Denver-based NexCore Group is developing and will own the two-story, 67,000 square St. Alexius Minot Medical Plaza ambulatory care center in Minot, N.D., serving the growing healthcare need’s of North Dakota’s exploding population.
(Rendering courtesy of NexCore Group LP)
Firm is developing 67,000 square foot facility for St. Alexius Medical Center
By John B. Mugford
As towns in northwestern North Dakota continue to grow amid the oil boom, healthcare providers are feeling the need to expand their offerings to keep up with demand.
One such place is Minot, N.D., a city that saw only mild growth prior to the early 2000s. But Minot happens to be in the eastern fringe of the oil-rich Bakken Formation. So since the oil boom began in earnest just over a decade ago, the city’s population has jumped from about 35,000 residents to more than 46,000. Today, Minot is the country’s fifth fastest growing “micropolitan” area – defined as a city and environs with an urban core of at least 10,000 residents and an overall population of less than 50,000.
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