Joe Downtown: Business activity under way farther east on East Fremont

Friday, Feb. 1, 2013 | 2:54 p.m.

Businesses are slowly moving farther east on Fremont Street. Airstream 2 Go just signed a lease for land at 123 N. 10th St., at Ogden Avenue, where current-model Airstream trailers and trucks to tow them will be available for rental. Downtown Project investors purchased the 0.7 acres in September 2012. Speaking of Airstreams, Downtown Project still is kicking around the idea another RV-related business, one that uses Airstreams as overnight motel rooms. Kristiana Spaulding, who is moving to Las Vegas from northern California as Airstream 2 Go’s general manager, said the need for RV rentals stems from the “appeal of ...

Joe Schoenmann doesn’t just cover downtown, he lives and works there. Schoenmann is Greenspun Media Group’s embedded downtown journalist, working from an office in the Emergency Arts building.

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By 777s

Feb. 1, 2013

11:16 p.m.

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It's all Trailers and Tanks, Joe, not Bricks and Mortar. "Downtown Project" needs to learn that dragging junk trailers and importing Californians is not BUILDING A NEW ECONOMY. It is a bunch of smart ass kids with Tony's money pretending that they are doing economic development. They should be working with real LOCAL entrepreneurs who will themselves open storefront businesses, manufacturing enterprises and high tech offices.
By downtownsteve (Downtown Steve Franklin)

Feb. 2, 2013

10:16 a.m.

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Great idea, love it! Hope it's a smashing success.