It still depends on securing rail access, but should all go according to plan Stanley’s west industrial park could be getting a new tenant—with blue and white collar job opportunities to offer.

Coming to the Stanley City Council Committee of the Whole meeting March 21 to present and answer Council questions were Dean Schiller and Northside Elevator Inc. president Ted Bressow and director of operations Dean Schiller, together with Joe Dolezal of Boson vice president of construction.

With the Master Plan later approved in the regular Council meeting via a motion by Kevin Hendrickson that was seconded by Holly Kitchell, Northside Elevator can go ahead with the next steps as its plans an expansion in the area.

With a letter of intent to purchase previously signed and good for six months as the firm awaits an answer on rail access, the company based out of Loyal Wisconsin is looking to expand its Ag commodities business to Stanley, marketing and storying a variety of dry grains and with big plans for the west industrial park.

Unfolding as a multi-stage development, Northside Elevator would invest $15 to $20 million in Stanley during the MASTER PLAN

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initial three-year phase of its operations here. Loading and unloading would take place in- doors for dust control and the firm would also look to add trees along Highway 29, “to be a good neighbor,” Dolezal told the Committee of the Whole.

With word on rail still out for the present, the Master Plan for Northside Elevator calls for three warehouses, a dry fertilizer plant tower system, a corn dryer with bins, scale with scale house, and bulk feed commodity warehouse, along with a liquid fertilizer chemical plant and a propane plant-plus a corporate office. The firm was planning on its own water and septic, while the site would include rail in seven parallel lines and connect to the CN railway. The site would also include a stormwater management pond on the southeast side near 345th Street, the tentative location based on slope in the area. Before the approval was given, however, there were questions from the assembled council members in committee. Laurie Foster had one in particular: what was the smell involved?

“There is no smell,” Dolezal replied as Master Plan presenter for Northside, with council member Mark Fitzsimmons sharing that he had toured the site at Loyal and that it was clean, something Dolezal noted as well.

“I stopped by the Loyal plant,” the Boson vice president of construction shared of Northside. “And I thought, this is clean.”

Also shared in the comment and question period was that the indoor nature of loading and unloading allowed the company to protect quality and also safety, as workers could be strapped in a full body harness while on the truck, something that wasn’t feasible outdoors.

Following more questions the Committee voted to move the matter forward to the regular Council meeting, motion being made by Jacob Huff and seconded by Kevin Hendrickson.

“We’re excited to be here,” Schiller said of the company’s planned expansion in the west industrial park.

“We’re excited to have you,” Huff replied.

Put in recently across the road by Chippewa Valley Electric, new electric lines also run past the site off 345th Street, located on the other side of the road. Photo by Joseph Back.