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| | | Groundbreaking celebrated for the Wellstone
Friends and supporters of Aeon and Hope Community celebrated the
groundbreaking for the next phase of the Franklin Portland Gateway
development – The Wellstone. The event kicked off the second half of the four-phase development,
which will provide 250 units of mixed-income housing and significant
commercial space to the intersection of Franklin and Portland in
Minneapolis.
“Something remarkable is happening here,” said
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak in his remarks. “I want a project like
this in every neighborhood in Minneapolis.”
The Wellstone
features 49 units of housing, 7,000 square feet of commercial and
community space, and green building elements integrated throughout the
design.
Tom Fulton of the Family Housing Fund and Minnesota
Green Communities suggested that the Franklin-Portland Gateway
development can be looked at through “the lens of art,” saying, “The
entire Franklin Portland Gateway is a work of art.”
The building
is named after Paul and Sheila Wellstone, who visited with Hope
Community staff and residents in 1996 when the neighborhood’s
revitalization was just beginning.
The Wellstone will stand on
the northeast corner of the intersection. Previously completed phases
of the Gateway development include Children’s Village Center and the
Jourdain, located on the two southern corners of the intersection.
The $13 million development is expected to take approximately 12 months to complete.
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