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I work in the Golden Rule Building (directly adjacent to this project) and can confirm this is definitely under way. There is a large dumpster outside, the windows are now covered, construction entrance signage, and there is a posted rendering of the project with a completion date listed (I think sometime in 2018, but can't recall precisely).The old mid-century Woolworth's building at 428 Minnesota is finally going to get some love.
http://www.twincities.com/2016/04/27/st ... -makeover/
Interesting to note, it was STILL leased. Wahh?
Woolworth’s long-term land lease expired last year, giving the building owner the full go-ahead to move in an entirely new direction. By next summer, it plans to have the site ready for office tenants--
I don't get into downtown St Paul often, is this project moving forward?
Also work in Golden Rule and the images on site are different than posted above. See this page:I work in the Golden Rule Building (directly adjacent to this project) and can confirm this is definitely under way. There is a large dumpster outside, the windows are now covered, construction entrance signage, and there is a posted rendering of the project with a completion date listed (I think sometime in 2018, but can't recall precisely).The old mid-century Woolworth's building at 428 Minnesota is finally going to get some love.
http://www.twincities.com/2016/04/27/st ... -makeover/
Interesting to note, it was STILL leased. Wahh?
I don't get into downtown St Paul often, is this project moving forward?
This is more reason why I'd refuse to support Coleman for governor. He has such an outdated way of thinking. With all due respect, St. Paul, you need whatever you can get to start filling up your vacant lots and surface parking. Your downtown needs to deal with the blocks of missing teeth before worrying about what type of land use you want and where. And if you grow your downtown population by 20,000-30,000 then maybe more businesses would be interested in Downtown.Per an announcement from the St. Paul Planning and Economic Development department, "Proposals to demolish the building or to repurpose it for housing will not be considered.”
Mayor Chris Coleman elaborated on that in a statement, noting that the city's downtown has seen "tremendous growth in housing and entertainment options … but now is the time to focus on accelerating job growth."
I personally say let the quasi free-market choose what goes into that building.Got an idea to remake St. Paul's police building? Make sure it's not housing
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/n ... lding.html
This is more reason why I'd refuse to support Coleman for governor. He has such an outdated way of thinking. With all due respect, St. Paul, you need whatever you can get to start filling up your vacant lots and surface parking. Your downtown needs to deal with the blocks of missing teeth before worrying about what type of land use you want and where. And if you grow your downtown population by 20,000-30,000 then maybe more businesses would be interested in Downtown.Per an announcement from the St. Paul Planning and Economic Development department, "Proposals to demolish the building or to repurpose it for housing will not be considered.”
Mayor Chris Coleman elaborated on that in a statement, noting that the city's downtown has seen "tremendous growth in housing and entertainment options … but now is the time to focus on accelerating job growth."
That's awesome, and seems a bit bold given the (current) surrounding land use. There's an effort to get bike lanes on Rice Street with a 4-3 conversion. I wonder what this company would think of that.Phoenix Development is looking to purchase 782-804 Rice Street from the HRA to build "a new 4 story-41 unit apartment building w/ 58 parking spaces."
Isn't this part of why Cray left? Lack of contiguous office space at the highest level?Contiguous in terms of SF per floor plate? Or contiguous in terms of SF across an entire building? With the old Ecolab buildings and the Cray space in Galtier vacated, it seems like there's plenty of large office spaces available. This location is not as prime as either of those locations, and seems like it would be a prime residential conversion next to Pedro Park and across from Lunds.
That's the official word. There was also the small matter of it raining in the office rather regularly. And the flood that took out the machine room. And the fact that the Green Line was entirely constructed from scratch before the elevators taken out by said flood were fully operational.Isn't this part of why Cray left? Lack of contiguous office space at the highest level?
In case it's not obvious to others, you should probably note that the article is about you...What happened has zero to do with bikes, but it's a narrative that sells.
