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Re: Minnetonka Area – General Topics

Posted: January 24th, 2018, 5:52 pm
by jla1591
Great project for that area. I know that side of Ridgedale has a ton of parking and never busy. It would be a great addition with another apartment project proposed across the street on the old Redstone site. Rosedale is running out of room with a new Von Maur, and a proposed Portillo's potentially getting built in the mall parking lot.

Re: Minnetonka Area – General Topics

Posted: January 25th, 2018, 10:24 am
by MNdible
As noted elsewhere, Rosedale's site is quite a bit more constrained than the other major regional malls.

Re: Minnetonka Area – General Topics

Posted: January 25th, 2018, 10:40 am
by VacantLuxuries
As noted elsewhere, Rosedale's site is quite a bit more constrained than the other major regional malls.
The mall site itself, but it's surrounded by a lot of aging strip malls that could be replaced. Though there hasn't been much residential development interest in Roseville, has there?

Minnetonka Area – General Topics

Posted: February 20th, 2018, 9:46 pm
by Anondson
The Music Barn site along the Shady Oak Stroad now proposed to have 12 market rate condos and 3 detached homes because of the federal tax changed around affordable housing tax credits.

https://finance-commerce.com/2018/02/pr ... e-project/

The city was very favorable toward the project, having approved it back in 2015. (Nextdoor concerns, however, were panicked over an imminent crime wave ... not joking)

Construction looks to break ground this June or July, I guess because we’ve built a system that makes affordable housing take years to start up while market rate gets fast track status?

Minnetonka elected officials sound kinda upset about losing this. Maybe they need to come up with a local solution to help developers in their city build what the elected officials and city staff want? A solution doesn’t make projects tenuous because it drags out for years to make happen?

Re: Minnetonka Area – General Topics

Posted: March 13th, 2018, 12:36 pm
by GILBball
Something fairly large looking going up on the SE corner of 394 and Hopkins Crossroad. I don't recall hearing much about this. Apartments? Syngenta expansion?

Re: Minnetonka Area – General Topics

Posted: March 13th, 2018, 1:36 pm
by Anondson
I think it’s senior housing.

Re: Minnetonka Area – General Topics

Posted: March 29th, 2018, 6:43 pm
by Anondson
Startribune on the proposed Ridgedale outlet housing.

http://www.startribune.com/hot-property ... 478343203/

168 luxury senior rentals

Re: Minnetonka Area – General Topics

Posted: April 18th, 2018, 6:46 am
by Anondson
Former Digi International site in the Opus II business park, adjacent to the Opus Station, going to the city for a hearing on rezoning to allow 220 workforce housing units and 260 senior apartments.

https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... -site.html

Re: Minnetonka Area – General Topics

Posted: April 18th, 2018, 8:32 am
by Multimodal
I don’t know, would you call that transit oriented development, being literally next to a transit stop?

6 stories for the senior housing is decent; 4 stories for the workforce housing seems borderline. Who is going to complain about height here?

And while only 1/4 parking spot per unit seems great, the parking lot still feels like the front yard for each unit. Why not coalesce all the parking into a rectangular lot outside the buildings, and reduce the footprint of the existing buildings by making them taller. Then, someday, the parking lot can be built over with another apartment building, optionally with parking underground (if we even need it by then).

And why no retail next to the transit station? This feels very suburban, not TOD. Not even suburban-TOD. If your city gets a transit stop on a billion dollar transit line, it’s imperative that you build the max density possible adjacent to it, to let as many residents as possible *walk* to transit.

Of course I’m basing this all on that one image. Maybe there’s more to this?

Re: Minnetonka Area – General Topics

Posted: April 18th, 2018, 10:11 am
by Anondson
It absolutely is a wasted opportunity to not make this multi use. But this is a very short two block walk to two retail areas over on Shady Oak Rd.

It will finished 2 years before SWLRT, so this has to plan for lots of car occupancy, probably why the non-senior units are stuck at 4 stories, too many more and car storage become expansive to put places.

This is solving a need to get lots of housing near jobs. Maybe Minnetonka can insist the ground floor units nearest the station be built to be easily converted to future retail?

Re: Minnetonka Area – General Topics

Posted: May 30th, 2018, 12:24 pm
by Anondson

Minnetonka Area – General Topics

Posted: July 6th, 2018, 6:57 pm
by Anondson
Another apartment project proposed for the Minnetonka Opus station area moving closer. [Locked]

https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... tonka.html

Anyone with a subscription able to read it and see which address?

I think it’s this project on the city website.

https://eminnetonka.com/current-project ... ren-road-e

Re: Minnetonka Area – General Topics

Posted: July 6th, 2018, 7:03 pm
by Anondson
Looks like this is the site for the proposal.

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Re: Minnetonka Area – General Topics

Posted: July 18th, 2018, 7:04 am
by Anondson
Luxury apartments across from Ridgedale were shrunk to 4 stories. The council approved.

https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... uxury.html

Re: Minnetonka Area – General Topics

Posted: August 6th, 2018, 9:09 pm
by Anondson
From last week, Doran is proposing 230 apartments along 394, just east of Ridgedale and west of Hopkins Crossroads.

https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... tonka.html

Re: Minnetonka Area – General Topics

Posted: August 21st, 2018, 9:57 am
by HiawathaGuy
Wah wah...
"Too urban..."

Doran’s Minnetonka apartment plan gets chilly reception
*UNLOCKED*

Image

Re: Minnetonka Area – General Topics

Posted: September 2nd, 2018, 9:27 pm
by Anondson
Startribune explains why Minnetonka and the Met Council is paying $12 million for a new bridge to a strip mall for holiday congestion.

http://www.startribune.com/bridge-to-ri ... 492296101/

Re: Minnetonka Area – General Topics

Posted: December 4th, 2018, 11:43 pm
by Anondson
Rewinding through some planned developments on the city website. I discovered that on November 26th the city approved the redevelopment of 10400, 10500, and 10550 Bren Rd E.

Rezoned to PUD supporting two apartment buildings, 195 units in one and 55 units in the second. 55 units will be priced for 60% area median income.

The Opus Station will be adjacent to this.

https://eminnetonka.com/images/projects ... 0(pdf).pdf

https://eminnetonka.com/current-project ... od-funding

Re: Minnetonka Area – General Topics

Posted: December 5th, 2018, 11:08 am
by HiawathaGuy
Rewinding through some planned developments on the city website. I discovered that on November 26th the city approved the redevelopment of 10400, 10500, and 10550 Bren Rd E.

Rezoned to PUD supporting two apartment buildings, 195 units in one and 55 units in the second. 55 units will be priced for 60% area median income.

The Opus Station will be adjacent to this.

https://eminnetonka.com/images/projects ... 0(pdf).pdf

https://eminnetonka.com/current-project ... od-funding
Biz Journal had an article last week after the Green Line Extension got the Fed nod, where they talked about these.
Some developers got a jumpstart on Southwest LRT
*LOCKED*

Gist:
Newport Midwest received city approvals Monday night to build 196 market-rate apartments and 55 affordable apartments that will be just 600 yards from front door to the planned Opus Station in Minnetonka. That project will break ground this spring.
That project, called The Mariner, will be completed well in advance of when the $2 billion light rail line begins service in 2023.

Ditto for Plymouth-based Dominium’s 488-unit affordable housing development, which will break ground in early December on the other side of Opus Station. “We’ve certainly been paying attention to what has happened, and [LRT] was an attractive piece to buying the land,” said Ryan Lunderby, Dominium vice president and project partner. “But we did make a commitment to the city that we would move forward on the project with or without LRT. There is so much demand for affordable housing in that location.”

Re: Minnetonka Area – General Topics

Posted: December 5th, 2018, 1:01 pm
by MNdible
So, if I'm reading this correctly, there's going to be about 1,000 new units of housing within a half-mile of the Opus Station on opening day. That's pretty impressive. (Newport has 251, Dominium has 488, and RiZE has 322 for a total of 1,061.)