Reno Is Starting to Look More Like Silicon Valley
Run-the-robots jobs at Tesla’s Gigafactory and elsewhere are turning the city into a hipster haven.
June 22, 2017
by Karen Weise
“Are you with Tesla or Panasonic?” the waitress asks with a smile. It’s morning in Reno, and it’s natural to assume anyone eating breakfast among the rustic wood walls and Instagram-worthy succulents of the Whitney Peak Hotel would work at the mammoth Tesla Gigafactory, jointly run by the two tech companies. For transplants landing in Reno, the boutique hotel, formerly a casino, has become a common crash pad—albeit one wrapped by an outdoor rock-climbing wall.
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