The National Leadership Campus was dropped as a Hine site bidder by the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development, NLC member Paul Yandura confirmed. “We received the call yesterday. We knew we were up against professional for-profit developers and Hine was a longshot, but we decided to give it a shot […]
Councilman Tommy Wells tweeted today to expect a 30-45 day time frame for a selection for the Hine site developer once best and final offers from the bidding developers are processed. Wells’s estimates are based on his conversation with the Deputy Mayor’s staff, who ultimately control the clock and the timing of the final decision. […]
The three alternative design plans for Eastern Market Metro Plaza Design Study are now available online. The comment period, which began July 1, ends Aug. 17th. The goal of this project, according to the project’s website, is to transform the Eastern Market Metro Plaza into a town square and community park. The project hopes to […]
Last night I, as a member of Moms on the Hill, brought together three of the four would-be developers of the Hine Jr. High School site (a representative of National Leadership Campus was stuck in Minneapolis when his flight was delayed). Some of the questions asked pertained to potential partnerships with Tiger Woods Foundation and/or […]
Amid the flurry of talk, innuendo, community groups’ priority lists and information-gathering centered on the four proposals for development of the old Hine Jr. High school, the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development listed its own criteria for selecting a candidate. “Perhaps the most important criteria — in no particular order […]