Did they say what cleanup costs are associated with that site?UPDC Land Use Committee got an update from Ryan Companies this week. They're in very early talks with businesses on the empty lot at the SE corner of Marshall and Snelling, where the gas station/coffee shop was recently demolished. Right now the best bite they've gotten is...Starbucks. Two very tentative ideas were floated to us, one of which put the new one-story structure on the corner furthest from both streets with a sea of parking in between. That idea did not go over well. The other is on the corner, but is still one-story with the bare minimum lot coverage, a sea of parking, and a drivethru. Better received, but only barely. Committee members and residents were almost universally unhappy with the lack of a second story (or better), the size of the parking lot, and the idea of another Starbucks two blocks away at Selby that wouldn't necessarily close.
It is a strange little piece of land - hemmed in by the railroad and Snelling and Marshall - both very unpleasant streets at that point. A one story commercial building that has sidewalk frontage might not be all bad.