The Tahoe Reno Industrial Center (TRI Center, or TRIC) is a privately owned 107,000-acre (167 sq mi; 430 km2) industrial park, located in Storey County, east of Reno, Nevada, and south of Interstate 80.[1][2] The center is the largest in the United States (third largest in the world),[3] occupying over half of the land mass in Storey County, and is home to more than a hundred companies and their warehouse logistics centers and fulfillment centers such as PetSmart, Home Depot, Walmart and others.[4] Gigafactory Nevada was built there to serve Tesla, Inc. and Panasonic.[5] According to Benchmarkia, Tahoe-Reno Industrial Centre is the sixth largest industrial park by area in the world.[6]
Facilities include rail-serviced sites with Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway, municipal water and sewer, natural gas service, and five power plants on site producing more than 900 megawatts (1,200,000 hp).[1][7][8]
History
editIn 1995, Storey County saw an opportunity in the open area close to rail and highway, but isolated from residential areas to avoid disturbance.[9] Mars/PetSmart became the first tenant.[10] In 2020, TRIC was one of the areas depicted in the art exhibition "Countryside, The Future" by architect Rem Koolhaas at the New York Guggenheim Museum.[11][12]
Private extension
editIn 1998, private developers bought 102,000 acres of the adjacent Asamera ranch (formerly McCarran ranch) from Gulf Canada for $20 million cash,[9][13] and the area was zoned as "I-2 Heavy Industrial" in 2000, including retail.[9][14] About 30,000 acres are developable.[15] It operates as a public–private partnership, where the owners provide $5 million for the county to support TRIC. The owners also built infrastructure such as roads, rail, gas, power, water, and sewer, and are reimbursed with 35% of the tax paid by the tenant companies to the county.[9][16] The owners built the six-mile, four-lane USA Parkway between TRIC and I-80 for $60 million in 2007 as the second access, along with rail spur.[13][17]
In 2009 TRIC had 4,500 employees on 11 million sq ft of buildings,[9] growing to 14 million sq ft in 2014,[17] and 5,000 employees in 2015, increasing to over 18,000 employees by 2018.[18] The additions have contributed to economic activity in the Reno area.[19][20][21] The Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) took over USA Parkway for $43 million in 2015, extending it for $70 million to U.S. Route 50 to cope with projected increasing traffic.
Construction
edit
Switch opened a 130 MW data center in 2017, with plans for 650 MW on its 2,000-acre site.[22][23][24] It is scheduled to occupy 7.2 million square feet[23] and cost $4 billion,[25] with the aim of being Tier 5-approved.[26][27]
A 91-unit Studio 6 Hotel started construction in 2017. A Courtyard by Marriott is scheduled nearby.[28]
In 2017, Google purchased 1,200 acres of land for $26.1 million, to be used as a data center.[29] Construction was underway in 2019.[30]
In 2018, Blockchains bought 67,000 acres for a cryptocurrency-powered libertarian city.[31][32]
Top employers
editIncomplete list, sorted by number of employees.[33][34]
| Employer | 2016 | 2017 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gigafactory total | 850[35] | 3000[36] | 7,557[37] |
| Tesla | 5,540 | ||
| Panasonic | 1200[36] | 1,825 | |
| Heitkamp & Thumann | 192 | ||
| Walmart (Distribution) | 600-699[33] | ||
| Zulily | 500–599[33] | ||
| Thrive Market | 218[38] | ||
| James Hardie | 100-199[33] |
References
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- ^ Chereb, Sandra (September 21, 2014). "Tesla deal sparks development rush to Reno area". Las Vegas Review-Journal.
- ^ "The World's Largest Industrial Areas". WorldAtlas. 10 June 2019. Archived from the original on 7 January 2022.
- ^ "Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center: Oasis in the Desert". September 2010. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
- ^ Nelson, Paul (September 25, 2014). "Construction Underway at Tesla Gigafactory Near Reno". KTVN. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
- ^ "Industrial Park Ranking". Benchmarkia: Crowd-Based Sustainability Benchmarking. Retrieved 2024-07-12.
- ^ "Our Power Supply". www.nvenergy.com. Archived from the original on March 17, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
- ^ "Frank A. Tracy Generating Station" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-06-20. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
- ^ a b c d e Bonnenfant, Brian (February 8, 2009). "Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center: A Public-Private Partnership on Steroids". Center for Regional Studies, University of Nevada, Reno. Archived from the original on June 22, 2016. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
- ^ Roberts, Sally (May 1, 2017). "Changing tempo: Storey County and TRI Center prepare for change with retirement of team leader". Northern Nevada Business Weekly. Archived from the original on June 15, 2017. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
- ^ Kane, Jenny (February 20, 2020). "Reno's TRIC featured in architecture exhibition at elite Guggenheim Museum". Reno Gazette Journal.
- ^ "Countryside, The Future". Guggenheim. 29 November 2017.
- ^ a b "Owner of Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center says he just likes to build". Nevada Appeal. October 18, 2007. Archived from the original on October 23, 2016. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
- ^ "Company aims to develop retail at TRIC". Northern Nevada Business Weekly. May 23, 2016. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
- ^ "TRIC: By The Numbers". www.nnbw.com.
- ^ Roberts, Sally (May 12, 2016). "Innovative development agreement key to TRIC success". www.nnbw.com. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
- ^ a b "Lance Gilman's $43 million Tesla payoff has believers — and critics". Las Vegas Sun. December 30, 2014. Archived from the original on March 30, 2016. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
- ^ "County Employment and Wages in Nevada – Third Quarter 2018 : Western Information Office : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics". www.bls.gov.
- ^ An amazing economic development resource page 5+8. Northern Nevada Real Estate Journal, November 16, 2015.
- ^ "The Tesla Effect". Northern Nevada Business Weekly. June 3, 2017. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
- ^ "Give a little RESPECT". www.nnbw.com. April 10, 2017. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
- ^ "Switch". Switch Data Centers. Retrieved December 21, 2016.
- ^ a b "Switch TAHOE RENO Now Open: Largest, Most Advanced Data Center Campus in the World - Switch". Switch. February 14, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
- ^ "Switch's 1,200,947 square foot data center in the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center". nnbw.com. January 24, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
- ^ Hidalgo, Jason. "On Switch: Reno-area SuperNAP to be largest data center on Earth." Archived 2022-10-23 at the Wayback Machine Reno Gazette-Journal. Sept. 14, 2015
- ^ "Switch announces its new Tier 5 data center standard". Northern Nevada Business Weekly. June 12, 2017. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
- ^ "Tier-5". Switch. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
- ^ "Tahoe Reno Industrial Center's first hotel under construction". nnbw.com. April 3, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
- ^ "Google buys 1,200 acres for data center in Northern Nevada". April 17, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
- ^ "Google's massive 1,210-acre facility rising in high desert at Tahoe Reno Industrial Center". Reno Gazette Journal.
- ^ Metz, Sam (2021-02-13). "In Nevada desert, a technology firm aims to be a government". AP NEWS. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- ^ Manaugh, Geoff (April 18, 2019). "Move Over, San Andreas: There's an Ominous New Fault in Town". Wired.
- ^ a b c d "Top Employers". Nevada Labor Market Information, 1st Quarter 2016. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
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- ^ Seddon, Jana. "2016/17 Storey County Secured Assessment Roll Archived 2017-01-14 at the Wayback Machine", from county records Archived 2016-10-26 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Lambert, Fred (2016-12-08). "Tesla Gigafactory now employs over 850 workers, 1,000 more to come in first half of 2017 with production ramp up". electrek. Retrieved 2016-12-09.
- ^ a b "Tesla Gigafactory 1 now employs over 3,000 workers as it becomes biggest battery factory in the world". Aug 21, 2018. Retrieved Nov 18, 2018.
- ^ "Combined Summary and Transferable Tax Credit" (PDF). 2019-09-13.
- ^ "GOED Board of Directors Approve Eight Companies at July Meeting Archived 2016-12-21 at the Wayback Machine", page 7 Nevada Governor's Office of Economic Development, AUGUST 2016.