DOWNTOWN OFFICE TOWER, Duluth (Minneapolis, Rochester: hotel, restaurant, floors)

[nateduluthnative]

I am interested in any information regarding the Vonjaro project in Downtown Duluth. I've been fascinated with tall buildings my whole life and would like to see a few more of them in Duluth. I mentioned it in other threads, but got off of the subjects of those threads. Please share information regarding this or any other proposed high- rise buildings in Duluth

[Astron1000]

There's a whole forum dedicated to buildings & skyscrapers in Minnesota and the Twin Cities. It's called minnescraper. Here's the website:

www.minnescraper.com :: Index

You can probably find answers there!

[aluminumpork]

Well, there isn't much info other than the information you probably already have seen. These are the two major articles I've read about it:

Business North
Duluth.com

It looks like Helstrom Architects is involved in the design, but I can't find any artist's rendering or designs except for the one in the Duluth.com article.

Here is the Emporis.com listing for the proposed building: 9 West Superior Street, Duluth / Emporis.com. It doesn't really have any interesting information though, other than 9 floors and structure type.

[nateduluthnative]

Thanks. The Minnescraper thread said it could be 10+ stories, if so, the taller the better. I've never heard of Helstrom Architects. I googled them but I don't think they have a website yet

[aluminumpork]

Originally Posted by nateduluthnative

I googled them but I don't think they have a website yet

Yeah, I looked around also, but couldn't find anything.

[Mistacoolio20]

Originally Posted by nateduluthnative

I am interested in any information regarding the Vonjaro project in Downtown Duluth. I've been fascinated with tall buildings my whole life and would like to see a few more of them in Duluth. I mentioned it in other threads, but got off of the subjects of those threads. Please share information regarding this or any other proposed high- rise buildings in Duluth

Move to Minneapolis. Duluth an't gonna grow much bigger than it already is.

[aluminumpork]

Originally Posted by Mistacoolio20

Duluth an't gonna grow much bigger than it already is.

We'll just see about that! *hastily gets out his planning board* :-D

If Rochester, Fargo and the like can grow successfully, then there is absolutely no reason why Duluth can't also. If the right things fall into place at the right time, I think things will begin changing drastically. There's some what of a mini "revolution" going on it seems.

[nateduluthnative]

Originally Posted by Mistacoolio20

Move to Minneapolis. Duluth an't gonna grow much bigger than it already is.

I moved there (suburban) 10 years ago. I still love to keep up on business and development news in Duluth, I visit quite often.

[duluthian2008]

Has anyone heard anything on this project? I really would like to see it start. I think it would be cool if we had like a boutique hotel on that site. Like 10-15 stories tall but really nice and modern. I think Duluth needs a hotel like that. Plus if it had like a nice restaurant on the bottom and a retail store of sometype I think that that would do some real good for that part of the downtown.

[nateduluthnative]

I e-mailed Vonjaro a couple weeks ago and they said that they are waiting for the skywalk link to the tech village to be approved. I wonder how long that will take!