State putting $8.5 million toward new downtown Duluth parking ramp, office tower
September 13, 2012 at 6:07 am in Duluth News Tribune
The state of Minnesota will contribute $8.5 million toward a new parking ramp at the site of a proposed downtown Duluth office tower along Superior Street at Fifth Avenue West. Continue Reading
“eastern downtown”?
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This is great news for Downtown. The addition of this space will bring huge tax base benefits and add some needed Class A office space to the market…and with RJS and AtWater involved, you know it will be a first class project.
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If a projects isn’t economic unless tax dollars fund 25% then this is a project that should not be built.
This will end in nothing but tears.
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“150 construction jobs”. Sounds good, but every big project in the city has been built using companies in the Twin Cities, not Duluth.
And can anybody say “Duluth Technology Village”????? That sure is a blossoming hub of high paying tech jobs, as it was intended to be.
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P.S. I also work in downtown Duluth…it is amazing how many vacant offices and buildings are for lease, or for sale. There definitely is no shortage of office space availability. The building I work in has maybe 1/2 of the office space rented out…
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Right. And what is the state of the buildings to which you refer?
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Where does this money keep coming from? Its like they think its endless.
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It comes from all the other wonderful things that could have been done with $20 million – but now won’t be done.
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This doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in heII of happening. At best it will be a 2 story dive, wrapped in EIFS, like all of the other garbage they build in Superior.
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IMO this moeny could have been put to better use- there are plenty of empty office spaces in Duluth- you don’t need new to attract companies- just companies that will stay and provide jobs- and not go backrupt? who is profitting from this in the future fiasco?
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