Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison sued a Minneapolis landlord this week, accusing him of scheming to profit off of evictions and punishing tenants for reporting housing problems. The landlord in question, Steven Meldahl, controls 25 properties in North Minneapolis. Ellison’s lawsuit alleges that Meldahl’s tenants live in deteriorating properties, are forced to pay thousands of […]
A dispute between Afton Marina and Yacht Club and the City of Afton arose when BJS Restaurants proposed a new boat-in restaurant on the marina’s property back in 2017. Afton Marina sits on the St. Croix River, right in downtown Afton. Marina officials requested a permit to install a driveway leading to 32nd Street, an […]
Minneapolis City Council is expected to vote today, Friday, September 13, 2019, on an ordinance that would limit the ability of landlords to screen applicants. Under the proposed ordinance, landlords would be unable to deny an applicant based on a misdemeanor conviction that is older than three years, a felony conviction that is older than […]
Kraus-Anderson has begun the process of tearing down a vacant St. Paul office building in order to make room for an upscale 92-unit apartment building. The original building—Capital Professional Office Building in the Capitol Heights neighborhood—was also built by Kraus Anderson in the 1960s. The office space has been vacant for two years. Kraus-Anderson received […]
Ramsey County and Arden Hills have been at an impasse for months regarding a dispute over the redevelopment of a 427-acre property, formerly known as the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant. The judge overseeing the dispute ruled this week that the parties must enter into mediation before the suit can move forward. This dispute began […]
Two years ago, the Lowry Apartments in downtown St. Paul issued notices of non-renewal to all tenants on the ninth and tenth floors of the apartment building in an effort to offer short-term rentals instead. Although it seemed to directly violate St. Paul’s short-term rental ordinance, property owner Jim Cockarell managed to get around the […]
Last week the St. Paul City Council voted to rezone vacant, industrial land outside of downtown for residential use. The approval to rezone the land boosts developer Reuter Walton’s proposal to build a seven-story apartment building across the river from downtown St. Paul. The apartment building will be built at 84 Water Street, near the […]
The Minnesota Supreme Court will hear the Bde Maka Ska/Lake Calhoun dispute in order to decide if the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources overstepped when it changed the name of the lake in early 2018 to the lake’s original Dakota name. The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled in April that the Department of Natural Resources […]
Edina Business Plaza, located at 7550 France Avenue South, was sold to The Ackerberg Group earlier this summer in a $12.8 million deal. Newmark Knight Frank represented the sellers, Edina Business Plaza LLC and SH Commercial Real Estate Services, and brokered the deal with The Ackerberg Group. The largest tenant in the Edina Business Plaza […]
Kraus-Anderson, a family-owned and managed construction firm based in Minneapolis, is slated to begin construction on a 105-million-dollar luxury apartment building. The project will feature a 16-story building, named the Larking, just across the street from Kraus-Anderson’s new mixed-use headquarters in downtown Minneapolis. While the project originally called for a 6-story building, neighborhood organizers wanted […]