Tag: construction

Work has started on the Sportsman's Warehouse next door to the new Burlington Coat Factory. If you remember, this site used to be taken up by the south half of the old Wal*Mart building, which was demolished while the north half was remodeled into Burlington. Now they're putting the cinder block walls back up that they tore down only months ago. I'm guessing that the size and configuration of the store is going to be different than the old Wal*Mart space, otherwise, why go to all the trouble of demolition?

The new Holiday Inn Express hotel at the Minden Gateway Center is coming along nicely. It's still the only construction taking place at the center, though. Work on all the retail and office space is holding back for the moment.

Interesting that they're building it in two halves. The north half is up to three floors already, but the south half is only on the first floor still. And there seems to be some kind of atrium connecting the two halves.

I can't wait to see what it looks like when it's done! Hopefully there will be some interesting architecture to it, not just another square box.

I drive by this new house being built at the corner of Fifth and Division quite often on my way to work. It's looking better than ever, and seems to be topping out soon.

News Carson City is reporting that they've broken ground on the railroad bridge that will carry the Virginia & Truckee tracks over Hwy 50 in Mound House. This bridge is a little bit west of the original alignment of the V&T, right at the peak of the hill on the Carson-Lyon county line. The bridge itself, if I remember the details right, is an old Union Pacific bridge out of Vegas that was donated to the V&T a couple of years ago. So all they have to do is built supports for it, then set the thing down over the roadway. Estimates are for the bridge to be in place by January, then the tracks will be laid across it next summer.

After that the project will be out of money, and the tracks will end somewhere in the brush above Pick N Pull. So if they want to go any further they've got to start raising funds soon. But at least the rails will be within spitting distance of Carson City, and conceivably the Grays could start running excursions to Mound House and back.

Progress on the Riverwood shopping center. Grading of the site is still going on, and will be for a while. They're slowly working on leveling out the site, or at least building the hill into a series of terraces.

They've also put up a sign at the corner, confirming that the project is, in fact, still called Riverwood. They also have a link to their website, www.riverwoodnv.com. If you go there, make sure to give yourself some time. There's so much to do and see that you could spend a whole afternoon there.

I think they should send their sign back to the sign shop, though. Look at the list of tenants on the left side. Kohl's and Jethro's Casino have already been announced, so those are no big surprise. But this is the first I'm hearing about Circuit City moving into the shopping center. And it will probably be the last, according to the latest news reports.

Work on the new structure joining the two wings of the Nevada State Museum has been progressing steadily. They're still working on the steel frame of the new lobby, which will be enclosed in glass and made to look like a mining headframe.

Big things are happening in Minden. After something like two years of work on the site, they're finally going vertical at the Minden Gateway Center. This week the first walls were raised on the first of what is supposed to be nine or ten buildings in the center. I don't know if they're going to keep working through the winter, but it seems unlikely that they'd stop for two months now that they've started.

I'm trying to figure out exactly which structure this is. It's at the east side of the property, and matching it up with the maps of the site makes it look like this will be the hotel. But doesn't it look too small to be a hotel? Maybe it's the perspective, or maybe because they just started framing. But this doesn't look as big as the hotel is supposed to be. So we'll have to keep an eye on it.

Much more lumber is stacked up on the edges of the site, waiting to be used. I think that we're going to see some real progress at the Gateway Center over the next couple of months.

The gas station at the corner of Carson and Stewart, in the parking lot of the Carson Mall, is being torn down. The station hadn't been selling gas for some years anyway. Recently it was home to an auto shop and used car dealership, and the pumps had been removed. But before that it's been a Texaco station and a 76 station. Now it's rubble.

This would be a good spot for a new restaurant. Visible right on the corner, and surrounded by plenty of parking. Maybe the mall owners can make a deal for someone to move in here, so the lot doesn't just sit empty forever.

Fairview Drive is reopen in both directions after months of construction. They've been widening the road in anticipation of the opening of the next phase of the CC Freeway next year. The freeway will end at Fairview, so all that traffic will have to be dumped onto this street on its way to Carson Street.

The street is now four lanes, with nice sidewalks on either side. They had to lose the turn lane down the middle, so that could cause some problems if anyone needs to make a left turn into one of the businesses along the street. But the street is finally qualified to be a major thoroughfare, and it's going to need to be, with all the freeway traffic that's going to be travelling this route in less than 12 months.

Another nice touch is the new streetlights. It's weird how the little details like that can make such a difference to a street.

The heavy equipment is making good progress on the Riverwood shopping center. Already tons of dirt have been brought down from the hill, and parts of the site already are becoming flat.