Original home of the company that brought the world Post-It Notes to tumble.
On 4 February, bids for a projected $4 million demolition of 12 campus buildings on the campus, which served as 3M’s headquarters between 1910 and 1962, will start being received. After that, the buildings, which are owned by the St. Paul Port Authority (SPPA), are to be torn down.
Louis Jambois, SPPA president, said the water tower will also come down after a two-year window for selling the old manufacturing and office buildings ends on Jan. 6, 2012.
“It’s not a functioning water tower anymore,” said Jambois. “And it would be a very expensive thing to keep” because of safety-related reasons.
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