Weapons campus planned at Tahoe Reno Industrial Center

Executives at Tahoe Reno Industrial Center are taking steps to lure more weapons manufacturers to the large industrial park east of Reno.

Kris Thompson, transaction coordinator for Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, says plans are in the works to develop a weapons-manufacturing campus on several hundred acres near U.S. Ordnance's 90,000-square-foot manufacturing facility on West Sydney Drive. TRIC also is developing a live-fire range near the site that would be a crucial recruitment tool for weapons makers, Thompson says.