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Dorothy Day Center

Postby Tcmetro » December 23rd, 2013, 1:59 am

Looks like St. Paul wants to move the Dorothy Day Center (shelter, soup kitchen, etc.) to the area NE of Downtown, on the other side of the interstate. Phase 2 would be a redevelopment of the current site into apartments.

http://www.startribune.com/local/east/236662541.html
http://dorothydayrevision.org/
Map here: http://thecatholicspirit.com/featured/c ... expansion/

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Re: Dorothy Day Center

Postby hoffm83n » December 23rd, 2013, 11:41 am

so happy to hear this. dorothy day has needed new digs for years.

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Re: Dorothy Day Center

Postby MNdible » December 23rd, 2013, 6:39 pm

I'm pretty skeptical that this move is really motivated by what's best for the users of Dorothy Day...

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Re: Dorothy Day Center

Postby mattaudio » December 23rd, 2013, 7:41 pm

Is this about just isolating Dorothy Day on an island between freeways and railroads?

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Re: Dorothy Day Center

Postby Tcmetro » December 23rd, 2013, 11:01 pm

That's honestly what I think. The new neighborhood is just government buildings and couple auto-related businesses, isolated away from the downtown area. It wouldn't be too difficult for them to expand upon their current space.

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Re: Dorothy Day Center

Postby Nathaniel » January 11th, 2014, 10:50 am

Old Topic here, but I'll bring it back (with a little self-promotion - sorry): https://streets.mn/2014/01/06/should ... -relocate/

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Re: Dorothy Day Center

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Re: Dorothy Day Center

Postby acs » May 7th, 2015, 10:31 pm

New Renderings:

http://www.startribune.com/campaign-beg ... 303015221/

There has got to be a better long term site for this than this little wedge...

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Re: Dorothy Day Center

Postby gcm » May 8th, 2015, 4:16 am

While they're out raising 10's of millions for the DDC, why not raise a few more bucks and include an addition for the Union Gospel Mission Child Care Center? That would be a big step toward making Pedro Park a reality.

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Re: Dorothy Day Center

Postby Nathan » May 8th, 2015, 4:57 pm

So that rendering is one building, of a two building campus or is that "two" in itself?

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Re: Dorothy Day Center

Postby jw138 » September 25th, 2015, 11:37 am

As noted in the General St Paul thread, they've broken ground. I drive by the site every day and have noticed that they're having to remove a lot of bedrock. At first I thought it was concrete from prior structures but the piles just keep getting bigger and bigger.

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Re: Dorothy Day Center

Postby Wedgeguy » September 25th, 2015, 11:57 am

As noted in the General St Paul thread, they've broken ground. I drive by the site every day and have noticed that they're having to remove a lot of bedrock. At first I thought it was concrete from prior structures but the piles just keep getting bigger and bigger.
Not sure why they would have to dig down into bedrock so far? I can't see the place needing a basement to function?

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Re: Dorothy Day Center

Postby jw138 » September 25th, 2015, 12:07 pm

Not sure why they would have to dig down into bedrock so far? I can't see the place needing a basement to function?
There's a fairly substantial grade along 5th St so perhaps it's to level the whole plot with the lowest point at 5th, 6th, & Main Streets.

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Re: Dorothy Day Center

Postby Wedgeguy » September 25th, 2015, 1:29 pm

Thanks for your observation, then that would make some sense.

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Re: Dorothy Day Center

Postby jw138 » September 27th, 2015, 6:12 pm

Image
This was about as good as I could do driving by on Friday.

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Re: Dorothy Day Center

Postby Mikey » September 30th, 2015, 10:19 am

Is it too late to re-configure the streets around here? Connecting Smith directly to Exchange and eliminating all of the half-block "grid-change" streets is what I'm thinking, along with putting what's left of "Main" out of it's mis-named misery
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