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2nd acess road to JRMC on hold for now

Jamestown (CSi) City officials say a second road access to Jamestown Regional Medical Center is on hold till at least next spring while members of the Jamestown City Council consider ways to pay for the project.

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Jamestown Mayor Katie Andersen says, the hotel, convention center, shopping and apartment complex planned by Phillip Culler is not moving ahead this fall but may next spring. Preliminary plans include a 140-room hotel, a 20,000-square-foot retail anchor with additional strip malls, 133 apartment units in two buildings, two restaurants and a medical practice building.

new road to menardsCurrently, the only paved road access to JRMC is I-94. Frontage roads south of the hospital and north of Menards store are about 0.8 miles apart.

Jamestown Mayor Katie Andersen said preliminary cost estimates are about $1 million to connect the roads. The project could be financed with a 2 percent Bank of North Dakota loan through the Infrastructure Loan Fund.