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	Podcast:		Reno Public Radio
	Episode:		Time & Place: Navigating Reno’s Red Line
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:02:30
	Publish Date:		2018-05-24 12:06:06
	Description:		Today, some of Reno’s largest hotel casinos are located miles from the city center. But they were once confined to a much smaller area, as Alicia Barber explains in this episode of “Time & Place.” Unlike Las Vegas, Reno never had a strip, a part of town made up entirely of casinos. But it did have the “red line,” a virtual border that surrounded a four-block area just south of the railroad tracks. Only casinos inside the line could offer an unlimited number of slot machines and table games. By the 1960s, the city had decided that any casino outside the line had to offer 100 hotel or motel rooms in order to operate more than 15 slot machines. Their hope was to encourage the establishment of more resort hotel casinos that could compete with those in Las Vegas. That was a nice goal for the city, but it made things a bit tough for an aspiring casino operator. Pete Cladianos, Sr. was one of them. For years, he had been trying to assemble enough land inside the red line to open his own
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