'We've got the Jean airport right there,' Tolles said. 'It has water, a water treatment plant, it has a large tank just east on a hill that can serve high-pressure sprinkler systems and it's got trains, planes and automobiles.
“Being close to California is a good thing,” Tolles told host Sam Shad. It has built-in infrastructure from the old Gold Strike hotel-casino and the potential to become an ideal spot for shipping, receiving, manufacturing and storing products and cargo of all kinds. The land is 34 miles from the Las Vegas Strip and 13 miles from the border with California, Tolles said. 'We think we've got a tiger by the tail,' Tolles said on Nevada Newsmakers recently. With one eye on logistics and location and the other focused on the future, Reno developer Par Tolles has purchased a 140-acre parcel in the small Southern Nevada border town of Jean – including a shuttered hotel-casino – and plans to turn it into a 1.9 million-square-foot warehouse and distribution center.