[CPEO-IRF] Twin Cities AAP (MN) deal

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Arden Hills / City, feds sign deal on Army site
If the $45 million sale of the former plant site goes through, 
development could begin by '08

BY MATT PEIKEN
St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN)
March 8, 2007	

Long discussed, debated and derailed, redevelopment of the Twin Cities 
Army Ammunition Plant has moved an important step past talk and toward 
action.

The federal Government Services Administration has signed a $45 million 
purchase offer from the city of Arden Hills. Once the sale closes, the 
city would transfer ownership of the 585 acres — bordered by Interstate 
35 and Highways 10 and 96 — to a company planning one of the most 
ambitious redevelopment projects recently undertaken in the metro area.

"The Army wants to close as soon as September of this year, and we're 
working at a fast and furious pace to make that happen," said Karen 
Barton, community-development director for Arden Hills and a city point 
person on this project.

CRR, a partnership of the Ryan and Glenn Rehbein development companies, 
has spent years working with Arden Hills officials on a mixed-use 
project that could include up to 2,400 homes, more than 3 million square 
feet of offices, a 40-acre wildlife corridor, 70 acres of athletic 
fields and 25 acres of open space and trails.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/16856422.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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