Latest from Market Planning Guide

Photo 124738049 © andrey popov / Dreamstime.com
survey_photo_124738049__andrey_popov_dreamstime
www.datawrapper.de
q3wr5top100smallcountiestowatchin2025_1920

Sponsored

Image

2012 West North Central Regional Forecast

Nov. 1, 2011
Iowa • Kansas • Minnesota • Missouri • Nebraska North Dakota • South Dakota
All's quiet on the northern Great Plains, with only four construction projects in the $100 million-plus category breaking ground. McGraw-Hill Construction said a $500 million ethanol plant in Hugoton, Kan., is the region's biggest project, and that Minnesota

is seeing much of the rest of the action in big projects, with the construction of a federal building in Fort Snelling, Minn.; a hotel near Minneapolis' Mall of America; and a canola processing plant in Bloomington, Minn. The continuing construction of wind farms in all of these states; a huge project in Kansas City, Mo., for the National Nuclear Security Administration and General Services Administration; a $200 million Microsoft data center nearing completion in West Des Moines, Iowa; a Yahoo data center near Omaha and some smaller projects near the city's downtown ballpark round out the major construction projects in these states.

Sponsored Recommendations