The city of Hopkins will pay an additional $8 million to Kelly Doran, the apartment developer, to cover the $10.5 million cost of a 189-stall public parking ramp that Doran built for light-rail commuters in his Moline project downtown, at the request of the city.
Doran and Hopkins officials expected most of the cost to be covered by federal congestion-mitigation funds sought by the Metropolitan Council.
The Met Council balked at the arrangement in 2018, which prompted Doran to sue the city, as the developer accrued up to $1.5 million in interest and related costs involving a loan he had to take to cover the ramp. It was built into the $50 million-plus apartment complex.

Hopkins earlier had loaned Doran $5.2 million, or about 10% of the apartment building cost, in the form of a tax-increment finance loan, which would be paid back over years with incremental property taxes generated by the complex.
The total amount is now $13.2 million that Doran is required to pay back through 2023.
The new agreement was approved late last month by Doran and city officials. The parties entered settlement talks last fall, after a no-winner ruling by Hennepin County District Judge Edward Wahl.
Doran asserted that the city and Met Council ordered a public ramp, in addition to 255 underground stalls that he built to accommodate tenants and guests.
The Moline project was built on land near downtown Hopkins that was once the site of a Minneapolis Moline tractor plant and more recently an office and warehouse.