Incubator

A financial services bill working its way through the U.S. Senate contains a $400,000 earmark that appears to be destined for the business incubator that is part of the planned Carson City Center/Nugget Project.

Last week, I sat down with Joe McCarthy, head of Carson City's Office of Business Development, and he provided some details about the Nugget Project that I hadn't heard before.

The biggest nugget is that the city is pursuing a 30-year, lease-to-own deal for the proposed library/discovery center and the land it sits on. McCarthy said that is the way the deal with P3 Development for the building will be, and that they are working to get the same deal for the land from the Hop and Mae Adams Foundation.

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.

Rob Hooper, executive director of NNDA, talks about economic development in Carson City and the Sierra region.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltsr-S7Sz5U

Karen Abowd talks about her candidacy for Carson City Board of Supervisors, Ward 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMJxZW-Z1WE

Members of the newly formed Carson Nugget Development Advisory Committee received an extensive briefing tonight on where the project is now, and what still needs to be worked out.

Nugget President Steve Neighbors and project consultant Mark Lewis were on hand to answer the committee's questions about the project before a capacity audience in the Sierra Room at the Carson City Community Center.

Former CC planner and redevelopment director Rob Joiner filed Friday in a very crowded race for City Supervisor Ward 1. Joiner said although he left the city eight years ago to finish his governmen

A few weeks ago, I wrote that we would be taking an in-depth look at the Carson Nugget downtown redevelopment project.

Editorial by Dave Morgan

An article in the Nevada Appeal this morning attempts to get new information from the Nugget Project’s “go to guy,” Steve Neighbors. Neighbors, who is now the owner of the Nugget, is quoted as saying that the project still lacks a developer to shoulder the “private industry” half of the project. That’s about all that’s new from Neighbors, that they STILL don’t have a private partner.

What is going on at City Hall? Who is running the City? For years the CDBG funds have always gone to low and moderate income folks.

What is going on at City Hall? Who is running the City? For years the CDBG funds have always gone to low and moderate income folks.

While I am pleased to see the application by Carson City’s Office of Business Development (CCBD) for HUD funds to build a business incubator have been withdrawn, I am still very concerned that it w

Admitting that the downtown Nugget Project is still in its infancy, the City’s Office of Business Development withdrew its request for $2.1 million in federal funds for the economic incubator compo

City Hall’s Office of Business Development is asking the Board of Supervisors to re-direct federal funds that largely go to the poor, the elderly, the handicapped, and for general public improvemen

The application for the Economic Incubator to be awarded federal Community Development Block Grant funds, that are intended to help low and middle income people, begs the question…do economic incub

A request for 20 year funding for the Economic Incubator portion of the Carson Nugget Project has been recommended for denial by a city advisory panel.

For several weeks, I've been working to put together a complete examination of the Carson Nugget downtown redevelopment project.

In todays day and age we need no new library. The library Carson has already is great and accomplishes the needs of the community.

Ron: Valid points. Valid points. I’m more concerned about making a $50 million investment in a library while not knowing “where” information management is headed.

When I stated “it is possibly not a deal breaker” I meant that even if the incubator was excluded from the final project, the project may still be viable for the reasons stated.

The citizens committee’s “reason for being” as outlined in a recent Board of Supervisors agenda packet indicates that the committee is to assist the forward momentum of the project.

The incubator could be an issue for the reasons stated, however, it is possibly not a deal breaker.

Clearly stated.

The Board of Supervisors today signed letters of intent with the Carson Nugget downtown investment team that the city is willing to continue planning for a large downtown development that includes a n

Fire up the business incubator!

That’s a very fair question.

Okay, the Nugget will own the land and lease space to the city so we ( the taxpayers ) can build the new Library/Learning Center/Business Incubator.To these rheumey old eyes this doesn’t look to be

I encourage everybody to download the supporting material for the special meeting of the Carson City board of supervisors on December 10, 2009 (http://www.carson-city.nv.us/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?d

When I heard about the Nugget development project, my first thought was, here we go again.