Construction roundup

n St. Mary’s Central High School – New campus, under construction in north Bismarck.

The new school will include space for the fine arts as well as classrooms, a cafeteria, a gym, a dance facility, locker rooms and a chapel, among other features.

Project cost is $46.5 million and is scheduled for completion in the fall of 2019.

n Bismarck Municipal Airport – Main runway reconstruction, Phase 2 (re-doing the mid-section of the runway).

Phase 3 in 2019 will call for re-doing the far north end of the runway.

Project cost: $65 million.

n Bismarck Public Schools expansion projects – Century High School Phase Two and Bismarck High School Construction projects, combined cost: $30 million. Completion date: Fall 2019.

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n Heritage River Landing – New riverside restaurant and event center in Bismarck.

The planned 4,400-square-foot community event space will house a seasonal bar, restaurant and patio. The space will also include kiosks about the area’s history and a gift shop with ticket sales for the Lewis and Clark Riverboat.

The Missouri Valley Heritage Alliance has fundraised $750,000 for the project, which is halfway to its goal of $1.5 million.

The alliance hopes to complete construction by the end of the year and host a grand opening in early to mid-2019.

n Cash Wise – New store, company’s second in Bismarck, near the intersection of Ottawa Street and 43rd Avenue NE, just west of Highway 83.

Anticipated opening date: late 2018. The new store will also have a gas station and car wash.

n First International Bank & Trust – A six-story, $40 million, 65,000 sq ft. building. It will feature First International Bank & Trust on floors 1, 2, 3, and the south half of 6. Stonehome Brewing Co will be located on the first floor. Floors 4, 5 and 6 are available for lease space.

n First Western Bank & Trust – New building, corner of South Third Street and East Front Avenue. Four stories, 35,000 square feet. The bank will be on the first and second floors, while the upper floors will be leased.

Anticipated opening date: Fall 2018.

n Mid-America Steel – New manufacturing facility on 19th Avenue North. The building is valued at $15 million, not including substantial equipment costs.

Incorporated as the Fargo Foundry in 1905, the company was located in downtown Fargo until its building was bought by Fargo and the Fargo-Moorhead Diversion Authority in 2016.

n Border States Electric Headquarters – New office building, valued at $28 million. In early 2019, about 400 branch support center employee-owners will move into the new facility.

n North Dakota State University Residence Hall facility – $32 million. The new residence hall for sophomores will be six stories tall and will have 390 beds. It’ll be occupied in fall of 2019.

n NDSU Sudro Hall Addition – $28 million. The building houses NDSU’s College of Health Professions. The expansion, which will be finished in 2020, will be six stories and 74,000 square feet.

n Roberts Commons/Dillard/Kessler development in downtown Fargo – Four-phase project started in 2016 with 455-spot parking garage. Second phase Roberts mixed-use building (started in 2017 and to be completed soon) wrapping the garage with 72 apartments and main floor commercial space.

The Dillard building attached to the north of the parking garage, with main floor commercial and about 80 apartments, started construction in 2018 and will be completed in 2019. The fourth phase is the Kessler

Our Senior Water Resource Engineer, Tom, loves a challenge. That’s why when designing a solution for stormwater retention/detention, Tom got creative. By creating an eco-friendly solution over a traditional pump station, this portion of flood control provided an innovative approach and saved the Souris River Joint Board millions of dollars in the process.

Turning his passion into progress, that’s what Tom is most proud of. And we are, too.