Construction began in June on the Theodore Roosevelt presidential library planned for the Badlands of western North Dakota.
Total construction will cost about $180 million. Construction will continue through the winter, barring severe weather. “We’re hardy and resilient,” O’Keefe quipped.
“The anticipated pride moment” will be the delivery of mass timber and steel in spring 2024, he said.Library organizers are planning a grand opening of the library for July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of America’s founding.a $50 million operations endowment for the library, contingent upon its organizers raising $100 million in private donations. They announced that goal being reached in fall 2020.
O’Keefe told the AP the project has “exceeded over $200 million in fundraising and commitments.” Fundraising “doesn’t really ever end,” he said. The Legislature earlier this year approved a $70 million line of credit through the state-owned Bank of North Dakota for the project, intended as a backstop for beginning construction. Organizers haven’t tapped the line of credit, O’Keefe said., announced in January by Republican Gov. Doug Burgum., championed the library proposal in the 2019 session, and donated at least $1 million to the project with his wife, Kathryn.
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