MPRB Passes Resolution on Fuji Ya "Waterworks" Site

Last night the Minneapolis Parks & Recreation Board passed a resolution approving a "visioning & strategy" study to be funded by the Minneapolis Parks Foundation.  This was expected, since the non-profit foundation will be funding the study.

The study is the first step in the redevelopment of the site which includes the old Fuji Ya restaurant building. The site also includes the location of a former plant which supplied water to Minneapolis, hence the renaming of the site as "the Waterworks site".

As part of the project, a Citizens Advisory Committe (CAC) will be formed to seek community input.  This will be a non-appointed CAC, allowing all interested stakeholders to participate and vote on the resulting findings.

One new development was an amendment defining the study area as between Portland Avenue South and the 3rd Avenue Bridge, and between 1st Street South and the Mississippi River.