Open For Busness

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The Greater North Dakota Chamber is taking a billboard campaign touting the state’s superiority over Minnesota in job creation to the Twin Cities.
 
     Greater North Dakota Chamber CEO Andy Peterson says a billboard soon will be going up on Interstate 94 to grab the attention of people heading west out of Minneapolis-St. Paul.
 
     The state chamber group initially put up a bright yellow billboard along I-94 just across the Minnesota border in Moorhead. It reads, “North Dakota. Open for Business.” It angered some officials on both sides of the border who think it’s too confrontational.
 
     That billboard has since been moved down I-94 to Fergus Falls. Peterson said it will be retired, but he didn’t say when.

  Previously….

FARGO, N.D. (AP Jul 2, 2013) -A billboard promoting North Dakota’s business climate that drew criticism in the Fargo-Moorhead area has been moved away from the North Dakota-Minnesota border.
 
     The billboard is part of a Greater North Dakota Chamber campaign aimed at promoting North Dakota’s booming economy and encouraging Minnesota to improve its business climate. It went up in mid-May along Interstate 94 in Moorhead, Minn., which neighbors Fargo.
 
     It read “North Dakota. Open for Business,” and it angered some officials on both sides of the border who thought it too confrontational.
 
     The billboard has been moved down the interstate to a spot near Fergus Falls. The Greater North Dakota Chamber says the move was planned and had nothing to do with the bad reception in Fargo-Moorhead.