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Deal would tap Met Council funds to buy member’s family business site

By Chris Steller | 01.13.10 | 8:36 am

The Minneapolis park board is planning to use $1.7 million in Metropolitan Council funds to buy a piece of Mississippi riverfront property from the family business of a Met Council member.

Minneapolis: A riverfront development corporation will run through it

By Chris Steller | 05.02.08 | 3:15 pm

Minneapolis could get its first riverfront development coordinating board since the early 1980s under legislation soon to hit Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s desk. Yesterday House and Senate conferees settled their only difference: the date by which…