There is a wee triangular space in the Hi-Lake complex:
north of Lake Street, east of the pizza and Wells Fargo businesses and west of
Hiawatha
that the city is seriouslyconsidering for
high rise apartments without provisions for additional parking
Businesses there are alreadycomplaining about parking issues
PLEASE GIVE YOUR INPUT ON THIS MATTER - SEE BELOW FOR DETAILS:
Comments due on Hi-Lake Apartments and Public Hearing on Tuesday.
Comments due by noon, tomorrow, Monday, September 10, 2012.Send to:
Matthew Hendricks, Development Finance Analyst
Minneapolis Finance & Property Services Department
105 5th Avenue South, Suite 200
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401
(612) <email obscured>
East Phillips Neighborhood (EPIC)
hosted a major meeting last summer to review the proposed plan for the Hi-Lake
Triangle Apartments. This is an unusual development in that it is on a very
tiny site, given the number of units, read on.
This concerned us since it was billed as ‘for elders’ and the crime there is
significant. We asked them to consider balconies to provide ‘eyes on the
station and street’.
The EPIC Board surveyed all businesses in Hi-Lake and they were all struggling
with parking issues.
This 64 unit building adds very little parking.
We have shared these concerns and others with Wellington Developers at a
previous EPIC meeting.
BUT NOW we have an opportunity to express our views again. Plans are available
for review on the City’s website at:
http://www.minneapolismn.gov/c%20/public/index.htm
Contact Mr. Hendricks (612) 673-5236to get copies of EPIC’s recommendations
from the EPPIC meeting last summer with Wellington, Inc.
The EPIC board encourages you to support these recommendations and come to the
Public Hearing.
PUBLIC HEARING is at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 11, 2012 in Room 317 City
Hall.
The City Council is expected to consider the Plans at its meeting on Friday,
September 21, 2012.
The City of Minneapolis invites the East Phillips Improvement Coalition, the
Corcoran Neighborhood Association and the Longfellow Community Council to
review and comment on the proposed Hi-Lake Triangle Apartments Tax Increment
Financing (TIF) Plan and the related Modification No. 23 to the Model City
Urban Renewal Plan and Modification No. 122 to the Common Development and
Redevelopment Plan and Common TIF Plan (collectively, the “Plans”). .
The Plans have been prepared to facilitate Wellington Management Inc.’s
development of 64 units of affordable senior rental housing and ground-floor
retail space in a new six-story building on a vacant .85-acre site at 2230 East
Lake Street. The site is adjacent to the Lake Street/Midtown LRT Station in
south Minneapolis.
The project will include 53 one-bedroom units and 11 two-bedroom units. All
units will be affordable to individuals and families earning 60 percent or less
of the Area Median Income. It is anticipated that two to three retail tenants
will occupy the ground-floor commercial space.
The Hi-Lake Triangle Apartments TIF Plan establishes a new housing TIF District
within the existing Hiawatha and Lake Redevelopment Project. Modification No.
23 to the Model City Urban Renewal Plan and Modification No. 122 to the Common
Plan change project boundaries to remove the Hi-Lake Triangle Apartments parcel
from the Model City Urban Renewal Area and the Common Project Area.
The Plans are being transmitted for review and comment to the Hennepin County
Board of Commissioners, the Minneapolis Board of Education, the City Planning
Commission, the East Phillips Improvement Coalition, the Corcoran Neighborhood
Association, the Longfellow Community Council and other interested parties.
The Minneapolis City Council can approve, amend or reject the proposed Plans
after consideration of comments received.
The City welcomes your comments, which are due by noon on Monday, September 10,
2012. Please submit comments to:
Matthew Hendricks, Development Finance Analyst
Minneapolis Finance & Property Services Department
105 5th Avenue South, Suite 200
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401
(612) 673-5236
<email obscured>
If you or your organization would like to meet to discuss the proposed Plans,
if you would like paper copies, or if you have questions, please contact
Matthew Hendricks.
Thank you. Joan Mathieu, Development Finance
City of Minneapolis (www.minneapolismn.gov)
105 5th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55401-2534
(612) 673-5053 <email obscured>