Development

For a city that’s hemmed in by suburbs and has little undeveloped land other than parks, Minneapolis has been pretty successful at adding housing.

This week, the city council for Pomona is set to vote on extending a temporary halt on industrial developments to study the environmental impact, while the nearby city of Norco will decide whether to establish a 45-day moratorium.

The proposed requirement, which would apply to projects over 20,000 square feet, aims to address the longstanding lack of diversity in the city’s CRE industry.

Although judges are free to consider history when deciding whether a condemnation is pretextual, recent cases make clear that tales of longstanding oppression will play at best a minor role in the judicial calculus.

The state will sell development rights to private developers and collect payments-in-lieu-of-taxes, known as PILOTs, on newly constructed and environmentally friendly office and residential buildings.

“We’re seeing a slowdown in our order intake in the construction sector, and those customers are typically the fastest to react,” said Rob Van Gils, CEO of Hammerer Aluminum Industries.