Tag: mindengatewaycenter

The new Holiday Inn Express hotel at the Minden Gateway Center is coming along nicely. It's still the only construction taking place at the center, though. Work on all the retail and office space is holding back for the moment.

Interesting that they're building it in two halves. The north half is up to three floors already, but the south half is only on the first floor still. And there seems to be some kind of atrium connecting the two halves.

I can't wait to see what it looks like when it's done! Hopefully there will be some interesting architecture to it, not just another square box.

Big things are happening in Minden. After something like two years of work on the site, they're finally going vertical at the Minden Gateway Center. This week the first walls were raised on the first of what is supposed to be nine or ten buildings in the center. I don't know if they're going to keep working through the winter, but it seems unlikely that they'd stop for two months now that they've started.

I'm trying to figure out exactly which structure this is. It's at the east side of the property, and matching it up with the maps of the site makes it look like this will be the hotel. But doesn't it look too small to be a hotel? Maybe it's the perspective, or maybe because they just started framing. But this doesn't look as big as the hotel is supposed to be. So we'll have to keep an eye on it.

Much more lumber is stacked up on the edges of the site, waiting to be used. I think that we're going to see some real progress at the Gateway Center over the next couple of months.

Moving a post office can be a big undertaking. And the first thing you have to do is find a new site, and that is the process Minden is involved in now. Their post office has outgrown its current location along Hwy 395 across from CVI, so they're looking for a new spot. And so far they've identified four possible locations. Two are on Monte Vista drive, which is out behind the Minden Medical Center, near Winhaven. A third site is an empty lot along County Road, and the fourth possibility would be to locate it in the new Minden Gateway center. I think the Gateway center makes the most sense; you want your post office located where it's not too far out of the way. The Gateway center is poised to be the biggest retail development in town, if it lives up to all its expectations. Plus it's in a great location, and seems to be a natural place for a post office.