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Uptown Project Turned Down

MINNEAPOLIS-A 13-story store mixed-used project is deemed too tall for the hip, upscale neighborhood, but developer Ackerberg Group still has a shot with the Minneapolis City Council July 1.

By Jim McCartney | Updated on June 23, 2005

MINNEAPOLIS-A 13-story mixed-use project received a set back this week from the Minneapolis City Council Zoning and Planning Committee, which had concerns over the height of the project. The project, which would include more than 100 units as well as offices and shops, is planned for near the corner of Hennepin Ave. S. and Lake St. The developers, the Ackerberg Group and a local investor group, want to transform a large surface parking lot into a complex with a plaza, two towers, an expanded movie house and underground parking.

But elected city officials fear the height of the residential building would be out of scale compared with the neighboring buildings, which rise no higher than six stories. The developer argues that he needed the scale of the project in order to justify its costs–especially given that the project is not asking for any public subsidies. The scale, they argue, is appropriate for the site: A busy corner with tens of thousands of cars passing through on a daily basis.

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