• $50,000 to Columbia Heights for the Industrial Area Redevelopment, turning 29 acres of blighted industrial land just north of Minneapolis into a residential development with trails, park connections and other amenities.

• $50,000 to Eagan for the Cedar Grove Redevelopment, redeveloping an underutilized retail area, at the intersection of Cedar Avenue and County Road 13, for mixed uses, including up to 350 units of housing and some commercial and office development.

• $50,000 to Minneapolis for the Lowell School Site project, which is a residential development on a vacant two-acre site in the Jordan neighborhood that is currently owned by the city's school district.

• $41,000 to Minneapolis for the Nicollet Hotel Block Project, a planned mixed-use development next to the new Minneapolis Central Library with good access to transit, up to 300 units of housing, some retail and an underground transit station.

• $33,000 to Ramsey to develop implementation tools for the Central Rural Reserve Area Study, which looks at redevelopment of a 970-acre area just north of the city's new Town Center. The area had been subdivided into rural residential lots of one and 2.5 acres. Plans are underway to achieve higher residential urban densities that would be more consistent with the objectives of the Town Center.

• $26,000 to New Hope for Northeast Winnetka Townhomes, redeveloping the Frank's Nursery site, at the intersection of Bass Lake Road and Winnetka Avenue, into townhomes ranging in price from $160,000 to $200,000. The Metropolitan Council is the regional planning organization for the seven-county metro area.