Connie Ova 2014Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corporation (JSDC) has offered land it owns in Spiritwood Township for a crew camp that would house construction workers for the planned CHS nitrogen fertilizer plant at Spiritwood.

The area is south of the Dakota Spirit AgEnergy ethanol plant now under construction.

The location would be about 2 miles from the planned location of the CHS nitrogen fertilizer plant.

JSDC CEO Connie Ova says the area offers access to water, sewer, electricity and natural gas.

Global Markets, LLC representative Philip Culler, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, requested cost information for leasing land owned by the JSDC. Culler said his company has held discussions with CHS concerning furnishing a crew camp but did not have a contract.

The JSDC Executive Committee agreed to recommend a rent of $125 per acre per year for land to be used by the crew camp.

The lease would be available to CHS or any company with a contract from CHS to provide construction crew housing.

Culler said initial discussion with CHS called for a crew camp capacity of 300 to 500 people by the spring of 2015 with a capacity of 1,800 people by spring 2016 through the end of the project in the first half of 2018.