Review of leases requested after report of unused building
By JAMES MacPHERSONMay 14, 2021 GMT
The North Dakota Information Technology Department building is shown on Normandy Street, Thursday, May 13, 2021, in north Bismarck, N.D. North Dakota taxpayers are on the hook for nearly $3 million in rent over the next two years in unused office space for a state agency that intends to allow most of its more than 400 employees to continue to work from home indefinitely. Officials say the North Dakota IDT’s 85,000-square-foot leased space in a newly remodeled privately owned office building in north Bismarck is unoccupied, except for about a dozen employees. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)