick Oshinski, CEO of Sacramento-based P3 Development, will appear before the Carson Nugget Development Advisory Committee tonight in the Community Center's Sierra Room.

Carson Now plans to show live video of the meeting, as well as hosting a discussion forum.

Many questions are sure to arise, concerning the details on the project and its scope, as well as the developer and how the company was chosen.

As I've been talking to people about this project, I've collected a number of questions, that I put together below.

Join in, take a stroll through downtown Carson City and enjoy local wine tasting, food and history this Saturday and every first Saturday of the month during the Downtown Wine Walk, sponsored by the Carson City Downtown Consortium.
Purchase a wine glass and map for $10 and enjoy the wine tasting, hors d'oeuvres, art galleries, gift shops, casinos and restaurants. Call (775) 883-2211 or go to www.downtowncarsoncity.com.

Photo: Al Canary of Bella Fiore Wines talks with some of the wine walkers from last month's Downtown Wine Walk.

The Tap Room will be opening inside of Doppelganger in downtown Carson City.

There there will be a "soft" opening beginning next week, with an official grand opening on May 1.

The new restaurant incorporates indoor dining space as well as the outdoor patio on Curry Street that has been a popular warm-weather gathering place in the past.

They feature a new menu to go along with Doppelgangers' selection of site-brewed beer, from Carson City's only brewery. (See attached menu)

Eddie Miller talks about her new clothing store in downtown Carson City:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=480jZprEi9U

Two men were arrested and face felony charges of assault following attacks on two people at a Carson City bar on Saturday.

Eyewitnesses told sheriff's deputies that one of the men hit another man in the head using a beer bottle at around 2 a.m. at a downtown Carson City bar. The victim was treated at the scene by paramedics for injuries to the head.

Join the stroll during the Downtown Carson City Wine Walk, which happens on the first Saturday of every month.

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City Supervisor Pete Livermore shares his thoughts on the proposed Nugget Project for downtown Carson City.

Saturday, February 6

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Dark and ominous budgetary clouds have settled over the Governor’s Office in downtown Carson City.

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Christmas caroles, singing children, bells ringing at the hands of middle school children, Santa and Mrs.

Locations

by Scott Schrantz

Carson City Supervisors this week will get a look at what some of their $400K-plus payment to the Carson Nugget will get them in planning for the future of downtown Carson City.

Jennifer Hall inked the words "For Mom" above a heart drawn on her shoulder before Saturday's Pink Totties Cancer Firkin Sucks walk and run in downtown Carson City.