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<br /> Phalen Boulevard,the Essential Link Corporations and Foundations Partner with the
<br /> The Phalen Coridor Initiative is now right-of-way,clean polluted land,and Phalen Corridor Initiative
<br /> focusing a tremendous amount of time and begin roadway design,as soon as
<br /> energy on constructing Phalen Boulevard, environmental analysis is finished and a Northwest Area Foundation awarded a$.201,000 three-year grant to the Phalen
<br /> a new roadway to link the corridor's east road alignment has been selected. Corridor Initiative recognizing the commitment and participation of over 60 groups
<br /> and west ends.How will the proposed Second.a new amhitious planning and highlighting the project's vital importance to the East Side of Saint Paul.
<br /> bulevard and redevelopment of the effurt sponsored by the Phalen Corridor Northern Stales Powers Company and The Saint Paul Foundation have also
<br /> surrounding area become a reality'! Initiative Steering Committee will answer recently joined the corporate and philanthropic funders who support the Phalen
<br /> First,Phalen Boulevard,the spine of questions about where and how physical Corridor Initiative.Other major funders are:
<br /> the corridor's redevelopment.is change will occur along and near the
<br /> recommended fur$23.9 million in funding pmNw.d!boulevard.This endeavor will East Side Area Business Association St.Paul Companies
<br /> in the Mayor's 1998 Capital Improvement take several months and involve key First Bank Stroh Brewery
<br /> Budget.And the City has applied for stakeholders in identifying redevelopment Flrstar Bank 3M
<br /> 838 million in federal funding from the opportunities within the corridor.It will Norwest Bank
<br /> Interm dal Surface Transportation also create a framework for the physical
<br /> Efficiency Act(ISTEA).A decision on this design and economic performance of new
<br /> application is expected in spring 1998. development that reflects community and Stroh Closes East Side Plant
<br /> With these funds,the City will acquire marketplace needs.
<br /> At the end of November,the Stroh work closely with the East Side community,
<br /> Brewery shut down and 365 people lost especially the East Side Job Bank.
<br /> City Buys Phalen Shopping Center their jobs. As for the Stroh site itself,Saint Paul
<br /> In mid-November,to help workers who Mayor Coleman and other concerned
<br /> Most developments turn wetlands into 3.5-acre site north of realigned Prosperity would be losing their jobs,the Minnesota parties consider the Phalen Corridor
<br /> shopping centers.The Phalen Condor Avenue for additional commercial devel- Teamsters Service Bureau,the Fast Side Steering Committee the best community
<br /> Initiative is reversing that trend!It is opment to serve the neighborhood. Job Bank,and Merrick Community Center forum for determining the re-use of the
<br /> turning a shopping center into a wetland. These purchases mean the transforma- sponsored an Fast Side Job Fair for Stroh property.
<br /> In June,the City bought the majority tion of the Phalen Corridor's east end is workers.At the same time,the Minnesota The plant closing was a call to action
<br /> (21.7 acres)of the Phalen Shopping Center underway.Phalen Shopping Center,a Department of Economic Security awarded for all East Side employment and training
<br /> site,Rose Avenue and Prosperity Avenue, nearly deserted shopping strip,has been a a sizable Dislocated Worker grant to the services.It also makes one of Phalen
<br /> with a$650,000 Metropolitan Council blight on the neighborhood for too long. Minnesota Teamsters Service Bureau to Corridor Initiative's top priorities,industrial
<br /> Livable Communities Grant.After demoli- Its demolition,will clear the way for the help re-employ those who lost their jobs. development that will bring jobs to the
<br /> tion of vacant buildings in February 1998, Ames Lake Wetland and other community Impressed with the early outpouring of East Side,more important than ever.
<br /> nine acres will be restored to wetland,their projects that will strengthen the entire support,the Teamsters Bureau plans to
<br /> original state.The rest of the property will community.These improvements will
<br /> be used for the realignment of Prosperity bolster nearby commercial projects like the
<br /> Avenue and other redevelopment.Jerry's new Walgreens Drug Store and the Phalen East Side Workers Top Priority
<br /> NewMarket,a shopping center tenant for Village Clinic at Maryland Avenue and
<br /> many years,purchased their present 4-acre Prosperity Avenue. As the Phalen Corridor Initiative works Employment Connection helped train over
<br /> site which they plan to renovate and a to reclaim industrial land and create jobs, 200 employees.For more information,call
<br /> its community partners are preparing Fast Rick Polanski.925.1524 or Larry Orcutt,
<br /> Side workers for the modem work place. 224-5686,ext.216.
<br /> Meet the Staff One of these,the East Side Job Bank Success by Seventeen,a partnership
<br /> operated by Merrick Community Services, program of the Phalen Corridor Initiative,
<br /> - connects job seekers and East Side the Saint Paul Department of Planning and
<br /> businesses.To take advantage of this Economic Development,the Saint Paul
<br /> resource,call Xavier Escobedo,774-JOBS. Port Authority,and the Saint Paul Public
<br /> The Saint Paul Pon Authority,another School District,provides both shoe and
<br /> Phalen Corridor Initiative partner,also long-term school-to-work help for East
<br /> helps East Side workers find jobs.The Side youth.Working in schools with
<br /> _ p� +�s9 Employment Connection,a customized job principals and teachers,staff create
<br /> training program,helps businesses internships and guide connections between
<br /> PP programs Saint Paul develop throughout ro employers and educators.These direct
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<br /> .• a':. for new employees.Over ten businesses, working relationships make in-school
<br /> ;,,. either located on the East Side or that instruction more applicable and up-to-date
<br /> employ Famsidem have received for students and give them actual work
<br /> UIS�LLIJI;(llY �� assistance.Since it began in 1996,the experiences through internships.
<br /> Up on the Rooftop
<br /> L Look for the new billboard atop the Authority,224-5686,for inquiries on site
<br /> East Side Team Police Headquarters at availability in Williams Hill Business
<br /> Minnehaha Street and Payne Avenue.It Center.Thanks to the Saint Paul Police
<br /> Phalen Corridor Initiative Staff,Curl Milburn,Project Director(right)and Jeremy Lenz,Project features an aerial photo of Williams Hill Department and the Payne Arcade
<br />Area
<br /> Assistant(left),work with over 60 partners to coordinate the complex work of the Phalen Corridor and directs calls to the Phalen Corridor Business Association for their
<br />generous
<br /> Initiative.In November along with ESABA,they moved to new quarters at 506 Kenny Road. Initiative Office,772-6220,for general assistance.
<br /> information and to the Saint Paul Port
<br /> PHALEN CORRIDOR INITIATIVE
<br /> BOARD OFADWSORS STEERING COMMITTEE Dick Hanson,3M,3M Foundation Gary Peltier,PED
<br /> Mayor Nann Coleman John Kempe,Chair,McCullough,Smith, KooVang,NarwedBank Parrido James,PED
<br /> CongressmanBmmYento Wright and Kempe,PA Chris Budzius,Ohtdd5 Community Couna7 Kea Stabler,HSP
<br /> Pamela Wheelock Director, Dan Bosrrom,City Commilmember Donavan Cummings,District 4Community Council Bill Huepenbecker,How Coleman's Office
<br /> Saint Paul Department of Planning and Kathy Lanny,GryCounalmember Gary Unger,District 2 Community Council John VanHedte,Congressman YeaosOffice
<br /> Economic Development(PED) Ditm Guerin,County Commissioner Harry Melander,CarperionsDidridCouncil
<br /> Kenneth Johnson,President, Rafod Ortega.County Commissioner Michael Anderson,ESNDC SIAFf
<br /> Saint Paul Pori Authority State Senator Randy Kelly Karen Swenson,NENDC Curl Milbom
<br /> Wes Lane,Minnesota 0R1VE,Teamsters State Rep.James Farrell Ron Hagkull (612)772.6220 Fax:M-6262
<br /> Bernard Baumann,3M,ESABA Lenin Louder,Port Authority,ESABA E-mail:anilbum @pioneerplonet.InMet
<br /> —A pubDmtton of the Phalan Cmrldor hiblallve Steering Committee,Jamary,1998'•
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