http://blog.nsbdc.org A Weblog by the Nevada Small Business Development Center Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:00:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The numbers are in, and here’s a look at how the housing market in and around the Reno area fared in 2007. Not surprisingly, it wasn’t pretty, but the year end numbers actually showed less of a drop in median sales prices than I’d feared, and most people who ... http://blog.nsbdc.org/2008/02/14/2007-housing-results-for-washoe-county/ Here's a book that I highly recommend to anyone interested in Local Economic Development Issues: "Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice" 3rd Edition by Edward J Blakely and Ted K Bradshaw. This book is one of the required texts for one of my classes this semester here at USC ... http://blog.nsbdc.org/2008/01/21/%e2%80%9cplanning-local-economic-development-theory-and-practice%e2%80%9d-a-must-read-for-those-serious-about-economic-development/ Here are some of the primary findings of the regional “homeless study” recently completed by a group of researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno. Major Costs by Service Provider in JUST ONE YEAR: Washoe County Detention Facility: $757,352 Judicial Systems in Northern Nevada: $1,155,389 Project ReStart: $2,034,330 Northern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services: $689,113 St. ... http://blog.nsbdc.org/2008/01/16/homelessness-in-northern-nevada-%e2%80%93-key-findings-in-the-%e2%80%9chomeless-study%e2%80%9d-prepared-for-washoe-county-nv-by-the-university-of-nevada-reno/ About a year and a half ago, the NSBDC, along with several colleagues from the University of Nevada, Reno’s College of Business, Orvis School of Nursing, Department of Geography, School of Medicine, College of Agriculture and the Grant Sawyer Center for Justice Studies began a “regional homeless” study for Washoe ... http://blog.nsbdc.org/2008/01/01/homelessness-in-northern-nevada-a-big-economic-development-issue/ Alright, I’ll admit it.  There’s nothing “sexy” about fiscal policy.  There’s a reason why taxes are compared to death when we speak about the “certainties” of life.  Any time one begins to talk about taxes and fiscal policy, most people glaze over.  All they know is that they don’t like ... http://blog.nsbdc.org/2008/01/01/nevada%e2%80%99s-looming-fiscal-crisis-%e2%80%93-a-need-for-better-%e2%80%9crecession-proof%e2%80%9d-fiscal-system-2/ Well, everyone’s talking about the latest-greatest “big deal” for downtown Reno. So I figured I’d kick in my two cents. The City of Reno, the Reno Redevelopment Agency, SK Baseball and Nevada Land eeked out a tight October 1st deadline to complete one of the more complicated deals ... http://blog.nsbdc.org/2007/11/12/91-million-to-build-a-ballpark-in-downtown-reno-what-the-heck-were-they-thinking/ [reposted from reno.com] The fact that Washoe County’s housing market slowed even more in the third quarter of 2007 is hardly even newsworthy – it’s evident everywhere you look and I am starting to sound like a broken record each month with my “more of the same” analysis of the market.  ... http://blog.nsbdc.org/2007/11/09/third-quarter-housing-update-for-the-reno-sparks-area/ In 1918 Romanzo Adams published “Taxation in Nevada, A History”. In his forward, Adams wrote, “The subject of taxation is not necessarily so abstract and technical that it is devoid of interest to the ordinary citizen. This monograph is written, not primarily for the specialist, but for the citizen, ... http://blog.nsbdc.org/2007/10/23/new-nevada/ Washoe County’s resiliency has been put to the test in 2007 as the slumping housing market has continued to grab the headlines month after month. Following three extremely hot years for real estate, no one was surprised to see things start to cool off, but the cooling trend is starting to ... http://blog.nsbdc.org/2007/09/28/washoe-county-housing-market-summary-%e2%80%93-august-2007/ Nevada provides many tools to small business - from incentives for business expansion to self-insurance plans to assist in risk management. Another tool Nevada corporations have in their business arsenal is the publicly registered offering of securities. Raising capital through a public offering can help with an expansion or the ... http://blog.nsbdc.org/2007/09/28/raising-capital/