About 46,000 passengers traveled through the airport in May.
The Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation says the 218,300 jobs in the local economy during May compared with 250,800 jobs just four months earlier.
When the Reno area was ranked this week as the best small-city in the nation by Resonance Consultancy, the news was more than yet another source of pride for area residents.
Consumers in Washoe County appear to have slowed their spending again in the past couple of weeks, sprinkling cold water on the recovery that began building in mid-May.
The resilient residential market in Reno-Sparks appears to be recovering fairly quickly after the springtime free-fall in sales tied to COVID-19 shutdowns.
A big and controversial residential development near Verdi won the approval of the Reno City Council on Thursday.
The most recent batch of new jobs arriving in town was announced by the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada on Wednesday.
Hotels and motels in the area rented rooms for about 42,600 nights during April, according to figures collected by the Reno Sparks Conventions and Visitors Authority.
It’s still too early to judge the full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic downturn, but experts are starting to see shopping center vacancies inch up.
While airport officials have been saying for weeks that the facility’s numbers during April were mind-blowingly awful, new data just reported by the airport authority provides a full picture of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
