The U.S. Economic Development Administration awarded the city of Grand Forks a $1.1 million grant to turn the Grand Forks Herald building into a technology accelerator. The project… Read More »Grand Forks Region Top 10 – April 2021
Grand Forks is one of eight North Dakota communities selected to receive funding from the North Dakota Department of Commerce’s Main Street Initiative Partners in… Read More »EDC Awarded State Funding for Strategic Workforce Plan
Nathan Iseminger joined the EDC team as the UAS sector developer. Iseminger recently retired from the U.S. Air Force after 22 years of active duty. We’re… Read More »Grand Forks Region Top 10 – March 2021
“Impossible anywhere else.” That’s the phrase used by Mike Fridolfs, Northrop Grumman’s site director at Grand Sky, to describe a series of flight tests of… Read More »Breaking UAS Barriers
Nathan Iseminger has joined the Grand Forks Region Economic Development Corporation (EDC) as its UAS sector developer. Iseminger will execute strategies to support primary sector… Read More »Iseminger Joins EDC Staff
Altru Health System announced that they are moving forward with the construction of their new hospital. The project will resume this fall, with a plan for… Read More »Grand Forks Region Top 10 – February 2021
Becca Cruger, workforce development manager at the Grand Forks Region Economic Development Corporation (EDC), has been named to the International Economic Development Council’s (IEDC) Young… Read More »Cruger Named to National Economic Advisory Committee
We cheated a bit and are adding today’s news to January’s highlights. The City Council just voted (on Monday, February 1) to approve tax exemptions… Read More »Grand Forks Region Top 10 – January 2021
This past year wasn’t all bad. The EDC looked back at the top 20 happenings in the region in 2020: First up, we have some… Read More »Grand Forks Region Top 20 of 2020
SafetySpect, Inc., a California-based bio-tech company, moved their headquarters to Grand Forks, N.D. officially on January 1, 2021. Last summer, the company established an office… Read More »SafetySpect Inc. Moves Headquarters to Grand Forks