Rotary Chili Cook-Off “After taking a year off due to COVID, we are pleased to announce our 2nd Annual Chili Cook-off will be held at the new Miners Event & Convention Center on Thursday, October 7th, 2021. This event brings friendly competition and chili tasting for the whole community. All proceeds will be used in support of Rotary Club projects …
The City of Virginia is happy to announce that a Grand Opening Committee is hard at work planning a week-long Grand Opening celebration that will showcase all the new Miners Event and Convention Center has to offer. The Grand Opening events will take place during the week of September 20th. Please watch this site for more details as they become …
Virginia, MN…. As construction ramps up to meet the September Grand Opening of Miners Event and Convention Center in Virginia, Minnesota, so are bookings at the new facility. The new convention center, often referred to as the MECC, is poised to be the area’s hockey hub with two state-of-the-art arenas and dryland room for hockey training. The sports side of …
Virginia, MN…. The new Iron Trail Motors Event Center has announced an exciting addition to their new arenas, ice bumper cars. This unique attraction takes the fun of bumper cars and puts it on ice. The Iron Trail Motors Event Center will be one of only 27 locations worldwide to feature ice bumper cars and will have exclusive rights to the …
We had a great week! Our focus is to get all the concrete floors poured as soon as possible. This week we poured the last slab under the West stadia, poured the slab under the East stadia, the North end of the West rink, and the resurfacer room along with two sets of stairs! As far as the other trades …
Happy Friday Everyone! We had a great week this week! The weather was awesome! We continued with underground and overhead rough-ins, finished the block walls in the locker room area, continued patching precast walls, put air handlers up in the North Mezzanine, set the big chiller on the North Mechanical room roof, prepped for our Convention Center topping slab and …
Happy Friday All!Now that the Polar Vortex has left us, we have been thawing things out and picking up the pace once again! Our outside activities are in full force. Roofers had a decent week and were able to install 3 days so far with 2 days lost to the wind. We will be working this Saturday to try and …
The weather has finally started to improve! The roofers, Carpenters, and Masons came back mid-week and resumed their work activities again! The masons are laying up the North locker room walls, The carpenters started their work on the Air barrier system and the roofers finished up the roof at the Convention Center, and will be back up on the Main …
Virginia Mayor Larry Cuffe and Kraus-Anderson’s Tracy Pogue and Bob Fitzgerald discuss how the City of Virginia is positioning itself for the future of the Iron Range. Or Visit the Krause Anderson website to listen (link after text on the page).
We had a pretty good week this week! We prepped and poured two slabs on grade! One in the Convention Center Conference and Meeting Rooms and one in the locker room area between the rinks on the North end of the building. We continued with the underground electric and plumbing in the kitchen and mechanical area on the North end. …
