Ryan Companies is redeveloping Ford Motor Company’s old site, which will now be named Highland Bridge. The new site will include housing, retail space, office space, green space, and access to surrounding neighborhoods. There will be an estimated 3,800 new residences, 20 percent of which are affordable housing. The design is meant to enhance the […]
An increasingly popular attitude among St. Paul city officials, developers and housing advocates has been to reduce, or eliminate, the City’s parking minimums in order to increase housing supply. St. Paul and Minneapolis have recently considered the proposition of adjusting their zoning rules in order to increase affordable housing.The St. Paul Planning Commission was recently […]
A neighbor of the late Minnesota businessman Irwin Jacobs is suing the estate and the City of Orono over their plan to divide the estate’s 20-acre property into six subdivisions that would be sold to build new houses and streets.According to the neighbor, Barbara Burwell, the redevelopment violates the City’s lakeshore setback rules and could […]
Since 2008, nearly 1,000 Edina homes have been demolished and replaced by larger, more expensive homes. This accounts for roughly 8% of the City’s single-family homes. The average value of the homes that have been torn down sits at $421,420, while the average value of the homes that replace these tear downs is $1,165,786.Residents of […]
After a six-year battle with the City of Afton, a Washington County District Court judge has ruled in favor of Afton House Inn and against the City’s motion to vacate the Court’s judgment. Last year, a judge ruled that the City of Afton would be required to pay Afton House Inn $805,000 in damages, over […]
It has been just over a year since most businesses in downtown Minneapolis sent their employees to work from home indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the pandemic began, most of the 200 businesses in the Minneapolis skyway system, running nearly 10 miles through the city, have closed.According to one of the business owners […]
The Minnesota Court of Appeals recently reversed a District Court ruling against the owners of a Lake Minnetonka property. The District Court had previously ruled that the owners of the home had no say in the placement of a public dock on their own property.The Schusslers, the homeowners, sued the City of Minnetonka over a […]
Despite the rise in residential real estate transactions last year, commercial real estate was badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. In contrast to the $1.3 billion in apartment-building sales at the end of 2020, retail stores, hotels and offices only saw vacancy rates rise. Cushman & Wakefield undertook a research report on how […]
According to a monthly report from the Minneapolis Area Realtors (MAR) and the St. Paul Area Association of Realtors (SPAAR), January 2021 was the busiest January for home sales in 15 years. The report showed that buyers signed 5.6% more purchase agreements in January 2021 than buyers did in January 2020. January 2020 had already […]
Wilkerson & Hegna, P.L.L.P. is pleased to announce it has updated the firm name to Wilkerson, Hegna, Kavanaugh & Johnston, PLLP. For over 30 years, the firm has provided efficient and high quality legal services to its clients by bringing a practical and sensible business perspective to its approach. Gary Wilkerson and Kyle Hegna founded […]