City Commissioners continued their discussion of a potential tax increment financing district around the former Dick’s RV Park area during their March 7 work session. Craig Development had proposed a 513-unit apartment complex on the RV park site, but pulled their request for a rezone in February. The developer had also submitted a $24 million reimbursement request from a TIF
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After about five years of discussions between a local group and the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, the county is planning to submit an application for a conservation easement for about 80 acres of school trust land on Fox Farm Road. During their March 14 meeting, County Commissioners will consider submitting the application to DNRC, an action that
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City officials will continue their discussion of a proposal to create a new tax increment financing district on the west side. Commissioners only left about 20 minutes for the discussion during their Feb. 21 meeting and will continue it during the March 7 extended work session. The city received a request to reimburse the developer of a proposed 513-unit apartment
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City Commissioners will consider annexation and zoning during their March 7 meeting for another Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana project on Stuckey Road. In October, the tribe submitted an application in October to annex and assign M-2 mixed-use transitional to the 3.684 acres at 1301 Stuckey Road. In January, the city planning board voted to recommend approval
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Big Sky Cheese defaulted on their loan with the Great Falls Development Authority this summer. Brett Doney, GFDA’s president, told The Electric in December that the company hadn’t paid interest over the entire fiscal year on their bridge loan. In February, GFDA filed a civil lawsuit in district court over more than $2 million in unpaid loans and placed liens
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This week, a jury heard a civil case against the city regarding flooding in the Gibson Flats area that the landowner claimed was caused by the city. L. Johnson Inc. owns property south of the city limits and in his lawsuit filed in 2016 claimed that as the city has developed over the years, causing runoff and flooding to his
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Through decades in business downtown, Sandra Thares has seen the evolution. Her father bought the O’Haire Inn in 1968 and it housed a café they rented out. Twenty years ago, they decided to take it over themselves as a restaurant. The downtown was a happening place in the 1970s, okay in the 1980s and died in the 1990s, Thares said.
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City Commissioners are set to consider a right-of-way vacation, annexation and zoning during their March 21 meeting for a proposed 252-apartment complex on the east side. The developer is requesting a right-of-way vacation for 50th Street North and 8th Avenue North and to aggregate the lots that abut those rights-of-way with the former 50th Street North and 8th Avenue North
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The city planning board voted unanimously during their Feb. 28 meeting to recommend approval of a minor subdivision in West Bank for the planned Highway 55 Burgers, Shakes and Fries. The property, owned by Brad Talcott, is located at 17 3rd St. N.W. within the West Bank One development. Business Bites: Emerald City Casino demolition; West Bank Landing permits submitted;
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Updated at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 24 City Commissioners approved a request for up to $30,000 in downtown tax increment financing funds toward the development of an economic vitality transformation strategy. The Downtown Development Partnership requested the funds. The DDP serves as the coordinating body for downtown development and its members include NeighborWorks Great Falls, the Great Falls Development Authority, the
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