Link here to the Bismarck Tribune.
A Minnesota-based investment company will spend $100 million to pull people into city-like shopping plazas and away from their traditional downtowns in some towns in the oil patch.
Oppidan Investment Co. is just days from turning a shovel on an upscale shopping venue in Watford City and will wait for spring to begin work on retail projects in Stanley and Tioga.
The company is centering the retail development around Coborn's Co. Cash Wise Foods grocery stores that are three to five times the size of grocery stores in those towns now. They'll be paired with liquor stores and retailers — McDonalds, gas stores, Alco, and hair salons, depending on the location.
Search "Oppidan" at MDW for more on this company in the oil patch.
