Updated Aug. 23 with the state license information from DPHHS Healing the Circle Lodge, a drug rehab facility, is open at 2601 Jasper Road. Initially planned as an 18-bed facility that required a special use permit, the company withdrew its application in June after a lengthy public hearing in May that drew significant opposition from neighboring property owners. Now it’s
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Black Hills Corp. and NorthWestern Energy Group announced Aug. 19 that each company’s board of directors has unanimously approved a definitive agreement to combine in an all-stock, tax-free merger that will create a “premier regional regulated electric and natural gas utility company with a pro forma market capitalization” of about $7.8 billion and a combined enterprise value of $15.4 billion,
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County Commissioners voted during their Aug. 12 meeting to start the process to donate about 10 acres of county-owned property to NeighborWorks Great Falls for the development of affordable housing at 2nd Avenue Northwest and 22nd Street Northwest. The land was gifted to the county by the Roman Catholic bishop of Great Falls in 1977 to be developed into baseball
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The Cascade County Zoning Board of Adjustment approved special use permits for a multi-sports facility and a new veterinary clinic during their July 17 meeting. TNT Sports is planning a multi-sports training facility and batting cage business on 49th Street Southwest. They’re planning an 8,000 square foot, year-round, indoor turf athletic training, plus 3,000 square foot outdoor space, facility. The
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Neighborhood Council 4 will review a proposal for a 154-pad mobile home park at 4600 7th Ave. N. during their July 24 meeting. The proposal for IX Blessings mobile home park includes annexing about 25 acres and assigning R-10 mobile home park zoning for the establishment of 154 manufactured home pads. The applicant is Caleb Morey of IX Blessings and
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City Commissioners set a public hearing for Aug. 19 on a request for annexation to create a new single family residential subdivision south of the main Peak location. The proposal for Peace Harbor subdivision from KIB Homes would create 30 single family lots in the first phase, with a total of 67 single family lots over two phases. City planning
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City Commissioners set a public hearing for Aug. 5 on a proposed marijuana cultivation facility at 748 Crescent Circle. The property is currently zoned I-1 light industrial. The property owner, Flower, has requested a conditional use permit. A marijuana cultivation facility is permitted by CUP in the I-1 district and by right in the I-2 heavy industrial district under city
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City Commissioners unanimously approved plans for Sanavita Estates, a senior living subdivision by Benefis Health System during their July 1 meeting. The property is located at 3015 18th Ave. S. and is about 42.91 acres. Annexation requested for 67-lot single-family housing development The city planning board unanimously voted during their May 13 meeting to recommend approval of plans for Sanavita.
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Updated June 20 with a quote from Malmstrom Air Force Base A 2 million-square-foot “hyperscale data center campus” is proposed in Great Falls. Ardent TAC Data Centers, an Atlanta-based company, is proposing an investment of $1 billion to $1.5 billion on a 569-acre site adjacent to the AgriTech Park. Great Falls Development Alliance announced the project with Ardent during their
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After a lengthy public hearing on May 15 that ended in the county zoning board delaying a decision on a proposed drug rehab facility at 2601 Jasper Road, the proposal has been withdrawn. In a June 11 letter to county planning, Mike O’Reilly wrote that Healing the Circle Lodge was withdrawing its special use application that had been submitted on
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