MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - The East Phillips Neighborhood Institute (EPNI) is making another offer to purchase the abandoned Roof Depot from the City of Minneapolis with the hope of redeveloping it into an urban farm with retail and residential space.

Roof Depot purchase efforts

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The nonprofit says it made a new offer to purchase the site after the proposal lost funding at the end of last year's legislative session.

That offer of $10.2 million was sent to the city on June 27, but EPNI says it is still waiting for a response more than a month later.

The closing deadline for the proposal is Sept. 15, and ENPI said that it is still making community engagement and fundraising efforts while it works "to resolve this hurdle."

Those efforts reportedly include drafting a no

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