Keith says; I attended the JACC Meeting last night; excellent dinner and dessert.
I learned that St. Ann's Church (26th Avenue N. and Queen), and other partners, are nearly ready to create 63 units of senior housing. Included in the project will be 15,000 square foot of retail, and one level of underground parking. Ground breaking planned to commence next summer. The development will be on a triangular lot fronting West Broadway to the South, and facing lovely St. Ann's Church, which is across 26th St. to the North. To the East across Queen Av. is the Bean Scene Internet Coffee Shop Campus at the former BurgerKing site (Penn/Bro intersection). This grand development project will allow those older folks around the Northside to move up to Senior housing opportunities without going suburban. The anticipated renewal of West Broadway, with a new pedestrian oriented streetscape and BRT, will support, and gain momentum from substantial developments of this order. Simply stated: Only the beginning, for the "Avenue with the Most Potential". Next: The "Lowell school" site one block north of West Broadway and Logan is an irregular, but healthy, chunk of vacant land slated for market rate home development. PPL will be the developer, so my first instinct is a "brain freeze" type reaction. Why should a Non-Profit Developer build multiple, market rate and conventional houses on a "larger" site, when for-profit builders are building houses on scattered sites all around the area? What happened to the "But fors..." , herewith? Further, I think higher density ownership opportunities would be more appropriate so near West Bro. and Penn. On the other side of town, Jim Graham says PPL is less then sweetness and light in dealing with his impacted neighborhood of Ventura Village. This same PPL, at the front end of potentially large NearNorthSide relationship, seems to be offering us all but flowers and chocolates. I hereby ask Mr. Graham to tell us what we may expect as NearNorth gets involved with PPL-style housing redevelopments. If any new business person would like a tour of West Broadway, let me know and I will assist. Keith Reitman NearNorth REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
