If you’ve watched Reno’s redevelopment-era ‘signature projects’ over the years, you know how these stories tend to go: ambitious visions, long horizons, detailed agreements, and periodic renegotiations when reality shows up with a calculator.
Next up: a new Reno Aces stadium amendment headed to the Reno Redevelopment Agency Advisory Board on January 26, 2026, and then the Reno Redevelopment Agency Board/City Council on the 28th, built around a term sheet that would supersede and replace all prior agreements.
The City’s pitch is simple (see what I did there?): extend the Aces’ stay, get the owners to invest more money downtown, and shift long-term stadium responsibilities off City Hall’s plate. The tradeoff is also simple: the City would hand over fee simple ownership of the stadium and land to StadiumCo and give up a couple of hard-power protections it currently has…