Montana Business

The respective costs of completing respective transactions with domestic corporate and governmental clientele are lower on the Fort Peck Reservation than those which may be available from comparable enterprises throughout rural America.

To put it in perspective, the $478 million spent last year — largely on residential and commercial construction, plus infrastructure projects — is more than Montana State University’s combined budget of $385 million for this year.

It’s almost as big as the $513 million in statewide spending by the entire University System in 2004, the last year for which figures were reported.

Some 350 business and community folks reveled in a hearty stew of favorable Great Falls economic development news Tuesday.

Western Montana’s expanding health care sector is showing no sign of slowing, and, in fact, is projected to grow even more rapidly in the coming years as the region’s population ages and drives up demand for medical goods and services.

"We’re focused on the very early stage startups," O’Donnell said. "And they’re beyond that stage."

The scarcity of land to develop is a big reason property prices in northwest Montana jumped about 16% last year.

Local investors who were bought out in Winter Sports Inc.’s recent reverse stock-split want recognition for all the volunteer work and other financial contributions they, their parents or their grandparents made to get a ski hill in Whitefish.

David E. Lipson, the Las Vegas businessman who owns the swanky Resort at Paws Up in the Blackfoot Valley, has all but won exclusive rights to “The Last Best Place.”

The Natural Dream Home demonstrates how architects, builders, and homeowners can design, build, and live in a home that is not only beautiful but Built Green®, environmentally friendly, fire resistant, structurally superior, sustainable, resistant to bugs and mold, and much more…

Paul Miller, Sustainable President and CEO added, "GS AgriFuels offered us a strategic partner with significant technical depth who understood our business model and growth potential. Over recent months we have had an opportunity to work with the AgriFuels team and have benefited from their knowledge of clean technology as it relates to biomass.