Janicki Industries Plans $800 Million Great Falls Plant as City Eyes 1,000-Job Growth Surge
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Updated · Montana Free Press · Jul 2
Janicki Industries Plans $800 Million Great Falls Plant as City Eyes 1,000-Job Growth Surge
1 articles · Updated · Montana Free Press · Jul 2
Summary
Janicki Industries will break ground next month on an $800 million eastside facility in Great Falls, a project expected to create more than 1,000 jobs over time.
Great Falls officials cast the plant as the clearest sign that years of industrial land development, downtown renewal and business-friendly permitting are finally translating into large outside investment.
Local leaders are now preparing for the strain that growth could bring, including water and sewer upgrades, traffic bottlenecks and a lag before new tax revenue arrives because Janicki will sit in a tax-increment financing district for about a decade.
Other projects are reinforcing that momentum, notably the Pentagon's $140 billion Sentinel missile overhaul at Malmstrom, a reported $300 million Air National Guard upgrade, new housing, airport industrial space and Touro University expansion.
For Great Falls, whose population has largely hovered between 57,000 and 61,000 since 2000 and recently slipped, the wave of projects could mark a long-awaited break from years of slower growth than other Montana cities.