[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant (MN)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Arden Hills: TCAAP parcel as parkland
Racetrack developer still interested; council members dubious about land use

by Jeanne Roberts
Shoreview Press (MN)
November 10, 2009

ARDEN HILLS - The U.S. Army is preparing to auction off a 585-acre 
parcel located at the former Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant (TCAAP), 
and at least one developer remains interested in snapping it up.

At the same time, the city of Arden Hills and Ramsey County are tossing 
around a plan that would allow part of the site to become parkland.

In May, the Arden Hills City Council decided against preliminary plans 
to buy the parcel, on the grounds that necessary environmental 
remediation would effectively eat up any profits a developer could hope 
to take. Arden Hills Mayor Stan Harpstead likened that decision process, 
which lasted nearly a decade, to "watching paint dry."

However, the city is still involved in a discussion about whether it 
could acquire 535 acres of the land for use as a regional park, leaving 
the remaining 50 for some kind of other development. The TCAAP property 
was included in city boundaries when Arden Hills incorporated in 1951 
and it now makes up about one-third of city acreage.


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For the entire article, see
http://presspubs.com/articles/2009/11/10/shoreview_press/news/doc4af9f1558dfa0002363382.txt

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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