Our Riverwalk gets some press...

[Nevadan]

Travel and Leisure named our riverwalk one of the best in the nation. (http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/americas-coolest-river-walks/9) It made MSNBC, as well. I'm glad for this kind of publicity, especially considering it is only part finished. There is a remaining phase that is, I believe, already planned and just waiting for the crappy economy to turn before getting started. Another upside is that the next phase does away with some crummy bits of Reno, in a continued effort toward 'urban renewal.'

[Stuck in Seattle]

Travel and Leisure named our riverwalk one of the best in the nation. (http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/americas-coolest-river-walks/9) It made MSNBC, as well. I'm glad for this kind of publicity, especially considering it is only part finished. There is a remaining phase that is, I believe, already planned and just waiting for the crappy economy to turn before getting started. Another upside is that the next phase does away with some crummy bits of Reno, in a continued effort toward 'urban renewal.'
I was down there having cocktails a couple of weeks ago and it's fantastic. But you're exactly right....clean up the crummy bits of Reno. About 50% of the downtown needs to be purchased under eminent domain and sold off to companies that want to build retail outlets, corporate offices and entertainment venues other than casinos.

[battle.borne]

I was down there having cocktails a couple of weeks ago and it's fantastic. But you're exactly right....clean up the crummy bits of Reno. About 50% of the downtown needs to be purchased under eminent domain and sold off to companies that want to build retail outlets, corporate offices and entertainment venues other than casinos.

For whatever reason the city seemingly coddles our downtown slum lords. Forget eminent domain, enforce city ordinances on the weekly motels and vacant buildings to make the slum lords clean, or get out. IMO, Mayor Cashell is way too buddy-buddy with the old money interests in town. What the city needs is an outsider to run for Mayor and start shaking things up.

[Nevadan]

I was down there having cocktails a couple of weeks ago and it's fantastic. But you're exactly right....clean up the crummy bits of Reno. About 50% of the downtown needs to be purchased under eminent domain and sold off to companies that want to build retail outlets, corporate offices and entertainment venues other than casinos.

IMO, the city would do well by us all if they seized, razed and started fresh all the way from the railroad trench to the river on the West side of Virginia, back to Sierra ST. The only things worth anything in those blocks are the Knitting Factory, Jim Kelley's Nugget (but without the Awful, Awful level it too), Bruka theater and that new condo building on 1st and Sierra.

As far as the other crummy bits, many of those have been slowly going away because of the Aces ballpark, the Freight-house district and the new bus terminal. The rest we can get to later, if we could only do in the worst of Virginia Street downtown.

Oh yeah, I'd like to see the demise of the Lakemill lodge, the most speed-freak-felon-friendly weekly motel in Reno.

[Nevadan]

For whatever reason the city seemingly coddles our downtown slum lords. Forget eminent domain, enforce city ordinances on the weekly motels and vacant buildings to make the slum lords clean, or get out. IMO, Mayor Cashell is way too buddy-buddy with the old money interests in town. What the city needs is an outsider to run for Mayor and start shaking things up.

Are the crappy properties between Virginia and Sierra owned by 'old money interests' or do you mean old money interests who are slum lords elsewhere in town? While many are still to fall, many of the worst weekly motels have been razed.