PHOTO TIMELINE: Workers Dig Deep on Gallery Flats Project

Check out highlights from the project’s history and see photos of its progress.

On Monday, workers were up early hauling away dirt from a growing hole in the ground out of which the Gallery Flats project will rise Developer Klodt Cos. plans a two-building project that will have a total of 163 apartments—and create nine jobs, increase the tax base by $480,525 and leverage $24.4 million in private investment, according to the Department of Employment and Economic Development. The project launched when the city snapped up the former Park Nicollet site on Eighth Avenue after the health care provider closed its clinic in 2009. Eighth Avenue is central to the city’s long-term plans because of the Southwest Light Rail Transit stop planned just across Excelsior Boulevard from the corridor. The city wants to create an enticing…

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PHOTO TIMELINE: Gallery Flats Seeing Big Changes Despite Snow

Check out highlights from the project’s history and see photos of its progress.

The Park Nicollet and Lutheran Digest sites in downtown Hopkins look radically different just three weeks after crews started demolition on the buildings that once occupied the site. Despite the snow, the buildings are gone, dirt work has begun and cranes are busy lowering materials into place at the Gallery Flats project. On Tuesday, workers were hard at work placing beams into the ground. Developer Klodt Cos. plans a two-building project that will have a total of 163 apartments—and create nine jobs, increase the tax base by $480,525 and leverage $24.4 million in private investment, according to the Department of Employment and Economic Development. The project launched when the city snapped up the former Park Nicollet site on Eighth …

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PHOTO TIMELINE: Follow Along as the Gallery Flats Project Progresses

Check out highlights from the project’s history and see photos of its progress.

After years in the planning and approval stages, residents started to see progress on the Gallery Flats project when demolition began last week. Developer Klodt Cos. is now embarking on a mixed-use project on the old Park Nicollet and the neighboring Lutheran Digest site. The two-building project will have a total of 163 apartments—and create nine jobs, increase the tax base by $480,525 and leverage $24.4 million in private investment, according to the Department of Employment and Economic Development. The project launched when the city snapped up the former Park Nicollet site on Eighth Avenue after the health care provider closed its clinic in 2009. Eighth Avenue is central to the city’s long-term plans because of the Southwest Light Rail…

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What Contaminated Sites Are in Your Neighborhood?

The Hopkins properties that received cleanup grants last month are just two of the numerous properties that need some help before they can be redeveloped.

The metro’s conaminated sites got a little more attention than usual last week when first the Metropolitan Council and then the Department of Employment and Economic Development announced grant packages, including grants for the Gallery Flats project in downtown Hopkins. That followed a grant announced in June for the same project. The Park Nicollet and Lutheran Digest sites that make up the Gallery Flats project aren’t unusually contaminated, though—at least not in the smoke-belching-factory way that way most people think of. The sites are just two properties among hundreds that have health issues that must be taken care of before they can be redeveloped. The grant money for the Lutheran Digest building, for example, will take care of …

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DEED Awards $50,000 to Gallery Flats Project

The money will be used to clean up arsenic and asbestos on the old Park Nicollet site.

Just a day after the Metropolitan Council announced a $15,000 grant for the Lutheran Digest portion of Hopkins’ Gallery Flats development, the Department of Employment and Economic Development announced it’s awarding $50,000 in cleanup funds for the Park Nicollet portion of the project. The money will be used to clean up arsenic and asbestos on the 1.81-acre site at 815 First St. S., according to a Thursday DEED news release. Developer Klodt Cos. plans a mixed-use project on the property and the neighboring Lutheran Digest site that will have a total of 163 apartments. The development will create nine jobs, increase the tax base by $480,525 and leverage $24.4 million in private investment, according to DEED. Hennepin County, the Met …

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Met Council Awards Gallery Flats Project $15,000

The money will be used for cleanup at the old Lutheran Digest building.

The Gallery Flats project at the former Lutheran Digest building is one of 14 redevelopment projects to receive a piece of nearly $2.4 million in Livable Communities brownfield investigation and cleanup grants, the Metropolitan Council announced Wednesday. The Met Council approved $15,000 for the Gallery Flats project to help with soil remediation and asbestos abatement at the old Lutheran Digest site at 31 Ninth Ave. S. Developer Klodt Cos. plans a mixed-use project on the property and the neighboring Park Nicollet site that will have a total of 163 apartments. The Met Council awards about $5 million a year in brownfield cleanup money, which is only available to the more than 90 metro-area communities that participate in the council’s …

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James Warden

7:13 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013

Good points all around. To elaborate on Sally's point, one point they keep making in the LRT meetings is about how the housing preferences of seniors and young adults are now converging. According to surveys, both groups want to be in communities where they can live, work and play. Both want easy access to transit. Both want to be in walkable communities. That's what Hopkins is trying to do with …   more ›