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Red Oxx nearly done with new factory in Billings, Montana

November 3, 2012 /

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Bear Paw Development Corporation is a private non-profit organization created for the purpose of administering programs to help improve regional economic conditions in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips Counties and the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian Reservations.

Having a developer insist on using his 20-year collection of "good junk" to rehabilitate an old warehouse and being involved in daily construction can result in artistic chaos.

But the recipe has worked at Red Oxx Manufacturing http://www.redoxx.com/ , where co-owners Jim Markel and Perry Jones spent more than $1 million transforming an old bearing shop at 1123 Second Ave. N., into one cool luggage factory.

"We saved a ton of time because I was here every day to say, ‘No. Yes. This works. That doesn’t’ to the builders," Markel said.

By Jan Falstad

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