Lawmaker Says He’ll Ask Minnesota For Money To Remake Downtown St. Cloud

(KNSI) – A St. Cloud lawmaker says he will work to get funding to help revitalize the downtown.

Last week, a summit on rebuilding downtown focused on creating private/public partnerships and attracting people to the district. St. Cloud area Representative Dan Wolgamott was at the summit and said he understands how vital the downtown is. “As someone with a real estate background, I know how important having a vibrant downtown is to drawing people to our community, whether it’s businesses, families, or investors. I’m very excited to be working with the mayor and with the city of St. Cloud on this proposal.”

Duluth and Rochester have received millions in bonding dollars for redevelopment projects in the last couple of years. Wolgamott says St. Cloud should be getting some aid too and plans to ask for state money to help with redevelopment, saying he “very much” looks forward to submitting a bonding proposal for this and “we’ll fight very hard to get some dollars from our state because St. Cloud is a regional center. And when our downtown is thriving, when our hospital is thriving, when our campus is thriving, that’s a huge benefit to the entire state.”

The new session begins on January 3rd.

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