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Met Council Awards $3M for Clean-Up

ST. PAUL-Among the big recipients are New Brighton's Northwest Quadrant, which could house an expansion for Medtronic, and the Minnesota Innovation Center and Midtown Exchange, both in Minneapolis.

By Jim McCartney | Updated on July 29, 2004

ST. PAUL-The Metropolitan Council recently approved $2.7 million in grants to clean up eight brownfields, including those in Minneapolis, New Brighton, St. Louis Park, St. Paul and South St. Paul. “A relatively modest investment of regional dollars allows us to capitalize on other public and private investment and reap the benefits of redevelopment,” says Metropolitan Council chairman Peter Bell.

The biggest grant went to the Northwest Quadrant in New Brighton–$850,000 to help clean up a 45-acre site at Interstate 35W and Interstate 694 and along Old Highway 8 for redevelopment. Medtronic, Inc. is proposing the development of up to 1.5 million sf of office and laboratory space on the site.

Next in size was $827,420 for the Minnesota Innovation Center in Minneapolis to support the redevelopment of a 65-acre site near Malcolm Avenue and two blocks north of University Avenue to establish a state-of-the-art research park venue for collaboration between University of Minnesota students and faculty and Minnesota-based biomedical/biotechnology related companies.

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