I’ve been asked to combine my seven posts on the so-called “North Business Park” into a single post. Apparently, it is believed that this reorganization will stimulate comments.
Tag: <span>Business and Industrial Park</span>
If I don’t think we should have annexed 530 acres located 3 ½ miles from our community’s center and 3 ½ miles from the interstate highway (neither here nor there),…
There’s yet another installment in the “let’s build a business park” series. The most recent piece is by Planning Commissioner Tracy Davis. Her thesis is that we have adequate space…
I didn’t know that Rick Estenson was such a big fan of FDR; he quotes our longest-serving president twice in the fourth of a series of pro-business park guest columns.…
In the third of the occasionally to press series of guest columns in support of the business park, City of Northfield Economic Development Director Jody Gunderson shares his vision for…
Following in Councilor Pokorney’s, Councilor Erica Zweifel recently wrote a guest column for the Northfield News. I found it to be a curious piece. Erica opened with her commitment to…
Councilor Jim Pokorny recently wrote a guest column for the Northfield News. In it, he talked about growing up in Hibbing. He noted that the town gave him a good…
I am enthusiastically and vigorously supportive of increasing the availability of land for industrial development in Northfield. I support the recommendation of the EDA’s consultant, TIP Strategies, for making an…
Spring Brook (also known as Rice Creek) “is the only trout stream in Rice County, and is an uncommon resource type in southern Minnesota” according to the Northfield Natural Resource Inventory (NRI) commissioned by the City of Northfield in 2005.
Kathleen Doran-Norton, member of the Bridgewater Township Board of Supervisors, forwarded the email below and photo (above) to me yesterday. She didn’t say so but I’m guessing she’s got Thursday’s Business and Industrial Park planning open house in mind since Spring Brook/Rice Creek flows through the southern edge of the “south site” on West Armstrong Rd. in Bridgewater Township. Kathleen wrote: