Gillette Wyoming Blog

I’m curious to hear from people what kind of businesses you would like to see come in the Gillette area that could thrive here. Obviously with the current worker shortage, it is unlikely we will see any national retail stores setting up shop in town soon. But if we ever get affordable housing and people to move her to take these jobs we might end up with enough of a work force to attract some new businesses.

 There have been rumors in the past about Target, Chilis and other restaurants. Has anyone heard of anyplace that is planning on coming to town? What about retailers you would like to see? I for one would love to see a JcPenneys and a Target.

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In yesterday’s news on the Gillette News Record, it was announced that Basin Electric got an air permit and was able to pull a loan for the development of the proposed development of the Dry Fork Station Coal Fired 385-Megawatt power plant. This will create about 75 permanent jobs and quite a few interm jobs during the construction phase. Read more about the article here: http://www.gillettenewsrecord.com/articles/2007/10/18/news/news03.txt

I have a feeling that next spring is going to be a pretty big boom.

People need to realize that this market is not going to crash anytime in the near future. I hear a lot of talk about how this market is going to crash like it did in the early 80’s. It’s 2007 people get over the past and move forward with the present. The reason a lot of price reductions are happening is because this market got greedy, and was trying to take advantage of the lack of housing. Now that demand has been met people are going to have to get realistic in pricing their house. We still have 2 full pages of help wanted ads in the news paper, and $270 million dollars worth of new projects being built, not counting subdivisions in the works. We are lucky to live in Campbell County, Wyoming.