Construction roundup

Here’s a list of some of the region’s biggest and most interesting construction projects

Sioux Falls

The 60,000 square foot building will feature seven new volleyball courts for Avera programs, physical therapy, a therapy pool, underwater treadmill and an exercise gym. It will be home to Athletic Republic, Avera’s sports performance training program in Sioux Falls, and is scheduled to open in December.

Fargo

• Thomas Jefferson High School will be the fourth public high school in Sioux Falls, all four of which are named after presidents on Mount Rushmore. The $84 million high school will be built on the northwest side of town. Construction will start this summer, and the school is scheduled to open in the fall of 2021.

• Ben Reifel Middle School: In September, Sioux Falls School District voters overwhelmingly approved a $190 million bond to pay for three new schools, including Jefferson High (above) and Reifel Middle School.

Starting this summer, the middle school – which is named for the first person of Lakota or Sioux descent to serve in Congress – will be built on the far east side of town. It will open in the fall of 2021.

• Encompass Health plans to build a $15 million, 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital at 4700 W. 69th Street, just west of the Avera Heart Hospital.

The Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Sioux Falls will bring about 83 fulltime jobs to the city. Construction is expected to start this spring, and the hospital will open next year.

• A $12 million operating-room remodel is underway at Avera McKennan Hospital in downtown Sioux Falls. Crews are building 20 operating rooms in the space formerly occupied by the hospital’s intensive care unit.

• A $12 million Avera Human Performance is being added to the Avera System’s Avera on Louise health care campus at 69th and Louise in Sioux Falls, SD.

Roadway Improvements

• Main Avenue: This $10.5 million pavement reconstruction and infrastructure improvement project will be spread over two years. In 2019, the 50- to 60-year-old underground infrastructure will be replaced between the Red River and Broadway, and a roundabout will be built at the 2nd Street South intersection, among other improvements.

• A $20 million project will reconstruct 52nd Avenue South from 45th Street to 63rd Street. The project will upgrade a rural two-lane road to an urban, four-lane divided highway, with dedicated turn lanes and center median.

BUILDING PROJECTS:

• Sudro Hall addition at North Dakota State University: This project includes a 74,000 square foot, six-story addition to the existing Sudro Hall, home of the university’s College of Health Professions. Construction is expected to be completed in time for spring semester 2020. Cost: up to $28 million.

• Roberts Commons/Dillard/Kessler development in downtown Fargo: This fourphase project started in 2016 with a 455spot city parking garage. Phase 2, in which a mixed-use building wrapped the garage, was completed in 2018.

The Dillard building attached to the parking garage, with main floor commercial and 88 apartments, will be completed this year. Phase 4 is the Kessler Building, a mix of commercial, parking and apartments that’s expected to be completed in 2021. Total cost: More than $50 million.

• Block 9: An 18-story, mixed-use tower building with offices, a hotel, seven condos and a parking garage with an estimated cost of $110 million. Construction started in September 2018 and will be completed in 2020.

Bismarck

• Gateway to Science Building – science exploration facility: This proposed 40,000 square foot building will house a main floor gallery exhibit space, an education wing and administration and support spaces.

The new building will be located along the bluffs overlooking the Missouri River and visible from I-94. If fundraising is successful, construction will start this year.

• 630 Main Apartments – three-story, mixed-use building in downtown Bismarck. This $8.2 million downtown infill project will provide 52 market-rate housing units and about 11,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Construction is expected to begin in the spring and continue for a year.

• Tesla Charging Stations – electric vehicle fast-charging station. Tesla has partnered with Pinehurst Square Shopping Center in northwest Bismarck to install up to eight new Superchargers in an existing parking area. The new chargers will provide electric vehicle owners a convenient charging station next to other retail and service amenities.

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• Edwinton Place – housing complex: The $10.3 million, four-story apartment building is under construction in south Bismarck. In partnership with the Burleigh County Housing Authority, the project will use a “Housing First” approach to provide 40 single-bedroom, transitional housing units for individuals experiencing chronic homelessness.

• Area 57 – mixed-use development, meaning the ground floor will be for commercial space, and the top floors for apartments. Preliminary construction work has started on two new mixed-use buildings that are Phase 1 of a planned six-building development in north Bismarck along East Greenfield Lane.

The buildings will provide residential, office and ground floor retail with underground parking, and are expected to open in 2020.

Grand Forks

• Grand Forks Water Treatment Plant – Being built west of Grand Forks. When completed in 2020, the $150 million plant will have the capacity to treat 20 million gallons of water a day.

• UND student union – In November, University of North Dakota students voted to build a $80 million student union, and the process will start this summer.

The current student union will be demolished in July, and the new, 158,000-square-foot building should be finished in 2021.

• Red River Biorefinery – The $70 million, 80,000 square foot facility will turn 500,000 metric tons of sugar-beet waste and other agricultural byproducts into ethanol each year. The plant north of Gateway Drive should be completed by early 2020.

• UND Steam Plant – A public-private partnership is replacing the plant, which was built in 1909 and generates steam that’s piped throughout UND for heating. The new, $80 million plant will be completed by spring 2020.

Minot

The new six-story hospital will have more than 200 private rooms and a Level Two trauma center.

• Mouse River Enhanced Flood Protection Project – The billion-dollar, 20-year project is divided into eight phases, the first three of which are underway.

In May, a significant milestone was achieved when concrete was poured for the floodwalls that will be built along Minot’s 4th Avenue. The floodwalls will be built over the next two years.

• A favorable court ruling in May opens the door for the Northwest Area Water Supply project to be completed by 2023 or 2024, barring further delays.

The project would divert water from Lake Sakakawea to the area around Minot. Although much of the pipeline system has been built, litigation from downstream states and Canada had delayed construction.

Thanks to the ruling, “we will be making, hopefully, great strides in the next two to three years,” Minot Public Works director Dan Jonasson told the Minot Daily News.

STREET PROJECTS:

• Demers Avenue reconstruction, Sorlie Bridge to North 6th Street: $8 million. This project is intended to reconstruct Demers Avenue “from face of building to face of building,” including grading, storm sewers, aggregate base, pavement, sidewalks, landscaping, street lighting, signing and traffic signals, the city of Grand Forks reports.

• University Avenue – Columbia Road to North 42nd Street, $11 million. A complete reconstruction of the pavement is underway and should be completed before the start of the fall semester.

BUILDING PROJECTS:

• Altru Health System – Construction of Altru’s new $305 million hospital has begun. The new hospital is being built on the South Columbia Road campus where the main clinic used to stand. The steel superstructure will start to go up in October, and the building is expected to open in 2022.

• Minot Air Force Base – “Minot Air Force Base has $94 million in on-going construction projects,” the Minot Daily News reported in May.

The list includes replacing the 60-year-old original concrete of the mass parking apron, which is used by the base’s aircraft. The seven-year, $100 million initiative is currently in its second phase.

• Construction of Trinity Health’s new $350 million hospital campus in southwest Minot resumed April 26, a little over a month after propane tank fires and explosions shut down the site.

Originally, construction was to be finished in 2022. As of late April, site assessments were still underway, which meant Trinity Health officials weren’t able to predict the accident’s impact on the project’s timeline.