Terra NW

Anchorage,
AK
(2011)

Terra NW

Broadband, Community, Daycare and Early Childhood, Indian Country, Youth and Families

Massive broadband expansion brings improved healthcare and connectivity to remote Alaska

Investment

NMTC Amount: $140,523,585
Total Project Cost: $140,523,585

IMPACT

95 FTE jobs
691 construction jobs

CDEs

Alaska Growth Capital, Chickasaw Nation CDE, Lower Brule Community Development Enterprise, Travois, USBCDE, Waveland Community Development

Investor

US Bank

Voices from the Community

NMTCs have helped unlock over $200M in private investment for a broadband network now serving over 44,000 mostly Alaska Native people in 84 remote western Alaska communities.

-Lewis Schnaper, Vice President, GCI Business, GCI Communication Corp., Anchorage, AK

Project Description

The Alaska telecommunications provider, GCI, completed Phase 1 of the TERRA-NW broadband service in December and started transmitting commercial traffic on Jan. 3, 2013. Travois New Markets used a portion of its 2011 allocation to assist with financing.

The new network provides broadband to 808 businesses, 79 schools, and 74 hospitals and clinics, including the new $91 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — funded, tribally-owned, and operated Norton Sound Regional Hospital in Nome.

Alaska Natives who live in remote villages were able to use video conferencing to receive medical and psychiatric care; students can connect over video conferencing to receive remote instruction in courses — all services which were once thought impossible.

Other stages of the project have received NMTC financing as well.

MAP

Address: 2550 Denali Street, Anchorage, AK 99503

Census Tract: 2020001400

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