The Fergus Falls Daily Journal

Fergus Falls’ Summerfest event looks to be getting a new locale this year: the park space surrounding the Regional Treatment Center. The city’s public works and safety committee recommended today that the city council approve the new site, which was brought forward by the Summerfest committee. “With the demolition of the police department area … [...]

The Otter Tail County Historical Society state hospital coffee klatch series continues at 10 a.m. Friday, with Erin Hanafin Berg, field representative for the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota. An engaging, enthusiastic preservation advocate, Erin will speak on how communities across the nation have used historic preservation as a catalyst for economic development. She will further [...]

Fergus Falls residents hoping to learn about the future of the Regional Treatment Center were kept guessing at Tuesday night’s city council meeting, as the council remained non-committal about moving forward with a plan proposed by potential developer Geitso Export Management. The plan would create a multi-use facility called “The Global XChange Village,” which would [...]

Wednesday was the final deadline for proposals to repurpose the Kirkbride building, and when it came down to the wire, only one of the seven developers submitted a plan to the city. However, that one developer, Minneapolis-based Geitso Export Management, is confident in its ability to make the Kirkbride a mixed-use cultivator of jobs and [...]

After a misunderstanding about its last meeting, the Fergus Falls City Council engaged in a lively debate on Monday about how to approach the Kirkbride building’s development proposals, which are due Feb. 1. The discussion started during the council’s consent agenda, when regular council attendee and Friend of the Kirkbride Maxine Schmidt asked the city [...]

Though the Fergus Falls City Council spent most of its Monday meeting debating how to handle the overall proposals for the Regional Treatment Center property, it didn’t take long to decide to once again delay the local developers interested in redeveloping the small southeastern portion of the site. The developers of RTC Parcel D4 have [...]

University of Minnesota architecture students Amanda Marcott and Brittany Schomaker got an early Christmas present in the middle of December when their redevelopment plan for the Fergus Falls Regional Treatment Center was named the winner of the Public Choice Category in the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota’s (PAM) Student Design Forum. Marcott and Schomaker, both seniors, [...]

The Fergus Falls City Council discussed a trio of Regional Treatment Center issues at its Monday night meeting, including a decision to open up the development process to the public. The consensus agreement was reached during a discussion of who will be the evaluation team for the proposals due in February from the seven developers [...]

Filmmakers at ECTOFi Productions, the film company working on a film project at the Regional Treatment Center, will spend the Christmas season poring through audition tapes of the nearly 90 people who auditioned for the film. Director Eric Dunn was impressed and pleased with the 87 people who showed up for auditions and the others [...]

The latest round of Kirkbride developer courtship may look all too familiar to veteran observers, but the city’s summer marketing blitz has revealed a few people who look like they really could be up to the job. “With the limited amount of information that we have, a number of them … look very promising,” said [...]