This article was first published in the Reno News & Review on Nov. 24.
Reno Public Market—the shopping center at Virginia Street and Plumb Lane that’s been under renovation for the past two years, where anchor tenants Sprouts and CVS opened in 2021—soft-opened its latest phase last week, and a handful of the new tenants are art and design businesses.
RPM is home to a new mural by Reno artist Bryce Chisholm. The developers found the purple neon sign that reads “Faye’s”, rusting and shattered, on top of the building during construction. It was originally from Faye’s dress shop, which opened in Shopper Square in the early 1960s. Reno neon artist Jeff Johnson refurbished the sign, and now it sits above a stage near the food court. (Jenny Kane researched Faye and her shop for a Reno Gazette Journal story that ran in June and learned that Faye had escaped from a…
