A Home at the Samaritan House: Expansion project nearly 20 years in the making

Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series exploring the Samaritan House's $16.9 million expansion project.

Samaritan House Executive Director Chris Krager smiled on a recent day in Kalispell at a large marker board filled with colorful graphs and charts showing the organization’s progress toward the biggest expansion in its history — a project about 20 years in the making.

“We got this campus, no mortgage, and have been developing this plan for the expansion sort of ever since,” Krager said. “We sort of moved into it pretty quickly and fired it up to use in its current state, but we know that with a little streamlining, we can exponentially serve more people.”