Duluth City Reveals Plans For Old Kozy Building

DEDA To Purchase Building From State Via County

The Kozy building in downtown Duluth has been an eye sore for quite sometime. Today the city decided to take action to reclaim the property.

The Kozy building and surrounding property currently holds a value of 175 thousand dollars, but the city voted to allow the Duluth Economic Development Authority to purchase the building from the state of Minnesota through St. Louis county for a cost of only 75 thousand dollars. That’s provided that the county votes in favor of contributing 325 thousand to the DEDA in July.

But from there development can finally begin.

Heather Rand, Duluth’s Director of Business and Economic impact says, “(It) could be a re–development or it could be a demolition and then re–development. We don’t know. It is up to the parties that be, who come forward with some fantastic ideas.”

The motion passed with a final vote of 3 to 2, some commissioners we’re hoping to review taking the building to an auction for purchase. Ultimately however, the city has decided to work in junction with the county to move the development of those lots forward sooner rather than later.