STOREY COUNTY

twenty-eight years ago, the site of the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center east of Sparks was an expanse of dirt: 107,000 acres of it. But Dean Haymore saw potential there. He saw a future for major manufacturing in northern Nevada. And he helped make it happen. “I knew that the time was coming when we wouldn’t be able to depend on gaming and tourism anymore in Nevada,” Storey County’s building and planning administrator said. “I knew we had land and that we had space to grow. I met with the