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Plans are underway to build Sapphire Lake, an over $650 million project featuring a 1000-acre development project complete with a 380 acre artificial lake south of Grinnell. However, the colossal project, projected to support 3,681 jobs and a $400 million increase in the property tax base, has yet to meet its funding goal and.
"There were school dances and it was a voting station, a polling station, it was the DMV, it had been a lot of things for a lot of years," Randy Hotchkin, the vice-chair of the Grinnell Veterans Commission, said.