Category Archives: Artspace

Artspace and the Mystery of the Million Dollars

Artspace, Community, Downtown issues, Downtown news, Historic Middle School

Sunday’s Star Tribune has a front page business section story about Artspace Projects, the Minneapolis-based developer that recently withdrew its proposal for the Historic Middle School complex in Northfield. People have started asking me, “if Artspace can do it on both coasts and many points in between, why couldn’t they do it in Northfield?”

The article in the Strib features a number of photographs of Artspace’s Washington Studios project in Duluth. I was the project manager at Artspace for that development and I thought that I might compare the financing for that project with the potential structuring for the Historic Middle School in Northfield as a basis for examining the feasibility of the potential project.
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U2, Willie Nelson and Christina Aquilera Argue for Reuse of Old Auditorium as an Incubator for Musicians

Arts, Recreation and Culture Committee, Artspace, Historic Middle School

U2.jpeg Bono and the boys

There were many mentions of Richard Florida’s book The Rise of the Creative Class at the NDDC’s March Forum. I was familiar with the book but after the Forum, I thought I’d just head over to the Public Library and check out a copy.

As I flipped through the pages, I was dismayed with the great number of charts and graphs. So I skimmed through until I found something that looked interesting to me, Chapter 16, “Building the Creative Community”.
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