Lot 7. The lost parking will be in the city’s largest municipal parking lot. Soil studies are expected to find contaminants from sawmill, railroad and other industrial activity dating to the mid-1800s.
Prelude to hotel: Soil tests, remediation
WINONA, Minn. – Crews have blocked off the 126-slot Municipal Parking Lot 7 for preliminary soil tests at the site of the new levee hotel. The 1.6-acre lot, which stretches from Main to Center streets behind the Winona 7 movie house, will never re-open. Once soil remediation is complete, foundations can be poured for the five-story river-front hotel. To replace some lost Lot 7 parking, the old HBC satellite-dish farm on Main will come down, creating 29 parking slots. There also will be 30 trackside slots at the former Jefferson Pub off Center Street. The hotel itself is expected to be completed in 2026.
Earlier: W&StP freighthouse’s new lease on life
Mercantile impact
> Offices at Riverfront Plaza, 50 West Street.
> River City Outlet, 72 Center Street.
> Schumacher Hydraulic Elevator, 50 West Second Street.
> Sliced Pizza, 66 Center Street.
> Knight-Barry Title Company, 50 West Second Street.
> Winona 7 movie theater, 70 W 2nd Street.