Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Local property owner Sam Stiele bought the property and is already in talks with an undisclosed business about the site.
The already twisty journey of the Boston Garden site took another turn in March when co-owner Felix Kerawala sold the property to Sam Stiele instead of the originally announced pizzeria. The property initially appeared on track to be a Mediterranean restaurant after Twin Cities chef Bill Ansari announced plans to open a business there in December. However, Kerawala quickly shot down that announcement—and announced in January that the restaurant would close Jan. 31 and be leased to three former owners of a Bloomington restaurant who planned to turn the space into a pizzeria. Stiele, who also bought the old Jack Yee property across the street, said he couldn’t say what he has planned for the building because he’s signed a confidentiality …
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013
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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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
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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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
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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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Hopkins is spearheading the formation of a committee that will come up with a plan to transform the corridor into a “complete street.”
Developers evaluating Southwest Transitway stations saw big potential around the one near Blake Road, but there was one big caveat: The road needs to be transformed into a “complete street” that is more pedestrian and bike friendly between Excelsior and Highway 7. Researchers have made recommendations along those lines in no less than six studies dating back to 2003. The area may have seen improvements around Cottageville Park over the years, and residents can look forward to further improvements, such as the redevelopment of the Cold Storage site. But Blake Road itself is largely unchanged from the time that first study was published. “There’s a lot of things that are happening,” said City Engineer John Bradford. “The one thing that’s …
Thursday, January 24, 2013
The neighborhood would benefit from moving the proposed light rail station closer to Blake Road, but a development panel thought the area is a great spot for housing.
The Blake Station on the proposed Southwest Light Rail Transit line is a “prime site” for housing and has incredible development potential—but it will require the continued improvement of the Blake Road corridor that the city envisions. That’s the conclusion a panel of developers, market specialists and urban designers arrived at after a multi-part workshop examining five key station areas on the line: Mitchell and Golden Triangle stations in Eden Prairie, Blake Station in Hopkins, Beltline Station in St. Louis Park and Penn Station in Minneapolis. The panel also opted to look at the Town Center station in Eden Prairie. Click on the PDF to the right of this article to view the station locations. The goal of the Southwest Corridor …
Friday, January 11, 2013
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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Thursday, November 15, 2012
All but four apartments in the development have been rented already.
“Long slog. Long slog,” developer Bill Beard joked after Mayor Gene Maxwell cut the ribbon Thursday at the Marketplace & Main development in downtown Hopkins. “We probably have the record for the most extensions.” The Beard Group’s mixed-use development at Seventh Avenue and Mainstreet certainly faced its share of hurdles. But just a couple months after first welcoming renters, it has nearly filled all its units. The building has just four units left for rent—an occupancy rate well in excess of 90 percent. The ground-floor retail space has not yet been rented, though. Developers, including Beard, have said retail is still a difficult proposition in the current market. Those overseeing the nearby Klodt Development on Eighth Avenue, for …
Friday, October 19, 2012
Artist Ta-coumba T. Aiken led residents in an art activity to come up with ideas for the expanded park.
Cottageville Park neighbors bundled up against the cool fall weather Thursday evening and headed to the newly expanded green space to share their vision for the park. Artist Ta-coumba T. Aiken encouraged residents to draw their ideas on cardboard cubes and paste photos from magazines symbolizing what they wanted in the park. “A lot of times people build stuff and they don’t ask you what you want to do,” Aiken told a group that was primarily made up of young people. “But you live here. You live around the park. Draw what you want.” “Can we draw a pool?” one kid asked. Not every dream for the park was quite so big. Eycis, 9, drew a rainbow and described how she wanted to see a jungle gym and merry-go-round. Yazzmenn, 11, pasted balls on her …
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Friday, October 12, 2012
The $3 million in Community Works funding must be used for at least one 10,000-square-foot redevelopment site.
Hopkins and Minnetonka are set to sign off on an agreement with Hennepin County and Minnetonka that will use $3 million in Community Works money to make up for hardships associated with the Shady Oak Road expansion. At Tuesday’s Hopkins City Council meeting, members will formally review an agreement that would direct Community Works funds to the corridor with the provision that it lead to at least one 10,000-square-foot redevelopment site. Minnetonka City Council is expected to take up the issue on Oct. 29, after it is reviewed by the Economic Development Authority earlier that evening. City leaders have been searching for a way to help businesses ever since word came down that the road would be narrower than expected. That would leave the…
Matthew Kilanowski
11:58 am on Friday, February 1, 2013
Also, I see the attraction for the 43 Hoops site for the station. Cargill is now a huge employer in town, and it'll be much more likely that their employees will make use of the Blake Road station if it's on the west side of Blake. But still, putting the station at the Atlas Cold Storage site is also very attractive in that the county already owns the property. Also attractive is the idea of a … more ›