Tahoe_Reno_Industrial_Center_Between_Sparks_and_Fernley,_Nevada

The Tahoe Reno Industrial Center (TRI Center, or TRIC) is a privately owned

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, located in Storey County, east of

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and south of

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. The center is the largest in the United States (third largest in the world), occupying over half of the land mass in

Storey County Storey County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,104, making it the third-least populous county, but one of the fastest-growing economies in Nevada. In 2018, over 18,000 people were emplo ...

, and is home to more than a hundred companies and their warehouse

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centers and

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s such as

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. and others.

Gigafactory Nevada Gigafactory Nevada (also known as Giga Nevada or Gigafactory 1) is a lithium-ion battery and electric vehicle component factory in Storey County, Nevada, US. The facility, located east of Reno, is owned and operated by Tesla, Inc., and supplie ...

was built there to serve

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and

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. Tesla says that once completed the Gigafactory will be the largest building on the planet. Facilities include rail-serviced sites with

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and

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, municipal water and sewer, natural gas service, and five power plants on site producing more than .

History

In 1995, Storey County saw an opportunity in the open area close to rail and highway, but isolated from residential areas to avoid disturbance. Mars/PetSmart became the first tenant. In 2020, TRIC was one of the areas depicted in the art exhibition "Countryside, The Future" by architect

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at the New York Guggenheim Museum.

Private extension

In 1998, private developers bought 102,000 acres of the adjacent Asamera ranch (formerly McCarran ranch) from

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for $20 million cash, and the area was zoned as "I-2 Heavy Industrial" in 2000, including

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. About 30,000 acres are developable. It operates as a

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, where the owners provide $5 million for the county to support TRIC. The owners also built

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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. The owners built the six-mile, four-lane

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between TRIC and I-80 for $60 million in 2007 as the second access, along with

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. In 2009 TRIC had 4,500 employees on 11 million sq ft of buildings, growing to 14 million sq ft in 2014, and 5,000 employees in 2015, increasing to over 18,000 employees by 2018. The additions have contributed to economic activity in the Reno area. The

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(NDOT) took over USA Parkway for $43 million in 2015, extending it for $70 million to

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to cope with projected increasing traffic.

Construction

Tahoe Reno Industrial Center satellite view

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opened a 130 MW

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in 2017, with plans for 650 MW on its 2,000-acre site. It is scheduled to occupy 7.2 million square feet and cost $4 billion,Hidalgo, Jason
"On Switch: Reno-area SuperNAP to be largest data center on Earth."
Reno Gazette-Journal. Sept. 14, 2015 with the aim of being Tier 5-approved. A 91-unit Studio 6 Hotel started construction in 2017. A

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is scheduled nearby. In 2017,

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purchased 1,200 acres of land for $26.1 million, to be used as a data center. Construction was underway in 2019. In 2018 Blockchains bought 67,000 acres for a cryptocurrency-powered libertarian city.

Top employers

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References

External links

Tahoe Reno Industrial Center

TRIC development handbook
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