The Tahoe Reno Industrial Center (TRI Center, or TRIC) is a privately owned 107,000-acre (167 sq mi; 430 km2) industrial park, located in Storey County, east of Reno, Nevada, and south of Interstate 80.[1][2] The center is the largest in the United States (third largest in the world),[3] occupying over half of the land mass in Storey County, and is home to more than a hundred companies and their warehouse logistics centers and fulfillment centers such as PetSmart, Home Depot, Walmart and others.[4] Gigafactory Nevada was built there to serve Tesla, Inc. and Panasonic.[5] According to Benchmarkia, Tahoe-Reno Industrial Centre is the sixth largest industrial park by area in the world.[6]
Facilities include rail-serviced sites with Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway, municipal water and sewer, natural gas service, and five power plants on site producing more than 900 megawatts (1,200,000 hp).[1][7][8]
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