Construction at Shiloh...Crossing

No, not Shiloh, Mateh Binyamin.

Shiloh Crossing at Billings, Montana.

A new Jiffy Lube will open at Shiloh Crossing around June, leaving the retail center with six remaining acres available for development.Workers for contractor Langlas Construction were delayed slightly because of this year’s lengthy winter, but Shiloh Crossing developer Steve Corning said Monday it’s moving along in front of the new Popeyes and Five Guys Burgers and Fries building.The $272,000 shop will be the second in Billings for Jiffy Lube. The city’s first Jiffy Lube opened in October 2015. Franchisees Matt Johnson, Kelly Thompson and Kelly Kent, based in Oregon, own the Billings stores.The building is about 4,700 square feet at 1028 Shiloh Crossing Blvd. Vehicles will drive into the bays from the north end, Corning said.Jiffy is the nation’s largest quick-service oil change shop with more than 2,000 stores nationwide. It’s a Houston-based subsidiary of Shell Oil Co., but all service stations are owned by franchisees.

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Can Shiloh Land Dispute Be Settled Via Interchange? Access? Annexation?

Expansion. Access. Rights. Memorandum of understanding. Acquisition.

Sounds all like Middle East diplomacy.

But it's all about Shiloh Road, Belgrade, Montana.

Not my home village:

Interchange partners talk about land acquisition

Landowners crucial to the proposed Interstate 90 interchange project at Belgrade listened last week as engineers showed how the major transportation undertaking could affect their land.

“You’re holding a lot of cards and we have to negotiate,” Gallatin County Commissioner Bill Murdock told the owners. “We’re somewhat at your mercy.”

Murdock was talking to Knife River representatives and Tom Davis, who owns a large chunk of land between Alaska and Frank roads. The project is slated to run through a portion of the land owned by both entities.

Little was discussed as to the nuts and bolts of what right-of-way acquisition will cost local governments; the talk mostly revolved around the design of the new interchange. Both parties were largely concerned about access from area roads and how the project would affect potential development in the area.

Knife River representative Rich Allison said the company will annex 80 acres into Belgrade’s city limits that will go toward the city’s contribution to the project. In turn, the city will grant Knife River access to its infrastructure.

Under a memorandum of understanding, Gallatin County, the city of Belgrade and Gallatin Field airport are responsible for acquiring right of way for the project. Typically, the Montana Department of Transportation wants 120 feet of right of way to accommodate future road expansions.

The plan calls for expanding Alaska Road near the interchange to four lanes with a center turning lane and room for sidewalks, Morrison-Maierle engineers said. The road will shrink to four lanes under the interstate and nearby railroad tracks before opening back up again to access the airport.

The project calls for installing two roundabouts to control traffic at the bottoms of the ramps that access the interstate, engineers said. Using roundabouts similar to the I-90 Shiloh Road exit in Billings enabled designers to shorten the two overpasses and saved about $1 million...

That was illuminationg.

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Widening Roads at Shiloh

Here at the original Shiloh, the entrance road to our community was recently repaved, slightly widened and a sidewalk was contructed leading down to the junction where the road splits off to Shvut Rachel and our outpost communities.

Seems though that another Shiloh road project is stuck.

One in Montana:-

Cooperation needed to get Shiloh Road rolling

The widening of Shiloh Road was a big, complex project when it first was put at the top of the local highway priority list in 2000.

Over the past eight years, completion of the 4.5-mile arterial has grown much more expensive and no less complex. Two years ago, the project cost was estimated to be $20 million...A year ago, the project price tag was $39.5 million. Despite multimillion-dollar earmarks procured by U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, money is short because the costs have gone up with changes in the project and keep going up with construction price inflation.

...In an interview with The Gazette Friday, Lynch discussed some issues that concerned Policy Coordinating Committee members Wednesday. Lynch said that the price for right of way acquisitions along Shiloh Road has to be settled before construction starts because the project is "fiscally constrained." Questions previously had arisen about landowners granting right of way so the project could proceed with the price to be settled later.

...As City-County Planning Board Chairman Al Littler said, private land values along Shiloh will skyrocket after the public invests in improving the road. Hundreds of millions of dollars in commercial development has been projected for this arterial corridor.

But first, landowners, developers and government agencies at every level need to coordinate their efforts and clearly communicate their views. Let's get Shiloh moving on a faster, fully funded track.

Gee, it sounds as if they are ciopying the projects in Jerusalem.