St. Cloud’s New City Hall To Open in March

(KNSI) – The public should finally get a chance to walk through the new St. Cloud City Hall next month. St. Cloud has been renovating the old Tech High School into the city’s new administrative center. Mayor Dave Kleis says the open house has been delayed twice before.

“We’ve had some previous moving dates. So, we were looking at January, and then, of course, because of supply chain issues and other technical things, we moved it to the 28th of this month, February. But this will be the last move. I’m very hopeful. I’m 99%. Sure. We’re moving it just a couple of weeks.”

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He says the public open house will be on Saturday, March 12th.

“We’re going to have an opportunity for the community to come out. We’re going to do a ribbon-cutting at 10 a.m. And then, I’ll be giving tours of the building all day. It is open to the public, and we will have some refreshments.”

Mayor Kleis says the delay was to make sure the building was ready for the staff and public.

“Everything is in. We just need to make sure everything works with technology, because, of course, we’re moving a lot of our staff, and we’re putting in an elevator and doing some other things. We want to make sure it’s extremely open and accessible.”

The first council meeting in the new city hall chamber will be on March 14th. The mayor says starting March 7th, expect some disruptions getting a hold of city offices as they begin the final move into the renovated building.

St. Cloud moved city hall to the vacant high school after voters approved building a new Tech High School that opened in the fall of 2019. The old city hall site has been purchased by a redevelopment company that plans to level the old building and construct a new commercial building.

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