The Dickinson Press provides
an update on economic development in Dickinson:
The first building of Dickinson’s major new retailers is beginning to look like the Menards store it’s going to be.
There
are three major commercial developments planned for Dickinson’s west
side, and while there are complete and near-complete hotels and
apartments on the site, Menards is the first retailer to break ground at
Roers’ West Ridge.
“We have several national retailers and
restaurants that have shown an interest in the city that, over the next
year, I anticipate them announcing that they will be coming to
Dickinson,” said Ed Courton, Dickinson’s community development director.
Big box stores can take nine months to a year to complete.
Directly
north of West Ridge is Pinecrest, Meyer Real Estate Group’s commercial
development, and on the south side of Interstate 94, along 30th Avenue
West is the 5 Diamond commercial development.
As proposed, these three developments will add up to 1.4 million square feet of retail to Dickinson, Courton said.
Beltrami County, Minnesota, will lose $1 million/year in lease money from Enbridge with new Sandpiper proposed route to avoid the wetlands:
Beltrami County makes about $900,000 off Enbridge Energy each year,
but no more funds will be funneling into county coffers if the Canadian
company has its way.
Enbridge chose the route it prefers for the
proposed Sandpiper pipeline, and it does not run through Beltrami
County, which made just south of $1 million in property taxes off the
company in 2011.
“It’s mainly about winter construction costs,”
said Becky Haase, spokeswoman for Enbridge. With the proposed route,
taking a sharp turn to the south just west of the Beltrami and
Clearwater county line, those costs will be much lower, Haase said.
The
property taxes for the Sandpiper would go to the eight Minnesota
counties through which the pipeline will travel — a distance of 610
miles, with a price tag of $2.5 billion, according to Haase.
From west
to east, those counties are Polk, Red Lake, Clearwater, Hubbard, Cass,
Crow Wing, Aitkin and Carlton. With the existing pipeline, which runs
through Clearbrook, Bemidji and just south of Grand Rapids, the
Sandpiper would bring to 11 the number of counties carrying Enbridge
oil.
Easy come, easy go. I assume the Beltrami folks are happy to finally be rid of Enbridge. And the million bucks each year. Easy come, easy go. Be sure to thank your local environmentalist.
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