"We're ready to bring nonstop fun to Reno." That's what Dave & Buster's general manager Drew Maheras said the week his 20,000-square-foot location opened at Shayden Summit, the mall two miles from Curti Ranch, on July 28, 2025. It was the first Dave & Buster's in the region, and it marked the start of a stretch that's changed more storefronts at that mall than at any point since it opened in 2007.
Fourteen months later, the turnover hasn't slowed down. Anthropologie opened its first Reno store there on March 25, 2026, taking over the space Loft used to occupy. Kendra Scott was slated to open its first Reno location this spring, in the space MAC cosmetics used to hold. Mochinut, the mochi-donut chain that opened its first Reno store on Mae Anne Avenue back in January 2025, was expected to open a second location at Shayden Summit as early as this spring, in the space Starbucks vacated when it moved to a bigger spot in the same center. Mountain Mike's Pizza was under construction on its fifth Northern Nevada location there as of this spring. Distill Bar, a 24-hour Nevada chain with locations in Las Vegas and Henderson, was waiting on permits this spring for its first Reno entry. Nick the Greek and a new Petco round out the list.
For anyone who's driven past Shayden Summit on South Virginia Street this year, that's a lot of construction fencing and grand-opening banners in a short stretch of road. The mall that's spent nearly two decades known for Dillard's, Williams-Sonoma, and Pottery Barn now has an arcade with a 40-foot sports bar screen, a jewelry brand aimed at high schoolers and college students, and a bar that doesn't close.
The Crowd Changed Before The Signage Did
The pattern in these openings says more than any single storefront does. Anthropologie and Kendra Scott are lifestyle brands built for a younger shopper than the mall's original anchor tenants. Dave & Buster's and Distill Bar extend the property's hours into the evening in a way Dillard's and Talbots never did. Mochinut's second location in fourteen months suggests the first one, on the other side of town, found an audience worth chasing south.
None of this is a story about the mall failing or succeeding. It's a story about what a five-minute drive from Curti Ranch is now good for. A trip to Shayden Summit used to mean an errand: a return at Dillard's, a candle at Williams-Sonoma, a movie at Century Summit Sierra. It increasingly means an evening: arcade games, a sports bar, a donut run, drinks that don't require checking a closing time. That's a different kind of trip, and it changes what "close to home" means for a household that hasn't moved at all.
Wolf Run's Wednesday Scramble Never Missed A Week
A short drive from Curti Ranch in the other direction sits Wolf Run Golf Club, a public course built on 185 acres the John Shaw Field Foundation gifted to the University of Nevada, Reno, back before the course opened in 1998. It's still the home course for the Wolf Pack men's and women's golf teams, and it's still owned and operated by Duncan Golf Management.
While the mall two miles away was swapping out anchor tenants, Wolf Run kept its Wednesday night going. The club's Links & Drinks scramble, a mixed-couples nine-hole event built for networking as much as golf, runs weekly. This year, the junior golf program offered a complimentary membership to kids ages 6 to 17, with a mandatory parent meeting held in mid-May. None of that required a grand reopening or a new coat of paint. It required showing up on the same night, at the same tee time, for another season.
That's not a small thing to notice about a neighborhood. The retail corner that gets the news coverage and the construction fencing isn't necessarily the place where a Curti Ranch household's actual week gets built. Sometimes that happens two miles the other direction, on a course that hasn't changed its Wednesday schedule in years.
The Amphitheater Keeps Its Own Calendar
A fifteen to twenty minute drive from Curti Ranch, Bartley Ranch Regional Park runs on a rhythm that owes nothing to either the mall or the golf course. The park's Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater has its own summer lineup, and 2026's included a mix that would be hard to find repeated at Shayden Summit's movie theater. Sierra Nevada Ballet performed "Dancing at Bartley" on July 5 as part of the Artown festival. Tahoe Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus staged a pops and patriotic concert tied to the nation's 250th anniversary. A.V.A. Ballet Theatre brought "Vortex, the Ballet That Rocks" to the same stage in mid-July, also under the Artown banner. A Pink Floyd tribute act called The Floyd played the amphitheater on September 19.
General admission to the park itself is free. The 56 acres include the Historic Huffaker School, horse arenas, and multiple picnic pavilions, and the amphitheater events are ticketed separately. None of that lineup is influenced by whether Distill Bar gets its permits or Petco sets an opening date. It's booked on its own calendar, a season at a time, regardless of what's happening at the retail corner two miles closer to the neighborhood.
Spot | Distance from Curti Ranch | What changed in the last 18 months |
|---|---|---|
Shayden Summit | About 2 miles | Dave & Buster's, Anthropologie, Kendra Scott, a second Mochinut, Mountain Mike's Pizza, Distill Bar, Nick the Greek, Petco |
Wolf Run Golf Club | A short drive | Nothing structural. Same weekly Links & Drinks scramble, same junior golf enrollment this year |
Bartley Ranch's Hawkins Amphitheater | 15 to 20 minute drive | New acts each season, same free-admission park and ticketed-show format it's used for years |
Two Different Kinds Of Change
What's worth sitting with is that these three spots didn't change at the same speed, or for the same reasons. Shayden Summit's turnover is driven by what a shopping center's ownership decides will sell, and that calculation can shift in a single leasing cycle. Wolf Run's Wednesday scramble and Bartley Ranch's amphitheater season don't answer to that kind of pressure. One runs on a membership model that's been stable since Duncan Golf Management took over. The other runs on a nonprofit festival calendar that books a year at a time.
For a household already living in Curti Ranch, that difference matters more than a running list of new tenants. The mall is the part of the neighborhood most likely to look different every time you drive past it. The golf course and the amphitheater are the parts most likely to look exactly like they did last year, just with a different act on the ballot each August.
If you want to keep track of what's actually changing in Curti Ranch, and what's holding steady, Reno's Realty Group keeps an eye on both.
About Jodi Kruse
Jodi Kruse is a Reno, Nevada real estate agent with Sierra Sotheby's International Realty. Licensed in Nevada since 2012, she specializes in residential sales, luxury properties, relocation and buyer and seller representation throughout Northern Nevada and the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, including Incline Village and Crystal Bay.
Jodi holds the RENE, SRS and ABR designations and has personally closed more than $100 million in real estate transactions.
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