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Kraus-Anderson Preps for $20M Upscale Apartments in St. Paul 1063 693 UrbanWorks Architecture

Kraus-Anderson Preps for $20M Upscale Apartments in St. Paul

via Twin Cities Business Kraus-Anderson Development today announced that it has begun tearing down a vacant office building in St. Paul to make way for a 92-unit upscale apartment building. The firm is redeveloping the former Capital Professional Office Building at 590 Park Street in St. Paul’s Capitol Heights neighborhood. Kraus-Anderson built the original structure…

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Micro apartments on Territorial Road scheduled to open in August 1800 1200 UrbanWorks Architecture

Micro apartments on Territorial Road scheduled to open in August

Via Monitor Saint Paul “With construction underway since January, RAY, a new “smart living” micro-unit apartment complex at 2326 Territorial Rd., is on track to welcome residents on Aug. 1. The project…builds on the fast-growing micro living craze driven by a more minimalist lifestyle, smaller apartments, tiny homes and the evolving “no-baggage” culture.” “Distinguishing itself…

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New apartments come in very small packages 3840 2160 UrbanWorks Architecture

New apartments come in very small packages

Via Park Bugle “Micro dwellings have been defined as fully equipped self-contained housing units that are somewhere around 350 square feet in floor area. The idea got its start in high-demand urban areas in both the United States and abroad, where housing pressures and skyrocketing rents have a long and grim history. Now the trend…

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Studio apartments have gone upscale and are proliferating in Twin Cities 3840 2160 UrbanWorks Architecture

Studio apartments have gone upscale and are proliferating in Twin Cities

Via Star Tribune Developers are building hundreds of “micro” apartments in the most coveted neighborhoods in the Twin Cities. Just a few minutes from the Raymond Avenue stop along the Green line, about 70 of 79 units in the new Ray Apartments will be studios. Read More

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New apartment complex in St. Anthony Park features ‘micro’ units 3840 2160 UrbanWorks Architecture

New apartment complex in St. Anthony Park features ‘micro’ units

via Star Tribune The developer of the Carleton Artists Lofts, which helped transform a former industrial area along University Avenue between Minneapolis and St. Paul, hopes to build a four-story apartment building on an adjacent site.  Read More

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