Bridges

The Ponte Vecchio in Florence, Italy, was the model for the Washington Avenue Bridge. Photo: AP via The Guardian

The 14th-century Italian bridge that inspired it has withstood the ravages of time, World War II and a 1966 flood, but the 42-year-old Washington Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis might not be strong enough to hold up pedestrians, [...]

The Lowry Avenue bridge connects North Minneapolis with Northeast Minneapolis. The current 889-foot, four-lane bridge was opened in 1958 on the site of a 1905 bridge and has average daily traffic of about 16,600 vehicles.

The Lowry bridge, which crosses over the Mississippi River, is classified as a “minor urban arterial,” and listed by the Minnesota [...]

The St. Paul Bridges riverfront project came to an abrupt end  Wednesday night when it failed to gain the support of the St. Paul City Council.

The council voted 5-2 against developer Jerry Trooien’s rezoning request to allow a proposed $1 billion dollar mixed-use retail and residential development on the west side of the Mississippi River, [...]

[Editorial]

It’s been said that all politics is local, and there isn’t much that gets more local than land use planning in St. Paul.  So I’m not surprised when people’s eyes glaze over and they try to exit the conversation when the subject of Jerry Trooien’s mega-project “The Bridges of St. Paul” comes up in casual [...]

A small crowd gathered Monday night for the first of six meetings set up by the WSCO about the Bridges of St. Paul project in the planned Community Engagement Schedule. The city staff presentation was mostly a rehash of planning documents that affect the area, and developer Jerry Trooien’s information was pulled mostly from the [...]

Money, history and community meetings might not be the stuff of soap operas, but you wouldn’t know it looking at the Bridges of St. Paul project. The controversy surrounding the project so far is sure to continue as the project moves forward. With historic designations and land use plans being questioned, the project is in [...]

Bridges developer Jerry Trooien’s third information session on Monday night focused on selling a proposed Westin Hotel and the rest of the retail space in the Bridges project in St. Paul’s downtown to the gathered community members. Currently AMC theater has agreed to take a large portion of the retail space for use as a [...]

With laser pointers and projectors, the JLT Group broke out the big guns Monday night to try to impress upon the West Side of St. Paul that the Bridges development plan really does have the community’s needs at heart.

Still, developer Jerry Trooien started the meeting he organized with this blunt statement: “This is not an [...]

The Bridges project is back in the mix with two parallel sets of meetings. Bridges of St. Paul developer Jerry Trooien has created a series of four meetings and the WSCO board has also scheduled a series of meetings and studies. These are separate and independent groups.

Trooien has created a series of four meetings from [...]

The Bridges of St. Paul project is a controversial  $1 billion-plus project on St. Paul’s West Side that has weathered stormy waters.

The project was proposed and put in front of the West Side Citizens’ Organization board, which shot down the plan. It then went before the Zoning Board for rezoning, but before it could go [...]