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Commissioners discuss offering downtown sites, including Mid America Steel, for convention-center proposals
Summary
Commissioner Strand proposed making downtown city-owned parcels available for developers responding to a convention-center RFP; commissioners debated site constraints, environmental cleanup and flood-protection needs. No formal action was taken after the motion failed to receive a second.
Commissioner Strand asked the commission to make certain downtown city-owned parcels, including the Mid America Steel site and the area around the Civic Center, available for developers to consider as potential convention-center locations in an upcoming request-for-proposals process.
Strand said offering downtown sites would expand options for proposers and allow the commission to weigh downtown proposals alongside other proposals across Fargo. "If the city could offer and make available some downtown properties to allow this downtown the downtown to be a potential home for a convention center that's my recommendation," Strand said.
The discussion focused on site…
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