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CITY, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – A plan is on the table to expand the North Dakota Winter Show Event Center by 33-hundred square feet for office space, a conference room and a ticket office in the future. The estimated cost is 0,000.

Valley City Barnes County Director of Economic Development Jennifer Feist said one proposal is to have the Valley Development Corporation purchase land owned by the NDWS to be used for the proposed project. The land is east of the Regional Technology Center or north of the North Dakota Winter Show. But she said more fire doors and a sprinkler system would have to be added to the structure according to city officials.

NDWS manager Dawn Riley and NDWS board president Pete Paulson said the new requirement for more fire doors may compromise the structure.

Riley and Paulson said the city told them that the fire doors would have to be installed whether they build a new structure or not.

The plan came to light during a Valley Development Corporation board meeting earlier this year after they said more office space is needed in the Rosebud Visitors Center. The current NDWS offices, now on the second floor of the Rosebud Visitors Center would move out once this proposed project is completed.

The following is audio from the August 7th Visitors Committee meeting. The first speaker is Valley City/Barnes County Director of Economic Development Jennifer Feist followed by Valley Development Corporation board member George Gaukler and the final speaker is Visitors Committee board president Bobby Koepplin.

The following audio is comments from NDWS manager Dawn Riley followed by Visitors Committee member Dick Gulmon, president Bobby Koepplin, board members Nathan Steward, Ken Reid and George Dutton, NDWS board president Pete Paulson and Valley City/Barnes County Director of Economic Development Jennifer Feist during the August 7th meeting.

The following audio is comments from North Dakota Winter Show manager Dawn Riley and NDWS board president Pete Paulson after the meeting.

And the following is audio from a special Valley Development Corporation meeting held on August 3rd. The discuss centers on the proposed plan to renovate and move the North Dakota Winter Show offices from the Rosebud Visitors Center to the North Dakota Winter Show event center. The first speaker is George Gaukler, he gives the background behind the genesis of the project followed by comments from VDC board member Mary Simonson, Bobby Koepplin, Jennifer Feist, Matt Pederson, Bobby Koepplin, Mike Metcalf, Bobby Koepplin, Matt Pederson, Bill Carlblom, Mary Lee Nielson, George Gaukler, Dean Kinney and the VDC Chairman Tony Kobbervig.

 

One proposal on the table is to have the Valley Development Corporation purchase this parcel of land some 2.6 acres owned by the NDWS to go toward the cost of the renovation proposal.