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Lake Street

The Lake Street project focused on an area between 11th and 15th Avenues on East Lake Street. Following a participatory planning process called the Lake Street Initiative, the Corridor Housing Initiative centered on design options for three sites. An innovation of the project was an interactive development exercise where residents created development options from building block models representing standard unit sizes. Development costs were calculated by a development consultant during the workshop helping people test if their ideas were viable. The Design Center created the building blocks and sketched options at the workshop.

People

Coordinators: Center for Neighborhoods
Neighborhood: Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association, Spirit of the Lakes, and Midtown Phillips
Facilitators: Center for Policy, Planning and Performance (CPPP)
Design: Metropolitan Design Center
Development: Central Community Housing Trust
Government: City of Minneapolis

Timeline

Early 2003: Lake Street Initiative visioning
October 2003: PPNA selected for Corridor Initiative through RFP
January 2004: First meeting of Lake St. Corridor Initiative Steering Committee
April 2004: Developer and stakeholder focus groups
May 1, 2004: Development workshop
May-June 2004: Presentations to local neighborhood and business groups

Downloads

Design principles and corridor information summary sheet

Minneapolis Corridor Housing Initiative, Lake Street Sites, Center for Neighborhoods, 2004 (2.4MB)
Summary PowerPoint about the results of the block exercise workshop in English

Iniciativa de Vivienda en los Pasillos de Minneapolis, Lugar: Lake Street, Centro para los Vecindarios, 2004 (2.4MB)
Summary PowerPoint about the results of the block exercise workshop in Spanish

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The software that Macs need to zip and unzip files is called ZipIt and can be found (along with details about the software) at
<http://www.maczipit.com/index.html>

The software that PCs use is called WinZip and the website is
<http://www.winzip.com/>

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