Associate Member Spotlight

from April 2023 Building Buzz

by Bismarck-Mandan Home Builders Association

We are a full-service interior design company from start to finish. We offer design consultations inside our showroom, to free delivery of products and in-house installation services. We offer a variety of products from carpet, HW, laminate, LVT, tile flooring, showers, back splash’s, kitchen, bathroom cabinets, window coverings along with several lines of garage cabinets.

Listen to the customer… Listen and learn what they want. Stay on top of the latest trends and products, as they change and evolve at pace that sometimes it’s hard to keep up with.

I start each day by communicating with the guys out on the job sites, our contractors, and customers that we are providing services for. After that, I typically am out measuring and doing estimates for new projects.

If I wasn’t a project manager, I’d probably be a fulltime designer/draft person. This is my favorite part of my job!

I would love to see a Imperial Flooring continue to grow and expand into a couple more markets. It’s been fun to see many of our wonderful employees grow and flourish in the positions that they are at.

I feel what has inspired us to enter this industry is to be able to take an old out of date or unfinished space and turn it into something that looks like it came out of a magazine!

What separates us is our ability to do all our own services in house with our own people from the design drawings, CAD 2020 design work, color coordination to the installation. We handle all of it and do it all with our own team!

Being able to work with people and our customers I have met in this industry over the last 20 years. I’ve made a lot of lifelong friends.

Enjoy our beautiful river and travel when I get the chance.

I am most excited for NO snow. It has been a been a rough winter for our entire construction industry.

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Knife River is a full service aggregate-based construction company, providing ready-mix concrete aggregate sales and delivery and concrete construction services. We provide services throughout North Dakota for public, private and commercial construction projects.

701-580-4527

3320 E Century Ave, Bismarck, ND 701-255-1636 www.frontstreetmillwork.com

Hours: Monday-Friday 8 am to 5pm

Thanks for visiting the Front Street Millwork booth @ the 2023 Home Show! Did the winter weather prevent you from attending? Stop by our showroom!

Monday-Friday 8 am to 5pm

On display in our showroom:

• Cabinetry

• Contertops

• Windows

• Interior & Exterior Doors

• Storm doors

• Siding

• Shingles

• Decking & Railing

• Stair Railing

• Exterior stone

• and More

All are welcome!

We work with both the general public and contractors

Front

Street Millwork & Lumber

Spring is coming! I repeat again….SPRING IS COMING! It certainly doesn’t seem like it right now, as I am writing this on March 10, in the middle of a blizzard warning. But I know that the snow will not last and very soon we will be seeing green grass and will again be hearing robins in the morning.

As a forester and as someone who loves the outdoors, spring is something I am genuinely excited for every year, as are all North Dakotans after five or six months of freezing wind and blowing snow. I suppose spring is exciting for different reasons, depending on who you are talking to. If you are talking to kids, it is probably because they see the light at the end of the school year. If you are talking to the parents of these kids, spring means you do not have to dry out winter gloves, boots and snow pants before the kids leave for school the next morning.

One of the reasons I look forward to spring is because it is tree planting season. There is one day on the calendar that kicks off tree planting and that is Arbor Day. Many of you already know the origins of Arbor Day. However, in case you forgot, here is the Cliff’s Notes version: Arbor Day was originated by J. Sterling Morton in Lincoln, Nebraska on April 10, 1872. Morton led the effort to promote Nebraskans to plant trees around the state that would serve as windbreaks, which would protect crops from erosion and overexposure and would also provide fuel and building materials. As a result, it is estimated that one million trees were planted in the state of Nebraska.

National Arbor Day is April 28, however, each state has its own Arbor Day due to its individual climate. North Dakota’s Arbor Day is celebrated on the first Friday in May. The City of Bismarck’s Forestry Division celebrates Arbor Week, which is the week leading up to Arbor Day. The goal of this week is to celebrate what trees have done for our community and educate our youth about the benefits of trees and tree planting. Typically, Forestry staff gives presentations to schools and groups about these benefits and demonstrates how to properly plant trees. The week culminates with our Arbor Day Celebration.

This year’s celebration will be held at Sertoma Park, where we honor an individual who has contributed to the enhancement and growth of our urban forest. This year’s honoree will be Randy Bina, former Executive Director of the Bismarck Parks and Recreation District. The Forestry Division will also partner with an elementary school for the celebration and the students from the school will give a presentation about the benefits of trees. The students are so creative, work really hard, and give wonderful presentations.

So, mark your calendars for May 5, Arbor Day! If you are free, join us at Sertoma Park as we celebrate trees and tree planting. Children will receive goodies and a tree sapling from the Forestry Division and Forrest Von Flickentale, the Forestry mascot, will also be present.

Finally, if you have questions about tree planting, feel free to contact the Forestry Division (701-355-1700). We would be happy to help you with any technical questions you have about tree planting. If you would like to plant a tree on the boulevard, then check out the Partners in Planting Program information on the Forestry Division’s webpage (https:// bismarcknd.gov/101/Forestryhttps://bismarcknd.gov/101/ Forestry). Remember, the best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is today.

The Federal Reserve’s monetary policy committee raised the federal funds target rate by 25 basis points but indicated that it was moving to a more data dependent mode as markets digest incoming risks for banks.

The Fed is balancing two economic risks: ongoing elevated inflation and emerging risks to the banking system. The health of the regional and community bank system is critical to the availability of builder and developer financing for for-sale, for-rent and affordable housing construction. We expect these conditions to tighten and will continue to monitor lending conditions via NAHB industry surveys.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell noted that term uncertainty is high because of these risks, as well

The Fed noted: “The Committee will closely monitor incoming information and assess the implications for monetary policy. The Committee anticipates that some additional policy firming may be appropriate in order to attain a stance of monetary policy that is sufficiently restrictive to return inflation to 2 percent over time.”

Acknowledging the issues affecting a few regional banks, the Committee wrote: “The U.S. banking system is sound and resilient. Recent developments are likely to result in tighter credit conditions for households and businesses and to weigh on economic activity, hiring, and inflation. The extent of these effects is uncertain. The Committee remains highly attentive to inflation risks.”

These challenges will result in tighter credit conditions, which will slow the economy and reduce inflation.

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