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Railroaded?

In August, 2019, the Mat-Su Borough School District Administration submitted a proposal to the Mat-Su Borough School Board to buy the building that houses the Mat-Su Central School. The owners offered to sell the building to the school district for $5.1 million. The Mat-Su Central school (which is a correspondence…

The MSB is allowing NPI to sublet to Colaska at PORT MAC for $54,000 per year despite the fact that NPI owes the MSB $451,677 in past due property taxes

This item – NPI Update – was in the MSB manager’s notes to the Assembly dated June 9th, 2020: The MSB Manager announced in his report (which was only released to the public late last week), that NPI, which has two long term leases at the PORT, has sublet a…

The MSB wants to lease 480 acres to a private company (Renewable IPP, LLC) for a massive Solar Farm project next to the Houston Middle & High School complex

This item is on the agenda of tonight’s Mat-Su Borough Assembly meeting (June 16, 2020). The MSB wants to sign a 32 year lease (with additional renewal options) with Renewable IPP, LLC, the small company that recently set up a large Solar Farm in Willow. This new Houston solar farm…

A Three Bears Convenience Store, Gas Station, Sudzy Salmon Car Wash, and Midas Shop are planned for the lot next to the Home Depot on the Palmer-Wasilla Highway in Wasilla

A new commercial development which includes a Three Bears Convenience Store, Gas Station, Sudzy Salmon Car Wash, and Midas Auto Shop, which is being built by “Steam LLC” and spearheaded by Mat-Su Valley builder Todd Nugent of Howdie Construction and Architect Pat Eder, was on the agenda of the March…

A Goodwill Store is coming to Wasilla

Goodwill Industries recently applied for a Conditional Use Permit to establish a retail store in Wasilla. The CUP was heard at a City of Wasilla Planning Commission meeting last week on March 10th. Goodwill Industries is in the process of purchasing the old Johnson’s Tire Building located next to Creekside…

More info on “AK Environmental Preservation LLC” – the proposed buyer of the Knik Glacier acreage

It turns out that “Alaska Environmental Preservation LLC” is owned by Chad Emswiler of Alaska. See Related/Original Post: https://matsumuckraker.com/2020/02/12/a-mysterious-company-named-alaska-environmental-preservation-llc-is-buying-365-acres-located-next-to-the-knik-glacier-from-the-alaska-mental-health-trust-authority/ Mr. Emswiler incorporated the company in Wyoming on Jan 20, 2020. However, when he initially applied to purchase the land from the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority, he applied in his…

A mysterious company named “Alaska Environmental Preservation LLC” is buying 365 acres located next to the Knik Glacier from the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority

This legal notice was published in today’s Frontiersman: The Alaska Mental Health Land Trust is giving legal notice that it is selling – via a negotiated sale – not a public sale or land auction – a large parcel of land near Palmer. If anyone objects, they have until March…

The Fishiest Ordinance ever proposed by the MSB staff

This item is on the agenda of the next MSB Assembly meeting.  Ordinance 19-101. OR 19-101 RS 19-071 IM 19-134 The MSB staff  wants the Assembly to drain the Land Management Permanent Fund of $3.5 million (of the total $3.9 million which would leave a balance of only $400K in the…

MSB paid Palmer Tower LLC $500,000 to lease warehouse space

The MSB, which is in the process of purchasing the Tommy Moe building in downtown Wasilla for $1,285,000, paid the owner – Palmer Tower LLC – almost $500,000 to lease a portion of this building – the warehouse space in the back – for the past 11 years. Blog Post…