WY, 02/15 ( KTVQ Billings )- Workers who are headed to the Gillette area to build a coal-fired power plant will have the option of living in mobile homes at the Cam-plex events center.

Booming gas drilling has made available housing scarce in the Gillette area.

Events center officials agreed with Black Hills Corp. officials last week to set aside 50 lots for temporary housing at the Cam-plex. That site will have room for as many as 100 recreational vehicles.

The mobile home sites are expected to be ready by Oct. 1. By then, most of 260 workers who will build the power plant will be at work.

Black Hills will have the option of reusing the sites if it needs to bring in workers for another project before 2020.