MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - For nearly two years, the giant piece of real estate at Lake Street and Nicollet Avenue has been vacant, the former K-Mart demolished.

For a couple of decades, city leaders had sought to reconnect Nicollet, which the K-Mart development severed in the late 1970s.

At long last, the city’s seeking developers to start the first phase of construction here, but the changes still remain years away.

Request for bids

What we know:

This week, the City of Minneapolis put out the formal Request For Proposals to developers to bid on phase one of what’s called the "New Nicollet."

For the past several years, the city has solicited input from the community about what they’d like to see here. And this spring, the council and mayor officially approved a concept plan.

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