Project Updates

Feb 3, 2012
West Side Community Health Services, Inc. has agreed to purchase about 4 acres of land in the Saint Paul Port Authority's Beacon Bluff Business Center to build a medical clinic. The new clinic will be located near the northwest corner of East Seventh and Forest Streets. Closing on the sale of land ...more

Jul 29, 2011
The Saint Paul Port Authority has the necessary permits in place to being demolition of the Building 24 and the old 3M water tower. The two-story structure on the south side of East Sixth Street, along with old utilities and blacktop are all scheduled to go as well. The upcoming demolition work is ...more

Mar 9, 2011
Monte Hilleman, the Port's vice president of redevelopment and project manager of the Beacon Bluff redevelopment, was named Brownfield Renewal magazine's 2010 Person of the Year for his work on the redevelopment of the 61-acre Beacon Bluff Business ...more

Oct 19, 2010
Demolition Magazine featured the Beacon Bluff Business Center on the cover of its September-October issue, along with Rachel Construction's part in the project. Rachel Construction is the demolition contractor on the Saint Paul Port Authority's 61-acre ...more

Jul 2, 2010
Crews continue the process of redeveloping the 61-acre Beacon Bluff Business Center by removing a 317,000-square-foot building in the middle of the project. This building is not one of five the Port Authority and Casserly Turley are marketing nationally for ...more

May 3, 2010
Baldinger Bakery broke ground on Friday (April 30) on a new $30 million, 144,000-square-foot baking and office complex on the eastern end of the Saint Paul Port Authority's Beacon Bluff Business Center. The state-of-the-are plant is expected to be operational in nine months. The new plant is ...more

Apr 27, 2010
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded the Saint Paul Port Authority $1 million in clean-up grants to be used at the Beacon Bluff Business Center and other redevelopment sites throughout Saint Paul. That brings to $4.6 million the amount of federal, state and local grants used to ...more

Apr 27, 2010
Beacon Bluff Business Center was named "Best in Real Estate in 2010" in the Industrial and Warehouse Development and Redevelopment category by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. This 61-acre redevelopment has generated considerable interest locally and ...more