Corridor and Block Model Exercise Results
2-Page Handout about the Process (1.20 MB)
Design Principles and Corridor Information Summary Sheets:
Aimed at developers, these handouts were developed at the conclusion of each corridor. They reflect how the community partners would like development to occur in their neighborhoods and balance community values, city goals, development realities, and design opportunities.
- Nicollet Avenue in Loring Park (367 KB)
- Lake Street (1.13 MB)
- Nicollet Avenue in Kingfield (687 KB)
- South Lyndale Avenue (409KB)
- West Broadway (294 KB)
- Standish Ericsson Neighborhood (SENA) (80.3 KB)
Summaries of the Block Model Development Workshop:
The Bock Exercise is a hands-on, interactive exercise to help participants understand design and financial issues in housing development. Working from a large aerial photo of a hypothetical development site, citizens create development options from block models representing standard unit sizes. Two designers are at each tableone to help with the layout and one to sketch the result. Development option costs and revenues are calculated by a development consultant during the workshop using standard assumptions about developer fees, subsidies, construction costs, and rental/sales prices. One model takes about 15-20 minutes to design. Designers photograph the residents' models and then the model is sketched from the photograph as the next model is being built. Drawings reflect the architectural styles preferred by the participants. Residents leave with a deeper understanding about economic constraints of development and about design opportunities.
Nicollet Avenue in Kingfield
South Lyndale
West Broadway
Standish Ericsson Neighborhood Association (SENA)
38th Street and Chicago Avenue
- Site A: 3721 to 3741 Chicago Avenue (1.53 MB)
- Site B: 3800 to 3814 Chicago Avenue (1.50 MB)
- Site C: 4010 to 4040 Bloomington Avenue (1.47 MB)
Central Avenue
- Site A: 1620 Central Avenue NE (9.51 MB)
- Site B: 1708 Central Avenue NE (8.37 MB)
- Site C: 1717 and 1701 Central Avenue NE (9.15 MB)
Como/ St. Anthony Park
- Site A: Methodist Church Parking Lot (8.00 MB)
- Site B: Como and Doswell (7.23 MB)
- Site C: Como and Eustis (8.08 MB)
Rice Street
- Site A: Wheelock Parkway and Rice Street
- Site B: Geranium Avenue and Rice Street
- Site C: Sycamore Street and Rice Street
University Avenue in Fridley
- Fridley: University Avenue and 60th Avenue NE: Table 1
- Fridley: University Avenue and 60th Avenue NE: Table 2
- Fridley: University Avenue and 58th Avenue NE: Table 3
Richfield
- Site 1: 76th & Lyndale Avenue (697 KB)
- Site 2: 76th and Pleasant Avenue (683 KB)
- Site 3: 72nd & Penn Avenue (630 KB)
Brooklyn Park
- Huntington Pointe Summary Sheet Civic Table (111KB)
- Huntington Pointe Summary Sheet Housing Table (136 KB)
- Huntington Pointe Summary Sheet Mixed UseTable (87.1 KB)
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