California Company Is Building ADUs to Be Sold Separately From the Home. Is This Legal In Your State?

Would You Like to Tell The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis how the current economy is affecting businesses like yours.

Adroit Employment Systems

• Adroit Career Opportunities – Senior Photonics Engineer, Skilled Carpenter, Transit Operators and more…

  Find The Essential Job At Adroit, we want to be a part of your success story. We want you to be as our name suggests: clever or skillful in using the hands or mind. Check out available jobs in the Bozeman-Big Sky areas and statewide to find your next move. With our 100% online solution, we make the job search as easy as 1-2-3.

Great Falls Development Alliance

• Livability in Great Falls, Montana

  With a strong entrepreneurial spirit and a community that supports new ideas, Great Falls continues to attract people ready to work, live and grow in Montana. See why people are choosing Great Falls! Gain access to entrepreneurial resources and support at GrowGreatFalls.org. Discover careers, lifestyle resources and relocation tools at LiveInGreatFalls.com.

Montana Business

• Montana’s Eight Most Populous Counties See Sharp Rise in Older Residents Over Children

  From 2020 to 2025, Montana’s eight largest counties experienced a significant increase in residents aged 65 and older compared to those under 18. This demographic shift will impact local labor markets, healthcare, and housing needs across the state.

• Companies are realizing you can’t replace people with AI – The math just doesn’t work.

  About half of all companies that swapped people for AI end up experiencing a boomerang effect, rehiring at greater expense than it would have cost to retain the original workforce. The Great AI Layoff, it turns out, is turning into the Great AI Rehire.

• Montana Based Floating Island International Cuts Lake Methane Emissions by 95 Percent –

  This represents a nature-based approach targeting a major source of global warming linked to freshwater wetlands.

• Montana Tourism Drives $5.6 Billion in Spending in 2025

  For every one resident, we get 13 visitors to the state. And that spending was $5.6 billion. So we are a major industry.

• Will Congress Wake Up and Save the U.S. Auto Industry?

  The whole globe is aimed in one direction. China now makes 75 percent of all E.V.s sold anywhere on earth. (The United States makes around 5 percent.)

• Would You Like to Tell The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis how the current economy is affecting businesses like yours.

  If you choose to take part, you will help the Minneapolis Fed and our local partners learn how the current economy is affecting businesses like yours. Results may also be used to inform business leaders, policymakers, and the public of current conditions.

• ITRR – How much did Montana visitors spend in 2025, and where did they spend it?

  Nonresidents spend over $5 billion in Montana each year. This report examines the distribution of spending across Montana’s six travel regions and among the 19 of the 56 counties with the highest spending, based on an average of 2024 and 2025 spending data.

• 15 Nobel Laureates Sound the Alarm on an AI ‘Tsunami’ for Jobs—We’re Not Ready

  Hundreds of experts warn that AI could change the economy more than the Industrial Revolution did, saying ‘We Must Act Now.’

• Bonding and C-PACE Financing Training: Billings – 7/22 – Helena

  Join the Montana Facility Finance Authority for a free, in-person educational session on innovative financing tools shaping Montana’s economic future. This discussion will explore how tax-exempt bonds, taxable bonds and Montana’s C-PACE Program can be leveraged to finance commercial development projects, create opportunities for expansion and support long-term financial goals.

Montana Housing

• California Company Is Building ADUs to Be Sold Separately From the Home. Is This Legal In Your State?

  The company has plans to build hundreds more in the future, appealing to Bay Area homeowners who want to convert a portion of their land, as well as build the homes on land they already own. Their ultimate goal is to make this new property type “a more normal part of the housing ecosystem,” said Jia Li, the company’s chief asset management officer.

• Vermont Launches 30,000-Home Infill Plan by 2030 – “Gentle Infill”

  Vermont’s Homes For All program uses pre-approved designs to speed construction and cut costs. The initiative aims to tackle housing shortages by building smaller homes on vacant lots within existing neighborhoods.

Funding and Building your Montana Business

• Gary Vaynerchuk’s Timeless Advice for Entrepreneurs – Guy Kawasaki

  Listening back, you’ll hear many of the ideas that shaped his success long before they became mainstream—from building authentic communities and adapting to new platforms to playing the long game in business. We also dive into how he spotted opportunities early (including buying Facebook stock directly from Mark Zuckerberg’s parents), why reputation matters more than quick wins, and what it takes to stay relevant in a world that never stops changing.

City Club Missoula, Montana

• Full Luncheon Video – City Club Missoula , July 2026 – Renting in Missoula: Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities

  Approximately 47% of renters in Missoula are cost-burdened, meaning that rent takes up more than a third of their income.

Hellgate Venture Network

• TONIGHT  Hellgate Venture Network July Meetup with Jennie Yang of NeoSchool – 7/16 – First Interstate Bank – 101 E. Front Street, Missoula, Montana

  Guest Speaker: Jennie Yang, Founder of NeoSchool – The school built for the post-AI world.

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