The City of Eden Prairie has this land for sale. It is at the SW corner of Highway 5 and Mitchell Road. It is the site of the City’s Public Safety Center. We still have a Public Safety Center, of course, only now it is in the City Center at 8080 Mitchell Road, about a quarter of a mile south from this site.
The site is 2.3 acres. You can read more about it at the this link to the City’s website.
The City has been marketing this land for the past couple of years now trying to entice a hotel/restaurant to pick it up and develop it. There have been a couple of close calls, but no deal, as of yet. City staff held a meeting with the City Council earlier this month to run through the history of the land for them and to take their input on what an acceptable development plan might be for this parcel.
It’s a hard decision. We can wait. We can wait a long time, if we have to. We’d like to get the very best development we can get for this highly visible piece of land. But, it would also be good to get the land sold, developed, and back on the tax rolls. The City shouldn’t hold land just to hold land. We are actively pursuing proposals for the land. I think we might see a deal fro this land come together this summer. Who knows? Here’s a different angle of it.
Got an idea for this parcel? Call Dave Lindahl at 952.949.8484 or e-mail me at this site.
