Duluth would ask the state of Minnesota to pay half the cost with bonding funds. Written By: Peter Passi | ×
Skiers and snowboarders ride the Big Air Chairlift at Spirit Mountain on Sunday March 21, 2021. Installing a new lift is one of the recommendations made by a consultant looking at the recreation area’s future. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
Duluth Mayor Emily Larson unveiled an ambitious plan for improvements to the Spirit Mountain Recreation Area at a Thursday afternoon news conference below the Skyline Chalet. For years, the main community narrative of Spirit Mountain has really been one of exhaustion and frustration. To be honest, I really get that. It has felt like our entire financial strategy for this incredible regional asset has been based on Band-Aids of emergency cash infusion, she said.
Duluth Mayor Emily Larson addressed the media Thursday afternoon to offer recommendations for making the Spirit Mountain Recreational Area a more financially viable entity in the years ahead.
The press event, held at Spirit Mountain at 2 pm on Thursday afternoon, offered recommendations based on a report from the Spirit Mountain Task Force and consulting firm SE Group. The report explored how to bring better financial footing and improvements to the recreation area, which has amassed a sizable debt in recent years.
While Spirit Mountain did post a profit last year, despite the pandemic, the recreation area has received a series of loans from the City of Duluth as it has dealt with financial challenges in recent years. Those loans were actually one of the subject of Mayor Larson s recommendations in Thursday s presentation. As she explained, she felt a number of Band-Aids have been placed on the Spirit Mountain issue, and she feels this plan will create a permanent fix for the ve
From the editorial: "15 years of decreasing golf participation (down 44% since the early 2000s in Duluth) following 20 years of booming golf-course construction (including the expansion of both Enger and Lester from 18 holes to 27 holes) makes necessary the right-sizing of public-golf offerings in Duluth as elsewhere."
Plans would clean up Park Point shredded metal
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it will take steps to ensure that trash doesn t again inadvertently get deposited on beaches as a result of dredging activities. Written By: Peter Passi | ×
A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sign on Park Point warns people that fragments of aluminum cans may be found on the beach on Monday, April 12, 2021. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
Temporary signs have been posted at the public entrances to a stretch of Duluth s Park Point beach, warning people to be cautious and watch for sharp and potentially injurious shards of metal cans in the sand.
Duluth seeks long-term solution to Park Point erosion A recent dredging project, a temporary fix, deposited old metal shards on beach. April 1, 2021 7:38pm Text size Copy shortlink:
DULUTH – Mayor Emily Larson is asking the Army Corps of Engineers to investigate whether the federal agency s maintenance work on shipping channels could have caused shoreline erosion on Park Point.
The move marks the first step in a long process that could potentially lead to more permanent fortification of the 6-mile sand spit, which is also known as Minnesota Point and home to 300 homes, hotels and businesses that have been threatened by storms and rising water levels in recent years.