UrbanWorks Architecture
via Finance & Commerce “A $17 million housing project for homeless youths is officially under construction in downtown Minneapolis. Minneapolis-based YouthLink and Project for Pride in Living broke ground Tuesday on the five-story, 46-unit building at 41 N. 12th St. Known as “Downtown View,” the building will connect to YouthLink’s existing headquarters. The project, designed by…
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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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via Finance & Commerce “Schafer Richardson aims to bring more creative office space and parking to the city’s North Loop, just around the corner from other projects coming to nearby Washington Avenue North. The Minneapolis-based developer wants to turn the nearly century-old Zuccaro’s Produce building at 1000 Third St. N. into creative office space by adding…
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via Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal “YouthLink, the youth-services nonprofit, will begin work this month on a five-story expansion of its facility at the edge of downtown Minneapolis that will create dozens of residential units for homeless young people.” “The expansion, called Downtown View, will add 46 units for people ages 18 to 24, as…
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via Finance & Commerce “Aeon is thinking big when it comes to building affordable housing in the Twin Cities. The Minneapolis-based nonprofit developer said Tuesday it wants to triple its annual output of new affordable housing units to help meet the area’s growing need for modestly priced places to live. ‘Aeon has to find creative…
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via Star Tribune “Construction starts next week in downtown Minneapolis on a $17 million, five-story housing complex for people in their late teens and early 20s who are homeless. Downtown View will be located at 41 N. 12th St. and include 46 residential units and support services for people ages 18 to 24, according to this week’s…
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via Hastings Star Gazette “The third and final floor is staring to take shape at the top of the new Artspace Hastings Lofts building on the east end of downtown. Thanks to a milder winter and pre-project assessments, construction work is progressing right on time.” “The project features 37 live/work affordable apartments designed with artists…
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via Nichiha Fiber Cement “Colorful projects across a downtown landscape… discover how UrbanWorks Architecture has colored the Minneapolis skyline! Watch Nichiha‘s recent vlog to learn more about how UrbanWorks’ architects design with color and explore several standout projects.” UrbanWorks is thrilled to have had the opportunity to participate in Nichiha‘s video interview (vlog) that featured…
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via Star Tribune “Tod Elkins and Noah Bly have left their mark on the Twin Cities with distinct residential and mixed-use designs that emerged over the past 12 years from their small-but-influential firm UrbanWorks Architecture. Now their relationship is changing. Bly is selling his stake in the firm and leaving to pursue his own future…
read moreFOR RELEASE: MARCH 16, 2017 MINNEAPOLIS, MN. In a move that UrbanWorks Architecture, a prominent and fast-growing Minneapolis architectural design firm, describes as, “more of an evolution than a separation,” its two founding principals, Noah Bly and Tod Elkins, announced that, although separating and parting ways as joint owners and co-managers of the firm, they…
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