Author: Mark Weber

Eden Prairie uses a $2.8 million state grant to retire fire truck debt, easing the financial path for the Police Department’s city hall relocation.

A.M. Rotary members Irene Kelly and Tim Conners cite the rich culture of the Minneapolis area as a contributor to the region’s quality of life.

Stan Tekiela, director of Eden Prairie’s Outdoor Center, is set to retire on Jan. 2 after 24 years of leading the facility.

Eden Prairie implements new sustainable building standards, aiming for a net zero carbon footprint by 2050, focusing on LEED compliance and green initiatives.

Aldevron has purchased an existing building at 7075 Flying Cloud Drive and is asking the city to approve the construction of a two-story, 96,244-square-foot addition and remodeling of the overall building.

A biotech company that purchased a northeastern Eden Prairie building last year is seeking city approval for a major addition to that building. Aldevron – a Fargo, North Dakota-based company that develops and manufactures plasmid DNA, RNA, and proteins for research scientists and others in the biotech industry – is asking the Eden Prairie Planning Commission on Monday, Dec. 11, to endorse the construction of a two-story, 96,244-square-foot addition to its existing building at 7075 Flying Cloud Drive, which is east of Highway 212 and south of Shady Oak Road, close to the new Golden Triangle LRT station. The planning…

The Eden Prairie police chief would like a more diverse department, at a time when there’s a shortage of police officers across the country. So, he’s being given 2024 money to start a police cadet program, with the City of Eden Prairie helping to pay law enforcement schooling for up to four cadets in hopes of attracting more non-traditional officer candidates. It’s one of several new initiatives that are part of a 2024 city budget approved Tuesday, Dec. 5, by the Eden Prairie City Council. A study of the city’s duty-crew model of firefighting is another. They contribute to the…

A familiar eyesore – the ruins of a former Burger King restaurant at the corner of Highway 5 and County Road 4 (Eden Prairie Road) – may disappear in 2024. That’s because the Eden Prairie City Council on Tuesday, Dec. 5, approved plans to build a Crew Carwash on the property. The preliminary approval was unanimous; Crew Carwash needs to return in a few weeks for final approval. Why it matters: The automatic car wash would, finally, mean an end to the blight that is the southeast corner of Highway 5 and County Road 4. As part of this project,…

It’s how you might draw it up if you were building a noteworthy career in parks and recreation management in the Twin Cities: On Oct. 11 in Richfield, where you’ve worked the past 20 years, you formally open a signature project – an off-road, bike-skills facility called Taft Bike Park – and five days later, you join the City of Eden Prairie as its new parks and recreation director. This is the productive path taken by Amy Markle, whose leadership of the Eden Prairie Parks and Recreation Department began on Oct. 16 following the retirement of Jay Lotthammer. She becomes…

The public has a chance to weigh in on the City of Eden Prairie’s 2024 budget and property tax levy on Tuesday, Dec. 5, as well as on the proposed construction of a Crew Carwash in the southeast corner of Highway 5 and County Road 4. Public hearings on those topics are on the Eden Prairie City Council’s agenda when it meets at 7 p.m. in the Council Chambers of the Eden Prairie City Center, 8080 Mitchell Road. The council has already given preliminary approval to a 2024 budget of $60.3 million and a total property tax levy of $47.1…