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"People in the Bay Area, Sacramento, really haven’t had a lot of reasons to come to downtown Reno. In fact, they had a lot of reasons to stay away from downtown Reno. "
- Jeff Jacobs, Chairman and CEO, Jacobs Entertainment says his company has to create the canvas to make Reno desirable. He adds Reno has the potential to be a regional entertainment market. He’s holding off on marketing to the Bay Area until the property is complete so that a visitors first experience is a good experience. The Fairgrounds on his property can accommodate 15,000 concertgoers. - Friday, March 7, 2025.
"We’ve bought over 80 parcels over seven years, on both sides of 4th Street (Downtown Reno). It’s a couple of hundred acres."
- Jeff Jacobs, Chairman and CEO, Jacobs Entertainment has purchased a larger land bank than any other casino operator in Northern Nevada. He plans to spend between a billion and a half and two billion dollars to develop the land into a casino, entertainment, convention, and housing mecca. - Thursday, March 6, 2025.
"It’s been the narrative of my career. I dealt it, I supervised it and now I seem to talk about it every month."
- Michael Lawton, Senior Economic Analyst, Nevada Gaming Control Board says baccarat is played by a select group of customers who number only in the thousands. Who are allowed to play six figures on a hand. A very volatile game for the 20 casinos that offer it in Nevada. - Wednesday, March 5, 2025.
"People look me in the eye and say is that a joke? No, it’s Nevada. That’s how we do it here."
- Dr. Sondra Cosgrove, History Professor, CSN and UNLV teaches civics in the classroom and through Vote Nevada and explains the peccadillos of the Silver State like deciding tied elections with the drawing of playing cards to decide the contest. - Tuesday, March 4, 2025.
"I'd say that's one of the biggest challenges about economic development, is that it really is an ecosystem."
- Tina Quigley, Former President/CEO, Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance, explains the overall success of economic development for a region requires business-friendly regulations, workforce pipelines, and operational values. She adds it is the entire community that makes or breaks economic development success. - Friday, February 28, 2025.
"We need that here in Nevada, and frankly, it'll be a model for the rest of the country."
- Former State Senator Dallas Harris says of Universal Pre-K, calling it a “transformational change for the next generation.” - Thursday, February 27, 2025.
"I'm thinking that you don't need one big project."
- Rick Velotta, Tourism and Gaming Reporter, Las Vegas Review Journal, says of selling Circus Circus on the Las Vegas Strip, explaining developers might be better off splitting the 102-acre property for “specific desires.” He adds the area is changing and there is no doubt the “North Strip is going to be a much more robust place in the future.” - Wednesday, February 26, 2025.
"That's something that I reject wholeheartedly, because I know that the way out of generational poverty is through real estate."
- Peter Guzman, President Latin Chamber of Commerce, says in response to younger generations saying housing is unattainable. He explains housing prices and interest rates eliminate younger people from being able to buy homes and it’s something we need to address. - Tuesday, February 25, 2025.
"We should have never shut down."
- George Harris, Chairman, Nevadans for Sound Government, says of the response to the pandemic. He later adds, “the fact of the matter is they turned this pandemic into a big cup of bull hockey.” - Friday, February 21, 2025.
"It's such a complicated issue."
- April Becker, Clark County Commissioner, # C, says of the camping bans for those who are homeless. She explains while we have private, city, county properties that people don’t want someone camped out on their sidewalk, there is another side of humanity that recognizes, for the most part, “most people don’t choose to be homeless.” - Thursday, February 20, 2025.
"We have to see what that final deal looks like in the state of Nevada."
- Jeremy Aguero, Principal Analyst, Applied Analysis, says once we have the facts, we can have a greater deliberation on what the future of the movie industry could look like for Las Vegas. - Wednesday, February 19, 2025.
"The bigger issue is going to be, does it work and who's going to run it."
- Tick Segerblom, Chair Clark County Commission, says of the Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel. He adds, “It’s interesting that we have Elon Musk, who's 100 percent on the Boring Company, running a private subway system under our most precious asset of The Strip, and we've really never seen it work, or how it works, or who has the key.” - Tuesday, February 18, 2025.
"Everybody kind of wants Las Vegas, but they never quite follow the Las Vegas formula."
- Paul Steelman, Architect, Steelman Partners, explains that while many places aspire to replicate Las Vegas, they often lack key elements such as government support, low taxes, sports integration, and development-friendly policies. - Friday, February 14, 2025.
"Everybody wants Las Vegas."
- Paul Steelman, Architect, Steelman Partners, says worldwide clients want one thing and that’s what you have to give them: Las Vegas. He explains it’s constantly changing, upgrading, keeping itself ahead of all markets, and differentiates your experience from anything else. - Thursday, February 13, 2025.
"Human beings do not belong on the streets."
- Shelley Berkley, Mayor, Las Vegas. Nevada, says after resolving the multi-million Badlands lawsuit against the city, she’s now turning her focus to helping abused animals and those who are homeless. She explains that homelessness is “inhumane,” also noting it’s an economic problem for the city and small businesses. - Wednesday, February 12, 2025.
"So it is absolutely foreseeable in the next several years that you could double, triple, even quadruple the size of the total electric grid in Northern Nevada."
- Doug Cannon, President and CEO, NV Energy, says that while this is an opportunity for the area to expand in the data-storage industry, it’s also a “real challenge.” He explains they want to be very careful about protecting existing customers, because if big investments are made and the data center load doesn’t show up, costs are then shifted to customers. - Tuesday, February 11, 2025.
