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Nice Weather Threatens to Delay Major Project

ST. PAUL-The Ice Palace, a five turret project under way in downtown St. Paul, needs colder weather for its main building material --500-pound chunks of ice from Lake Phalen.

By Jim McCartney | Updated on December 28, 2003

ST. PAUL–Here’s a new one: A major construction project in downtown St. Paul may be held up due to the lack of cold weather.

At least a foot of ice is needed before volunteer workers can harvest the ice to build the 75-foot-high palace in downtown St. Paul, the centerpiece of this year’s St. Paul Winter Carnival. Plans call for an elaborately lit palace consisting of five towers, the largest six stories high.

The palace is being built on on Cleveland Circle across West Seventh Street from the Xcel Energy Center, where the 2004 National Hockey League All-Star game will be played. ABC television is broadcasting the game, and it plans to feature the palace in its coverage.

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