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 concern grows among regulators about the risks posed by a long low-interest-rate environment. On Thursday, a …
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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.” The proposed project is located just north of Main Street on the 1-acre block …
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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 start electrical line upgrade by Bozeman Daily Chronicle Staff The Gallatin National Forest …
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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 windshield is giving way to piney hills and the snowcapped Little Rocky Mountains, which the …
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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 construction, instead allowing them to be paid when the construction is completed. Strangely …
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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 bank would foreclose on his home. He began renting to tourists to make ends meet. “It did …
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I wrote a post about the status of the Spanish Peaks reorganization and sale earlier this year. This can be viewed here. Here is an update on the saga. This article ran in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle on April 1. And luckily it wasn’t an April Fools joke! Someone is going to get a fantastic …
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