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Cobblestone Inn to open in April

By Scott Wagar

04/02/2013

Cobblestone Inn and Suites is estimating that it will be opening its doors for business in the middle of this month and are bringing to the community of Bottineau a quality hotel which will also hold a nice size convention center.

“The construction team will hand over the hotel to the opening team on Thursday, April 11,” said Brad Beckman, a project coordinator for Bottineau’s Cobblestone Inn and Suites. “The opening team will come up and make sure all the phones work, the computers are working, train the personnel, get it cleaned up, make sure everything is operational and be ready to go for the opening date, which we estimated will be Monday, April 15.”

Beckman said the project is on schedule and the hotel is almost completely finished.

“The entire upstairs is furnished and ready to go,” Beckman said. “We are doing the downstairs right now with touch ups, some paint and finishing up the flooring.

“The outside is going a little slow, but with weather conditions up there in North Dakota it does take things a little longer outside,” Beckman added. “As for the parking lot, we are waiting for the winter to come off and will be conducting the paving for the parking lot then. The contractor (for the paving project) has been signed and it will take place this spring.”

For Cobblestone Inn and Suites, the weather in Bottineau this winter season has not been cooperative with its construct team.

“This is one of our more difficult projects we have had because it was so cold with the 53 degrees below zero with the wind, and the amount of snow that fell in Bottineau,” Beckman said. “However, our construction team worked well through the weather.”

Cobblestone Inn and Suites’ construction crew members did a remarkable job with the building and its site over what is being considering one of the most harsh and cold winters Bottineau has seen in a number of years. The crew was able to place a strong foundation down, get the structure enclosed in a timely manner to begin work on the inside, and as of late, placing the siding on the edifice, all through cold temps, strong winds from the Arctic Circle and heavy snow.

The crew came to work at times to find their vehicles’ batteries frozen solid, feet of snow covering the entrance to their job trailer so that they could enter the trailer, and winds that made them work extra hard to complete certain projects.

Beckman added that the community took it upon themselves to assist them in the project during the winter months.

“Bottineau is a wonderful community and it was a pretty good experience for the guys up there,” he said. “The local Lutheran church stopped by with donuts, cookies and baked goods for the guys; local contractors have helped us at times getting things off the truck and refused to take any money for it; and, when it snowed hard someone in the community, although we don’t know who it was, came and removed the snow from our job trailer so we could get in.”

With the project finishing completion this week, Beckman said that the entire experience has been a pleasant and good one for him and the construction crew.

“The community as a whole has been real open arms to us and real wonderful to work with,” he said. “We hope we are adding to the community and giving them something they can be proud of.”

There is no doubt throughout the talk of the town that the residents of Bottineau are proud of the work the construction crew has conducted this winter and are now excited to see the business open.  

Individuals, who have a Facebook account, and want to see photos of the inside of Bottineau’s Cobblestone Inn and Suites, go to: www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151169306382649.472046.127642267648&type=1