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According to a proposal from Willmar Ten Investors, it will cost approximately $18.2 million to $20.7 million to renovate the JCPenney building at Uptown Willmar for a combined Willmar city hall and community center.

There are a limited number of BNSF Railway-certified sites throughout the United States. The Willmar site would be the second site in Minnesota.

Successful infrastructure projects are extremely tough to plan, fund and even complete, especially when a project's development and funding spans multiple public and private entities across the country. However, local, county, state and federal officials and staff worked together long and hard to make the Willmar Wye, officially known as the Willmar Connector and Industrial Access Project, a reality that became operational in October.

With lower income taxes and state funds for site development eventually on the way, a pair of bills inked by Governor Andy Beshear and passed out of the