Fridley Links is a roundup of news stories and other online mentions of Fridley over the past day.
Here are links to some of the news articles and other online mentions of Fridley over the course of the past day.
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Mayor asks for copy of Bruce Nelson's letter.
One of the residents who has mounted a yard-sign protest against a new medical-clinic building and parking lot appeared before the Fridley City Council Monday during its open-forum period. Bruce Nelson read a statement to the council in which he presented six grievances concerning the Fridley Medical Center, part of the Unity Hospital campus which stands across Fifth Street NE from his Osborne Road home. Nelson's complaints centered on the traffic coming and going from the center's parking lot, as well as snow-removal noise, clinic employees gathering to smoke near his house, and light reflecting from the center's windows. "These problems arose after a special use permit was granted to Multicare Assocates to build their megaplex in the …
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Residents at one nearby house aren't happy about a new institutional neighbor—and they're using yard signs to say so.
Handmade signs stick out of the snow in the side yard at the corner of Fifth Street NE and Osborne Road. They're not political or business signs—they're signs of protest, facing the new Fridley Medical Center just across Fifth Street. Brothers Steve and Bruce Nelson live in the house at the corner and put out the signs. They are upset that the Fridley City Council permitted construction of the medical center on land that's zoned residential. But the Nelsons' yard sign protest is focused on the entrance/exit of the medical center parking lot, located mid-block on Fifth Street, opposite their garage. "We're the house that's affected the most, because of the [parking lot] driveway," said Bruce Nelson. "We feel we have no other alternative …
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11:31 am on Friday, December 24, 2010
Another sleepless night thanks to Multicare and Dustbusters snow removal. There construction type snow removal equipment is so loud we cant sleep at night. I just don't inderstand how it is legal for a company to build there megaplex in a residential zone and then impact the neighborhood like they do. I understand that snow needs to be removed but they never should have been allowed to built … more ›
Massage and acupuncture at Virginia Piper Cancer Institute-Unity Hospital are available to all.
In the span of a year, the former Fridley Medical Center on Osborne Road has been reduced to surface parking for Unity Hospital next door—and a new medical center has risen nearby to replace it. The new two-story, $14 million Fridley Medical Center opened last month and houses Multicare Associates, a clinic owned by its health care providers which also has locations in Blaine and Roseville. "This was going to be built on the Columbia Arena site [south on University Avenue]," said Fridley Community Development Director Scott Hickok. But that 2009 plan, for a smaller, 50,000 square-foot building, died when a co-developer backed out. The Unity Hospital campus site attracted more businesses interested in moving in. Multicare is just one of …
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The project, pending financing, would re-use the ice rink's shell to house the elderly.
Where Zambonis once zoomed, motorized wheelchairs might soon meander. Where coaches once counted assists, developers now count assisted-living units. The Columbia Arena skating rink on University Avenue, vacant since 2005, is poised for a dramatic conversion to senior citizen apartments, pending financing that the developer's representative says could come within the next two weeks. A somewhat skeptical Fridley City Council cleared the way for the redevelopment last week, approving a zoning variance and special-use permits for the project. Several officials remarked at the meeting that the city has seen many recent redevelopment plans fail to go forward, including a different proposal last year for a new Fridley Medical Center on the …
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4:00 am on Monday, March 5, 2012
I agree with Fredy it would be a great location for an indoor soccer facility plus bring in younger revenue to the Fridley area because we all know it needs it! more ›
Grace E. Norton
4:50 pm on Friday, January 7, 2011
Hi Chris, Could you put this on the Fridley Patch website? The Fridley History book ,"Fridley--It's History and People," is available at Bob's Produce for $33.02 including sales tax. I've received a lot of favorable comments about Able St. video. Thanks, Grace Norton more ›