Sioux Falls building permits show positive signs

Fargo-Moorhead area building permits rebounding

Bremer opening two new banks

Research park, apartments take root in Brookings, SD

From the start, the vision for the Innovation Village luxury apartment and retail complex in Brookings, SD, has been linked to a sprawling nearby research park at South Dakota State University.

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Heartland receives $1 million for Rural Learning Center

JAMESTOWN HOSPITAL DESIGN TO INCREASE EFFICIENCY

When the new Jamestown Regional Medical Center opens to patients in the fall of 2011, it will usher in a new era in health care for the community.

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COVER STORY: STEADY GROWTH

Firms adjust to challenging construction market

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COMPANY PROFILE: Investors Real Estate Trust

Even a down economy hasn’t managed to slow the growth of Investors Real Estate Trust.

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COVER STORY: Region partially insulated from hotel building slowdown

A recent hotel growth spurt in the region appears to be drawing to a close as financing is becoming more difficult to secure and local developers begin to pull back and wait for more favorable market conditions. But hotel construction has yet to slow down in red-hot western North Dakota, which is experiencing a prolonged oil- and energy-fueled building boom.

• Hilton Garden Inn, Sioux Falls

New housing, commercial developments proposed in Dickinson, ND

Alexandria, MN, construction firms growing

Their first collaboration involved building a skateboard ramp together as teenagers

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Historic preservation aids downtown redevelopment

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Prairie Pillar: Thawzall, LLC

Thawzall, LLC, has grown to become one of the top two U.S. produced heating systems. Assorted models of Thawzall machines are in service all over the world, utilized by rental yards, contractors, the military and other crews of concrete workers who can’t allow cold winter weather to slow down construction.

• Thawzall at a glance
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University housing projects on the rise

A look at university student housing projects in the region.

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• Cityscapes Plaza, NDSU
• Hamline Square, UND
• Evergreen Hall, UM Crookston

Building Boom: Event center growth continues in region

New arenas opened in Fargo and Rapid City, SD, late last year, a new events center is planned in Aberdeen, SD, a hockey arena is under construction in Crookston, MN, and officials in Sioux Falls and Brookings, SD, are mulling major event center expansion plans.

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• Bemidji Regional Event Center
• Rushmore Plaza Civic Center Ice Arena
• New era of events centers
• Sioux Falls officials ponder new events center
• Fargo's new Urban Plains Center opens