Episode 82
City Talk - What to do with a water treatment plant?
May 13th, 2025
34 mins 7 secs
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This week we discuss the city's intentions as they explore remodeling the old water treatment plant.
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-- Grand Forks Herald --
A proposal to raze the former water treatment plant and in its place build an “amenity-rich development project” that highlights the city’s connection to the Red River sparked an 80-minute debate among City Council members Monday.
Specifically at issue was the expanse and scope of the project and not necessarily just the decision to tear down the decommissioned plant, which sits on prime real estate on the south edge of Grand Forks’ downtown.
During Monday’s Committee of the Whole meeting at City Hall, Matt Wetli, of St. Louis-based Development Strategies, Inc., presented the latest news on the proposal, which his company calls a “truly transformative project to redevelop the downtown water treatment plant site." The company’s goal was twofold, according to documents presented to the council: To create “a market-supported vision for an amenity-rich development project” and also “to create a district strategy that builds on the catalytic potential of the project.”
Read the entire article at grandforksherald.com
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