News Feed http://www.redrockrail.org/blog Meetings, Events and Recent News Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:02:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Red Rock Corridor Commission Meeting http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=934 http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=934#comments Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:02:13 +0000 admin http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=934 Red Rock Corridor Commission Meeting
March 28, 2013
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Cottage Grove City Hall


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April 25, 2013
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Cottage Grove City Hall


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May 30, 2013
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Cottage Grove City Hall


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June 27, 2013
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Cottage Grove City Hall


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July 25, 2013
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Cottage Grove City Hall


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August 29, 2013
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Cottage Grove City Hall


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September 26, 2013
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Cottage Grove City Hall


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October 31, 2013
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Cottage Grove City Hall


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November 21, 2013
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Cottage Grove City Hall


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]]> http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=915 0 Newport transit station plans move forward http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=903 http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=903#comments Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:22:08 +0000 admin http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=903 By Elizabeth Mohr
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Posted:   11/27/2012 12:01:00 AM CST
Updated:   11/27/2012 11:15:14 PM CST

Washington County commissioners voted Tuesday, Nov. 27, to approve a proposed development area and to deem parts of the former Knox Lumber site structurally substandard.

The votes were required before the property can be developed and a tax-increment financing, or TIF, district established.

The site, which the county bought in 2010, is an aging industrial area at Interstate 494 and U.S. 61 at the north end of Newport. It has been chosen as the future home of a transit station for the Red Rock Corridor, with complimentary residential and retail development.

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]]> http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=903 0 Refreshing the Red Rock arithmetic http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=877 http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=877#comments Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:35:44 +0000 admin http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=877  

In Hastings, city officials plan to demolish part of the former Hudson Manufacturing factory to prepare the site for redevelopment. The site, at 200 W. Second St., is near the planned Red Rock corridor, a 30-mile transitway between Hastings and St. Paul. (Staff photo: Bill Klotz)

Could commuters in the southeastern metro be served just as well by a bus rapid transit system as commuter rail?

That’s the question the Red Rock Corridor Commission is hoping to answer as they set out to update a 5-year-old study of a 30-mile transitway that would include stops in St. Paul, Newport, Cottage Grove and Hastings.

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]]> http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=877 0 Washington County to Use Federal Money on Red Rock Corridor Study http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=870 http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=870#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:21:42 +0000 admin http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=870 Red Rock Corridor

The Washington County Regional Rail Authority will be using federal money to study the Red Rock transitway corridor.

The authority approved the agreement with the Metropolitan Council at Tuesday’s meeting.

The money will be used to update the 2007 Alternatives Analysis, which will advance the development of the corridor. The corridor is a proposed 30-mile transitway that would connect the Twin Cities’ southeastern suburbs to Minneapolis and St. Paul.

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]]> http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=870 0 Ramsey County hosting open house on East Metro Rail Capacity Study http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=865 http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=865#comments Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:51:52 +0000 admin http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=865 Ramsey County Regional Rail Authority (RCRRA), in cooperation with the Red Rock Corridor Commission, has commissioned an East Metro Rail Capacity Study to identify impacts and recommend solutions to freight and passenger rail capacity constraints in the eastern metropolitan area. The purpose of this study is to identify how multiple high-speed, passenger and commuter rail corridors can utilize the freight rail system to access Union Depot, a regional multimodal transit hub in downtown St. Paul. The study area focuses on the rail lines on the east side of the Mississippi River from Union Depot southeast to Hastings, but also includes track north of the depot to Maryland Avenue and track on the west side of the Mississippi River to Rosemount.

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]]> http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=865 0 Ready to Roll in Red Rock Corridor http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=857 http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=857#comments Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:50:22 +0000 admin http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=857 Commuter rail or bus rapid transit may not be coming to St. Paul’s southern suburbs anytime soon, but that isn’t stopping communities along the future Red Rock Corridor from preparing for just such a reality.

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The latest sign of preparations for a transit-oriented future comes in Newport, where an open house on Wednesday will showcase designs for a transit station to be built next year near the Highway 61 and Interstate 494 interchange.

 

The station would become part of the fledgling Red Rock Corridor, a 30-mile transitway that may eventually bring commuter rail or bus rapid transit along the Highway 61 corridor. Plans call for stops in Newport, Hastings, Cottage Grove and St. Paul, where it would connect with the Central Corridor Light Rail Transit line. The site is at 2222 Maxwell Ave., a former lumberyard.

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]]> http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=857 0 Public can offer input on Newport transit station http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=854 http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=854#comments Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:00:54 +0000 admin http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=854 Washington County officials are continuing to sketch out their role in how to redevelop an industrial section of Newport after a transit center opens along a busy express bus route next year.

County transit planners will hold an open house at Newport City Hall to seek public input on design of the transit station that is scheduled to begin service to commuters headed to St. Paul next fall. The public open house is scheduled to run from 6-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 18, at 596 Seventh Ave. in Newport.

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]]> http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=854 0 Newport, Washington County agree on Red Rock redevelopment http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=848 http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=848#comments Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:16:56 +0000 admin http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=848 The Washington County Housing and Redevelopment Authority will be the driving force behind attracting developers to remake roughly 40 acres of northwest Newport near the junction of Interstate 494 and U.S. Highway 61 — now largely a bleak industrial zone — into a high-density, mixed-use commercial and residential area that officials say will serve as a gateway to the city and county.

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]]> http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=848 0 Newport: Public input sought on transit station design http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=844 http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=844#comments Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:15:21 +0000 admin http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=844 An open house will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. July 18 at Newport City Hall, 596 Seventh Ave. There will be a short presentation at 6:30 p.m. Attendees will be treated to ice cream cones.

The transit station will sit on the site of the former Knox lumberyard near the interchange of Interstate 494 and U.S. 61. The long-range vision is a multi-modal station for the Red Rock Corridor amidst a residential and retail development; immediate plans call for an express bus station with service to St. Paul. It’s one of four proposed station sites along the corridor.

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]]> http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=844 0 Newport transit station on display http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=841 http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=841#comments Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:14:02 +0000 admin http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=841 Late next summer a transit station will open in Newport as one stop on the proposed 30-mile Red Rock Corridor connecting the southeastern suburbs to St. Paul and Minneapolis. An open house will be held Wednesday on the design.

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]]> http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=841 0 Downtown parking lot plans approved http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=730 http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=730#comments Thu, 05 Jul 2012 02:07:15 +0000 admin http://www.redrockrail.org/blog/?p=730 The City of Hastings has approved plans for a new park and ride lot in downtown Hastings.

The lot, to be constructed on the southern two thirds of the vacant lot between East Second and East Third streets and east of Tyler Street, is the first visible step towards establishing a transit rail station here as part of the Red Rock Corridor project.

The project is being funded by a $600,000 grant from the Metropolitan Council.

Plans include 100 parking stalls, a platform area along Tyler Street for potential future bus loading, a lowered island to catch and filter water runoff and lighting. Plans also involve converting East Third Street into a parking lot access only, eliminating the road from the south driveway to Bailey Street. Some of Bailey Street would also be eliminated.

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