Galtier Plaza
| Cray Plaza | |
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Exterior of Cray Plaza, as seen from Mears Park
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| Alternative names | Galtier Plaza |
| General information | |
| Status | Complete |
| Location | 380 Jackson Street, Saint Paul, Minnesota |
| Coordinates | 44°56′55.08″N 93°5′21.55″W / 44.9486333°N 93.0893194°WCoordinates: 44°56′55.08″N 93°5′21.55″W / 44.9486333°N 93.0893194°W |
| Completed | 1986 |
| Height | |
| Roof | 443 ft (135 m) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 46 |
Cray Plaza (formerly Galtier Plaza), located in the Lowertown neighborhood of Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, provides space for working, living, eating, and recreating on one square city block opened in 1986.
Features include 365 apartments, 121 luxury condominiums, 16 townhomes, a YMCA facility, 192,000 square feet (17,800 m2) of retail and restaurant space, 100,000 square feet (9,300 m2) of office space, and an 5-level underground parking garage for 829 cars.
At that time the Lowertown Redevelopment Corporation, a non-profit coordinator of development in St. Paul's historic warehouse district, had sought to fill Block 40 for some three years. The site on Mears Park just east of the downtown business district represented the keystone in Lowertown's revitalization, and Lowertown Redevelopment Corporation's executive director Weiming Lu had persuaded developers with the concept of a mixed-use development and one tenant, the downtown YMCA.
Efforts to put together a project reusing existing properties on the block had fallen through, as had a modest proposal for housing and service retail by the Carley Capital Group of Madison, Wisconsin. The city had already secured an Urban Development Action Grant (UDAG) from the federal government for the Carley development, and called for new developers with a three-month deadline looming. Boisclair and Omni Venture, Ltd. the developers of Minneapolis' International Market Square, responded. Robert Boisclair took on the development.
Miller, Hanson, Westerbeck & Bell were selected as architects for the project. They had done studies of Block 40 for the Lowertown Corporation and had a history of designing housing for Boisclair which included Lakepoint Tower and the Falls and Pinnacle at Riverplace. Galtier Plaza was named after Father Lucien Galtier, a Roman Catholic priest who has historical involvement with the founding of the city of St. Paul.
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