Central North Dakota town transforms school building into Tuttle Rural Innovation Center
The Tuttle Rural Innovation Center organizers have big dreams. They want the facility to house small businesses and spaces for local craftsmen and artists. They see it as an events center and a local food hub. And all of those things would create economic development not just for Tuttle but also for the greater Kidder County area.
5:31 am, Feb. 15, 2021
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The Tuttle Rural Innovation Center opened in 2018 in the former Tuttle School. (Katie Pinke / Agweek)
TUTTLE, N.D. — Burdell Johnson served on school boards overseeing Tuttle School for 41 years. When the school closed in 2007, and he knew what he didn’t want for the old school building.