ARTSPACE PLANS AFFORDABLE ARTIST APARTMENTS

Artspace is planning more affordable artist apartments in Minneapolis, this time in the Harrison neighborhood.

Northside Artspace Lofts will be built on a site that is currently home to a warehouse located at 221 Irving Avenue N. Once complete the building will stand 5-stories tall and will feature commercial space, amenity space and 100 affordable apartments for working artists.

The ground floor of the building will house the lobby, a 2,565 square commercial space, three art studios, two large common studios, a dance/exercise room and a large community room. Floors two through five will house the residential units. 104 parking spaces will be located on the ground floor and one underground level of the building.

Units within the building will range in size and will include studios, one-bedroom, two-bedroom and three-bedroom units.

10 of the 26 three-bedroom units will be available to those with project-based section 8 vouchers. 70 of the units within the building will be available to households with an income at or below 60 percent of the area median income (AMI). 20 units within the project will be reserved for households within an income at or below 50 percent of the AMI and ten units will be reserved for households with an income at or below 30 percent of the AMI.

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One exciting aspect of the project is that the commercial space has already been leased to Juxtaposition Arts. They’re a local youth oriented non-profit visual art center that is known for their community collaborations, studio classes and workshops, public mural programs, art exhibitions and more. Talk about the perfect tenant for a project like this.

The team working on Northside Artspace Lofts includes Collage Architects, Wellington Management, Artspace, LHB and Wenck.

Construction on the project is anticipated to begin later this year.