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Lance Gilman has his fingers in lots of pies. His business empire includes the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, which recently landed an Apple data center, master planned communities in Nevada and California, and a Harley-Davidson dealership. Gilman also owns the Mustang Ranch brothel just east of Reno. And he was recently elected Storey County commissioner. A story about this feat appeared last month in the Reno Gazette-Journal. It was written by Martin Griffith of the Associated Press, and it included a passage that caused a reader to call Fact Checker:.
Clark Hesterlee of Sparks grew up in Lovelock and Winnemucca. Reno was big for brothels. It confined them to the east end of town along the Truckee River, including a once-nationally-famous area called the Stockade.
The case went to the state Supreme Court. At the same time in , the Legislature voted to legalize brothels but Gov. So Conforte had a novel way of dealing with this. He created the Triangle Ranch out of mobile trailers in the Wadsworth area where Storey, Lyon and Washoe counties meet. But because brothels were merely tolerated and not legal, they had no recourse to such actions.
