Kaleb Roedel

Gold Alliance is moving its headquarters from the greater Los Angeles area to Reno, one of several companies to recently expand or relocate to the downtown core as the California migration continues.

In 2022, BEARPAW plans to open a distribution facility in Fernley that would create 30-50 jobs over the first five years.

The demand for tech talent and IT services has surged the past two years, accelerated by the pandemic-related push toward ecommerce and the need for tightly secure wireless and remote systems amid the WFH movement. The result? An ultra-competitive job market for tech talent in Northern Nevada and be…

SudShare is an on-demand laundry cleaning, pickup and delivery service that the company describes as “Uber-for-laundry.”

As projects and orders stack up in a rebounding economy in Northern Nevada, construction companies are watching rising costs for materials become increasingly hard to predict and factor into bids, exposing them to potential losses.

“The processing times on submitted a 504 loan used to be in the neighborhood of three to five days. Now, it’s 20 working days because their volume is so backlogged.”

After big revenue gains in part due to COVID in 2020, regional HVAC companies like Sierra Air Inc. and Roper’s Heating and Air Conditioning are dealing with greater demand in 2021 as temperatures rise and new equipment calls intensify.

While the pandemic was quick to silence cities during lockdowns last year, it propelled the snaps and rattles of skateboarding to grow louder across the country, including here in Northern Nevada.

“We’ve come a long way in 20 years. I see a lot of women in roles that 20 years ago would never have been heard of, and it makes me happy.”

As the desire for coworking continues to increase across America among startups and entrepreneurs, here in fast-growing Northern Nevada, at least four new hubs have launched in the past year, including the first-ever coworking space in Sparks.

“What I definitely see is that we have a huge need for more mental health services. We’re extremely under resourced.”

Tom Stewart, owner of Truckee Meadow Herbs in Reno, says his suppliers are so swamped that all sorts of products are either delayed getting to his shelves or not showing up at all. It’s a hard pill to swallow for his business and plenty other retailers.

One year after the pandemic shut down the Silver State, the NNBW fielded responses from more than 20 business owners and executives in Northern Nevada — bars, banks, contractors, developers, Realtors, healthcare providers and more — to find out the biggest lessons learned and the biggest differences…

“From what I’ve seen with our businesses, I do think we have a lot of talented individuals who are leading the charge in order to overcome the obstacles from COVID.”

“It’s a tough market to get good drivers ... sadly, it’s a shrinking workforce, and all of our companies have this opportunity to grow. So, we’re all fighting over the same drivers.”

These days, more and more Californian residents and business owners are migrating over the hill to greater Reno-Sparks, driving a lot of demand across the region’s self storage industry.

More than 2 years after breaking ground in September 2018, the nearly $90 million Virginia Street Project is all but complete.