Port Authority drops effort to condemn St. Paul business
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A longtime North End company no longer has to worry about condemnation efforts by the St. Paul Port Authority.
By CHRIS HAVENS, Star Tribune
Last update: June 10, 2009 - 10:34 PM
The St. Paul Port Authority has ended its effort to seize land from a longtime North End business.
The agency wanted to condemn property at 1400 Jackson St., owned and used by Advance Shoring Co., which rents heavy construction equipment and fought hard against the Port Authority's effort.
"We're thankful that they changed their minds," Advance Shoring CEO Karen Haug said Wednesday. "My employees are definitely relieved."
Port Authority officials shifted their strategy because "we decided we'd rather negotiate face to face." said spokesman Tom Collins. "We're still interested in the land if they're willing to talk," he said.
Haug said she wasn't sure.
Her father started the business in 1960 and it currently employs 42 people.
The Port Authority wanted the land because it said it's polluted and underused. It wants to clean and redevelop the land to lure new businesses as part of a 15-year-old plan for the area. Neighbors and the District 6 Planning Council supported the condemnation effort.
The property has environmental problems, but there is no immediate health risk, according to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
The Port Authority needs City Council approval to condemn properties.
A public hearing on the matter last October drew more than 50 opponents, and the council held over the issue for a month.
The parties entered into a confidentiality agreement in November so the Port Authority could try to find suitable replacement property for Advance. None of the suggestions was workable, Haug said.
The Port Authority would have needed to notify the City Council by Wednesday if it wanted to pursue condemnation.
Council Member Lee Helgen, whose Fifth Ward includes the North End, said Wednesday that he was disappointed there wasn't more talk of redevelopment of the site.
"Advance Shoring is a good company, but my goal is to create higher-density jobs for residents," Helgen said. "To have 13 acres without 1,000 jobs -- that's a missed opportunity."
The Port Authority said the site is eligible for eminent domain because the cleanup cost, estimated at $4.8 million, is more than the property value. The property's 2009 taxable market value is $3.2 million, according to Ramsey County Property records.
But that appears to be moot now. "Condemnation is totally off the table," Collins said.
Said Haug: "I hope that's the case."
Chris Havens • 612-673-4148
From the comment section of the Trib
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It's interesting that the St. Paul City Council thinks of someone else's private property as a "missed opportunity" just so the politicinas … can look good. More creative thinking from the "Helgen Zone!"
10:39 PM Said!
"Helgen Zone!"
Any Zone, and anybody's properties.
Right Boy's.
This up coming election will kick butt.
It doesn't change anything. The sate law in Minnesota now is so restrictive on condemnation for the purpose of redevelopment that there is no way the Port would have won in court.
The only thing with taking "a taking" off of the table is if the owners now agree to sell they won't get the additional time to reinvest their profits before they are taxed as capital gains.
I think the number is and has been for years that the E.D. takings were about 95% agreed to price before the court hearing. E.D. offers are usually between 120% and 200% of market value.
Its not like road "takings" there the state goes for the lowest figure they can get and you have to pay a fortune in lawyers to get fair value.
JMONTOMEPPOF
Chuck Repke
This is a political ploy by the Coleman administration to implement damage control.
You mean it took the city this long to realize that jobs would be lost here (in this economy) and the city would have just took the property and just sat on it and not developed it just like the ADC (jail).
Colemans opponents would have made this a re-election issue against Coleman.
Jeff Matiatos
Jeff the Port Authority isn't the City... it is a seperate agency with its own board of directors.
The jail is the County's which again has nothing to do with the City.
JMONTOMEPPOF
Chuck Repke
I think it's called the St.Paul
( Not Ramsey County ) Port authority.
Ie. the cities plan for re-development of the jail into condos that contribute to city revenue and lure well to do tenants.
A de-facto city effort to say the least.
Jeff Matiatos
I know Jeff from your mind to God's ear...
It is also the Saint Paul Companies...the Saint Paul Saints.. Saint Paul Electric... Saint Paul Tire... Saint Paul yacht club...Saint Paul Grill... Saint Paul Ski Club...
...and none of them are the City of Saint Paul either.
And then what is this?
"Ie. the cities plan for re-development of the jail into condos that contribute to city revenue and lure well to do tenants."
It is 100% the County's plan. The meetings have all been with the County Board, the County Manager and the County staff have done all of the negotiations.... just because a tree falls in the City doesn't mean the Mayor cut it down.
De-facto ignorance...
JMONTOMEPPOF
Chuck Repke
Chuck, it's not ignorance when someone say, like myself, doesn't fully understand how this thing got started. Now I do, provided your not trying to pull a fast one.
You do have very good knowledge of how government works compared to me, but you cannot keep up with me on how the courts work and the inner workings of the courts
( corruption included ).
I wouldn't be a stretch though to say that the city has a big stake in the how this deal turns out.
In this economy, government should use heavy restraint when jobs could be lossed at the expence of simply taking land and letting it sit while they ponder what to do with it when things don't work out as planned ( like the jail ).
Jeff Matiatos
Actually Jeff ignorance is the word once you are informed then you aren't ignorant and you become knowledgeable.
I never accused you of being stupid or dull or dim... just uninformed.
Chuck
Doesn't make any difference if it city or country or court or whatever Chuck. They're are the same bunch of corrupt bastards socializing and feeding at the same troff. Kinda like one guy opening up 6 different corporations, they have different names but it's still the same guy. In this case, they come up with all kinds of fancy names but it's the same group of mobsters runnning the show and calling the shots.
Ok 12:46, tell me when you want me to jump and I will. Hippity Hippity Hop !!!!!
Jef Matiatos
Chuck said...
Actually Jeff ignorance is the word once you are informed then you aren't ignorant and you become knowledgeable.
I never accused you of being stupid or dull or dim... just uninformed.
Chuck
12:47 PM
Asking Chuck
Are you buying up these home on the east side for the city, that come from Lantry?
You must have your hand in evey bodies pockets.
Bill Dahn is asking
Bill do you understand how real estate is sold?
Someone puts it on the market by hiring a real estate broker and the broker gets a commission. The broker then advertises it and offers any other brokers 1/2 of the commission if they find a buyer.
With me, Bill?
That is how business is done.
So, if a bank is selling a trashed house for $20,000 and gives his broker 6% commission. So, the broker offers it out to any other broker at 3% (1/2) to find a buyer. So, if someone found a buyer and was the real estate broker the most they would get is...
$20,000 x 3% = $600.00 and brokers split with agents and we aren't talking much money Bill.
And if the house was bought for $5,000... you do the math.
JMONTOMEPPOF
Chuck Repke
Repke said, "The sate law in Minnesota now is so restrictive on condemnation for the purpose of redevelopment that there is no way the Port would have won in court."
Repke, you got that right and that is the way it should be.
Repke you and your Socialist buddies in the DFL want to turn our country into the People's Socialist State of Minnesota.
So Have you sold any of these death traps Chuck and made money for doing it Chuck?
Lawyers for Institute for Justice won the CASE Hands Down
http://www.ij.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2410&Itemid=165
The St. Paul Port Authority condemn
the West Side Flats housing in 1965 after the flood, at that time the Business could stay but the families had to go.
Go though the Port Authority privet files and see when the Lafayette Bridge was planed.
But the city will be bought by investors that want to build Condo's where they said would never house people do to the
floodplain again .
They do as the money tells them.
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