The Community Action Partnership of Northwest Montana has moved into its new digs in the former Elks Lodge in South Kalispell.

“It wasn’t an easy year. It wasn’t an easy move,” Executive Director Tracy Diaz said at an open house on Thursday, Aug. 21 celebrating the nonprofit’s relocation.

The search to depart downtown began around seven years ago “when we decided that being on Main Street was probably not the best place for a social service agency,” Diaz said.

But the properties for sale were all too expensive, and Diaz eventually decided, “forget it, we’re not going to move,” she recalled.

Eventually, the former Elks Lodge property popped up. After some bidding wars, the Community Action Partnership bought the property from Stockman Bank for $1.8 million.

But transforming the buildin

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