Update On the Holiday Inn Express, Williston, ND -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA

I should have photos up tomorrow.

One link here.

Best link here ... but back in January, 2011.

The estimated cost of the project is $9.5 million. Brutger Equities will be opening and managing the new hotel, which will be located at 415 38th St. West. Construction is set to begin in May and is set to be completed in January 2012.

For those interested, visit the Brutger Equities site, and click on "News." Brutgers has two news items, one dated October, 2009 (not a typo) and one dated October, 2008 (not a typo). The first was for a Days Inn in Cheyenne; the latter was for a Kingsway Estates in LeSueur, Minnesota.

At their website, one learns that Brutger Equities manages two hotels in Williston, both collocated near the airport: Candlewood Suites and HomStay Suites. Brutger says they will be opening a Holiday Inn Express in the first quarter of 2012.

And, indeed, when you go out to the site, it appears they will meet the deadline. There were construction workers out the site today, Sunday, and it looks like it will be closed in by winter.

A passing thought. I took a long walk around north Williston today (around the airport) and noted any number of construction sites with activity -- on a Sunday. My gut feeling is that if this was a work-to-right state, we would not see this much activity on a weekend. Activity slows down on Sunday in the Bakken but not by much.