Published: November 17, 2010
Tags: cancer treatment center, Mayo Clinic, Minn., Rochester
By Brian Johnson Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — Mayo Clinic’s vision for a new proton beam therapy program includes ambitious plans for new construction. The program — part of Mayo’s plans for a three-site cancer center in Minnesota, Arizona and Florida — requires construction of a $188 million, 100,000-square-foot treatment facility in Rochester. The building [...]
Published: September 22, 2010
Tags: Duluth, Duluth Economic Development Authority, Minn., tax-incremental financing, TIF
By Scott Carlson Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — With Duluth’s jobless rate hovering slightly above Minnesota’s overall unemployment mark, city leaders are creating a temporary program to retain and create employment, and to spur investment in private development. The Duluth Economic Development Authority is taking advantage of new state legislation allowing local governments to spend [...]
Published: August 31, 2010
Tags: Hennepin County, left-turn signals, Minn., Minnesota Department of Transportation, TCF Stadium, University of Minnesota
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By Bob Geiger Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — In an effort to ease traffic congestion on Minnesota roadways, the Minnesota Department of Transportation is rolling out solid and flashing yellow arrow turn signals, which let drivers make left turns after yielding to oncoming traffic. Solid yellow arrows signal drivers to prepare to stop before making [...]
Published: August 5, 2010
Tags: Afton, flood plain, Minn., Oak-Land Junior High, Valley Creek Church
By Brian Johnson Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — Right now, it’s just a big cornfield on the eastern outskirts of the Twin Cities — and it probably will stay that way for at least another couple of years. But if Valley Creek Church’s plans for the 20-acre property in Afton — just across the St. [...]
Published: August 2, 2010
Tags: Cambridge, Highway 95 bridge, Minn., Rum River, Second Avenue bridge, U.S. House of Representatives
By Scott Carlson Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — Since 1922, the Second Avenue bridge has spanned the Rum River in Cambridge, Minn., serving as the icon of that Minnesota community’s park system. The city’s plans to tear down the nearly 90-year-old structure and replace it with a similarly designed bridge got a big boost last [...]
Published: July 2, 2010
Tags: DJR Architecture Inc., Java Properties, Kline Auto World, Kline Group, Minn., St. Paul, University Commons, University United
Scott Carlson Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — Twin Cities auto seller Rick Kline plans to transform his vacant car dealership along University Avenue into a multitenant retail development. Dubbed University Commons, the project will offer nearly 25,000 square feet of pedestrian street-level retail as well as auto-oriented retail opportunities, said Dean Dovolis, CEO of DJR [...]
Published: July 1, 2010
Tags: 3M, Cassidy Turley, Minn., Rachel Contracting, St. Paul, St. Paul Port Authority
Brian Johnson Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — Demolition is moving into high gear on the former 3M campus in St. Paul. Within the next couple of weeks, St. Michael-based Rachel Contracting crews will begin to take down the largest building on the old 3M campus on the city’s East Side: an eight-story, 317,000-square-foot office structure [...]
Published: June 25, 2010
Tags: Central Corridor Funders Collaborative, Central Corridor light rail line, Metropolitan Council, Minn., Minneapolis, St. Paul, Twin Cities, Walsh Construction
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By Bill Clements Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — The Metropolitan Council has awarded the first major heavy construction contract for the Central Corridor Light Rail line — a $205 million contract for the eastern or St. Paul portion of the project, which covers seven miles of the 11-mile transit line. The contract will go to [...]
Published: June 14, 2010
Tags: Commonwealth Properties Inc., Exchange Building, Hotel Lowry building, McNally Smith College of Music, Minn., Oz nightclub, St. Paul, St. Paul City Hall, student housing
By Burl Gilyard Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis (AP) — A downtown St. Paul building that’s more than 80 years old will soon have a new purpose: student housing. The growing, St. Paul-based McNally Smith College of Music has worked out a deal for 34 new dorm rooms at the old Hotel Lowry building. McNally Smith’s [...]
Published: June 3, 2010
Tags: CenterPoint Energy, Central Corridor light rail, District Energy, Energy Innovation Corridor, Minn., Minneapolis, St. Paul, St. Paul Port Authority, Twin Cities, Xcel Energy
Frank Jossi Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — As the Central Corridor light rail project takes shape in the Twin Cities, many state and local organizations have been collaborating to integrate renewable and efficient energy into the project. Members of the organizations have branded their effort the Energy Innovation Corridor and have begun to conceive of [...]
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