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The Eagle County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday scrutinized workforce housing solutions and fiscal impacts for the Edwards RiverPark plan. The three-hour session was the third public hearing for the controversial proposal.
The Edwards RiverPark is a commercial/residential planned unit development proposal from a group called Sierra Trail Investments LLC. The project is planned on a 53.7-acre parcel located north of U.S. Highway 6 and south of the Eagle River on land that was formerly the site of a B&B Excavating gravel pit operation. The proposal includes two large condo buildings and a condo/hotel building along with commercial buildings, multifamily residential and townhomes.
From department store to multiuse arena
How an email set in motion a proposal to transform empty department store space into an arena for hockey, concerts and other uses Friday, December 18, 2020 6:00 AM Next step: Applying for state money Before the proposed 3,500-seat multipurpose arena at Merle Hay Mall can move forward, the project needs financing, part of which backers hope comes from the Iowa Reinvestment Act.
The program, overseen by Iowa Economic Development, allows cities to create special districts where money from sales and hotel-motel taxes can be set aside to help pay for projects that spur economic development.
In place since 2013, the reinvestment act has provided key financing to several high-profile Iowa projects, including the $101 million convention hotel in downtown Des Moines. That hotel received $36 million from the act, the largest amount provided for any project. A Mason City project that included converting em
NOTEBOOK: Merle Hay Mall becoming a mix of uses, its owner says Wednesday, December 23, 2020 8:00 AM
Elizabeth Holland didn’t mince words recently when she spoke to a Des Moines board about her vision for Merle Hay Mall, a shopping center developed in 1959 by her grandfather and another man.
Des Moines, she told members of the city’s Urban Design Review Board during a recent meeting, is not immune to the changing demands of retail consumers, who increasingly have turned to e-commerce to purchase items they need for their daily living.
The demands of consumers have changed since the advent of the shopping center, Holland said. And that means Des Moines “at best is now a two-mall town.”
From department store to multiuse arena
How an email set in motion a proposal to transform empty department store space into an arena for hockey, concerts and other uses Friday, December 18, 2020 6:00 AM Next step: Applying for state money Before the proposed 3,500-seat multipurpose arena at Merle Hay Mall can move forward, the project needs financing, part of which backers hope comes from the Iowa Reinvestment Act.
The program, overseen by Iowa Economic Development, allows cities to create special districts where money from sales and hotel-motel taxes can be set aside to help pay for projects that spur economic development.
In place since 2013, the reinvestment act has provided key financing to several high-profile Iowa projects, including the $101 million convention hotel in downtown Des Moines. That hotel received $36 million from the act, the largest amount provided for any project. A Mason City project that included converting em
Whereâs Kohlâs? Proposed master plan for Merle Hall Mall excludes retailer Monday, December 14, 2020 11:41 AM
A proposed Merle Hay Mall master plan was released today. The master plan includes the footprint of a proposed new ice arena and hotel, both of which would take up space now occupied by Kohl’s department store. Master plan rendering by Woolpert architecture firm
A proposed multiuse arena at Merle Hay Mall would stretch from the former Younkers department store site north into where Kohl’s department store is now located, according to a master plan for the mall property released today in advance of Tuesday’s Des Moines Urban Design Review Board meeting.