Food Hall Latest Dashed Plan At Downtown Minneapolis’ Dayton’s Project

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“Revitalizing Dayton’s is successful everyone’s champion interest,” Krsnak wrote. “As for what it’ll take: It starts pinch momentum. There needs to beryllium a clear vision, curated tenant operation and perhaps, astir importantly, a fewer catalytic leases that awesome assurance to nan market.

“These kinds of assets can’t spend to beryllium idle — activation is everything.“

Steve Wortman installed sidewalk signage promoting summertime activities connected nan Nicollet Mall crossed from nan Dayton's Project connected June 6, 2023. (Jeff Wheeler/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

A ‘missed opportunity’

Samuel Sigelman, head and wide counsel for Lighthouse Management Group, said nan receiver’s reports speak for themselves. The group’s first memo, revenge successful precocious October, estimated nan Dayton’s Project was 11% occupied.

In a statement, Zimmern said he and his partners, which included nan squad down nan Gansevoort Market nutrient hallway successful New York City, had for years been “on nan sideline waiting” for a definite percent of nan building to lease.

“I don’t person galore regrets successful life, but that woody was 1 I really look backmost connected pinch a level of existent missed opportunity,” he said. “I judge we request to return labor to activity downtown and do thing we tin to turn our metropolis centers. If we don’t, I judge we will beryllium looking astatine less, not more, of a logic for visitors aliases businesses to return portion successful what our awesome metropolis has to offer.”

The building’s head and leasing teams did not respond to requests for comments, but nan latest receiver’s study noted a fewer caller wins, including nan signing of a seven-year, 17,500-square-foot lease pinch a caller agency tenant.

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