KVRR Local News
January 26, 2021
FARGO, N.D. The former Kmart on South University Drive in Fargo along with lot-partner Burger King could be meeting the wrecking ball.
GFI Dakota Development, the property owner, and Enclave Development want to build 170 apartments along with commercial buildings, including a grocery store.
Fargo city commissioners approving a request to submit a tax increment financing application to determine if the $35 million project would be a go.
The estimated TIF would be about $2.5 million.
Enclave is also proposing payment in lieu of tax breaks known as a PILOT to include 34 affordable apartment units.
Kmart has been closed for more than a year.
Funeral For Boone County K9 Killed By Drunk Driver To Be Streamed
During a traffic stop on December 26th, K9 Loki was killed, when a drunk driver slammed into the back of his squad car.
K9 Loki s handler, Deputy Robert Rosenkranz, was conducting a traffic stop on I-90 on that night when his squad car was hit with Loki inside. The deputy sustained some minor injuries. Had he been in the vehicle with Loki, judging by this photo of the wreckage, he likely would ve been killed also.
Funerals for law enforcement are as beautiful as they are sad, I m sure this ceremony will be no different. I ve never witnessed a funeral for a K9 officer before. The Boone County Sheriff s Department knows that we re all wanting to pay our respects, which is why the entire funeral will streamed on Facebook Live. The department is strongly encouraging us to not attend this funeral in person, due to current COVID-19 restrictions.
More tasty memories of Fargo s former pizza places
In today s Neighbors column, Bob Lind shares readers greasy, delicious stories of spots where everyone got a slice or two back in the day. Written By: Bob Lind | ×
Bob Lind, Neighbors columnist. The ForumThe Forum
Wayne Irick, Lakewood, Colo., sends a clipping from a 1956 edition of The Forum, which reads in part:
“Three connoisseurs of pizza have combined their talents to present to the public one of the finest morsels that ever enticed the palate. In an earnest effort to supplant lefse, these three pioneers in the pizza field of Fargo and Moorhead have enjoyed the compliments of the multitude who have dined at their Orpheum Pizza Shop on N.P. Avenue.
The business has pivoted to doing more commercial laundry work and pickup and dropoff, but without federal Paycheck Protection Program loans, Camelot would have been “one equipment breakdown from being done,” Stedman said.
“We’re at four (outlets) and holding our own,” Bill Brenan, the president and operating partner of Brenan’s Drycleaning & Laundry, said in a recent interview at his downtown Fargo production facility.
“We have not laid anybody off. It’s been close” though, Brenan said. Hours have been cut in the production plant and some of the stores have had hours shortened.
Bill Brenan, president and managing partner of Brenan s Cleaners, left, and General Manager Darcy Nelson, are seen Monday, Dec. 12, at the company s processing facility at 921 4th Ave. N., Fargo. (Helmut Schmidt / The Forum)
The shops closed long ago, but Fargoans still remember pizza at these old joints
In today s Neighbors column, readers tell Bob Lind about their favorite places in Fargo to get a slice or pie back in the day. Written By: Bob Lind | ×
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Many responded. Following is what they wrote.
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Linda (Krogen) Brandt, Fargo: “I remember the pizza shop across from Agassiz school, University Drive and 8th Avenue. I believe it was Pinky’s Pizza. We lived about two blocks west of it. It was there a long time.”
Wilbur Wright, formerly of Antler, N.D., and now of Fargo: “My first time ever having pizza in a pizza shop was when I came down to Fargo to attend Boys State in 1960. We went to Sammy’s for a pepperoni pizza. It was fantastic, and still is.”