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Phalen Westminster Industrial Project Scaled Back

ST. PAUL, MN-A $58-million project will require just 18 homes to be razed on 24 acres on the struggling East Side rather than the more than 100 originally proposed. Some new housing would be built along with light industrial development.

By Jim McCartney | Updated on January 09, 2001

ST. PAUL, MN -A smaller, less ambitious redevelopment plan for a 24-acre area called Phalen Westminster has been substituted for one that might have required clearing more than 100 homes. The new redevelopment plan would instead require 18 houses to be torn down, replacing them with some new housing and seven light-industrial factories between Payne Avenue and Westminster Street along the proposed Phalen Boulevard.

The new plan, presented this week at a neighborhood meeting, is a compromise reached between the neighborhood and the Phalen Corridor Initiative, a group of organizations and government agencies that is backing the new city road designed to spur the economyon St. Paul’s struggling East Side. The larger scale plan would have been cost prohibitive given the expense of acquiring the 100-some homes and relocating the owners.

The St. Paul Port Authority’s role in the deal would be to build Phalen Westminster, a 15-to 24-acre business center. The center would be bounded by Westminster and Whitall streets, Payne Avenue and on the south by rail lines. The city is planning to build housing in the area and renovate some of the existing housing as part of the project.

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