Construction Crews Ready to Crank Up Reno Peppermill
Staff -- Tradeshow Week, 10/10/2005
Workers are expected to break ground next week on the $230 million expansion of the Peppermill Hotel Casino in Reno, Nev. The project includes a column-free convention and entertainment center slated for completion in September 2007.
The privately owned hotel-casino complex currently has 1,025 rooms, an 80,000 square foot casino and 40,000 sq. ft. of convention space, including 20 breakout rooms. Besides a spa, nightclub, pool, arcade and other leisure areas, the expansion will add 600 rooms — in the form of a 17-story all-suite tower with a Tuscany-inspired design — 14,000 sq. ft. of casino space, and 50,000 sq. ft. of convention space, including 14 breakout rooms.
The resulting 90,000 sq. ft. event center will be a flexible structure with a built-in audiovisual system. It has been designed to house exhibitions, general sessions, banquets and concerts — similar to the 60,000 sq. ft. Reno Events Center, a city-owned facility that opened in January of this year. The city also owns the 634,200 sq. ft. Reno-Sparks Convention Center, just down the street from the Peppermill.
After the expansion, the 34-year-old Peppermill will have the fourth-largest convention space in Reno, following the Events Center, the Reno Hilton (now owned by Harrah's Entertainment) with 300,000 sq. ft. of meeting and convention space, and John Ascuaga's Nugget Casino Resort with 110,000 sq. ft.
