[Mpls] "Opus asks Mpls. to swap land"

[Bruce Gaarder]

OPUS proposes swapping a 50,000 square foot parcel it owns for a 75,000
square foot parcel that the city owns.

Quite a deal for the city, get back 2/3 of the space that you give away.


>From the article:

...

"It's an innovative concept," said Mike Christenson, Minneapolis' planning
director.

...

One complication is that the Powers site, located along South Fifth Street
between Nicollet Mall and Marquette Avenue, doesn't have access to South Fourth 
Street, which would be required for the site to work as a bus depot.

Menke's letter said: "Development air rights on the Powers block
would be preserved above the underground Transit Terminal for future 
development." 


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