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Minnesota Spending $3.8 Million to Redevelop ‘Blighted’ Sites, Create Jobs
By Erik Even | Dated: 04-10-2009
The Minnesota Department of Employment & Economic Development has awarded $3.8 million to nine projects to redevelop blighted sites, creating 400 jobs.Forest Lake, Glencoe, Milaca, Wadena and Waite Park each received one grant; St. Paul and Minneapolis each received two grants.
Cities can use the grants to pay for up to 50% of the cost of redeveloping the sites.
The grants include money for a mixed-use development in St. Paul, a former Pillsbury mill in Minneapolis, and mall road and utility improvements in Forest Lake.
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