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Legacy Investing North Loop (former Star Tribune printing plant)

Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota

ProposedNo reception on recordRecord updated September 18, 2026

Legacy Investing North Loop (former Star Tribune printing plant) is a proposed data center in Minneapolis, Minnesota (Hennepin County), operated by Legacy Investing. The public record puts it at 20 MW planned, 13 acres.

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Facility record

Proposed

Operator: Legacy Investing
Facility type: Data center
Location: 800 North 1st Street, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN, 55401
Coordinates: 44.9907, -93.2766
Power capacity: 20 MW planned
Land: 13 acres
Investment: Not established from a public source
Announced: Not established from a public source
Utility: Not established from a public source
Cooling: Not established from a public source
Water use: Not established from a public source
Jobs: Not established from a public source
Public subsidy: Not established from a public source
Community reception: No reception on record
Source confidence: Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

July 30, 2026
Proposed
Legacy Investing reached an agreement to acquire the 13-acre former Star Tribune Heritage printing site; the project is pending city approvals. Source: CBS News Minnesota

Opposition and litigation at this site

Nothing on record as of September 18, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Legacy Investing North Loop (former Star Tribune printing plant) in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.

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Notes on the record

CBS reports "approximately 566,000 square feet" on 13 acres with "20 megawatts" of capacity; FOX 9 puts the building at "nearly 600,000 square feet". The Star Tribune vacated the Heritage printing facility in December 2025. Minneapolis adopted a moratorium on data centers over 350,000 sq ft; the city's preliminary zoning recommendations would require a conditional use permit and confine new data centers to the DT1/DT2 districts in existing buildings.

What the record does not establish, and the document that would

In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.

Cooling method and water use
Tax abatements or other public subsidy
Permanent jobs promised
How the community has received it
Which utility serves it

Which document closes each gap

Cooling method and water use: The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
Tax abatements or other public subsidy: The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
Permanent jobs promised: The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
How the community has received it: Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
Which utility serves it: The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Legacy Investing North Loop (former Star Tribune printing plant) in Minneapolis?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Legacy Investing North Loop (former Star Tribune printing plant)?

No lawsuit over Legacy Investing North Loop (former Star Tribune printing plant) appears in the record we track as of September 18, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.

How much water does Legacy Investing North Loop (former Star Tribune printing plant) use?

No water withdrawal figure for Legacy Investing North Loop (former Star Tribune printing plant) is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates Legacy Investing North Loop (former Star Tribune printing plant), and how big is it?

Legacy Investing is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 20 MW. The site is recorded at 13 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Legacy Investing North Loop (former Star Tribune printing plant)," updated September 18, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/legacy-investing-north-loop-minneapolis-mn.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.0 (September 21, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/legacy-investing-north-loop-minneapolis-mn, retrieved October 1, 2026.

Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.

Sources for this record

As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.

1.CBS News Minnesota, Data center company acquires former Star Tribune printing site (address, 13 acres, ~566,000 sq ft, 20 MW) · CBS News Minnesota · retrieved September 18, 2026
2.FOX 9, Data center proposed for former Star Tribune site sparks debate in Minneapolis · FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul · retrieved September 18, 2026
3.OpenStreetMap/Nominatim geocode, Star Tribune Heritage Center, 800 North 1st Street, Minneapolis, MN 55401 · OpenStreetMap contributors · retrieved September 18, 2026

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