Postby Anondson » May 14th, 2021, 4:41 pm
Two things to note.
Turns out the word of mouth from the retailers in the old commercial strip aren’t facts. Whoodaguessed.
Blake Road Station, proposed by Trilogy, is being reworked based on the city requests for preserving affordable retail at the corner of Blake and Excelsior and for upgrading matierials on all four sides of the 3 buildings to “front” faces aesthetically.
So Trilogy is coming to the city to ask for TIF to cover more retail in 2 buildings (instead of a small part of 1 building) and to keep retail spaces affordable (considering the demographics of the area), plus to construct underground parking that would be needed for the extra retail requested by the city (as Hopkins has not ditched parking minimums for commercial).
770 units for Blake Road Station after the redesign. In 3 buildings. The first building, Building A where the liquor store, chiropractor, and Sea Level store is is proposed to have 2,000 sq ft retail, instead of 0.
Second item, from the Work Study session this past week, a developer could be coming forward to ask for rezoning the offices at 6th St S and 5th St S to allow residential, maybe potential for senior housing. Up to 600 units of housing could replace this office building in South Hopkins.
The office is a distant walk to LRT stations, but has nice access to Nine Mile Creek trail and will be a short walk to the neighborhood commercial node at 11th and 7th so more residents could be a positive for South Hopkins, IMO.