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31 minutes ago, ChadR said:

Who is owner of this boutique hotel?

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The Grand Forks Committee of the Whole is set to review on Monday a tax increment financing “pre-application” from Edgewood Development Group LLC, which hopes to add to an existing downtown building. The proposal calls for a 104,000-square-foot addition to the existing 60,000-square-foot building at 322 DeMers. City staff recommend that the committee invite the developer to submit a full application.

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28 minutes ago, forksandspoons said:

New soybean crushing plant coming to Grand Forks expects to add 50-60 permanent jobs: 

https://www.grandforksherald.com/business/grand-forks-chosen-as-new-location-for-epitome-energy-soybean-crushing-plant

Better check to make sure they aren't owned by someone from China. :whistling:

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16 minutes ago, tnt said:

Just curious if Fufeng will be allowed to build elsewhere in the U.S., as if they are that dangerous, you would think they shouldn’t be in the country at all.  

That’s the interesting part

 

some say if they don’t it was meant for espionage 

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If you don't know China has satellite capabilities and electronic interception capabilities as good or better than the US you've not been paying attention. They didn't need an antenna at a corn plant to spy on GFAFB. ... or a balloon over Montana. They can sit up in geosynchronous orbit and listen and watch all day. 

The next obvious question is Cirrus ... owned by a subsidiary of the Chinese government-owned AVIC.  

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15 hours ago, tnt said:

Just curious if Fufeng will be allowed to build elsewhere in the U.S., as if they are that dangerous, you would think they shouldn’t be in the country at all.  

There is new legislation being considered at the federal level that would ban companies tied to foreign governments from buying property in the U.S. I haven't looked into the details, so I'm not sure if this would cover all foreign governments, or just those that we consider to be potential adversaries.

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2 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:

If you don't know China has satellite capabilities and electronic interception capabilities as good or better than the US you've not been paying attention. They didn't need an antenna at a corn plant to spy on GFAFB. ... or a balloon over Montana. They can sit up in geosynchronous orbit and listen and watch all day. 

The next obvious question is Cirrus ... owned by a subsidiary of the Chinese government-owned AVIC.  

Devil's Advocate here. I'm not entirely convinced either direction on the national security issue:

We know when they are orbiting directly above us. We wouldn't know if they set up some surveillance equipment on nearby property. We could do counter surveillance by doing an "OSHA inspection" on the factory, but what's to stop them from removing that equipment when they know the inspection is coming?

Cirrus was a wholly owned American company when it was established in GF. The building was built by Americans, and the admin staff was hired by Americans. Has there been unusually large amount of admin staff turnover since it was sold to a Chinese company? I don't know. The difference with Fufeng would be that a brand-new building is being built by China, which would make it much easier to conceal things, and the admin staff would be hired by China which would put their people in key positions that could help hide such things from inspections. 

edit: also, the tall factory building would have line-of-site surveillance opportunities that the existing cirrus building does not

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