Fwd: Twin Cities Academy

[district...@aol.com]

See string below. Not sure what happened to the Hmong funeral home, but it may have been the contamination.

Betsy Leach
Exec. Director/Community Organizer
District 1 Community Council
in SunRay Shopping Center

2105 1/2 Old Hudson Rd.
Saint Paul, MN 55119
district...@aol.com; www.district1council.org
651-578-7600 (v); 651-578-7404 (fax)

-----Original Message-----
From: Betsy Lueth <blu...@twincitiesacademy.org>
To: District 1 Community Council <district...@aol.com>
Sent: Fri, Mar 20, 2015 7:19 am
Subject: Re: Twin Cities Academy

Betsy,

Sorry for the delay in responding, I was out yesterday. That should work. I am trying to get the HRA application to Jenny Wolfe by April 15, but I think this should be o.k.

Thank you so much for making time for us.

Betsy

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 11:53 AM, <district...@aol.com> wrote:

Hi Betsy, I am wondering if a meeting with our land use committee would be best in this instance. They have a regular meeting on the second Tuesday of the month. The next meeting would be April 14 at 5:30p at our office. Is that too late for your purposes?

We would all love to talk to you.

Betsy Leach
Exec. Director/Community Organizer
District 1 Community Council
in SunRay Shopping Center

2105 1/2 Old Hudson Rd.
Saint Paul, MN 55119
district...@aol.com; www.district1council.org
651-578-7600 (v); 651-578-7404 (fax)

-----Original Message-----
From: Betsy Lueth < blu...@twincitiesacademy.org>
To: District1Council < District...@aol.com>
Sent: Tue, Mar 17, 2015 1:42 pm
Subject: Twin Cities Academy

Dear Ms. Leach,

I received your name from Council Member Finney and Ms. Bialas as the person to reach out to regarding our potential project. My name is Betsy Lueth, and I am the Executive Director/Principal of Twin Cities Academy & Twin Cities Academy High School.

 

Twin Cities Academy Middle School and Twin Cities Academy High School are charter schools that currently occupy the old Sacred Heart School building, at 835 E. 5th Street, in the heart of the Dayton's Bluff neighborhood. (Prior to that, the school was located in the West 7th neighborhood of Saint Paul.) TCA Middle School was established in 1999, and TCA High School was established in 2005.  

TCA/TCAHS have entered into a purchase agreement for the former Cemstone site, on East Minnehaha Avenue and Hazelwood Street.  We're in the process of environmental testing of the land.  If all things are a "go" after the various phases of that testing, the school board has given authorization to move ahead with all other processes related to the move.

I would very much like to have an opportunity to speak with you about our schools and about our potential project. If we are able to move this project forward, we would very much hope to partner with the neighborhood in a variety of ways. 

I would love the opportunity to meet with you at your convenience in the next few weeks.  I can be available any time that would work for you.

Gratefully,

Betsy Lueth

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Betsy Lueth

Executive Director/Principal

Twin Cities Academy/Twin Cities Academy High School

651-205-4797

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Betsy Lueth

Principal

Twin Cities Academy/Twin Cities Academy High School

[Paul Sawyer]

I don't see how we can support this.  They are proposing to take a major East Side opportunity site and put an institutional use there.  This will remove this property from the tax rolls and force property taxes up even higher.  This site needs to be put into a commercial use.  What's even more frustration is that our wonderful zoning code lists a school as a permitted use in an I1 district and so this would not result in that property being rezoned.

We can only hope that the remediation is so burdensome that this deal will fall through.

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[district...@aol.com]

When I get into the office, I will try to contact the Hmong investors and see what happened.