If you have driven by the Purgatory Creek Recreation Area recently, you will notice a lot of activity. There are projects going on in the South West Metro Transit Hub area. There is a new 240 unit apartment complex going up. The City is constructing a new park at the corner of [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2003
Urban Living on The Prairie
September 29, 2003 – 3:09 pm
Many real estate experts will tell you that the trend of people wanting live in urban-like settings in the suburbs is a trend they expect to see continue into the near future. This type of housing goes by many names, such as neo-urban, etc.
In Eden Prairie there is a wonderful example of [...]
Word From Iraq
September 22, 2003 – 7:46 am
This is our former Director of Management & Budget Don Uram. About a month ago, Don left the City of Eden Prairie after 18 faithful years of employment to accept a position with a private non-profit organization called Research Triangle, Inc. (RTI). Don’s first assignment with RTI was to go to Iraq and [...]
Farewell to Marlys
September 19, 2003 – 10:40 am
That’s Marlys on the left with her son Mark and her new grandson Alex. City staff bid Marlys a fond farewell yesterday after 27 years of faithful and productive service. Marlys was the Administrative Assistant in the City’s Parks & Recreation Department for the last 25 of her 27 years here. Marlys [...]
Reliever Airport Security
September 18, 2003 – 10:59 am
I attended a meeting this week at the United States Courthouse in downtown Minneapolis to discuss reliever airport security. The meeting was called by U.S. Attorney, Mr. Tom Heffelfinger. In the photo below, that’s Mr. Heffelfinger on the right, and Mr. Tim Anderson, Director of Operations for the Metropolitan Airports Commission, in the [...]
EP Liquor Stores
September 15, 2003 – 12:54 pm
Eden Prairie is a municipal liquor town. The City holds a monopoly over the sale of off-sale (i.e. – you buy it and take it somewhere else to drink it) beer, liquor, and wine. The City uses its status as the off-sale retail liquor sales monopolist to further two primary objectives.
The first is [...]
The Word from Commissioner Salomone
September 12, 2003 – 7:58 am
Commissioner Dan Salomone is the State’s Commissioner of Revenue. This is him:
I had the opportunity this week to participate in a meeting this week with Commissioner Salomone, who was the guest of the Municipal Legislative Commssion. The group he was speaking to consisted of the City Managers from Plymouth, Minnetonka, Bloomington, Edina, [...]
Human Resources
September 9, 2003 – 9:04 pm
This is Karen Kurt:
Karen is the Human Reources Manager for the City of Eden Prairie. Karen is ablely assisted by Lisa Rund, Jayna Kalkas, and Wendy Schmitz.
Karen has been with the City for almost one year. Prior to joining the City, Karen worked for Minnesota Technology and the City of Roseville [...]
Inclusion
September 5, 2003 – 9:08 pm
I had the honor today of delivering the official welcome to the 2003 National Institute on Recreation Inclusion (NIRI). The NIRI conference was meeting at the Radison South Hotel in Bloomington. The conference was attend by 150-200 recreation professionals from around the country who are active in the area of “recreation inclusion”.
Recreation inclusion [...]
Highways: Success or Not
September 3, 2003 – 7:58 am
State, county, and city elected officials, without exception, viewed MnDOT’s recent announcement of how it planned to spend $850,000,000 as a big success for the southwest metro area, especially Eden Prairie.
A good story in yesterday’s Star Tribune, however, puts a different perspective ont he coming highway projects. This story is about the future improvement [...]
