WINONA, Minn. – Lots of moving parts are in motion as Big Time local players jockey with visions for property at Levee Park. As best as mere mortals can figure it all out:

> Movie theater parking lot. Adjacent to 60 Main Street. Owned by the City of Winona, which has talked for years about a downtown hotel-apartment complex along the Union Pacific railroad’s industrial spur along the park and the river. In and out of ongoing talks: the Winona Port Authority and mega-hotelier Mike Rivers.

One piece of puzzle. The no-longer used HBC satellite dish farm peeking over an art-festooned  fence at Levee Park. Image: Steve Lunde

> HBC satellite dish farm. At 67 Main Street across from the movie theater parking lot. Local cable company HBC doesn’t use the dishes anymore – all pre-fiber optic 20th century relics. HBC also parks cable-service trucks on the property. Possible uses that have been floated: Hospitality-related retail shops, restaurant and entertainment venues. Perhaps a shaded Levee Park extension. Perhaps parking. Discussions involve the Port Authority; HBC; C.B. Smith Construction of Fond Lac, Wisconsin, which is building the four-story Fastenal office building nearby; Mike Gostomski and Peter Shortridge, owners the Latsch Development enterprise for historic redevelopment; and Mike Rivers’ of Rivers Hospitality.

> HBC headquarters. At 58 Johnson Street. A small parcel adjacent to HBC headquarters and the satellite dish farm. Parties: HBC, City of Winona.

> ProBuild site. At 165 West Second Street, near Fastenal’s new office building. ProBuild, the last piece of the vibrant riverfront lumber industry of the 1800s, was bought by the City of Winona for $535,000 last summer. Temporarily a C.B. Smith staging site for Fastenal office building construction. Possibilities: Parking, a Levee park extension, tourism-geared retailers. Parties: C.B. Smith, Fastenal, City of Winona, Port Authority

> New jail. 100 block of West Second and Third. As part of the Courthouse campus complex. Construction pending.

> Interstate Bridge ramp. The Port Authority has bought the former Interstate bridge construction land from the city for unspecified “public purposes.” Presumably it will become Fastenal office parking. A Levee Park extension a possibility too. Frisbee, anyone?

> Former YMCA. Most of the block bounded by Huff, Johnson, Second and Third streets. Now razed for Fastenal parking.

> Railroad spur: This riverside spur was built to serve sawmills in the 1860s. The Union Pacific now uses the spur to reach grain elevators and other shippers from its main switching yard the other side of Huff Street. The spur runs all the way to the Far East End industrial park An abandoned middle-of-the-street extension link on the Far East End, dating to the 1800s, could be revived to connect Second Street and East End shippers to the Canadian Pacific mainline beyond Mankato Avenue. Discussants: City of Winona, Port Authority, Union Pacific.