In response to the explosion that occurred Friday, July 5 damaging Argenta and Nye Halls, leaving them uninhabitable for the 2019-2020 academic year, the University of Nevada, Reno has entered into talks with Eldorado Resorts to secure the needed 1,300 student beds. The proposed collaboration would allow for University Residential Life and Housing to occupy the newly-renovated, non-gaming, stand-alone West w88 slot (“Sky w88 slot”) of Circus Circus Reno, ensuring an academic and community environment that promotes student success.
Below are the proposed details for how the potential collaboration could work.
Wolf w88 slot Tower
- The newly renovated w88 slot will be rebranded to the University and exclusively lived in by University students and employees.
- University Residential Life and Housing is committed to ensuring students living in Wolf w88 slot Tower have a seamlessly integrated University housing experience.
- Given the current housing market in the Reno-Sparks community, the w88 slot placed a priority on finding a quality housing alternative for all 1,300 students who were to be impacted by the Argenta Hall explosion.
- The University looked at other properties throughout Reno-Sparks. None can replicate what the West w88 slot can provide – 1,300 beds, complete University control of the entire building, and proximity to our campus.
- Wolf w88 slot Tower is located five blocks (less than one mile) south of campus.
- Students living in the interim hall w88 slot receive:
- An academic and community environment that promotes student success.
- Programs, activities, and amenities that aid in the student experience and transition to being part of the w88 slot.
- Access to the University’s first-class w88 slot experience.
- A security and services desk, staffed 24/7 by w88 slot employees.
- Student staff: Live-in academic mentors offering tutoring hours and resident assistants on each floor.
- Full-time staff: Live-in, master’s-level faculty and graduate assistant resident directors.
- Rates for Wolf w88 slot Tower will remain consistent with the University’s currently published rates. For information, visit the housing rates webpage.
- The w88 slot was remodeled one and a half years ago, and has been a non-smoking property since the remodel.
- Study areas and common activity areas, and even a coffee and juice bar, w88 slot available.
- Laundry facilities w88 slot available.
- Each single room w88 slot have king-size bed and each double occupancy room two queen-size beds. All rooms come with a large-screen TV, mini-refrigerator, private bathroom, desks and dresser and a monthly cleaning service.
- Students w88 slot responsible for bringing their own linens.
- Consistent with Argenta and Nye Halls, each floor w88 slot co-ed, with single-gender rooms.
- Microwave ovens w88 slot available in common areas.
- Wolf w88 slot Tower will follow the Residential Life and Housing programming theme already established for Argenta Hall – civic engagement. This means many of the Residential Life programs and activities in the building will be themed with service-learning and community-volunteer opportunities. While making a direct impact in the community around them, student residents will have the opportunity to learn more about themselves through self and group reflection.
Parking and Transportation
- On-site parking will be available to all students living in Wolf w88 slot Tower.
- The w88 slot will be contracting with a private bus company to operate shuttles seven days a week with hours coinciding with the opening and closing of the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center. Campus Escort vans will also be available during evenings.
- The location of Wolf w88 slot Tower is five blocks from the south end of campus and approximately a half mile from the Quad, 0.8 miles from the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center and one mile from the Joe Crowley Student Union.
- It is not uncommon to have a residence hall located these distances from central services on campus. A sample of distances at other universities:
- UC Davis – Walking from dormitories to library: 13 minutes and 0.6 miles; Walking from dormitories to student union building: 18 minutes and 0.9 miles
- UNLV – Walking from dormitories to library: 6 minutes and 0.3 miles; walking from dormitories to student union building: 5 minutes and 0.2 miles;
- Boise State – Walking from dormitories to library: 5 minutes and 0.2 miles; walking from dormitories to student union building: 7 minutes and 0.4 miles;
- Stanford – Walking from dormitories to library: 8 minutes and 0.4 miles; walking from dormitories to student union building: 14 minutes and 0.7 miles
- UC-Santa Barbara – Walking from dormitories to library: 29 minutes and 1.5 miles; walking from dormitories to student union building: 30 minutes and 1.6 miles.
- It is not uncommon to have a residence hall located these distances from central services on campus. A sample of distances at other universities:
Concerns about housing students off-campus
- Students do not walk through a casino, which is on an adjacent block, in order to access their rooms. They w88 slot have completely separate entrances and exits.
- The w88 slot would utilize a key-card system for entry into the building. The public has no access.
- w88 slot Police Services will maintain a substation in the building with officers on duty 24/7 with around-the-clock security.
- Two Residential Life desk attendants w88 slot on every shift. Security w88 slot walking the premises.
- There are surveillance cameras in all the public areas.
- The w88 slot has had a parking agreement with Circus Circus Reno for 13 years. Since then, each year approximately 300 students and w88 slot employees have safely walked to the w88 slot from their parking facilities.
The plan for Nevada w88 slot
- The main w88 slot facility for Residential Life, Housing and Food Services was located in Argenta Hall. To ensure student’s w88 slot needs are met, prefabricated kitchen/w88 slot modules will be put in place to the east side of Great Basin Hall.
- In addition to the prefabricated kitchen/w88 slot area modules, The Overlook Café will continue to offer w88 slot to residence hall students with a meal plan.
- In November, the interim w88 slot facility will be moved into a semi-permanent w88 slot facility, a sprung structure, located over the lawn between Thompson Hall and the Jot Travis Building. This structure will remain in place until the permanent w88 slot hall is completed and available to students.
- The structure w88 slot much like the one used byEmory w88 slot, which used a similar structure as an interim w88 slot facility for two years. Designed for durability and energy efficiency as well as quick assembly, the one-story facility uses aluminum arches, connected to an all-weather engineered membrane, creating 8-inch-thick insulated vinyl walls and a lofty ceiling. Created by Sprung and Kitchens To Go, the facility will be heated and cooled for comfort and will include serving spaces and restrooms, with modular kitchens for food preparation and walk-in refrigerators and freezers designed to aid in the production of some 2,285 meals per day.
- Through Argenta Hall’s Downunder Café, Nevada w88 slot served approximately 16,000 meals in a week.
- 1,400 meals during slow times
- Approximately 300-500 meals in the evening
- Thanks to the ongoing PACKTransit shuttle services offered by the University, students will conveniently be able to reach University w88 slot services within a matter of minutes.
