Type: Retail
Size: 22,700 square feet
Developer: Seward Community Co-op
Architect: LHB Architects
Details: The Seward Community Co-op has made some adjustments in its plans for a new grocery store in Minneapolis' Bryant neighborhood and says it is preparing to submit a land use application for the $10 million project.
Announced late last year, the co-op's Friendship Store proposal would involve the demolition of the former Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, which has since relocated, as well as several adjacent residences where a parking lot would be built.
The co-op has secured purchase agreements with the landowners and in January announced that it had succeeded in gathering the sufficient number of signatures from other nearby homeowners supporting a request to rezone the property from residential to commercial.
Since then, co-op leaders and city officials have been negotiating the details of the project's site plan, under which Seward is seeking not only a rezoning and a series of variances but also to vacate part of the alley between Clinton and 3rd avenues south and to create a new alley extension along the site's southern edge.
