Development Principles

The Saint Paul Port Authority, with considerable community input, has adopted these principles for Beacon Bluff:

  1. Preserve and Enhance Historic Resources
    Preserve and reuse the historically significant, authentic, character-defining features of the place, and interpret its economic, social and cultural stories.

  2. Realize Potential for Creating Quality Jobs
    Maximize site potential for light industrial and other well-paying jobs, building tax base and economic diversity.

  3. Embrace Green Planning, Building and Operating Strategies
    Prioritize development opportunities with businesses that use environmentally conscious processes, make environmentally sustainable products, and/or build energy efficient green buildings.

  4. Evoke a Sense of Place
    Ensure that development is an asset that enhances the East Side of Saint Paul and is complementary in scale, uses, and aesthetics.

  5. Improve Connectivity
    Create/enhance safe transit connections to, and through the site and ensure safe pedestrian, bike and other connections to and from the property and across the corridor.

  6. Foster Public Safety
    Improve neighborhood environmental, traffic, and safety conditions through building and public realm design and site remediation while maximizing existing public and private assets and services.

  7. Invest in the Public Realm
    Ensure design elements take advantage of the unique opportunity to define/re-define nearby economic corridors and create an identity that can revitalize and energize the area with a mix of uses and people-friendly spaces which increase access to services for daily living by community residents.