Shenehon Business and Real Estate Valuation

Volume 13, No. 1, Winter 2008

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Market Transaction: Real Estate

Property: Vacant downtown land ripe for development

Buyer: Minneapolis Ventures LLC (Buyer owns balance of the block)

Seller: Orpheum LLC

Source: Buyer and Seller

Sale Date: October 25, 2007

Sale Price $10,140,480

Unit Price: $139.29 (Does not include demolition costs or remediation)

Zoning: B4S-1 Downtown Service District

Utilities: All available

Topography and Soil: Level and Sound

Visibility and Access: Good

Land Size: 72,802 square feet

Remarks: The buyer is currently using the site for interim parking. The proposed project would include either a hotel or over 300 units of multi-family rental units with the developer in talks with a grocery store for the first floor and Best Buy for the second floor. There is also an outside possibility of the project being developed as an office building with a major downtown tenant. The former gas station building was demolished and there is residual (slight) pollution.