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Brownfield sites in Washoe County, Nevada
EPA lists 129 brownfield sites in Washoe County. Grant recipients report them. 58 carry EPA's ready-for-reuse flag.
Zoning: Check zoning with the city.
The sites
Each row is a site name and city, as EPA holds them. Where several sites share a name, the count shows how many.
| Site | City | Sites | EPA flags |
|---|---|---|---|
| American and Foreign Transmission | Reno | 1 | Assessment |
| Aspen Village | Sparks | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Ballpark | Reno | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Baystone - East | Reno | 1 | Assessment |
| Baystone - West | Reno | 1 | Assessment |
| Beasley Property | Wadsworth | 1 | State or tribal program |
| Big O Tires | Sparks | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Bonanza Inn | Reno | 1 | Assessment |
| Byington | Reno | 1 | Assessment |
| California Hill | Reno | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Dick Scott Manor | Reno | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Dodd-Beals Fire Academy | Reno | 1 | Ready for reuse, State or tribal program |
| E4th St and Quincy St | Reno | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| East Commercial Row - Waste Management | Reno | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Former Jean's Barbershop | Reno | 1 | State or tribal program |
| Former Lenox Hotel | Reno | 1 | State or tribal program |
| Freight House | Reno | 1 | Ready for reuse, State or tribal program |
| Gen Zen | Reno | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Gooseberry Mine Property | Sparks | 1 | Assessment |
| Haskell Street | Reno | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Hungry Valley Dump Site Property | Sparks | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Italian Capital Properties | Reno | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Lear Theater | Reno | 1 | Assessment |
| Natural Resources Building | Nixon | 1 | Ready for reuse, State or tribal program |
| Old Pawn Brokers | Sparks | 2 | Ready for reuse (2), Assessment (2) |
| Peerless Cleaners | Reno | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe - Oil Pit | Nixon | 1 | Targeted assessment, State or tribal program |
| Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe - Rock Building | Nixon | 1 | Targeted assessment, State or tribal program |
| Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe - White Building | Nixon | 1 | Targeted assessment, State or tribal program |
| Reno City Center | Reno | 1 | Assessment |
| Reno Redevelopment Agency, Downtown Events Center-Bentzien Warehouse | Reno | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Reno Redevelopment Agency, Downtown Events Center-Sage Motel (North) | Reno | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Reno Redevelopment Agency, Downtown Events Center-Sage Motel (South) | Reno | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Reno Salvage | Reno | 1 | Assessment |
| Reno Wal-Mart Store #2106 | Reno | 1 | Ready for reuse, State or tribal program |
| RSIC East Second St. Commercial Site | Reno | 1 | None |
| Sage Dorm Extension - East | Reno | 1 | Assessment |
| Sage Dorm Extension - West | Reno | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Sage Motel Storage | Reno | 1 | Ready for reuse, Cleanup |
| Santa Fe Hotel | Rew | 1 | Assessment |
| Scooper's Drive-In Restaurant | Sparks | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Smith Site 1 | Wadsworth | 1 | State or tribal program |
| Smith Site 2 | Wadsworth | 1 | Ready for reuse, State or tribal program |
| Sunset Motel | Reno | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Thunderbird Motel | Reno | 1 | Assessment |
| Top Gun Motors and Undeveloped Land | Sparks | 1 | Assessment |
| Undeveloped Land-City of Sparks | Sparks | 1 | Assessment |
| UNR Former Fire Fighting Academy | Stead | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Urrutia | Wadsworth | 1 | State or tribal program |
| Vacant Land - Goodman | Sparks | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Vacant Land-Jack in Box | Sparks | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Vacant Property - Pullman | Sparks | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Vacant Residential Property - Apartments | Sparks | 1 | Assessment |
| Vacant Service Station | Sparks | 1 | Assessment |
| Vacation Motor Lodge | Reno | 1 | Assessment |
| W. 2nd Street & Stevenson Street | Reno | 1 | Ready for reuse, State or tribal program |
| Washoe County RTC, CitiCenter | Reno | 1 | State or tribal program |
| Washoe County RTC, Citistation | Sparks | 1 | State or tribal program |
| Washoe County Rtc, Citistation-Washoe-Bandstand Park | Sparks | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Washoe County Rtc, Citistation-Washoe-Emerald Motel | Sparks | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Washoe County Rtc, Citistation-Washoe-The Quilt Stop | Sparks | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Wells Cargo | Reno | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Windsor Inn | Sparks | 1 | Assessment |
65 more sites have an address or parcel number as the EPA name. We count them but don't show the name.
To see each site in Washoe County on a map, use the Cleanups in My Community map, on EPA's site.
EPA flags
| EPA flag | Sites |
|---|---|
| Ready for reuse | 58 |
| Assessment | 64 |
| Cleanup | 1 |
| Targeted assessment | 25 |
| State or tribal program | 41 |
| Multipurpose grant | 0 |
| Area-wide planning | 0 |
A site can carry more than one flag. The grant flags show which kinds of EPA brownfield funding a site is listed under.
What this data holds
- Acreage isn't in EPA's national data, so we don't show site sizes.
- We hold no flood data for these sites.
- We show the city and county, not street addresses.
- Grant recipients report these sites to EPA. A flag is EPA's record, not a site visit.
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US EPA data, as of 18 Oct 2026, reported by grant recipients. Not endorsed by EPA. Not legal or environmental advice; confirm with the state or EPA region.