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City staff present East 4th Street National Historic District nomination; owners eligible for federal tax credits
Summary
An Arts & Culture presenter outlined a draft National Register nomination for a roughly 1‑mile East 4th Street historic district, explaining it is an honorary designation that can make contributing buildings eligible for federal rehabilitation tax credits but does not itself impose local development controls.
Melissa Hape, management assistant in the City of Reno Arts & Culture Department, presented a draft nomination to list a roughly one‑mile segment of East 4th Street on the National Register of Historic Places. The proposed district would run from Evans Avenue east to Carys Drive, extend a couple of blocks north and south of East 4th Street to include contributing buildings, and reflect the corridor's role as an early‑to‑mid‑20th‑century transportation, commercial and industrial artery.
Hape said the nomination is based on a phase‑1 and phase‑2 survey performed by Counts Environmental Consultants and funded in part by State Historic Preservation Office grants administered through the Department of the Interior. If properties are listed as…
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