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CHG acquires Spanish Peaks’ debt | Explore Big Sky
Ongoing update as to the status of Spanish Peaks auction. The bid deadline has past. Looking towards the June 3 auction on the steps of the courthouse in Butte. CHG acquires Spanish Peaks’ debt By Joseph T. O’Connor Explorebigsky.com ...
Fed Looks at Effects of Hypothetical Rate Rise
Fed Zeroes In on Vulnerability to Rate Rise By Victoria McGrane | The Wall Street Journal – 13 hours ago The Federal Reserve is scrutinizing the nation’s biggest banks to ensure they can handle an eventual rise in interest rates, as con...
Local investors apply to build up to 40 housing units on north side city block – The Bozeman Daily Chronicle: City
A group of local investors has applied to build two rows of four-story duplexes containing up to 40 homes on an entire city block downtown. HomeBase of Bozeman and investors have applied to the city Planning Department to build “Block M.�...
Gallatin Forest to start electrical line upgrade
The electrical line servicing Big Sky has been inadequate for quite some time. An EIS has been issued for the proposed route for a new transmission line through Gallatin Canyon and is now within its 45 day appeal period. Gallatin Forest to s...
Montana Humor
A touch of Montana Humor for a day when it was 12 degrees in the morning with 4″ of snow on my porch. Seems like mother nature was playing a a joke on Spring. A tough old cowboy from Montana counseled his grandson that if he wanted to live...
The path less traveled: Young Montanans leave cities to farm
Back to the country – Montana is seeing quite a few younger folks leaving the city for life in the country. by Tom Lutey, Associated Press BRUSETT — It’s 9 a.m. and the vast Eastern Montana prairie in Casey Coulter’s windshiel...
Is your vacation rental legal?
The City of Bozeman requires vacation rentals to be permitted. This is an interesting article that ran in last Sunday’s paper about the issue. by Amanda Ricker When the housing market collapsed in Bozeman, Phil Sgamma feared the ban...
Bozeman builders will be allowed to defer impact fees
The City of Bozeman has decided to allow developers to ‘defer’ their payment of impact fees until the Certificate of Occupancy is granted – this allows builders to not have to ‘up front’ the cost of the fees at the start of constructi...