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St. Paul-based developer Wellington Management Inc. woke up on Thursday morning to find its under-construction, 190-unit apartment project in its Minnehaha Commons redevelopment near the intersection of Lake Street and Minnehaha Avenue in south Minneapolis had been torched and burned to the ground. The six-story, 190-unit affordable housing project had been slated to open in the spring of 2021. A city of Minneapolis worksheet on the project listed the total development cost at approximately $37 million, including contingency and reserve funds; land and construction costs were about $30 million. The apartment project has been known as Midtown Corner.

  The Barack Obama career tree is decorated with ornaments of failure. Most notable among the early disasters is Grove Parc. Grove Parc was a housing project in Obama's district in Chicago. Obama used it as a springboard for his political ambitions. He enmeshed himself with the slumlords Valerie Jarrett and Tony Rezko and subsequently Obama got campaign funding while Jarrett and Rezko got wealthy. The residents suffered for it. Back in 2012 I said this would be the blueprint for the Obama Presidency: Grove Parc was the blueprint for the Obama Presidency. It’s a shame that no one in...

A "heroic" security guard suffered an excruciating death, being burned alive in an elevator on Christmas while trying to prevent an arson fire from spreading throughout a Queens apartment building. The blaze inside a garbage cart that killed 32-year-old Raymond James was set by two 13-year-old boys, whom police charged with murder yesterday. [snip] Chief Fire Marshal Louis Garcia called James "a selfless, heroic individual who was trying to save lives of people in the building." [snip] At the same time, two boys who live in the building — 13-year-old cousins — were walking around setting fire to Christmas...

Hope grows at Serna Village A grant of $14 million will more than double the number of housing units for homeless families getting back on their feet at McClellan Park. By Gwendolyn Crump -- Bee Staff Writer Published 2:15 am PDT Friday, August 20, 2004 A homeless housing project at McClellan Park will more than double in size - adding living units, a computer center and a garden - with $14 million that's expected to come in through a federal tax credit program. Next year, residential capacity at Serna Village will grow from 40 to 84 units under an expansion...