Demolition is moving into high gear on the former 3M campus in Minnesota.
Within the next couple of weeks, Rachel Contracting crews will begin to take down the largest building on the old 3M campus on the city’s East Side: an eight-storey office structure known as Building 42. Another structure, Building 2, will also be razed beginning in the next week or so, according to Monte Hilleman, vice president of redevelopment at the St. Paul Port Authority.
It’s the latest milestone in the effort to prepare the Port Authority-owned campus for the Beacon Bluff redevelopment, which is expected to attract 1,400 jobs to the struggling East Side.
“This is the biggest redevelopment we have done since Energy Park in the ‘70s,” Hilleman said. “We believe it is huge for the East Side. … It is kind of the hole in the donut we need to close in with businesses and job creation.”
Rachel Contracting, which was selected for the $3.1 million demolition contract this past spring, has already razed the Building 99 complex (which includes multiple buildings) and Building 41.
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