2012 West North Central Regional Forecast

is seeing much of the rest of the action in big projects, with the construction of a federal building in Fort Snelling, Minn.; a hotel near Minneapolis' Mall of America; and a canola processing plant in Bloomington, Minn. The continuing construction of wind farms in all of these states; a huge project in Kansas City, Mo., for the National Nuclear Security Administration and General Services Administration; a $200 million Microsoft data center nearing completion in West Des Moines, Iowa; a Yahoo data center near Omaha and some smaller projects near the city's downtown ballpark round out the major construction projects in these states.