Become an AJ Shades Dealer in Storey County

Storey County is Virginia City and the ground that made it, the Comstock Lode’s silver bonanza, Mark Twain’s old Territorial Enterprise newspaper office, the Virginia & Truckee Railroad still steaming through town, plus the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center’s modern employment engine and Lockwood out on the Truckee River. It is the smallest county in Nevada by area, and one of the most distinctive: a heritage-tourism town and an industrial corridor sharing one county line.

The heritage homeowner and tourism business are the signature lane. Virginia City’s period buildings, saloons, hotels, shops, and homes from the silver-boom era, need shade that respects the architecture and survives the elevation’s weather. The sealed full-cassette profile is the default recommendation: clean lines, architectural finishes, and a housing that disappears when retracted. Commercial buyers, the town’s restaurants, hotels, and shops, purchase in multiples and reorder for the tourist seasons.

The industrial-corridor professional is the modern lane. The Tahoe-Reno employment centers bring engineers and professionals who live the corridor, practical, analytical buyers who respond to engineering: the wind sensor’s automatic retraction, the Somfy-powered motorization, the sealed cassette. Demo the mechanics and this market sells itself; the fifteen-year warranty on retractable awnings and motorized power screens closes the engineer who did the math.

Elevation is the climate texture. Storey County’s high desert gets the full program: intense summer sun, serious wind, and real winter, which makes the four-season system the right recommendation every time. The sealed full-cassette housing protects the fabric through storms and snow; the wind sensor answers the gust question; the motorization answers the convenience question.

Mark Twain wrote for the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City, and Piper’s Opera House still anchors the town’s cultural life, drawing heritage tourists to performances in a genuine 19th-century hall. Literary and cultural tourism feeds the town’s inns, restaurants, and shops, and every one of them competes on atmosphere: shaded patios, historic storefronts, and gathering spaces where the Comstock’s story is the product. The dealer who outfits Virginia City’s cultural corridor quotes commercial systems with heritage-town aesthetics, and the visitors become the showroom.

Lockwood sits on the Truckee River east of the industrial corridor, river-adjacent homes and the canyon’s high-desert landscape, and the river corridor’s homeowners buy for the view and the outdoors. Four-season capability is the pitch: systems that handle summer sun, canyon wind, and winter weather without the owner lifting a finger. The dealer who serves the river corridor, alongside Virginia City and the industrial centers, covers the territory’s full range.

The International Camel & Ostrich Races take over Virginia City every year, one of the great quirky traditions in the West, camels racing down the Comstock’s main street, and the event draws visitors who fill the town’s inns, restaurants, and shops. Heritage-event tourism is real commerce in Storey County: the camel races, the railroad’s excursion calendar, and the year-round stream of visitors walking the boardwalks. The dealer who outfits the town’s hospitality, shaded patios, storefronts, and gathering spaces, quotes commercial systems where the tourists gather. The Storey dealer who outfits the town’s hospitality and serves the corridor’s professionals never runs out of prospects in Nevada’s most distinctive county.

Systems are manufactured at our veteran-owned Southern California factory, American-made, built to your measurements, and shipped to Storey County job sites. You sell the wholesale catalog and install with your own crew or trusted contractors; the dealer portal runs estimating, ordering, and lead tracking, and our technical team stands behind every install. Your brand on the truck, your territory on the map.