Tahoe Reno Industrial Center

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The Tahoe Reno Industrial Center is an industrial park in Nevada , which with a total size of 433 square kilometers takes up about half of the local Storey County . 121 square kilometers, more precisely 12,140 hectares, are usable for industrial settlement in the mountainous desert area .

The area is located about 14.5 km east of the Twin Cities Reno and Sparks south of the Truckee River and extends 19.3 kilometers along the highway Interstate 80 , which follows the course of the river.

The industrial park is named after Lake Tahoe in the southwest and the nearby city of Reno.

Infrastructure

traffic

The area is connected to Interstate 80 by two exits (Patrick and USA Parkway) and is 15 miles from Reno Tahoe International Airport .

A four-lane main access road, the 8.7 km long USA Parkway (Nevada State Route 439) runs through the area . This is being extended by the State of Nevada as State Highway 439 as part of the perks for Tesla Motors for $ 70 million by 33.8 km to US Highway 50 .

The area is connected to the rail network via the Union Pacific and the BNSF Railway .

energy

High-pressure gas lines and 900 MW of electrical energy are available in the industrial park  .

Settlements

In the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, Tesla Motors and Panasonic built the Tesla Gigafactory 1 , the largest production facility for lithium-ion batteries worldwide.

In 2014 130 companies had settled there, including companies from Alcoa , FedEx Supply Chain Services, James Hardie Products, PPG, PetSmart, Pioneer Nut, Takahara Volleyballs, Schluter Systems, Tire Rack, Toys R Us , US Ordinance , Flowers.com, Diapers. com, Fulcrum Sierra and a Walmart Distribution Center In total, around 16,000 people worked in the industrial area in 2014.

Later, Google , Amazon and the data center operator Switch added. By far the largest area was acquired in January 2018 by Blockchains, LLC with 165 square miles (nearly 43,000 hectares). The company was registered in Nevada in May 2017 by lawyer Jeffrey Berns, a partner in Berns Weiss LLP. Berns Weiss LLP previously specialized in class actions and won millions of dollars in settlements with Ticketmaster, Cisco Systems and Home Loan Center.

Since then, only a leftover piece of 250 acres has been for sale.

history

The area was formerly owned by the Asmeria Mineral mining company , whose aim was to mine the remote remains of the exploited but once large silver ore vein of Comstock Lode . This ore vein once led to the establishment of the neighboring mining town of Virginia City , which was the largest settlement in Nevada at the peak of the gold and silver rush with 30,000 citizens. Today 855 people live there from tourism, which refers to this time.

The area was later bought by the Golf Oil Company, who wanted to set up a hunt there, but refrained from this expensive entertainment for executives during the economic crisis in the mid-1990s. In 1989, real estate entrepreneur Lance Gilmann and L. Lance Gilman Commercial Real Estate Services (LLG CRES) bought the entire 433 square kilometers for $ 20 million. The entrepreneur built the access roads and two gas power plants for the industrial park.

Legal position

There are no apartments in the area. Storey County, which is based in the former mining and tourism community of Virginia City, is responsible for structural and commercial law. Between the county, represented by its building director, Dean Haymore, and the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, represented by Lance Gilmann, an approximately 500-page development agreement, the Storey County Zoning Ordinance, was concluded in the late 1990s as the legal basis for the development of the industrial park , which was approved by the local council on July 1, 1999. The whole area is classified as 1-2 Heavy Industrial under US law, which allows almost all industrial uses without further planning permission procedures. According to a Phase I environmental study, no further environmental studies are necessary in the desert area. Therefore, all interested parties immediately receive a preliminary planning permit and building permits within 30 days. The ability to build quickly and with legal certainty played a major role in Tesla Motors' choice of the site for the Gigafactory.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ http://www.tahoereno.com/data-center/
  3. ↑ Richard N. Velotta: Nevada approves $ 70 million for Tesla-related roadwork. In: Las Vegas Review-Journal . October 13, 2014, accessed July 30, 2016 .
  4. ↑ http://www.tahoereno.com/distribution/
  5. ↑ http://www.tahoereno.com/manufacturing/
  6. ↑ http://www.tahoereno.com/clients/
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  8. ↑ Ray Hagar: The Tesla Effect: Tahoe-Reno Industrial Park is almost sold out after 74,000 acres were sold. In: Nevadanewsmakers. January 23, 2018, accessed January 30, 2018 .
  9. ↑ a b http://www.tahoereno.com/contact/

Coordinates: 39 ° 32 ′  N , 119 ° 29 ′  W