Chad Ronchetti News Today

A proposed tax-increment financing package will now go to the City Council for consideration.

Festies Inc. aims to renovate the long-neglected corner store/apartment building.

An influential travel publication has discouraged visits to Lake Superior, citing the negative environmental impacts of tourism.

Critics have suggested affordable units should be a required part of any housing project slated to receive public subsidies.

The first phase of the ambitious project is likely to require $40 million in tax-increment financing assistance.

The same development group is poised to partner with the city on an even bigger project involving greater public subsidies.

The project could cost $500 million and bring 1,300 units of housing to the local market.

ST Paper has penned an asset purchase agreement to sell its local plant to the seventh-largest tissue papermaker in the world.

The Duluth Housing and Redevelopment Authority hopes to help, but much depends on whether the home can meet rental codes.

Some public parking would need to remain part of the mix.