Tahoe Reno Industrial Center

The Tahoe Reno Industrial Center (TRIC) is a privately owned 107,000 acres (167 sq mi) industrial park, located at Interstate 80 in Patrick, Storey County, Nevada. The center is the largest in the country, occupying over half of the land mass in Storey County, and is home to over 100 companies and their logistics centres such as PetSmart, HomeDepot, Walmart and others. The Gigafactory 1 is being built there to serve Tesla Motors and Panasonic.

Facilities include rail-serviced sites with Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway, municipal water and sewer, natural gas service, and five power plants on site producing more than 900 megawatts (1,200,000 hp).

In 1995, Storey County saw an opportunity in the open area close to rail and highway, but isolated from residential areas avoiding disturbance. PetSmart became the first tenant.

In 1998, private developers bought 102,000 acres of the adjacent Asamera ranch (formerly McCarran ranch) from Gulf Canada for $20 million cash, and the area was zoned as "I-2 Heavy Industrial" in 2000, including retail. It operates as a public–private partnership, where the owners provide $5 million for the county to support TRIC. The owners also built infrastructure such as roads, rail, gas, power, water, and sewer, and is reimbursed with 35% of the tax paid by the tenant companies to the county. The owners built the six-mile, four-lane USA Parkway between TRIC and I-80 for $60 million in 2007 as the second access, along with rail spur.

In 2009 TRIC had 4,500 employees on 11 million sq ft of buildings, growing to 14 million sq ft in 2014, and 5,000 employees in 2015, increasing to 15,000 over the next years. The additions have contributed to economic activity in the Reno area. NDOT took over the Parkway for $43 million in 2015, extending it for $70 million to the US 50 – Carson City, Fallon to cope with projected increasing traffic.

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