When will the walls of Elk Run's first biobusiness park building go up? Even the project's construction company doesn't know for sure.
Commercial design and construction firm R.J. Ryan is still waiting for word from Elk Run's developer on when to start work there. There has been ground work done for the first building.
"The start date is unclear at this time pending securing and signing tenant leases," said Jeremy Thomas, senior project manager for R.J. Ryan.
Elk Run's developer, Tower Investments, told the Star Tribune last year that the first building is expected to open in August. Geoff Griffin, Elk Run's project manager, didn't return a call for comment.
Construction on Elk Run's first building in Pine Island has been set with delays. Officials said last July that groundbreaking on its first 50,400 square foot building likely would begin in August. Later, the estimation was it would start as early as October. Groundbreaking didn't begin until last November.
Pine Island's city administrator Abraham Algadi said work was done on the building pad, but as far as he could see, the building site looked about the same as it did last year. Still, Algadi said he wasn't concerned about the project's progress.
"It is a brick by brick, step by step (process)," Algadi said.
