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I’m trying to remember if Leasure had any involvement in the Idaho Steelheads. By the time he focused on Reno, he wanted a project much like the one in Boise, where the arena was built as part of a (I’ll say “loosely termed”) hotel complex. Not sure if he wanted help from the city of Reno, who would certainly laugh such a proposal out of the office. Obviously, that never materialized.
Things have definitely changed in Reno from those days, and rather drastically at that. There are probably now some properties that were considered premium in the late 90s & early 2000s, but one of those has gone downhill, another may have been razed while condos have sprung up just to the west of the downtown gambling district, and the old Fitzgerald’s is now a non-casino hotel with an active outdoor climbing wall (the notion of anything around there dropping its casino still blows my mind). Leaves me to wonder if a new attempt would fare better than the last one. Or does Reno have a room glut? That might be the issue.
Things have definitely changed in Reno from those days, and rather drastically at that. There are probably now some properties that were considered premium in the late 90s & early 2000s, but one of those has gone downhill, another may have been razed while condos have sprung up just to the west of the downtown gambling district, and the old Fitzgerald’s is now a non-casino hotel with an active outdoor climbing wall (the notion of anything around there dropping its casino still blows my mind). Leaves me to wonder if a new attempt would fare better than the last one. Or does Reno have a room glut? That might be the issue.