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Inside: Murals with famous South Dakotans Bob Barker and Billy Mills get attention

Commercial real estate transactions and announcements of note from across the Philadelphia region.

The Stevens Point Area Convention & Visitors Bureau, Mid-State Technical College and the city are looking at a potential downtown workforce development and convention facility.

A reader finds the arguments for building a replacement for SaskTel Centre in downtown Saskatoon to be weak.

“If you don’t set your goals high, you’re going to fall short every time,” Mitchell Mayor Bob Everson said of the two multi million-dollar projects city leaders are mulling over.

Firms from as far as New York, San Francisco, Texas and Toronto are among more than 100 that have shown interest in redeveloping the area around The Diamond.

While city leaders’ initial goal was to expand seating within the existing footprint of the building, architect Robin Miller said it would reduce the existing seating capacity by about 1,000.

“It’s all possible, but the question is how much do you want to pay,” said David Greusel, a longtime Kansas City-based architect leading the $120,000 study.