- Graco Park Final Building Design [PDF]
- Graco Park Approved Final Concept [PDF]
- Graco Park Concept for Public Hearing — April 2022 [PDF]
- Graco Park Building Concept for Public Hearing — April 2022 [PDF]
- Graco Park Preferred Concept (January 2022) [PDF]
- January 2022 Graco Park Virtual Open House Notes [PDF]
- Graco Park Tenant LOI Questions and Answers [PDF]
- Graco Park Design Project Launch Overview [PDF]
- Above the Falls Regional Park Master Plan [PDF]
- Approved Scherer Park Site Concept Plan (RiverFIRST) [PDF]
- Scherer Park and Hall’s Island 3D Fly Through Animation
- Graco Park Community Engagement Plan (March 2021) [PDF]
- Graco Park Community Engagement Assessment (March 2021) [PDF]
- Graco LOI invite [PDF]
- Project Engagement Website
- Question and Answer for Lot 2 and MPRB Building Tenants (updated July 14, 2021) [PDF]
Project Location
Sibley St. NE between 8th Ave. NE and 10th Ave. NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413
Project Managers
Michael Schroeder
Phone: 612-230-6467
Email: mschroeder@minneapolisparks.org
Carrie Christensen
Phone: 612-499-9129
Email: cchristensen@minneapolisparks.org
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Key Documents
Status
Current Phase: Construction
What's New
Graco Park Construction Update
Construction progressed throughout winter on new Northeast Minneapolis riverfront park on track to open in fall 2024
Groundbreaking ceremony commemorates beginning of park construction for Graco Park
Coalition of partners supporting Northeast Minneapolis, regional parks and trails, and Mississippi River water quality help create riverfront park, upgraded trail connection, and net-zero energy park building
Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board awarded two major grants to improve Graco Park
$2.56 million Met Council grant will fund underpass connecting to Boom Island Park, trail connections and intersection safety improvements $480,000 MWMO grant will fund stormwater management, habitat and geothermal snowmelt […]
Timeline
Project Milestones
2025
- Graco Park to Boom Island underpass, trail connections, and intersection improvements construction
2023-2024
- Park, park building and trail construction
Summer 2022
- Create detailed design drawing and construction documents, solicit bids from construction contractors
Spring 2022
- Public hearing and final concept approval
Winter 2021-2022
- Final design concept developed
- Permitting process
Spring-Fall 2021
- Graco Park/Lot 2 design process and community engagement based on approved master plan and Graco settlement to develop design concepts for park details, trail connections and building concept.
2020
- Design team hired to design Graco Park based on master plan and Graco settlement
2018-2019
- Graco litigation and settlement with MPRB
Winter/Spring 2017
- Developer creation of concept plans and review by CAC
Fall/Winter 2016
- Selection of development team
Fall 2016
- Formation of a Community Advisory Committee (CAC). Creation of “Request for Letter of Interest” to engage a development team
July and August 2016
- Project kick-off. Initial meetings with community stakeholders for input on the proposed community engagement and developer solicitation process
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Background
In 2010, the MPRB and the Minneapolis Parks Foundation, along with creative partners The University of Minnesota College of Design and Walker Art Center, launched an international design competition to address the area of the Mississippi River extending from the Stone Arch Bridge, north 5.5 miles to Minneapolis’ city limits, including land along both sides of the river.
The competition culminated in 2011 when MPRB established the Minneapolis Riverfront Development Initiative (MRIDI) as an interdisciplinary, comprehensive and integrated planning endeavor to follow through with the promise of the competition: to connect citizens and visitors with the new multi-functional Upper Riverfront parks. The “RiverFIRST” vision emerged from MRIDI as a 20‐year vision for Mississippi-riverfront parks that builds on our community’s rich river heritage and passion for parks, nature and wildlife to create places on “America’s fourth coast” where neighborhoods and businesses can grow and people from near and far can experience one of the four great rivers of the world through world-class recreational and cultural activities.
Following stakeholder engagement process and a standard 45-day comment period, the Board approved the RiverFIRST vision in March 2012 and authorized staff to pursue next steps including contracting with Tom Leader Studio (TLS) and Kennedy & Violich Architecture (KVA) design team for schematic design work on select RiverFIRST projects, including the former Scherer Bros. lumber yard.
Following adoption of RiverFIRST, MPRB also created the Above the Falls Regional Park Master Plan (2013 ATF Park Plan) to further guide development and identify near term regional park priorities – again identifying the Scherer Bros. site as a priority.
A couple of different funding and development models were explored for Parcel ‘D’ including private development and a ground lease of the site as well as an MPRB managed site. The project was put on hold in 2018 during the period of the Graco litigation. With the settlement now in place and the sale of a portion of Parcel D to Graco, the Parcel D project has taken a new course.