(KNSI) – St. Cloud has proposed selling the soon-to-be-vacated city hall to a developer with plans to bulldoze the building and replace it with commercial office space.
St. Cloud City Hall is moving from the building on the corner of 2nd Street South (Division Street) and 4th Avenue South to the former Tech High School.
St. Cloud Mayor Dave Kleis told KNSI News the council received three proposals on Monday with two turning city hall into housing and one that would use the land for a commercial property.
“They agreed that commercial would make more sense. And so they took action at the regular meeting to bring that back at the next council meeting. So, we’ll have a letter of intent for development and acquisition of City Hall for commercial development.”
The land will be appraised and a sale price negotiated. The city will be looking to get market value for the property.
The building will be demolished. Kleis says he expected the building would have to face the wrecking ball.
“you know, this is a building we’re leaving because it does have some problems. So long term. So we anticipated or expected that one of the reasons we’re leaving is because it would have some significant costs going forward over the next decade.”
The building would need millions in improvements.
Construction on the city hall site could start in 2022.
St. Cloud is expected to move city hall to the former Tech Building by the end of the year.
The current city hall was the old Central Jr High School and was initially built-in 1926.
The proposal is expected to be accepted at the next council meeting on April 26th.
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