Minot Daily News · Minot, ND
The high costs of development, building materials and labor are challenges to constructing more homes in Minot, particularly affordable homes, according to a local builder who has been finding ways around the obstacles. Mike Hayes, a long-time contractor, now retired, has been working with Next Gen Builders of Minot on an affordable, single-family housing project in the Stonehaven development along 55th Street Southeast. The 1,150-square-foot homes being built in Stonehaven are proposed to sell for $275,000 in a statewide market in which new stick-built single-family homes haven’t been selling for less than $300,000, according to Hayes. “People ask how we can sell for what we do. It’s because of working together with everybody in the process,” Hayes said. “Affordability is going to have to be a joint venture between developers, builders, subcontractors, suppliers and incentive programs.
Minot Daily News · Minot, ND
Minot City Council When: Monday, 5:30 p.m. Where: Minot City Hall, council chambers, 10 3rd Ave. SW Agenda: The council will act on updated fire permit, license and inspection fees and will consider approval of an updated agreement between the city and Souris River Joint Board. It also will hold public hearings on various zoning requests. How to make your opinion known: Meetings are open to the public. Council members are Mayor Mark Jantzer, Rob Fuller, Mike Blessum, Scott Samuelson, Stephan Podrygula, John MacMartin and Eric Locken. Ward County Commission When: Tuesday, 9 a.m. Where: Ward County Administration Building, commission chambers Agenda: The commission will consider highway work resolutions, court facility grant applications and a Domestic Violence Crisis Center agreement. How to make your opinion known: Meetings are open to the public. Members are Chairman John Fjeldahl, Miranda Schuler, Jim Rostad, Ron Merritt and Jason Olson.
Grand Forks Herald · Minot, ND
Today in History revisits the Tuesday, Nov. 13, 1923, edition of the Grand Forks Herald and highlights a story of Theodore Roosevelt's sister, Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, declaring she will visit Minot, North Dakota, for the unveiling of a bronze replica of the late president. ROOSEVELT’S SISTER COMING TO N. DAKOTA Minot, N. D., Nov. 12—Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson of New York city, sister of the late Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, has with considerable enthusiasm promised to be at Minot at the time of the unveiling of the bronze replica of the late president, presented to the city by Dr. Henry Waldo Coe of Portland, Ore., according to a letter received by F. B. Lambert of the park board from the statue donor. The unveiling ceremonies are expected to take place the latter part of 1924. At the time of writing the letter conveying this information Dr.
Minot Daily News · Minot, ND
The Minot School Board agreed to market three properties at its meeting Tuesday, Nov. 10. The former Jefferson school in southeast Minot will go on the auction block, while the board will be advertising for sealed bids on a residential lot near Magic City Campus and development property south of Erik Ramstad Middle School. The board approved a listing agreement with Northern Auction that runs through February 2027 or until a sale closes. The Jefferson auction is proposed for Jan. 13 and any sale potentially could be approved at the board’s Jan. 14 meeting. Two open houses are planned and private viewings will be available for prospective buyers. The building was built in 1959. An early childhood education center operated for a number of years in the building after the elementary school closed in 2004. Most recently, the vacant building has served as a storage facility.
Minot Daily News · Minot, ND
A proposed natural-gas fired, electrical generating station in Oliver County would offer numerous economic benefits in the region, according to a project spokesperson who presented at the Minot Area Chamber EDC’s Energy Committee meeting in Minot Monday, Nov. 9. Base Electron’s proposed Missouri Bend Energy Center will be a 1,200-megawatt, natural gas-driven facility designed to support the electrical needs of a nearby data center, said Tyler Hamman, the company’s vice president of Community Engagement and External Affairs. The generation plant will be somewhat larger than the state’s current largest generating facility, lignite-fueled Coal Creek Station near Underwood, which is just over 1,100 megawatts. Another natural gas facility, Basin Electric’s approximately 1,490-megawatt Bison Generation Station, is under construction in Williams County.