ROCHESTER, MN | Gonda Tower Expansion | 490 FT | 32 FLOORS

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Mayo Clinic is adding 11 floor on top of the 21 floor Gonda Building.

Mayo Clinic is working with a Singapore development firm to add a seven-story hotel plus four clinical treatment floors on top of its Gonda Building in downtown Rochester.

This would be Rochester's new tallest building at 490 ft and 32 floors.

[MN/WI]

Not bad for a town of 100,000. Lots of other buildings going on in town as well, completing a new 20 story Hilton, 2 new 20 story buildings along the river, lots of others as well both proposed as well as being constructed. Way to go little big town.

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Originally Posted by MN/WI

Not bad for a town of 100,000. Lots of other buildings going on in town as well, completing a new 20 story Hilton, 2 new 20 story buildings along the river, lots of others as well both proposed as well as being constructed. Way to go little big town.

Technically in 2006 when the population in Rochester surpassed the 100,000 mark it officially became a city. So we can now say "way to go big little city."

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Work on luxury hotel atop Gonda Building won't start this year

Construction of an ultra-luxury hotel on top of a Mayo Clinic building is not expected to begin this year.

Pontiac Land Group, a Singapore development firm led by the Kwee family, announced plans in September 2018 to build a seven-story hotel plus four clinical treatment floors on top of Mayo Clinic's 21-floor Gonda Building in downtown Rochester.

At the time, Mayo Clinic's announcement stated, "Preliminary plans are for construction to begin by the end of 2019 or early 2020, with the project being completed by the end of 2022."

Mayo Clinic recently confirmed that work on the upward expansion won't begin until the later time estimates.

"Project planning continues, though we don’t anticipate construction will begin until later in 2020. The project is not delayed and the planning remains on track. The initial timing mentioned in the release was preliminary," Mayo Clinic's Kelley Luckstein wrote last week. "We will provide a more specific timeline when that information is available."