The proposed Madison Food Park would be constructed on a roughly 3,000 acre property on the southern side of Highway 89 between Great Falls and Belt. The property is zoned agricultural rural currently and under the county zoning regulations, the proposed meat processing plant would be allowable with a Special Use Permit. Brian Clifton, county planning director, said that the

Some photos of letters have been circulating Facebook and have been presented as letters from the developer requesting a zone change. The was not the case, according to Cascade County planning officials. The document was an internal memo was a half-sheet of paper used as scratch paper and a yellow sticky note was attached with a list of other definitions

The Madison Food Park project is still in the works and The Electric has spent the last few weeks gathering information from Friesen Foods, Cascade County and state agencies. Since the story was becoming quite lengthy, it’s going to be broken into sections that will be posted tonight. Once they’re all posted, a list of links to each will be

A massive agri-business commercial food park is planned for Cascade County, about 8 miles southeast of the city off the highway between here and Belt that will eventually employ an estimated 3,000 people. Friesen Foods LLC has submitted an application for a special use permit, which essentially kick starts the development process in the county, said Brian Clifton, public works