Walk the row of storefronts at 7650 Town Square Way on a Tuesday afternoon in late 2024 and you'd have found three dark windows in a matter of weeks. Peavine Taphouse. Gambi's. The Bones Bar. All gone that November, all in the same short stretch of Somersett's Town Center. For a neighborhood that markets itself on having a gathering place built into the master plan, that's not a small thing to lose.
Almost two years later, the same row has a new anchor tenant, a full HOA events calendar, and a weekly happy hour that residents show up for without being asked twice. The obvious story is "Town Square bounced back." The more useful story, if you actually live here, is how the current businesses and community events shape the way residents use the area.
The Month Three Doors Closed at Once
Three tenants closed within the same stretch of weeks. The closures alone do not establish why each business closed. This Is Reno reported that Somersett lost Peavine Taphouse, Gambi's, and The Bones Bar all within November 2024, describing a Town Square that had lost a lot of its business at once.
Town Square Way isn't a through-street. You don't pass it on your way to somewhere else in Reno. The closures raise a practical question about how businesses in Town Square draw customers, including residents and people who make a special trip.
What Actually Filled the Space
By last August, Pine Ridge Tavern had opened in that same row, run by owner Steve Uricchio, according to the same This Is Reno reporting. The Somersett Owners Association's own Town Square business directory lists the tavern at 7665 Town Square #101-102, describing it as elevated pub cuisine in a relaxed setting, which is a different pitch than the taphouse-and-sports-bar concepts that came before it.
The rest of the row filled in around it rather than trying to replace what left. Sakana Sushi Bar & Restaurant now sits in the same commercial strip, alongside a grocery market and a handful of personal-service businesses, from fitness training to spa services to financial planning. That's a different mix of dining, retail, and personal services. It reads more like a small town's Main Street than a nightlife strip, which matters for what comes next.
How Events and Businesses Interact
The HOA calendar offers another way to understand how activity around Town Square works. Town Square's businesses and the HOA calendar both help shape activity in the area.
The Club at Town Center runs a weekly happy hour at the Gathering Bar, staffed by resident volunteers most Thursdays through Saturdays starting at 4 p.m. Taco Thursdays run on select dates all summer. On July 25 this year, the HOA stacked its Community-Wide Garage Sale from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. with a Music on the Green concert that same evening at the first hole of the Canyon 9, featuring Margrets Funk Band, according to the association's own event announcement. Residents who spent the morning shopping other people's garages and the evening on a blanket at the ninth fairway didn't need to plan a separate trip to eat. Pine Ridge Tavern and Sakana are a short walk from both.
The 2024 closures also prompt a look at how the event calendar and nearby businesses fit together. A bar in Town Square can draw the attention of people who are already out for a club event and deciding where to eat afterward. Nearby businesses can give event attendees convenient dining options.
What's Actually on the Calendar Right Now
A few recurring events and upcoming dates on the HOA's 2026 events page are:
- Weekly Happy Hour at the Gathering Bar, most Thursdays through Saturdays starting at 4 p.m., open to residents
- Taco Thursdays on select dates through the end of summer
- Labor Day Bash, September 7
Notice that the biggest club events, including the August 9 End of Summer BBQ and holiday parties, are member-only. The Town Square businesses aren't. That split is the whole point. The club's events give residents a reason to be out and social on a given evening. The businesses two hundred feet away pick up whoever's hungry afterward. The calendar and the businesses offer different kinds of activity for residents.
Why This Matters If You Live Here
If you've been avoiding Town Square since the closures because you assumed it went quiet, the honest update is that it didn't stay quiet, it just started running on a different schedule. A random Tuesday afternoon may feel sleepy. After a Music on the Green evening or on a Thursday happy hour night, you can see how Pine Ridge Tavern fits into the activity around the club.
That distinction also tells you something if you're weighing how much the on-site retail actually adds to daily life in Somersett versus how much of the value is really the club programming with a restaurant attached. Both are real. They're just not the same thing, and conflating them is how you end up disappointed on the wrong night.
If you're comparing Somersett to another Northwest Reno neighborhood and trying to figure out how much of its daily life depends on the HOA calendar versus the businesses standing on their own, that's exactly the kind of local detail that doesn't show up on a listing sheet. The Mike Wood Team has spent two decades watching how these master-planned communities actually function day to day, not just how they're marketed, and that's the conversation worth having before you decide where in Northern Nevada to plant roots. Make Your Next Move With Confidence.
