Another automatic car wash has been proposed for a prominent Eden Prairie intersection, this time the southeast corner of Highway 5 and County Road 4 (Eden Prairie Road), where a Burger King once stood. The Eden Prairie Planning Commission, which advises the city council, will hold a public hearing on the proposal at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 13, in the Council Chambers of the Eden Prairie City Center, 8080 Mitchell Road. Indiana-based Crew Carwash is proposing two stone, concrete, and glass buildings at that site: one for washing cars and the other for cleaning car interiors. The corner has been…
Author: Mark Weber
Mark Weber
Mark joined the Eden Prairie News as a reporter in 1979, just five years after its start, and spent the next 34 years in various roles including editor and publisher, as well as general manager of the parent company, Southwest Newspapers. He also published Edible Twin Cities magazine. His encore career was serving the nonprofit Eden Prairie Community Foundation as executive director. Mark is now retired. He and his wife, Roma, have two grown sons and a daughter-in-law, as well as a grandson. They have lived in Eden Prairie since 1984. "I hope the many words I have typed over the years have helped people understand the world around them."
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In a quiet neighborhood in northeastern Eden Prairie stands a watershed district office and learning center on five acres of land adjacent to the city’s Cardinal Creek Conservation Area. People go there to learn about rain gardens, cisterns, permeable driveway and patio pavers, wildlife-habitat restoration, and generally all topics related to stormwater management. It’s called Discovery Point, and it may be the model for another watershed district that is considering the purchase of 28 acres in southern Eden Prairie for preservation but also possible use as an office and learning center. When the Riley Purgatory Bluff Creek Watershed District’s board…
Conditions having been met, the Eden Prairie City Council on Tuesday gave final approval to Kinsley Townhomes, a controversial plan by Pulte Homes to build 42 townhomes on 6.13 acres southeast of the corner of County Road 1 (Pioneer Trail) and Dell Road. The vote was 3-1, with Council Member Mark Freiberg voting against the project as he had on Sept. 19, when the public hearing was held and neighbors voiced concerns about the project. Neighbors in September had said 42 units seemed like too many. They also asked that the project not include the extension of dead-end Valley Road…
A new, automatic car wash operated by Mister Car Wash was approved for the northwest corner of Flying Cloud and Prairie Center drives by the Eden Prairie City Council on Tuesday. The Oct. 17 vote to OK the project – on vacant land where a Burger King restaurant once stood – was unanimous and without debate. There’s currently a Mister Car Wash that’s been operating since 1999 just a block north of the corner site, but it’s at capacity and has poor circulation for vehicles, said Mister Car Wash representative Prabhs Matharoo. It will be shut down and sold when…
Public testimony on plans to build a Mister Car Wash at Flying Cloud Drive and Prairie Center Drive, where a Burger King once stood, will be heard by the Eden Prairie City Council at its 7 p.m. meeting Tuesday, Oct. 17. This is the city council’s first review of the automatic car wash plan, which has been endorsed by its advisory panel, the Planning Commission. Also on the city council’s agenda is final approval of a Pulte Homes project called Kinsley Townhomes: 42 units planned near the corner of County Road 1 (Pioneer Trail) and Dell Road in southwestern Eden…
A car culture created the suburbs, so perhaps it’s only fitting that the automatic car wash has a place of honor in the pantheon of suburban buildings. In Eden Prairie, one of those places of honor may be a busy intersection – Flying Cloud and Prairie Center drives, near Eden Prairie Center – where a Mister Car Wash may be built on property once home to a Burger King. The Mister Car Wash plan was endorsed 6-0 on Monday, Oct. 9, by the Eden Prairie Planning Commission, which advises the city council. There’s currently a Mister Car Wash that’s been…
A Mister Car Wash business is proposed to be built at the corner of Flying Cloud and Prairie Center drives, a prominent corner near Eden Prairie Center mall that formerly held a Burger King restaurant. The proposal will be reviewed by the Eden Prairie Planning Commission, which advises the city council, at a 7 p.m. meeting Monday, Oct. 9. There’s currently a Mister Car Wash operating just a block north of the corner site, at 8280 Flying Cloud Drive. The Burger King restaurant stood empty for many years, and the corner lot was cleared last year. This is one of…
Two court foes this week moved closer to being allies on an Eden Prairie land-preservation issue. The board of managers for the Riley Purgatory Bluff Creek Watershed District on Wednesday, Oct. 4, voted to take additional steps to acquire and protect from development the 28 acres along Spring Road, near Fredrick-Miller Spring, that were approved in 2021 for a 50-home project called Noble Hill. That would put them on the same side as a citizens group named Spring Valley Friends, which wants the land preserved as open space and has sued the watershed district over its earlier Noble Hill approvals. “There…
The Riley Purgatory Bluff Creek Watershed District is looking to acquire and conserve land that was approved in 2021 for single-family homes when the controversial Noble Hill development plan was OK’d. The local watershed district’s board of managers will consider that land purchase at its Wednesday, Oct. 4, meeting. Up for consideration during the 7 p.m. meeting are resolutions that would authorize the watershed district to enter into a purchase agreement, and also establish a process whereby the managers would take public comment Nov. 16 before formally amending their 10-year management plan to reflect the purchase. The district is asking…
If you are waiting to play volleyball, tennis, pickleball, or basketball at Riley Lake Park, or just taking a break, your comfort level may soon go up. Included on the Eden Prairie City Council’s meeting agenda for Tuesday, Oct. 3, is the purchase of two structures that will provide shade near the volleyball, tennis, pickleball, and basketball courts at the southwestern Eden Prairie park. The contract up for approval by the city council calls for a $21,884 expenditure for the shade structures, which will be installed over a concrete plaza expected to be built this fall, according to a city…