New Venues Headed to 1st and West

A couple of quick announcements:

1)      The old Beaujolais location 130 West Street has been rented out to a new business called “Crafted Palette”. This will be a high-end specialty coffee shop with light breakfasts’ in addition to a paint and sip venue in the late afternoon and evenings. Like them on Facebook here.

2)      123 W. First Street (Old Bugsy’s Bar Location); one side has been leased  to a business called “Derby Supply Company”.  This will be a 1930’s style barbershop. They are offering cocktails while one might be getting a true straight razor shave and haircut. Look for build-out to begin late Spring, early Summer.

Virginian Offers Up Retail Space on Loopnet

The Virginian is looking for a few good retail and food venues for its ground-floor and basement levels of the upcoming Virginian renovation. Check out the cool photos of the Virginian, still frozen in time, posted on their ad. Amazing!

Scultpure-Fest Coming to Downtown Reno

Reno Sculpture Fest will take place between the Whitney Peak and El Dorado on the ReTrac Plaza from May 8th-10th. The festival will feature over fifteen talented local artists including eight new commissioned sculptures for the event. The new pieces will be human sized or larger, up to 14 feet tall.

City To Discuss Closing Virginia Street for Pedestrian Mall

There are several interesting tidbits coming up in next Wednesday's council meeting, including discussing closing Virginia Street from the Truckee River to 4th Street to create a pedestrian mall.

Truckee Bagel Company to Open in Midtown

Truckee Bagel Company is currently renovating the old Starbucks location at the terminus of California Avenue at Virginia Street.

With a near-five-star rating on Yelp for their other Reno locale, this is sure to be an awesome, delicioius addition to downtown. I do love bagels!

Suite 103 Opens Downtown

Suite 103 replaces the long-closed JB Mapes & Co at 50 North Sierra Street, Suite 103.

Check out their menu by clicking the link!

The Kings Inn Has a Nice Pool Deck

As I reported from the RAAB meeting two weeks ago, the Kings Inn pulled a demo permit and is in the process of renovating the Kings Inn into apartments.

Construction Begins for Courtyard Marriott Downtown

Check out a few photos of ground work beginning for the long-delayed Courtyard Marriott downtown across from Reno Aces Ballpark.

Downtown Bank of America Closing Doors

The Bank of America located inside the Basin-Street-owned building on Virginia and Liberty, will be closing its doors March 20.

Siegel Group Buys Nevadan

Siegel Group buys Nevadan, plans 'transient housing' for both the Nevadan and Virginian, according to News 4. Is this a good or bad thing? Read on.

Siegel Group Replacing Windows on El Cortez

As the El Cortez's renovations continue, they are replacing most of the electrical and now are replacing all the windows on the El Cortez. Some history buffs in town emailed me, worried that doing this could remove the El Cortez from the list of registered historic landmarks.

The El Cortez is not bound or required to preserve the building's history, but it would be a nice thing to do in the process of renovating it.

Apparently they did not have the required permit to do this, the city found out, and put a stop-work-order in. Submitting a permit to replace the windows would have triggered a Historic Resources Commission review, which is now going to occur thanks to some keen eyes on the building.

Java Jungle and Jungle Vino Combining, Renovating

Matt down at Java Jungle / Jungle Vino has been hard at work undergoing a full renovation, and working with Siegel Group, the Truckee Lane Building's new owners.