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Working in Storey County

• Economic Development

Tourism is a driving force for Storey County’s economy. Over 1.6 million visitors flock to historic Virginia City, Gold Hill and the Virginia & Truckee Railroad each and every year. The already proven and healthy tourism market today combines with a rapidly growing industrial sector that promises strong growth potential. Both locally based, family-owned companies and large corporations do business in Storey County. The county’s major employers include Kal Kan Foods, Inc., Storey County School District, Sierra Pacific Power, Alcoa, Wal-Mart, Dell Computers, Royal Sierra Extrusions, James Hardie and Golden State Petroleum. Together, these companies alone have brought over 700 jobs, ranging from entry-level to senior management, to Storey County.

The Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center represents the biggest thing to happen on the Comstock since the gold and silver rush. This new industrial center, one of the country’s largest, is already home to major, national companies, and in the Fall of 2004, Wal-Mart selected TRI as the site for its new regional food distribution center. Construction for the Wal-Mart distribution center began in the summer of 2005 with planned service to stores expected in the spring of 2006. The facility will employ approximately 500 people when it first opens. Ninety percent of the jobs created are planned to be full-time, and initial hiring of area residents is expected to begin in early 2006. Storey County takes pride in the fact that Wal-Mart, an internationally prominent company, has selected our county as the site of its new regional food distribution center.

County officials continue economic diversification activities while also promoting the popular tourist draw of Virginia City. To find out more about Storey County economic development initiatives, please visit the following:

• Storey County Economic Development Department
   

• Sierra Pacific Power Company

• Real estate

Nevada continues to be the fastest growing state in the country. To support this growth, Northern Nevada communities have witnessed incredible increases in both commercial and residential developments. Storey County is no exception.

Industrial development in Storey County centers on the much celebrated Tahoe-Reno Industrial (TRI) Center. This development is heralded as the largest industrial park in the country, over 80-million-square-feet, and boasts an environmentally and technologically sophisticated infrastructure. TRI Center is a mixed-use development, consisting of a wide range of industrial, office and commercial businesses with build-to-suit space.

Residential developments in Storey County offer unique home choices ranging from quaint Victorian style homes to log homes and modern architecture. Communities in Storey County include bedroom communities of Reno/Sparks, such as Rainbow Bend to Virginia City Highlands, a suburb of Virginia City, which allows citizens to own acreage and custom home sites zoned for horses.

• Virginia City Highlands Property Owners Association

• Highland Ranches Property Owners Association