Economic Development

Healthy Communities Coalition of Lyon and Storey’s June public meeting takes place on Thursday, June 14 at 9am at the Lahontan Room of the Silver Springs Community Center, 2945 Ft Churchill St, Silver Springs, NV 89429.

Guest speakers at this month’s breakfast meeting include Rita Greggio and Allison Cladianos who will describe their program, the Northern Nevada Alliance for Health and Justice, a medical legal partnership between Northern Nevada HOPES and Washoe Legal Services. The program is based at HOPES and is available to assist patients of HOPES with civil legal problems.

CARSON CITY — The Nevada Department of Education has announced the launch of a first-of-its kind education-to-workforce initiative known as LifeWorks with a goal of developing more skilled workers for Nevada’s new economy.

SILVER SPRINGS — For more than a decade, Healthy Communities Coalition of Lyon and Storey counties has hosted monthly breakfast meetings on the second Thursday of each month at 9 a.m. Diverse local, state, federal and tribal groups and community volunteers share news and collaborate on system changes that improve access to affordable, local food and to health care, and that support community-based, sustainable economic development.

RENO — The Fourth Annual Nevada Economic Development Conference takes a hyper-focused look at Nevada's super-charged business and economic development trends, networks and ideas that are defining the new Nevada economy from Aug. 20-22, 2018 at the Atlantis Casino & Resort in Reno.

The conference theme is ‘Connecting Nevada for a Stronger Economy’ and will provide opportunities for a broad section of professionals to present and share what is happening in a dynamic, changing Nevada economy

Miles Construction, a diversified northern Nevada general contractor, breaks ground on the new Reno-Carson Lumber location Wednesday, May 9 at 11 a.m., 3691 Arrowhead Drive in Carson City.

Shaheen Beauchamp Builders, LLC kicked off its 20th anniversary celebration by claiming the 2017 Retail Development of the Year Summit Award and receiving a Senatorial Certificate from Sen. Dean Heller’s office.

CARSON CITY — Shaheen Beauchamp Builders LLC kicked off its 20th anniversary celebration by claiming the 2017 Retail Development of the Year Summit Award and receiving a Senatorial Certificate from Sen. Dean Heller’s office.

Rounding out the top five counties are Carson City (1,400), Elko (900) and Douglas (800). Mike Kazmierski, president and CEO at Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada (EDAWN), said the influx of clean energy jobs has helped rebranded the region as a clean energy hub. "I think the days ...

Milton Chen, 65, recently started taking jazz piano lessons. He’s learning from an instructor as well as from an app and other online sources.

Author Milton Chen makes a presentation at the Adams Hub in Carson City, Nev., on Thursday, April 12, 2018. The session is part of the Carson City Library’s celebration of National Library Week, which also includes a free forum about workforce development tonight (Thursday) led by Chen from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Brewery Arts Center Black Box Theater.

The Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development opened a public comment period Thursday for its new Opportunity Zones program designed to spur private investment in neighborhoods.

The thrust behind a cluster of residential construction projects around Carson City appears to be job growth in the area, local development experts say.

The Carson City-based Northern Nevada Development Authority has no women board members at present, but Lynn O'Mara, director of economic development, said board representatives are chosen by company members, not the NNDA, and four of the agency's six employees are women.

CARSON CITY, Nev. — Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto told western Nevada business leaders on Wednesday morning Nevada is well positioned to lead the nation in economic development.

CARSON CITY, Nev. — Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto told western Nevada business leaders on Wednesday morning Nevada is well positioned to lead the nation in economic development. She was joined by elected officials from five western Nevada counties at the Northern Nevada Development ...

CARSON CITY, Nev. — Carson City may be taking over operations of the Adams Hub. The Hop & Mae Adams Foundation, which launched the downtown business incubator in 2014, has offered to turn the facility over to the city to become Carson City's economic development office. Over the next three ...

Expired contracts of professionals operating Adams Hub, a business and entrepreneurial innovation incubator in downtown Carson City, has prompted the Hop and Mae Adams Foundation (HMAF) to approach the municipality of Carson City with a partnership proposal that includes grant funds to take the local incubator to its next phase, an HMAF press release stated.

Healthy Communities Coalition of Lyon and Storey Counties’ hosts monthly breakfast meetings on the second Thursday of each month at 9 a.m. Diverse groups and community volunteers gather to share news and to collaborate on system changes that improve access to affordable, local food and to health care, and that support community-based, sustainable economic development.

Greater Commercial Lending (GCL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Greater Nevada Credit Union (GNCU), has named Lisa Siesennop as its Senior Government Lending Relationship Manager.

Siesennop is responsible for providing oversight and direction of the government-guaranteed commercial lending department, developing business activity, specializing in USDA and SBA government loans, and maintaining and developing relationships with U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) offices, brokers, packagers, finance partners, and other economic development associates.

SILVER SPRINGS, Nev. — The public is invited to the monthly breakfast meeting of the Healthy Communities Coalition of Lyon and Storey Counties on Thursday, Feb. 8, 9 a.m. at the Silver Springs Community Center. Each month the private nonprofit convenes for a meeting featuring guest speakers and ongoing planning on issues impacting the region.

CARSON CITY, Nev. – Gov. Brian Sandoval has issued a proclamation declaring February Career and Technical Education Month in Nevada.

UPDATE: Carson City Mayor Bob Crowell presented the Carson City Chamber of Commerce annual State of The City address Wednesday at the Gold Dust West banquet hall. Here is the video presentation and complete transcript, his seventh State of The City address.

Thanks to a $1.45 million project funded by the William N. Pennington Foundation, Western Nevada College celebrated the opening of new biochemistry and human cadaver laboratories on Thursday.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Nevada District 2 Congressman Mark Amodei released the following statement Wednesday after the House unanimously passed H.R. 1107, the Pershing County Economic Development and Conservation Act, a bipartisan piece of legislation he reintroduced on February 16, 2017:

Northern Nevada Development Authority announced Thursday that Carson City-based Ganesha Enterprises LLC has become its newest economic development partner.

Three Lyon County casinos and property owned by Pioneer Crossing casinos, LLC have been bought by Truckee Gaming, company officials announced this week after the deal was completed and approved last month by the Nevada Gaming Control Board.

CARSON CITY — Tesla qualified for a total of $36.85 million in transferable tax credits and $115 million in tax abatements during Fiscal Year 2017. According to the annual report produced by the Governor's Office of Economic Development, all of those credits were purchased by Nevada resorts and ...

Local seniors who participate in the Meals On Wheels program through the Carson City Senior Center will have handmade placemats created by local children delivered with their Thanksgiving meals.

He was Virginia City’s first goodwill ambassador and he died 41 years ago this week. Born Arnold Fryk in Wisconsin in 1912, Fryk headed west at an early age and found work in Hollywood as a stunt man and horse wrangler. He later worked at Death Valley, Calif., where dressed as a prospector, people would often pay to have their picture taken with him.

It was here at Bad Water Basin in Death Valley that Fryk became Bad Water Bill, a moniker that stayed with him for the rest of his life.

The Northern Nevada Development Authority's newly established advisory body, the Sierra Region Economic Council, met for the first time Wednesday, Sept. 20. SREC is the vehicle that brings diverse groups together who participate in or are affected by economic development of Nevada’s Sierra region including Carson City, Douglas, Lyon and Storey counties.