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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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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Even a down economy hasn’t managed to slow the growth of Investors Real Estate Trust.
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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.
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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.
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A look at university student housing projects in the region.
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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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