By Andrew Weeks

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The Fargo-based company hasn’t let a global pandemic stop its momentum. In fact, some of its success has occurred during the past two-plus years.

It’s like a snowball that keeps rolling down hill, picking up momentum as it goes. It may have hit some bumps along the way, but the company keeps growing, keeps expanding.

Mckenzy Braaten, the company’s vice president of communications, said that in 2019 the company expanded space at its West Fargo office from 2,200 square feet to nearly 6,000 square feet, and in 2021 it added its Construction by EPIC team, which required additional office space.

“It’s actually a couple doors down and still on the Boulevard Square complex in West Fargo,” she said. “That one’s at 2,686 square feet. And now in 2022 ... we’re expanding our leasing and condo sales space to 2,370 square feet.” Both are on Boulevard Square. “We went from 2,200 square feet in 2019 to close to 10,000 square feet in 2022, which is kind of crazy.”

Braaten said the company also has an office in Minot it is expanding and it is working on opening a leasing office in Bismarck.

“We’re looking at about 1,500 square feet there,” she said, noting an open date for that office would likely be sometime in early 2023.

“We’re in the development stage right now.”

Eventually, it will open a leasing office in Grand Forks in its development The Beacon, a seven-story mixed-use complex of three buildings including a 40,000 square-foot outdoor plaza.

And there is this: Berning was named a Leaders & Legacies recipient in the July issue of Prairie Business. The award is the magazine’s highest honor, given to executives in the region who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and impressive careers.

Not bad for a seven-year-old company.

Braaten said wait a bit – more good things are on the horizon.

EPIC COMPANIES HAS NEW SPACE FOR ITS LEASING OFFICE IN WEST FARGO AT BOULEVARD SQUARE. IT IS ONLY ONE SEGMENT OF THE COMPANY’S RECENT EXPANSION EFFORTS. IMAGES: MCKENZY BRAATEN/EPIC COMPANIES

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