Biggest Little Silicon Valley

Last week the Reno Gazette-Journal ran an opinion piece on Reno’s expanding technology economy. See the RGJ piece here: Reno: Silicon Valley without the sky-high rent

In the piece the writer points out Reno’s:

• nationally-ranked university
• technical schools and community colleges
• varied work force
• low cost of doing business
• attractive commercial real estate prices
• competitive tax climate
• high quality of life
• favorable location

…as a few of it’s attributes that are attracting technology companies

From the piece:

The allure of Reno is its promise and potential to become a vibrant technology city without all of the downsides of a tech capital like Silicon Valley. If we can attract Tesla, Switch, Microsoft and Apple, but keep at bay the sky-high commercial real estate prices, snarled traffic and exorbitant housing prices, Reno will remain a magnet to maturing technology and logistics companies.

Related from BloombergBusiness: Reno Wants to Be Silicon Valley’s Back Office