University Ave. Redevelopment Project Quiet Since Summer Demolitions
Fridley HRA seeks to revitalize a stretch that has suffered from business turnover.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s the Minnesota Department of Transportation started building frontage roads along Fridley’s University Avenue, choking off access to motorists and starting a decades-long cycle of business turnover. “There was an old McDonald’s that had become a worship space for the Sikh Society, there was an old taco place that became a marketing company, there was an auto parts store that had become something else,” said Paul Bolin, assistant executive director of the Fridley Housing and Redevelopment Authority (HRA). “They were all on their fourth and fifth different use—you’re not going to drive five blocks past a McDonald’s, turn and come back on a frontage road to get to one.” In 2006, in response to queries from …
Ralph
7:22 am on Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Now..remove the cyclone fences the run along University Ave. They were an over-reaction from earlier years, when a person was killed crossing University. They are an eyesore, and a danger. They were put up to prevent kids from crossing, and were installed with the "prongs" facing up, to deter them. If a kid rips his leg open, and bleeds to death, climbing over this fence, the city will be the 1st… more ›