and we're this close. >> lance gilman, what a way to start off the year. thank you for being here, sir. >> my pleasure. >> we're excited to follow the story, biggest story in the state. we'll be right back. >> "nevada newsmakers" is pro group management, and the >> this is "nevada newsmakers." >> back on "nevada newsmakers," we have a great power pundit panel, joe guild, the attorney is here, and tray abney director of government relations for the chamber. pleasure to have you both here. your response to what mr. gilman was talking about? >> well, just say, if you took two facts that he said, one was 30 to 40,000 jobs and the other was half billion dollars multiplied by 2.5, and 60-month outcome, that's a fairly short window of time to absorb a great deal of need and as you know, my wife's a school teacher and that alone, the impact on washoe county schools will have a major concern, i think. saying that already people in churchill county and northern lyon and southern lyon county are thinking about the problems ahead and so it's exciting on one hand, but

lance gilman on the first show of the new year, of course he's excited about switch and tesla. he tells me he's working on another deal and tesla and switch have picked up 4000 acres between the two of them. he's working on another deal bigger than both of those combined. >> correct. >> bigger than 4000 acres. >> uh-huh. >> what, if anything, can you share about the project and what whats and concerns do you have? >> he hasn't been very forthcoming with the washoe county commission on the issue either. >> he's not allowed to. >> yeah. these deals are always kept close to the vest until the very opportunity to do a tour and he took us up on top of a hill and showed us the area and it is a huge, huge valley area, if this deal comes through, it will be very large. obviously it's a concern to washoe county because of schools, housing, transportation issues. those issues, water always will be a concern. >> let's talk about schools really quick. that is a big issue, overcrowding in schools, especially schools in south reno. i know there is tremendous amount of overcrowding there, we

>> as you look at what is anticipated just with switch and tesla to be tremendous growth, now lance gilman was on the program talking a couple weeks ago, another project in the works that is 4000-plus acres, the size of switch and tesla combined. >> right. >> coming into the marketplace and looking good that deal will happen. that is even more intense than we saw before. i'm saying it is good news, but the fact is that we'll have to deal with it and through the city and counties. >> right. lance is a visionary. lance and roger. they are visionaries, they took the land out there and put the infrastructure in, with great anticipation of developing that park and you can see the fruition of their work, but with that, we also have to anticipate like you said, ecosystem and the so everybody has to come to the table and so, this in-house personality, bickering, has to stop and we all have to put our minds together and bring our brain, best and brightest and i can be a part of that in developing collaborations and consensus and putting washoe county, storey county, lyon count nelight that not only