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St. Paul / Coleman sees big changes ahead for city
Mayor's State of the City address will lay out new initiatives and outline some downtown redevelopment projects finally taking shape
BY TIM NELSON
Pioneer Press
Article Last Updated: 03/24/2007 10:32:48 PM CDT
St. Paul is about to begin "a transformative moment in the city's history," Mayor Chris Coleman says.
Federal officials have approved crucial "preliminary engineering" for the Central Corridor light-rail line; the Republican National Convention will put the city on the world stage in 2008; and several key real estate developments may be about to fall into place, including:
A deal between the city, county and a new developer for a project involving the former West Publishing headquarters and the former Ramsey County jail.
A new soccer facility for the Minnesota Thunder, potentially incorporating a new Saints stadium.
Redevelopment of the Palace Theater on Seventh Place in downtown St. Paul.
"We are on the verge of some incredible opportunities," Coleman said Friday in an interview with the Pioneer Press in advance of his 2007 State of the City address. It will come 15 months after he took office, his first major address with his own administration and financial plan fully in place.
Some of the marquee developments have been much longer in the making, however. A first-class soccer facility has been on the city's radar since the last Coleman administration, that of now-U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman. The last mayor, Randy Kelly, tried to interest Disney in the Palace Theater, and his administration had been talking with the Saints about the deficiencies of the city's Midway Stadium.
The current mayor, though, said he believes he and city staffers are
about to get some of the details hashed out on some of the projects.
Coleman said Friday that the coal-burning High Bridge power plant and the Diamond Products factory are potential sites for a riverside sports complex and that the Capitol City Partnership has hired stadium architect HOK to sketch out potential parks there and at several other locations, including the Midway Stadium site.
He also said several potential bidders are looking at the Palace Theater, and the city's Department of Planning and Economic Development is in talks with a viable developer for the virtually dormant Kellogg Boulevard riverfront between Market and Wabasha streets.
That riverfront belongs to Ramsey County, but other sources, speaking on condition they not be identified in deference to the mayor's address, said the city and county are exploring a way to kick-start redevelopment with a potential land swap involving some property in the Lowertown area.
Coleman declined to name the developer involved, saying only it was an experienced firm he felt could carry out what years of faltering efforts could not, namely rebuilding the downtown riverfront.
There is another effort to do so across the Mississippi River. Developer Jerry Trooien has proposed a more than $1 billion development project on land, some of which he now owns, between Robert Street and the Lafayette Freeway.
Coleman on Friday denied efforts on the river's north bank were intended to rival, or potentially thwart, Trooien's project.
"I don't weigh it at all against the Bridges," he said of work on the downtown side of the river. "I just believe it is the premier redevelopment opportunity in the Twin Cities right now."
The mayor also said he'll lay out new initiatives Monday that he hopes will prove as momentous as some of the developments that seem nearer at hand.
Most important, he said, is the Ford Site Planning Task Force, a 24-member panel that first took public input Tuesday on the potential for rebuilding on the Highland Park site of the Ranger pickup assembly plant, scheduled to close in 2008.
He also said the city will be a pilot project for a new early-childhood education scholarship program, suggested by Art Rolnick at the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis, and Coleman plans to double the number of recreation centers open for this year's spring break. Both efforts are intended to build community and opportunity among kids in the city.
A rink rat before his political days, Coleman said he hoped hockey would play a role in that, too. He said he's met with Ramsey County officials to address what has become a skating crisis in St. Paul.
Warm winters have turned beloved rinks into sloppy messes, and outdoor skating that used to start around Thanksgiving has been put off until the new year, according to hockey booster and Ramsey County Commissioner Jim McDonough.
"Our youth teams still do a lot of outdoor practice because it's cheaper and because it really exposes kids to that rink-rat mentality that coaches say really builds skills," McDonough said. "It's just coming down and skating that makes a difference, and that has been really difficult" because of the weather.
Coleman said he hopes the city, county and private contributors might put together at least two outdoor refrigerated rinks to firm up the city's hockey tradition.
Tim Nelson can be reached at tnelson@pioneerpress.com or 651-292-1159
It was in the news last night Eastside Developement Corp. Has a program to help people with affordable housing. I wasn't sure if this is Chucks Business or not.
I think it's great they are trying to help like this.
Is this your business Chuck?
I wonder if he will have anything to say baout his recent "ramping up" of of the city's Nazi style housing code inspections program?
Where are the homeless at DorothyDay going re; www.sharon4council.blogspot.com
Can we say we need a change in leadership in St. Paul. Have you seen your tax bill lately?
Lets start with Chris Coleman.
12:45 PM
Sharon,
Do You Realy Care About People at The Dorothy Day Center?
OR
When They Condenm Your Home, You Will Need A Pace To Live Too.
2:25, what does this have to do with this thread?
You distract from the discussion with messages that have nothing to do with the thread.
Do you walk into a room of people who are talking and just blurt out a conversation that has nothing to do with anything being said in the room? Please be more respectful of others.
Sharon your blog is a bore like your distracting one liners and links here.Please stay on topic what you do is rude!
Help what? help ya outta your home and into one of their expensive "throw togethers?"
Anybody know if there is anymore of the depositions of the 3 City lawsuits coming public or where I can find them?
Curious
You can't find them. I tracked down one of the guys in the lawsuit a couple of months ago to see if I could get them and didn't have any luck.
Bob got some of the Depositions at the courthouse and had them on the blog here for a while, ask him, he probably still has them.
Ignorance of the Law and or www.sharon-mn-ecf.blogspot.com is no excuse: Forensic Evidence of o5-cv-01248 Dadder Inc. v. Steve Magner is also on www.sharon4council.blogspot.com
Hey Gang put your glasses on download www.adobe.com to open adobe reader. for information
The East Side Neighborhood Development Company launched their "Prosperity Campaign" on Saturday - http://www.esndc.org/ProsperityCampaign.html. ESNDC plans on working with cultural, school, faith, and work communities to connect residents to motivate and assist households in accessing existing wealth creation programs and Providers.
Chuck's fabulous and groovy organization is the North East Neighborhoods Development Corporation - NENDC http://www.nendc.50megs.com/.
Hi All,
Thank you for the information Jonathan.
It is nice to hear something good about the East Side Neighborhood Development Company.
I was asked to post information here about ESNDC some months ago. I am sure the regulars here remember the "Mike Taube letter"(It is in the archives). I was disappointed there was not much of an effort to dispute Mikes allegations. It lead myself and others to assume Mike is telling the truth.
If Mikes allegations are true, I hope this effort is a new page in the history of ESNDC.
Chuck also has some programs to help elderly people maintain their home. Loans that don't have to be paid back until the elderly person dies or moves to assisted living at which time the home is sold and the loan is paid from the proceeds of the sale.
Dose Chuck and his East Side Neighborhood Development Company.
Do they help the Disabled People in any way.
I am a disabled person, and I would like to fine some good lovely area to move to.
Cindy
They support a leadership style that helps you out of your home and onto the streets where you can live ubder a bridge or in a park or in a car.
I say retire Coleman. He needs to go to the west side where he came from.
Coleman feels he knows what is good for us (no smoking ban). Did you ever notice the liberal lefties on the city council want to protect us from ourselves.
Heck, Kathy Lantry even thinks the Easter Bunny harmful. She banned it from City Hall. I say we should send her some peeps.
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