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.

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.

Currently, 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.