Reno Urban Market Set to Open

West Street Market is set to open for business this October. Tenants include an italian restaurant, wine bar, grocery store and a bakery. It will occupy 8500 square feet on West Street between First and Second street and beginning in July there will be 50 outdoor vendors selling their goods 3 days a week. Ralph Merenda went to Italy to attend cooking school and will be cooking in the Green Room Bar as well as Nikos Theologitis who will feature home style Greek food. The concept behind the market is to feature local products (up to 150 miles away) including produce that will change with the season and be picked that morning and sold that day in a farmers market style setting. There will be lots of California fruits and vegetables from the Sierra foothills.

All of the tenants will have some sort of local connection and plenty of experience that will give visitors and locals another reason to head downtown. This will be one block from the river and the world class kayak park. The market will be located in 3 brick buildings with some of the buildings dating back to the 1920's with open beam ceilings and to really make sure it has a local connection, some of the trusses are stamped with Verdi Lumber Co. which was a lumber mill almost a 100 years ago.

The Reno Redevelopment agency is investing $600,000 in Federal money to renovate the buildings and the project should create 140 jobs. There will be weekly themes including eco tourism, burning man and pet's and gardens. There will also be craft fairs and even a bohemian circus and in the fall there will be a harvest festival and a Christmas theme from days of yester year.

I remember as little as 10 years ago downtown Reno had no direction and was constantly struggling to try and rehab the tired gaming market which included prostitution, the homeless and a huge eye sore known as downtown Reno. Do we still have some of those problems? Absolutely, but the Reno City council and the redevelopment agency have done a great job in the direction we are going, including the 5 new upscale condo projects, new triple A baseball stadium under construction, Wingfield park, outdoor markets, art district and all are within one block of the Truckee River and the white water park. All of this will contribute to a thriving Real Estate Market in Reno which will continue to move forward as we get through this tough market which is offering some great deals for buyers.

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