Editor's Notebook
Brewery Grant Highlights SW Minneapolis Pollution Issues
Pollution can be a big issue in real estate development.
Thursday morning's news that Surly Brewing would be getting over $500,000 to clean up pollution on the site of its future brewery is big stuff—and it highlights a pot of public money that's going to be critical in redeveloping many parts of Southwest Minneapolis. According to the Star Tribune, Surly won a grant from the Met Council that will cover around one fifth of the total cost to remediate its desired Prospect Park site. The project's total budget is around $20 million. The grant comes from the Council's Livable Communities project, one of several grant programs from the state, counties, and cities that developers can access if they need help cleaning up a potentially contaminated site. Given the (often prohibitively) expensive …
