Join Us Monday Night for our Annual Awards Progam at 5:00 p.m. in the Party Room at 808 Berry Place, near University and 280. See below.
University UNITED Announces its Annual Design Awards, and its First Annual Metro Award Design Awards Project of the Year Award: 808 Berry Place 808 Berry Place is a $35 million, 267-unit rental housing project designed by Walsh Bishop Architects and developed by Dominium Housing, just west of University Avenue and Highway 280. Along with Emerald Gardens next store, 808 Berry Place has helped transform an industrial area into an attractive urban neighborhood. The project includes flats, townhomes, and lofts of varying sizes and rent-levels. Key features of the project include: a beautiful interior courtyard with a swimming pool, fire pit, and year-round spa; a community room, pub space, conference room, exercise area, sauna, tanning room, and theatre; heated underground parking; and high quality materials and workmanship. A significant affordable housing component within the project responds to the strong demand for workforce housing in the metro area. �Uni� Award Winners for 2004 Mai Village is a newly built, family owned and operated Vietnamese restaurant at 394 University Avenue (at Western Avenue), about which KathieJenkins of the Pioneer Press has written, �On the Wow scale, Mai Village is a 10!� The interior features exquisite craftsmanship and detailing throughout, with custom designed furnishings, including hand-crafted wooden tables imported from Vietnam. The Mack Building, at 2505 University Avenue, is an extensive adaptation by owner Joe Commers of a historic building that reflects the early prominence of the automobile and trucking industries along University Avenue. The building�s original elegant fa�ade has been restored and new storefronts have been sensitively inserted. The project was designed by Anderson Dale Architects, and the contractor is McGough Construction. The Subway Restaurant at 2121 University converted the front of a former taxi repair garage into an attractive chain store restaurant bringing new life and vitality to the corridor. It is a good example of how a fast-food chain can adapt its standard franchise design requirements to meet the specific needs of a site and the context of an urban community. The owners of the business are Jeffrey and Jacqueline Lunde, and they worked with RVK Architects and Eckman Construction. Western Sculpture Garden, opened in 1998, was developed and is maintained by Public Art St. Paul working closely with the St. Paul Parks Department. The Park is widely credited with helping to stabilize what had been a problem-ridden neighborhood. PASP regularly rotates the sculpture for display, and offers a variety of related arts education programming for the community on site. This year, PASP completed the Western Park Neighborhood Assessment Report which examined the adjoining Fuller-Aurora community. This effort involved more that 50 individuals representing residents, apartment owners and managers, churches, community and arts organizations, and public agencies. The assessment was used to build the case for further initiatives to promote neighborhood stability and quality of life, using the park as a catalyst. The jurors for the Design Awards included Richard Fischer representing the St. Paul AIA; Tim Griffin of the St. Paul Design Center; James Garrett, Jr. of 4RM=ULA Architecture Design Development; Nieeta Presley of Aurora Saint Anthony Neighborhood Development Corporation; and Trish Sackrison, Chair of University UNITED. Metro Award: The Central Corridor Partnership University UNITED is establishing an Annual �Metro� Award to recognize an individual or an organization that is making a special contribution promoting closer collaboration between the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul for the benefit of the larger region. UNITED is a strong proponent of the two cities working more closely together and is in a unique position to offer this award as our coalition has members from both sides of the city line. Prospect Park East River Road Improvement Association in Minneapolis and the St. Anthony Park Community Council in St. Paul have been leading the way with a number of cooperative programs over the years relating to development, transportation and environmental issues. The First Annual University UNITED Metro award is being presented to theCentral Corridor Partnership, a coalition of businesses, business organizations, Ramsey County, Hennepin County, Organized Labor, the University of Minnesota, and local governments that has been formed to advocate for light rail in the Central Corridor, along University Avenue. The Annual Design Awards and the Metro Award will be presented on Monday December 13, 2004 at 5:00 PM at a program being held at the party room of 808 Berry Place, just off University Avenue and Highway 280. The program is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. For information call (651) 647-6711.
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