{"id":9133,"date":"2012-12-18T09:41:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T15:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=9133"},"modified":"2012-12-18T09:41:10","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T15:41:10","slug":"commercial-greenhouse-developer-seeks-local-invest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=9133","title":{"rendered":"Commercial Greenhouse Developer Seeks Local Invest."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/jsdc.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2326\" title=\"jsdc\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/jsdc-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a>Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Dec 17, 2012) &#8212; The Jamestown\/Stutsman Development Corporation (JSDC) has met with representatives of Endless Harvest.<\/p>\n<p>The commercial greenhouse project in Jamestown is requesting $2 million in loans from local development organizations to start the controlled environment agricuture lettuce project.<\/p>\n<p>Endless Harvest is looking to build the greenhouse near Jamestown and grow lettuce for the Northern Plains market.<\/p>\n<p>Costs for the first phase estimated at about $12 million,<\/p>\n<p>Endless Harvest has obtained about $10 million in loans from the Small Business Administration, an unnamed local bank and the Bank of North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>Construction of additional phases would be funded through early profits.<\/p>\n<p>Lance Brower, of Jamestown, a consultant for Endless Harvest, said, lettuce during the first phase of the project, could be grown at about 47 cents per head, that could have been wholesaled in 2011, at $1.31 per head.<\/p>\n<p>Endless Harvest developer, Steve Froehlich, said a local investment would guarantee local control.<\/p>\n<p>Brower added a JSDC local investment would help maximize the impact of the project.<\/p>\n<p>JSDC, CEO, Connie Ova said, a combination of loans from the JSDC and South Central Dakota Regional Council might be possible, as JSDC is in the process of determining the best fit for the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<p>Phase One includes an administrative and classroom building, living quarters and a 2.7-acre greenhouse to grow the lettuce.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually the project plans includes 21.6 acres of greenhouse space and with roughly 45 percent of the lettuce consumed in North Dakota and Minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Dec 17, 2012) &#8212; The Jamestown\/Stutsman Development Corporation (JSDC) has met with representatives of Endless Harvest. The commercial greenhouse project in Jamestown is requesting $2 million in loans from local development organizations to start the controlled environment agricuture lettuce project. Endless Harvest is looking to build [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9135,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9133\/revisions\/9135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}