July 3, 2019
Reaching for the sky
United Quality dedicates new facility
By Jerry W. Kram
The renovation of Parshall skyline is complete but there are few more nuts and bolts to be tightened, but the United Quality Cooperative dedicated it’s new grain elevator in Parshall on time.
With storage bins towering 150 feet and legs adding another 120, the new structure stands about 27 stories tall and gives United Quality an additional 500,000 bushels of storage. UQ CEO Erik Jacobson said the building replaced the original elevator built in 1925 and expanded in the 1950s. To mark the occasion, the cooperative gave tours and lunch to a couple of hundred spectators.
“We started at noon with an afternoon of fun and food,” Jacobson said. “North Country Oil supplied all the cooking and meat. We had tours where some people climbed to the top and some people, like me, did not.”
Those who did climb to the top braved about 350 stairs to reach the top of the legs 270 feet above the ground. Some said they could see Plaza from the top deck.
With storage bins towering 150 feet and legs adding another 120, the new structure stands about 27 stories tall and gives United Quality an additional 500,000 bushels of storage. UQ CEO Erik Jacobson said the building replaced the original elevator built in 1925 and expanded in the 1950s. To mark the occasion, the cooperative gave tours and lunch to a couple of hundred spectators.
“We started at noon with an afternoon of fun and food,” Jacobson said. “North Country Oil supplied all the cooking and meat. We had tours where some people climbed to the top and some people, like me, did not.”
Those who did climb to the top braved about 350 stairs to reach the top of the legs 270 feet above the ground. Some said they could see Plaza from the top deck.
