Housing, labor, preservation advocates fight June 30 sunset of MN historic tax credit program

From the renovated State Theater in Ely, Minn., to the proposed remodel of the 25-story Landmark Towers office building in downtown St. Paul, real estate developers over the past decade have pieced together financing for multimillion-dollar redevelopment projects with the help of a state tax credit that effectively forgives 20 percent of the cost of…