Revival, formerly Harrah's and Reno City Center, preps for construction with tentative maps. Their planning permit (link here) seeks to:
"subdivide the existing Reno Revival building (former Harrah’s Reno) and create 34 individual parcels to include commercial/retail, plaza area/landscape, roadway, hotel, parking garage, skybridge, residential, and subterranean/basement parcels. The ±7.53 acre site is bordered by North Virginia Street to the west, East Commercial Row to the north, Lake Street to the east, and West Second Street to the south, with University Way bisecting the property. The subject site is located within the Mixed-Use Downtown Entertainment District (MD-ED) zoning district and has a Master Plan land use designation of Downtown Mixed-Use (DT-MU)."
This is a major step toward resuming construction, because tentative maps aren't cheap to do. This tentative map will separate the commercial sections and hotel section of the property from the resdiential...not lierally separate but parcel-wise.
According to this article on News2, the new developer is very bullish about the project, and completed similar-sized projects in downtown Boise that ended up revitalizing the entire core of their downtown with subsequent investments, and I truly believe that Revival is a catalyst project that, when the two-block hole in downtown is filled, will spur on other development projects, and certainly making living in both Revival and it's neighbor, Ballpark Apartments, more appealing, According to the News2 article, construction should begin in Summer or early Fall of this year.
Revival now also has an active listing on Loopnet advertising it's commercial spaces for lease, and list on that ad a projected opening/availability date of January 2026.
All of this is very encouraging movement on the project.