The studio, which will occupy about 1,500 square feet in an area that has been used for storage, will be used by employees “to do video and audio recording and voice work,” Lunski said.
It will be a place to produce announcements for live events that the business is involved in, for example.
Also “at one of our events, if a band wants us to record audio tracks, we can use the studio to mix the tracks,” he said.
The idea for a studio has been in the works since Lunski and his wife, Trish, purchased the 30,000-square-foot warehouse building in 2013, he said. “We just hadn’t acted on it.”
The studio, which will consist of four, different-sized rooms, will be available for rent, with a technician, by individuals and groups who want to create demo tapes or bands looking to obtain high-quality recordings, for example.
“They can bring in their own amplifiers or drum sets, or they can use our equipment,” Lunski said. “The possibilities are pretty much endless in what we could do.”
The project is in the early stages, said Lunski, who’s working on securing the necessary permits from the City of Grand Forks to move forward.
He expects the project to be completed by this fall, he said.
Community kitchen
Members of the Amazing Grains Food Co-op took a closer look recently at how they might move forward to establish a proposed community kitchen here.
At a membership meeting Tuesday, Tyler Manske presented information, the results of a feasibility study, outlining start-up and continuing costs, potential clients, and how the kitchen could be used and operated.
Manske said the group could benefit from potential grant funding, as well as income from 140 survey respondents who said they would contribute $500 to the project.
Although interest in contributing is not the same as a commitment, “that would provide $70,000 seeding right away,” he said.
To keep the kitchen open, “we need to find reliable tenants and maintain a consistent advertising presence, through the media, trade shows, expos and farmers markets,” Manske told the group of 30 or so attendees.
Clients who would want to use the space for things like pop-up kitchens, for example, would “do their own advertising,” he said. “We would facilitate their ability to do it,” but the co-op would not be responsible beyond that.
Manske described features of other community kitchens that are operating successfully in the region, and said he’s been surprised by the number of inquiries he received from people who are interested in using this type of facility here.
Others suggested that the kitchen could be used for vocational training related to the culinary arts, and could be attached to retail space for the sale of food products.
Co-op members have been considering dissolution since Amazing Grains organic grocery and deli closed in May. Members who attended Tuesday’s meeting voted against dissolving as an organization.
Many who attended said they wanted more information from Manske and others who are involved in creating the feasibility study. Another public membership meeting was scheduled for May 1.
“The plan needs to evolve,” said Bret Weber, a member of the Grand Forks City Council. “I’m thrilled with the energy of the idea.”
Holth appointed to recovery council
Jonathan Holth, co-owner of The Toasted Frog restaurant in downtown Grand Forks, has been appointed by North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum to serve on the Office of Recovery Reinvented Advisory Council.
The council will support strategic efforts to strengthen recovery services and eliminate the shame and stigma of the disease of addiction in North Dakota.
Holth is among six members appointed by the governor. North Dakota’s first lady Kathryn Helgaas Burgum served as chairwoman.
“Recovery is an important issue that affects almost every family and every community in our state,” Holth said. “There’s a lot of work to be done.”
The issue of addiction recovery “is something that’s near and dear to my heart, and I think we can accomplish great things working together.”
Gov. Burgum appointed the council members from a pool of more than 50 applicants representing the areas of recovery, behavioral health, education, community, tribal leadership, criminal justice and families impacted by the disease of addiction.
The Office of Recovery Reinvented was established by executive order in January.
Holth, who has been in long-term recovery for more than nine years, is co-founder and past president of the Downtown Development Association of Grand Forks and interim president of the Downtown Community Partnership in Fargo.
He provides Main Street consulting to various cities in North Dakota.
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