Fall is here, and construction season in Grand Forks is winding down.
On the city side, crews have completed a lengthy list of paving projects, including the DeMers Avenue overpass and work on smaller projects continues.
There still is some commercial going on, the exception being the new Staybridge Suites. City Planner Brad Gengler said the city has not heard in three months on the chain's plans to build next to Valley Dairy on 42nd Street South, though site plan requirements have been cleared.
"It's a case of signed, sealed, wait and wait and wait," Gengler said.
Gengler said the city is reviewing plans for a new 38-unit apartment complex to be built adjacent to Autumn Ridge on 36th Avenue South behind Sam's Club and Wal-Mart.
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Two more buildings are planned in the area known as Campus Place, which extends from University Avenue north to Sixth Avenue North and from Interstate 29 east to 42nd Street North.
The first is a 20-unit apartment building to be built on the site of the former Overtime Bar.
"There are options to keep it strictly residential or have it commercial on the ground and residential above, like the nearby Red Pepper building," Gengler said.
The second project is for four, two-unit townhomes, all attached, to be built just east of I-29. As for some longtime vacant properties at DeMers Avenue and South Washington Street, Gengler said "There's been recent interest in the Hardee's building by a Mexican restaurant."
The Herald later confirmed it was Mi Mexico. As far as the vacant buildings that housed Leever's Market grocery and pharmacy and the Columbia Four Theater, Gengler said "nothing has come across my desk."
Reach Johnson at (701) 780-1262; (800) 477-6572, ext. 262; or send e-mail to jjohnson2@gfherald.com .
