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$90-Mil Art Center Expansion Gets Builder

MINNEAPOLIS-Mortenson, Minnesota's largest builder, is hired for the 110,000-sf expansion and renovation work. Construction will

By Jim McCartney | Updated on July 04, 2001

MINNEAPOLIS-Mortenson has been hired by the Walker Art Center to provide construction services for its $90-million expansion and renovation project scheduled to begin in 2003. Minneapolis-based Mortenson, Minnesota’s largest builder with extensive arts, entertainment, and cultural experience, will collaborate with the Walker; Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron, the project architect; Minneapolis-based Hammel, Green and Abrahamson, Inc. (HGA); and other members of the project management and design team through completion of the project. The Walker Art Center is located one block off Highway I-94 at the corner of Lyndale Avenue South and Vineland Place in Minneapolis.

The Walker’s expansion addresses the museum’s need for additional space to meet the growth in attendance, programs, and collections as well as increase its emphasis on education. The enhanced Walker ArtCenter, with an additional 100,000-110,000 sf of interior space, 4 acres of green space, rooftop terraces and on-site underground parking, will feature galleries and gardens for the museum’s growing collection; a high tech studio for contemporary dance, music, performance, and theater programs; a new-media laboratory; new spaces for education programs; and visitor amenities, including a new restaurant, cafe, shop and 700-vehicle parking facility.

The existing facility will be remodeled to better support other Walker programs, including those in film/video. The expanded facility is scheduled to open to the public in 2005.

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