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<br /> <br />BusiNFSS'JoiffiNAL <br /> <br />BUSINESS PULSE SURVEY: <br />Who's to blame for the Twins stadium impasse? <br /> <br />Mixing civic buildings and private <br />developments <br /> <br />Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal - July 14, 2005 <br />by Sam Black <br />Staff Writer <br /> <br />Back in 1998, when Ramsey city officials first considered a plan to build a 370-acre mixed- <br />use project, no one even considered a public component, except for maybe a commuter rail <br />train station. <br /> <br />But when the ribbon gets cut in October, the development will include a brand spanking new <br />$16 million city hall and police station. <br /> <br />It wasn't until 2002 -- when the city was attempting to land a Metropolitan Council livable <br />communities planning grant for the project headed by developer John Feges -- that City <br />Administrator Jim Norman got the idea to move the growing suburb's cramped city hall into <br />the development. <br /> <br />Over the past few years, Norman has become a huge advocate of putting civic buildings into <br /> <br />mixed-use projects. <br /> <br />"I've come to believe it's critical," he said. <br /> <br />The concept is starting to become the rule, rather than the exception. Large, mixed-use <br />projects in the Twin Cities typically include a significant new public building -- a city hall, <br />library or a recreation center -- along with the commercial and residential components. <br /> <br />Burnsville, Forest Lake, Maple Grove, Ramsey, Lino Lakes and Brooklyn Park are all <br />examples of suburbs with public features in large mixed-use projects that are either recently <br />built or in development phases. <br /> <br />City officials and developers agree that mixing the public and private uses within a project <br />comes with special challenges, but they also say it provides long-lasting benefits to the <br />success of a development. <br />
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