The Landings Townhomes

THE LANDINGS Fourth Avenue N. at West River Parkway Minneapolis has long been known for its "public-private partnerships," and The Landings is a prime illustration of how this works. Despite a close-to-downtown location right along the Mississippi River, this area languished until the Park Board built a new parkway and, significantly, handsomely landscaping the parkway corridor in the process. Once this premium public setting was in place, private developers invested in new housing. While these 60 townhouses are architecturally conventional, they are very large, with floor areas of 2,500 to 5,000 square feet, now costing from a half-million dollars to over a million—which are actually very reasonable prices, on square-foot basis. This situation is especially attractive to suburban empty nesters who are oriented to Downtown and engaged by the Minneapolis cultural scene, but are not particularly enamored with the notion of downsizing. Nestled into a signature, parkway landscape close to Downtown, The Landings offers this market the best of all worlds.