Postby twincitizen » March 21st, 2015, 3:43 pm
^That's pretty interesting stuff. Clearly there are a lot of moving parts, but hopefully most of that can happen.
What's with Hennepin County's rigid adherence to single-use structures for libraries though? Surely the new Uptown library could've had at least a floor or two of affordable/subsidized apartments atop it. If they're going to sell off the parcel to a developer anyways, why not at least try to work together on parking (or go extreme and have the developer build the library into the building)? It sounds like the new library will be built at the corner of 70th and York before the rest of the parcel can be sold off. That seems at least a little shortsighted. Has no one at Hennepin County Libraries seen St. Paul's Rondo Library at University & Dale?
In more mundane Southdale news, Gordmans will be taking over the former Marshalls space in the mall's basement. A slight upgrade there, but more or less the same thing. I'm guessing Marshalls lease was up and they opted to move to the 494/France strip mall (fka Circuit City Plaza, now home to Total Wine, Total Hockey, Trader Joes, World Market and Staples)