Tahoe City Visitor Center to be unveiled June 12

The North Lake Tahoe Chamber/CVB/Resort Association proudly unveils its new Visitor Information Center with a special Grand Opening Ceremony scheduled for Tuesday, June 12, 4-8 p.m. The pedestrian-friendly venue is located on the ground floor of the association’s headquarters at 100 North Lake Boulevard in Tahoe City, next to Fanny Bridge.

“The Grand Opening Ceremony is an opportunity for local businesses and organizations to see the center firsthand and get a better idea of how we can promote their businesses through educational collateral and promotional materials,” said CEO and Executive Director Sandy Evans Hall of the North Lake Tahoe Chamber/CVB/Resort Association. “It’s also a chance for us to say thank you to the many spectacular local contractors and vendors that helped bring the new center to fruition.”

Guests will mix and mingle while enjoying the melding of reggae, dancehall, hip-hop and jazz tunes of DJ One Truest. Several area restaurants have also stepped up to offer exquisite bite-sized delights, including Jake’s On the Lake, Wolfdale’s Cuisine Unique, CB’s Pizza & Grill, D’Lish Catering, River Grill, River Ranch, Dockside 700 and the Bridgetender. Uncorked Tahoe City will provide wine from the Sierra Nevada foothills and UnderCover Ale Works will bring the brews. Big Truck Hats will also be onsite to stitch hats as the company specializes in hand cut and sewn headwear.

Tahoe City’s new Visitor Information Center features local products for sale, including North Lake Tahoe logo wear; Tahoe Eco Candles, soaps and chapsticks; Quail Lane Press and Barb Kallestad art cards; fish art by Functional Metal Work; Tahoe Tea’s; shopping bags by local photographer Peter Spain; Big Truck Hats; as well as a full array of books and maps about activities and the North Lake Tahoe region.
The new center also offers many other visitor and business-appealing features, such as showcasing a new artist every month, displaying their work on the “art” wall via a partnership with North Tahoe Arts. For the month of June, local artist Geoff McGilvrary has been selected. The center is equipped with a conference room, which can be rented by the hour, day or half day, and includes an idea wall (a big wall painted as a white board). Portable kiosks can also be rented by area businesses and organizations to promote their products, events and services. The center’s touch-screen computers are geared for visitors to help them navigate their way around North Lake Tahoe.

Local contractors and area vendors that offered discounts and donated their time to Tahoe City’s new Visitor Information Center are Bratt Brothers Construction, Alpine Stone Works, Roundwood Furniture, Tahoe Roofing Company, Lighting at Kings Beach, Italia Granite, Kelly Brothers Painting, Mountain Home Center, Abel’s Maintenance, Christine Karnofsky Landscape Design, MDL Electric, Functional Designs, Great Basin Windows, GilanFarr + Associates Architecture and Tahoe City Lumber.

For more information about the event or details about displaying your local products, contact Visitor Information Services Manager Emily Detwiler, of the North Lake Tahoe Chamber/CVB/Resort Association, at 530-581-8778 or Emily@puretahoenorth.com.

For visitor information center sponsorship opportunities, call Membership Manager Deanna Frumenti, of the North Lake Tahoe Chamber/CVB/Resort Association, at 530-581-8764 or deanna@puretahoenorth.com.

The North Lake Tahoe Chamber/CVB/Resort Association is a partner with the Incline Village Crystal Bay Visitors Bureau in the North Lake Tahoe Marketing Cooperative. The organization also serves as a partner with Placer County and other public agencies in the development and funding of infrastructure, transit and community mobility projects designed to enhance tourism and community quality of life for the benefit of all in the North Lake Tahoe region.

For more information about the North Lake Tahoe Chamber/CVB/Resort Association, visit www.nltra.org.