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The General Mills grain elevator at 3716 Dight Ave was bought by Hayes Harlow Development. It was formerly known as the Checkerboard grain elevator and it is right across the street from the 38th Street Station. This site is a great opportunity for a fantastic development similar to the area around ...

More on restoring the gorge.

https://www.americanrivers.org/2018/06/ ... ver-gorge/

Lander Group Shares Plans for New Apartment Building at 4737 Minnehaha Avenue:

https://longfellow.org/2018/06/27/lande ... ha-avenue/

Two meetings are scheduled in July for the Minneapolis Locks Disposition Study. The study will examine the benefits and costs of continuing to operate the Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam, Lower St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam and Lock and Dam 1. Monday, July 16, 6-8 p.m. Mill City Commons public...

They are going before the planning commission on April 23rd to try and get approval for the project. You can find the plans at the link below.

https://longfellow.org/2018/04/06/publi ... ha-avenue/

And it also does not address the integration of the Hiawatha LRT trail gap project at all.

http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/cip/fut ... -trail-gap

Building is coming down. Ground breaking is March 15th.

I would love better connections to the river from above.

And this for the Mississippi River Gorge.

https://www.americanrivers.org/2018/01/ ... s-say-yes/

The small area plan suggests moving the 3rd Precinct police station on Lake Street to the roof depot site. I hope the city is considering this, as it would open up 3rd Precinct police station site for redevelopment, which includes several surface parking lots and a great corner site at the corner of...

Longfellow Station Commercial Building

http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/www/gro ... 206880.pdf

Snelling Yards Neighborhood Meeting
Longfellow Recreation Center - Meeting Room 104
3435 36th Ave. S, Minneapolis MN, 55406
Monday, December 11, 2017
7:30pm to 8:30pm

http://snellingyards.com

Article on the recent work of the Extend the Midtown Greenway Partnership.

http://www.mndaily.com/article/2017/11/ ... =hootsuite

Longfellow Community Council’s Neighborhood Development and Transportation Committee.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4lck8r5ouo24v ... .docx?dl=0

Development proposal at the corner of 42nd Street and Hiawatha Avenue. It would include a Starbucks and Dominos, each with a drive thru. This would make the bike lane on 42nd Street even more dangerous. There is also no way for pedestrians to access the site from the sidewalk on Hiawatha Avenue.

Email your city council member, county commissioner, and state representative. All these levels of government have a role to play in improving this area.

The City of Saint Paul is already looking at how rail could run along the CP rail to the Ford Site with the Reimagine the Railway study. Maybe it could just stop at the Ford Site and connect to the A Line. https://www.stpaul.gov/departments/planning-economic-development/planning/current-activities/r...

There are new documents up for the Reimagine the Railway study along the CP rail spur.

https://www.stpaul.gov/departments/plan ... udying-new

There seems to be a lot of talk within the TAC and PAC about the "Y" option, which would serve both the Ford site, 46th Street Station, and the airport. If possible, this seems like the best route to put forward.

The development team for Snelling Yards is starting to share preliminary concepts. Thoughts? https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/21768169_1257606681012753_4353821159849951278_n.jpg?oh=ffcf46459868e7898c48209061b40cbf&oe=5A4DAFFF https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/22046921_12...