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Newspaper Clipping - Newspaper Clipping Scan - Newpaper clippings on proposed Eagan shopping centers, including Blackhawk Plaza and TownCentre - 1/1/1982Fo L.DeR BEGINS BIa�khawk. Plaza plans generate strong ,C f1Gf ✓s�;►= c� 5-- 6 —,.S by Tim O'Donnell drive-thru bank and the service• Plans are- proceeding for a station,. and a building height • hotel and retail development variance to allow the hotel to be -northeast of Blackhawk Road four stories. and County Road 30, but they Stalland will meet with near also are raising the:ire of near- by -'residents at 7 p.m. today by, residents.` .(Monday) at the Eagan Library • The. `residents' major con- to discuss the project'andpre- cerns are increased traffic that sent plans for landscaping that,. could endanger_ their children, would shield the residents from insufficient buffering between ' the commercial development. them and the proposed develop- . But the residents will' con- - ment, and a saturation of retail ' tinue their cool reception to the centers in Eagan. .project. "We've formed a • Peter Stalland's Norseneighborhood coalition to fight. 'Development Company plans to this, and we'll petition the City build Blackhawk-Plaza = a Council to defeat it," said John 160-unit four-story hotel, two King,who lives on nearby restaurants seating 180 persons . Kathryn Circle. and 120 persons, a service sta- • "The property is zoned tion, a drive-thru bank and a neighborhood business, buthow , small strip shopping center.. many tanning parlors and con - The first phase of the project venience stores can be sup- would focus on the eastern half ported here," King said... of the 11.6-acre site, which "We'd like to keep nothing would- include the hotel, there -,.but if -it's got to be com- restaurants andservice station, - mercial, why. not something Stalland said: He hopes to start that won't affect traffic in die - the development this summer area, something like offices or to coordinate the project with light industrial — a 9-to-5 the opening of .Interstate 35E to business," he said. "Or, ideally,, the east this fall. it would-be nice for residential Stalland said he is trying to • — the best use to fit into the find tenants to operate the neighborhood." businesses, but 'as yet has no Stalland said he "cannot commitments. -understand why the residents The Eagan City Council May are so concerned about whether 21 will consider the project's a.retail venture succeeds. He is preliminary plat; as well as con- ditional use permits for the - BLACKHAWK: to p.`1�A—; �~ Meruhunl Stio Stalland plans pl . BLACKHAWK: from.p. 1A taking the risk in developing the property, not the residents, 'he said: And, after seeing popula- tion projections for Eagan and anticipated traffic levels for I-35E, Stalland• believes _ Blackhawk Plaza will. succeed. Because he has owned the property since the 1960s and it has been -,zoned commercial for at least 15 years, Stalland said he cannot believe the residents are upset. He said it is their responsibility to -know the zon- - ing of an area before they move in.. ' . Stalland said he will do everything/possible to "make this an appealing project." To address the residents' con- cerns, he plans to berm and landscape .the area on the east side of Blackhawk Road' and direct as much traffic as possi= • ble from the development onto• County Road 30 instead of Blackhawk Road. S See us far_.details THISWEEK NEWSPAPERS Volume 7, No.13' Two Sections By CHRISTY DeJOY • • Citizens who live near the in • - o tersection of Blackhawk and Dif-, flee roads..are concerned over -a ' proposed development that some residents have :dubbed • "mini Sout hdale. •' • Norse Development Company May 27,1985 Section A = . • requested. preliminary plat ; May -- 21 of Blackhawk . Plaza to be located on 11.5 acres •south of Diffley Road. east of Interstate - ,35E and west bf Blackhawk Road. - The Eagan City Council • con-: Untied action until June 4 so the proposal and changes 'in plans could be studied more thorough-, �7 y. • Plans call for a four-story •h.0 ei,'a' 'restaurant, a. • kill ve7 through bank, a service .station and a shopping center. Access off Diffley ('a county road) .and two • entrances off Blackhawk (one for -customers and one for service trucks) were, presented • to the, council. • Councilman,- Thomas Egan made the- motion' to continue ac- tion so city staff could" address the following issues: the possibili'. ty of a service entrance•north of -the- development; better: access for 'service trucks into the development and around.the indi- vidual buildings; limited access to the• center from: Blackhawk Road; drainage in relation to a nearby cemetery, the.addition_of Your Community Newspaper avvk Plaza raises; concern .medians on Diffley Road for bet- ter access and traffic control and better access to the hotel, which is located in the northwestern corner of the development. "I'll be quite -frank. I think (the •proposed development) looks like a crammed rness at this point and . it could use a lot of improvement. • _ -.If.may.meet the (city) codes, ,but• it's a- confusing, congested; . messy -looking plat," Mayor Bea ',..Blomquist said. . • "We can't approve a traffic cir- culation pattern that looks .this bad•on paper," Egan said.. "We've also got -to address the safety of .kids," .Blomquist said. ,The council agreed it was their- duty to inform school districts of • the development._ 'A petition signed by 184 resi- dents stated opposition to the pro- ject because "entrance and exit on Blackhawk Road would add to the present high level of con- gested traffic to the point'where it would provide a serious' safety threat as well - as constant in- convenience and annoyance to the residents of the neighbor- hood." The environmentaLand • economic .impacts on the neigh- borhood -were also public con- cerns. John King, 1848 Kathryn Cr., is . Plaza see p.4A F_ r the literature and oral com- munication courses. • • • The. most effective Way*. to . develop writing skills is through • using. those skills. One of the dis- advantages of the trimester for - 'mat was that, most students took the required, writing course in their, sophomore year. If they took a second course, it was.most • often during their senior year. In the interim; - they had limited • writinginstruction with occasion- al opportunity to practice. Conse-,' quently, students made limited progress in development of their • writing skills: • Language arts teachers. found they had: to do a great deal of reteaching in the ad- vanced composition course. By expanding the required • composition course and then in- tegrating writing* instruction in '. the : literature and oral com- munication courses, the language - arts department' believes it'can • sachieve.better results in develop- • ing writing 'skills and 'pro- •mohing greater retention of those • • skills. This a 1 1 roach is con•sistent ne can a , s from models of . good writing.. Many students do not write well, . probably in part, because they read very little; especially very little good literature: With record and video libraries replacing book libraries, reading -for enjoy- inent is a dying pasttime. By tak- • ing four semester credits in liter- ature, students will have greater exposure to good writing and will develop skills in'reading, writing. and critical thinking. While the long-term changes in - the composition program •-rep resent a real improvement, the ;• transition concerns students in the Classes of 1986 and 1987 who bad planned to. take "Advanced Composition" • under the tri- mester format. Seniors next, fall and spring have three options for taking. additional writing/com- position . work. They • may take " "Honors Composition ; " any course numbered 071 or higher, which will give them work in the newly incorporated writing com- ponent ; and/or "Advanced_ , Placement English Composition'. posi- ,it is "Ad= was r for n to aken 1987 battered women and children housed 222 children" and 180 women. Another 531 women and children were not able to stay for a lack of space. There are an ad- ditional dozen programs 'that •of- fer • help , of equal importance. Possibly .the program most well known is Armful of Love, which provided; toys, gifts, food .and clothing at• Christmas to 1,335 children and 909 adults. The 198 budget for CAC 're- quires funds in the amount of $135;480. The shortage of state revenues and the withdrawal of federal assistance makes local support of these programs more Blackhawk Plaza. outrages resident To the.editor: Our family is fourth generation Eagan residents, and we are out- • raged at the proposed Blackhawk Plaza development to be 'located • directly •across the street from . our house. • ' We haver watched. this com- munity grow from a 'quiet area, just right for raising a family, in- to something that is so sad it's hard for me to. put . into words. ' Aside from the potential health hazards of a gas station and two restaurants, I feel -I -will be forced "I do not understand whatever happened to the honorable pro_ fession of social work. They have lost"their credibility. Years ago I was proud to be a social worker; now I am ashamed to say I am a social worker. "I desired to go into this field when I was a very young girl. My main reasons were to help famil- ies in need. My training consisted of'college with a master's degree in social work. After graduation.I did a two-year internship under close supervision. "In those days, we were closely .watched by staff for any pre- judices we might have. which • would have eliminated us from pursuing this profession. Any race or cultur{al differences- the people might have, had to be re: spected. • - "Our training consisted of. a real" training in compassion: We were trained to never be judg- mental, or try to generalize our clients into certain classes. 'Our reports had to be absolutely opinion -free. Our training em- phasized, over and over again, there is nothing worse for a human person to experience than to be falsely judged; this -was all part of our training. We had to be • credible and accountable for our work, the same as a doctor, or we .could lose our license." • She also made mention of a ,c , UMIAK aries who are crossing' picket lines. The county administrator, Fred Joy;_returns to Minnetonka' each day; the personnel- director drives home to. Wisconsin;. the coordinator of mental retarda- .. tion services hangs his hat in St. • Paul, as does the administrative assistant for adults services. And, the hired attorney' Frank Madden collects his hourly rate. in his office across the river. It is clearly not their neighbors who are being turned 'away by locked office doors, who are not receiving, needed public assis- tance or child support ' monies, whose court cases are being con- tinued"in court preventing per- manency plans -from being car- ried out, whose reports of neglect • or abuse are not being .followed . through by workers who, directly serve families, or whose counsel- ing has been stopped as the inten- sive services program has been shut down. No; these people leave , ..the county while striking work- ers, forced to the street over work hours; health insurance, and compensation for overtime wonder whattheir real commit-. . ment is to settling issues so ser-. - vices can be reinstated to our often under -represented clients - mentally ill, elderly, mentally re- ' tarded, chemically dependent, children and.adolescents. • • liiiiiengLe.c_lictt dates that they may (continued limn' front) • . an independent . marketing. con •sultant who .prepared a�'study..of Blackhawk'Plaza and other.shop 'ping , centers. He;addressed the traffic -•And 'safety issues; the.' neighborhood :and 'roadside business -zoning of the area •and the• economic impact in an area he said was already saturated: with .retail businesses.,: 'King said there were 242 neigh- •borhood and roadside, businesses in'a three-mile radius of the pro- posed development and 68 per_. cent of these are within one and .one-half miles. He said there . were 20 empty_retail locations in the 12 nearby-shoppingareas. Egan called : parts . of King's report "grossly inaccurate,"! pointing.out'errors in size estima- bons of local shopping centers. "If you're going to 'represent the. 'people, I think the, people deserve to•know.the truth," Egan said. Legally, -the city cannot, pri- :marily consider.; economic .reasons :when -denying la plat. "We cannot get 'into the:field _of ::?'direct marketing c I guess that s ,. where: -supply And: demand And ' the:. competitive: free•tniarket •system 'enters in;";Egan TRAY s of fresh cauliflower, cherry celery,'and carrot sticks Thesetasty tidbits encircle a ✓egetable dip: $ 95 TELY.< . 20 GUESTS. 29 ER'S DELIGHT an Cheeses are "sure to tan- heese. (25=30 GUESTS) $4595 "R (15-18) GUESTS'$3295 °`"4546535 H MEAT PLATTER t of -sliced luncheon meats, .f and other assorted meats is E (20-30 GUESTS) $3995 AR (.15-20.GUESTS)' $2.595 ,E_AT & CHEESE ineapolis Volume V/Number 341 •an Copyright 1987 Minneapolis Star end Tribune Company 1A Metro Wednesday March 11/1987 6 Sections • • • 356 Single copy Area's retail space expected to outgrow shopping demand First in a series of three articles on the growth of retailing in the Twin Cities area. • By Sharon Schmicide Staff Writer . Imagine the Dales — South, Brook, Rose and Ridge — pulled into one colossal shopping mall. Next to them plunk the Maplewood, North- This immense imaginary complex matches the amount of shopping space that developers are racing to build in the Twin Cities area over the next two years. More than 9 million square feet is under con- • town Burnsvill d Ed Prai • e an en ne developers an the stores in downtown Minneapo- Shopping center spree •- - ' • that subsidize 'most estimates shopping centers. Finally, add all of • _ shoppers and h registers for at least • struction or proposed. By conipari- This spree of construction. promises stores and cas son, it has taken more than three a dazzling array of choices for shop- .,,a decade. decades to build the 28 million to 32 .pers. It also could trigger a dizzying • million square feet of retail space in . shuffle of stores in and among shop-,. Some stores a shopping centers and downtown ping centers. • • 2 • . • may disappear d pechaps for cities retail projects. By , there will be too few dollars to fill the nd shopping centers •• . But it spells risk for retailers and Some Proposed • developments could collapse without ground ever being • broken if financial backers and ma- jor stores shy away from the risks. But industry watchers predict that enough of them will surmount the • challenges to change the Twin Cities "shopping scene significantly. Much of the growth is aimed at Retailing continued on page 10A. " Shopping center spree /� Retailing Continued fro 'serving burgeoning Dakota County, and it is more explosive than has been typical for the Twin Cities area. ;t has the potential for shaping non - retail growth in such high -growth ar- eas as Eagan and Inver Grove ;Heights, much as Southdale helped to shape the southwestern part of the 'metropolitan area. The develop - Merits are likely- to introduce new retailers to the battle for profits, and the intense competition is likely. to change the buying habits of Twin -Citians. Shoppers spent about $4.2 billion for overshoes, sofas. necklaces and the other kinds of goods sold at Twin Cities shopping centers during 1986, according to James McComb, whose Minneapolis consulting firm does market research for developers, re- tailers and cities. McComb estimated that spending will grow steadily to $5.5 billion by 1995, enough to sup- port 5.6 million square feet of addi- tional store space. (The estimates are expressed in 1985 dollars.) A recent Metropolitan Council study also suggests a future oversupply of retail space. It said there would be just enough growth in the region's buying power to support the Mall of the Americas in Bloomington pro- posed by Triple Five Corp. of Cana- da;, Yet that project's 2.7 million square • feet for retailing constitutes less than one-third of the new shop- - ping space proposed or under con- ' struction in the metro area. "We are clearly seeing supply grow faster than demand," said John Brei- tinger, retail specialist for the broker- age firm Coldwell Banker. . Larry Carlson, vice president in charge of area research and planning for Dayton Hudson Corp., said, "If' they all came together within the next live years, there would be signif- icant overbuilding'in the short term." Yet developers are fighting for the right to risk billions of dollars in the retail competition. Industry observ- ers ofTer some explanations for their heightened interest in the face of po- tential overbuilding: ■A glut of office space is driving developers and lenders toward retail projects. Office vacancies rates are running at 10 to 30 percent in pans of the Twin Cities, while retail vacan- cies hover just over 5 percent. The trend makes the industry volatile, because office -building savvy doesn't .transfer readily to the retail market- place. One shopping center can suc- ceed while its next -door neighbor; s 'fails because of -subtle -differences -in —.- location, timing and tenant mixture. ■ Developers want to pounce on promising markets while interest- S rates are low. They are willing to s absorb losses by overbuilding and. m then wailing for economic growth to m catch up, because that strategy can s lock competitors out of potentially sa lucrative sites. Once retailing de- M mand has caught up, the developers R ' can look forward to Tong -term gains. m to • Retailers are cashing in on Ameri- cans' tendency to save less and spend "I more. Americans saved $8 of every ch $100 in take-home pay during the m 1970s, according to the U.S. Depart- ment of Commerce. The rate fell to ' B $5 by 1985 and is estimated to have di fallen below $4 in 1986. de pr • Consolidations and mergers in the Ed in page IA retail industry are prompting new tacks on the Twin Cities mark which Dayton's long has dominate There is widespread speculation th Federated Department Stores m buy the Donaldsons chain, which for sale, and introduce such Federa ed-owned chains as Bloomingdale or I. Magnin to the Twin Cities. • Population has mushroomed in th 1980s in pockets of the Twin Citi area, particularly Dakota County an Coon Rapids. "Eagan's dance card full, and everyone wants to dan with Eagan," said Kathleen Nye, se for retail broker for Towle Real E tate Co. • There are as many opinions abou the outcome of the retail boom there are brands of blue jeans. • .Despite claims by individual devel opers that their projects will Great thousands of jobs, the boom is un likely to spur economic growth un less the stores attract new shoppers from outside the area. Downtown Minneapolis boosters and Tripl Five Corp. have set ambitious goal to lure visiting shoppers to their proj ects. But industry analysts are predicting limited success for those efforts, and demographers and economists do not • foresee significant growth in the pop- ulation or spending power of the Twin Cities over the next few years. "There's a lot of robbing Peter to pay Paul in all of this," said Mike Stutzer, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. " ... The new jobs in any new facility may not be additions to total employment be- cause the shoppers for that facility might be coming from some other stores in the area. One has to look at the net impact to get a feel for how important those jobs are." Elliot Olson, president of a retail con-.. sulting firm named Retail Systems, Inc., said he believes that everyone could suffer from overbuilding in which no one attracts enough busi- ness to profit. Even shoppers suffer under that scenario. • "To create excitement and a fun at- - mosphere, you need people," Olson said. "It's no fun shopping when you are the only one in the store. You get a lot of stores that end up cutting out marginal goods, and it's really detri- mental to the consumer in the end." Others foresee more pleasant pros- pects: shoppers treated to services uch as the valet parking. that was aftered-at--some- malls--during-the— Christmas season, and perhaps glitzy remodeling of older shires.- . hoppers certainly can expect major huliles in shopping centers. Major alls now. sign five-yearleases with : ost tenants, who once. could lease. pace for up to 15 years, Carlson. id. In strip centers, such as Miracle ile in St. Louis Park or the Hub in ichfield, the centers' owners are oving toward leases as short as two three years. is becoming a game of musical airs, only in this case there are ore and more chairs," Nye said. . rokerage firms are predicting a great sparity of fortunes for retailers and velopers. Their worry list includes ojects in outlying suburbs such as en Prairie and Burnsville, where • development has spurted because land has been easy to buy, not be- . cause sufficient shoppers are there. st- et, Next on their worry list are neighbor•- d, hood shopping centers. These arc ag- • at ing complexes caught between small ay • new convenience centers and large is regional malls that are claiming an t- increasing share of fashion and cloth- 's ing business.. Some neighborhood centers are responding with new types of tenants: insurance, real es- e . tate and financial services offices. es d Also vulnerable are experimental and is innovative retail centers: Mall of the ce ' Americas, with its emphasis on en- n- tertainment, and the so-called festive• s- centers,• Riverplace and Galtier Pla-1 za, which have been plagued by high • vacancies while they struggle to de t fine a niche. as . •• Downtown St. Paul and Minneapolis appear lower on the list because they can otter unique stores and an urban • e excitement you can't find in the sub- urbs, They also have downtown of- fice workers as potential customers. But other shoppers may opt for the suburbs unless the downtowns solve e the problems of scarce parking .and j s confusing skyways. • Finally, cities that subsidize retail de- ' velopment are vulnerable to the po- tential overbuilding. "Because every- body wants a piece of this retail ac- lion; there area lot of competitive - bid situations with a lot of develop ers vying for rights to a site," said Coldwell Banker's Breitinger. "The ante is density... - It creates space . that's not leasable. The most extreme • example of this would be the mega - mall (in Bloomington). Three devel- opers were .interested in the same site; the city' ranked them according . 10 density and selected the project • with the highest density." Bloomington has promised $51.5 • million in subsidies and $80 million in highway improvements for the $500 million mall. But it's not alone. Minneapolis has pledged $15 million for a Saks Fifth Avenue store and several small shops that BCE Devel- opment Properties wants to build along Nicollet Mall. Inver Grove Heights is being asked for a $50 mil- lion subsidy for the development of a 300-acre site that would include the' proposed Lafayette Mall. • In each case, the cities hope the retail projects will spur further cottttnercial development that will more than re- pay the subsidies through increased property taxes. Thursday: The battle for Dakota County. Amount.of shoppini in the Twin.Cities al • Currently there is 28 million to 32 r leasable retail space in downtown Paul and Twin Cities shopping cen square feet, according to estimate Towle Real Estate and the cities o: That total stands to grow by more about 30 percent, in the next few y are underway or are expected to t 1990. That figure, which excludes estimates by Coldwell Banker and developers. Mississipq R. Proposed expansions outstrip projected buying power --_ The 1990 and 1995 projections of retail buying power in the Twin Cities represent the potential demand for merchandise typically sold at major .shopping centers and department stores. The projections have been calculated in 1985 1 .dollars, and then the estimated increases I from the 1986 level of retail buying power 1 • have been translated into square feet of I additional retail space that could be I supported. Those figures indicate a surplus 1 of retail space in the 1990s, because more than 9 million square feet is under construction or has been announced. otai additional re let the increed emend ar it sasupp (One shopper represents $1 billion) Estimated buying power during 1986: Estimated buying power during 1990: Estimated buying power during 1995: • ./ Retail projects / under construction / or announced / 9,000,000 square / feet (by 1990) ... by 1995: 5,605,000 square feet (cumulative from 1985) $4.24 billion $4.75 billion . . (Growth in buying between 1986 and 1990: $507 million) $5.47 billion (Growth in buying between 1986 and 1995: $1.247 billion) The demand figures are based on data collected by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Metropolitan Council, and they assume 1.5 percent growth annually (after adjustment for inflation) in disposable income for households in the 10-couniy metropolitan area. The demand figures.do not include spending on automobiles, gasoline, building supplies, liquor and groceries. Source of buying power estimates/ James B. McComb & Associates, a Minneapolis retail consulting firm whose clients have included the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul and several private developers and retailers. Some of those clients have used his research to lobby for or against some developments, but McComb himself has not. Source of construction estimates/ Coldwell Banker, Towle Real Estate and developer announcements. Star and Tribune graphic 3 mount .of shopping space n the Twin_.Cities area urrently there is 28 million to 32 million square feet of gross .asable retail space in downtown Minneapolis, downtown St. aul and Twin Citiesshopping centers larger than 30,000 quare feet, according to estimates from Coldwell Banker, owle Real Estate and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. hat total stands to grow by more than 9 million square feet, or bout 30 percent, in the next few years based on projects that re underway or are expected to be under construction before 990. That figure, which excludes food stores, is based on stimates by Coldwell Banker and announcements by evelopers. A Mirinesota R. • . Dakota 1 ' St. Croix R. Washington White Bear lake Mississippi R: Major projects under construction (526,000 square feet) To compare the size of some of the proposed shopping centers, here is a list showing the total square feet in existing shopping centers. Brookdale -1,200,000 Burnsville -1,200,000 Southdale -1,100,000 Ridgedale -1,043,000 The eight major regional centers have 7,756,000 square feet of Rosedale - 996,000 Northtown - 752,000 Eden Prairie - 750,000 Maplewood - 715,000 space altogether. Downtown Minneapolis has 1,557,900 square feet, and downtown St. Paul has 800,000 square feet. Loring 4 Park W. Grant St. - 1. The Conservatory on Nicollet Mall, downtown Minneapolis, 240,000 square feet, opening fall 1987. 2. Minnesota World Trade Center, downtown St. Paul, 160,000 square feet of retail space, opening August 1987. 3. St. Croix Shopping Mall, Oak Park Heights, 126,000 square feet, opening August 1987. Major projects expected to start this year (5 million square feet) 4. Mall of America, Bloomington, 2.7 million square feet of retail space, construction to begin before May 31, opening scheduled in late 1989. 5. Woodbury Mall, 1.2 million square feet, construction to begin in the spring, opening scheduled for spring 1989. 6. Woodland Lakes Shopping Center, Stillwater, 320,000 square feet, opening of the retail portion tentatively scheduled for fall 1988. 7. BCE Development Properties, retail center at 6th and Nicollet Mall, 150;000 square feet, construction to begin this spring, opening scheduled in earl 1989. •8. Saks Fifth Avenue, downtown Minneapolis, 114,000 square feet, construction to begin this spring, opening scheduled in early 1989. 9. BCE Development Properties, office tower between 5th and 6th on Nicollet (the site of the former J.C. Penney store), 75,000 to 150,000 square . feet of retail space, construction to begin next summer. 10. LaSalle Place,.prolect proposed by the Palmer Group along Hennepin Av. in downtown Minneapolis, 100,000 square feet, construction to start in mid-1987, opening scheduled for November 1989. 11. MainStreet Department Stores, five stores of up to 75,000 square feet each at the Maplewood Mall, Eden Prairie Shopping Center, Northtown Center and two other locations, to open in 1988 with another two possibly opening.in 1990. . 12. La Societe Generale Immobiliere, south Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis, 900,000 square feet, construction planned for 1988, needs X% Other major projects, with construction beginning in 1988 or later (2 million square feet) anchor tenants and city approval. 4....::13. Lafayette Mall, Inver Grove Heights, 750,000 square feet, needs•city approval, financing and anolior tenants. . • • 14. Mills district along the downtown Minneapolis riverfront, 275,000 square feet of retail space, one-fourth of it is under construction and \\ expected to be completed within a year, the remainder needs financing. • 15. The Pageant on Hennepin, downtown Minneapolis, 135,000 square feet, needs financing. V treasurer Bjornson dies at 80 By Robert Wherein Staff Writer Val Bjornson, the deep -voiced orator who served as state treasurer longer than anyone else in Minnesota histo- ry — a total of 22 years — died Tuesday night at his south Minne- apolis home. He was 80. • A daughter, Maja Bjornson, uid her father died of congestive heart fail- ure. Gov. Rudy Perpich ordered flags lowered to half-staff in the State Cap- itol complex today and Friday in memory of the man whom at least three generations of politicians and political devotees simply called "Val." 'He was one of Minnesota's most liked and most respected public ser- vants,' Pcrpich said. "He served with honor and distinction in state office, and brought honor and dis- tinction to his political party." Kristjan-Valdimar Bjornson gave up a newspaper and radio career in 1950 to run for state treasurer as a R_epub- lican. He would Deed no other job; it was his for as Tong as he wanted is. Bjornson continued on page 11A .. _—_. ` y - Associated Press Fighting through mudslide's aftermath • A man Wednesday after'ammudsiids carry�inggu+ebouldeers swept ownleft mo mountain other property. The flash the efloods iwhichthrough hitt Choscedamage al o caused minor east sofinto Lima,hPeru. Aa small town in l least 12 people were reported kilfoothills of the led and 2S 0000 several flooding hours to the city's 6 milliongIn peopN disruption o1 water service to Session '87 Education proposals advance at Capitol ■ Gov. Rudy PerpPlch said he plans to restore 627.5 million to higher -education grants and scholarships. Page 18. ■ A House committee ap- proved a bill that would re- quire annual tests for children educated at home. Page 1B. ■ Canterbury Downs officials plan lobbying campaign. Page 7B. Second in a series. By Dan Waseoe Jr. Staff Writer Building big new shoppingcenteis • territory ripe new tetory is nothing new in the Twin Cities area. Miracle Mile in St. Louis Park used to be on the urban fringe. But recent proposals aimed at the burgeoning Dakota County market Dakota County centers could bring 'new' retailers velopment or in the Curt Carlson meal" Shopping center spree property (in Plymouthand Minna tonka). Will this producta differeoi Although there are rumors of nego- tilltiODS with �`. pattern? It's not an impossibility." New York and Nordstrom's are scarf could metropolitan tropo unaccustomed look ed the area. George Hite, vice president of pub- Ue, none of the developers trying to Seat - to the mttropolitare pro sane. It'slic possible that all metro area in the "We're used to Dayton's, Donald- Stand consumerthat additional retail- disscloosed tenants yethe Dakota . Spokesmen Ghcr market has astern Mali area — the sons, Penneys and Sean.' said Ed eras , agreed Ghermezians' Mall of the Americas Mannda, ■long-time planner for ere will come to the Twin Cities. for Sean and Penneys said last week in Bloomington, the Woodbury" the Metropolitan Council. 'They 'That's the way of all regional mar- that no negotiations are underway, Mall and the Lafayette Mall in In- set the pattern ....But suppose you kets ..."be said. "It's not essential but neither did they forswear leasing vei Grove Heights — will lack the get a Macy's in (Woodbury) and today to have a region's (major tra- familiar names that have dominat- new names in the Ghermezians' de- ditional) retailer in a new develop- Reelling continued on page BA Fumes from faulty 'Almanac Zamboni in Coon Rapids ; s Sunset 6:15 could kill, experts warn • TToday'!,weather/ Anything goes By Dennis Cassano Staff Writer • Lung specialists warned about 500 people at Blaine High School Wednesday night that esposure to fumes from a faulty ice -cleaning ma- chine that made many people ill re- cently could be fatal if left untreatformerThe meeting was organized by attor- ney Miles Lord, the former federal judge who is representing some par - gnu and who said be might file a • Yws1dt m the 'rat ' Everyone who sou at Use Jay Coot Arena in Coon Rapids since Deam- affidavit filed Wednesday in J Staff Writer 2 ofld Hennepin County District Court.. It apparently was a case of revenge, one that developed over a coffer. her hed caand who developed s cough, A partly cloudy sky and a high in the mug . coughbloody sputum or has mi30s are forecast for the Twin Cit. . . tightness inn then chests should see its. Wind wi'-I be from the northeast at But the victim has second-degree and their doctor. the specialists said. 5 to 15 m.p.h. Thickening clouds and ' , thirddegme bums and the coffee a chance of light snow are expected to- drinker is in Jars. night. And all hockey players, coaches, cheerleaders and other who were on the is for a Atoms, even o uld sseeee theirey irIndex/ dot have same doctor, said Dr. Donald 7tavola, head of the pulmonary clinic at Iowa State University. Zavola and Dr. Kristine MacDonald, assistant epidemiologist in the Min- Besota Health Department, said It is Fames continued on page ISA • • Business 1-9M Movie* 4.5C Cornice 6,7C Obituaries 88 Coerecaone 3A TV,Redto eC Crossword 90 Variety 1-9C Editorial 16,17A weather ... 2B .want Ade 10-190 Tampering with coffee mug provokes' explosive reaction; one man injured By Kevin Diaz ' • Tuesday morning, the cup exploded m a flash injuring man, Roger atrbanks oseville. Fairbanks's hands and Grygar was being held last night in - , arms were burned, and police said he the Hennepin County Jail. A search was lucky the blast didn't blind him. of his residence turned up various . He was ',caring glasses. brands of smokeless powder, tape, . wires, and other bomb -making . The explosion took place just before materials. He faces possible charges 8 am. at Northstar Computer Forms, for possession of explosives, 1226 Linden Av. Minneapolis Bomb investigator said.: . For several months, some employees Squad members discovered that a of a downtown Minneapolis pent device had been placed inside the Fairbanks declined to discuss the shop regularly dropped bits of paper - plastic coffee cup rigged so that when incident with a'reporter. According and other objects into the coffee of the lid was removed a plunger would . to the search warrant affidavit filed One of their co-workers, court rise, completing an electrical circuit by police, Fairbanks acknowledged documents show. that detonated the bomb. that be had in the past tampered with _ • Grygar's coffee Np by putting scrap Police determined that the coffee cup , paper in it, and knew of other belonged to Robert Grygar, 27, of employees who had done the same. • 1603 Jefferson St. NE., Minneapolis, He said, however, that be had never according to a search warrant intended to hurt Gt err. The owner of the cup was moved at one point to leave a note demanding that whoever was tampering with it .leave it alone. • Richard (iepnarat of tumour, wnu "While ostensibly requiring an ac- is sailing the Democratic presides- counting of previous funds provided dial nomination, told the House. to the Nicaraguan democratic resis- tance, the (cutoff) resolution would Rep. David Bonior of Michigan, who reward the Sandinistas' inflexibility managed the debate for the Demo- . and send the message that they need craw, said .that "the full extent of only wait for the United States to corruption in the contra program" lose its resolve," the statement said. had to be exposed "before we can consider sending another dime to the The administration tried to play contras." down the significance of the vote. Elliot Abrams, assistant secretary of The resolution gives Reagan 180 Shopping center spree Retailing Caadoacd fzu. page IA space in any of the proposed center& "It's a never-say-scver proposition," said Charles Zekind, director of properties for Dayton Hudson De- partment Store Co. The big names are crucial because, as - one developer suggested, it's. the de- partment stores, not the develop- ment companies, that determine which mails get built. Dakota County's growing commer- cial appeal is tied to the recent com- pletion of long -delayed freeways and bridges. Since 1980, Intestate Hwys. 494 and 35E and the Cedar Av. and 1494 bridges have brought quicker metropolitan access to Eagan, Apple Valley and Inver Grove Heights, promising to bring more housing, of- fices and shops to the area. The '.planned extension of Hwy. 3 (the Lafayette Freeway) from 1494 to Hwy. 55 would improve access even MOM Evidence of the prefreeway era re- mains apparent for anyone driving east on 1-494 across the Minnesota' River into Dakota County. West of the river, between Minneapolis -St. Paul International Airport and Hwy. 100, is the 1494 strip: 7.5 miles of urban freeway flanked tightly by high-rise hotels and offices, shopping centers, restaurants and car dealer- ships. • East from the river to Hwy. 3, Dako- ta County's rolling. open hills are nearly undeveloped. The distance along 1-494 is about the same, but the startling contrast in scenery recalls what the west side looked like 35 years ago. With the improved highway saws, developers aren't necessarily trou- bled by the fact that there is still plenty of open space between Dakota County's residential subdivisions. Developers sometimes try to pre- empt the competition by securing a prime location, even though residen- tial growth may take awhile to gener- ate desired sales and profits. At the same time, construction of a " center can accelerate the building of homes, offices and more stores, which makes the shopping center a tool to shape urban growth. Edina, like parts of Dakota County today, was mostly farm fields in the 1950s before Southdale was built, but the construction of the nation's first en- closed mall led to the development of several satellite shopping centers, many free-standing stores and a host of medical and office buildings. ' In the 1970s the Metropolitan Coun- • cil found that trying to controlurban sprawl by limiting access to sewers and highways wasn't as successful as it hoped Maranda said the clustering effect of shopping center construction • "has come closest" to fulfilling the council's intentions. "It's the offices we haven't been able to control;" he said, noting that northern Dakota County is skipping the stage of one- to three-story office buildings and is seeing construction of much taller office towers. Even before the latest freeways opened in Dakota County, the resi- dential boom was underway. Be- tween 1970 and 1980, the county's population grew from 139,808 to 231,924, and 60 percent of the in- cense was from immigration. The county had the largest influx of any metropolitan county. Tom Hedges, city administrator of Eagan for 10 years, said that because rapid growth has pushed his commu- nity's population to more than 35,000 from 20,700 in 1980,-1 feel as la the House debate, Republicans, accused the Democrats of breaking a commitment made when Congress approved the full $100 million in aid. In the vote last year, Congress pro- vided that the final 840 million in- stallment could be deleted if a "reso- lution of disapproval" passed both houses and was signed by the presi- dent. The House resolution was worded differently, adding the so - to suspend the aid were: MinaHWa — James Oberstar, Tim Penny, Mar- tin Sabo, Gerry Sikorski and Bruce Vento, all Democrats. Nash Dakota' — Byron Dorgan, Democrat. South' Dakota — Tim Johnson, Democrat. Wisconsin — David Obey Demo- crat. Voting against suspending the aid were. Mianesaa — Arlan Stange - land and Vin Weber, both Republi- cans. Republican Bill Frenzel did not VOW. The lure of Dakota County The relative absence of housing, stores and offices in much of Dakota County, combined with recent completion of long -delayed bridges and freeways, helps explain developers' interest In building major shopping centers nearby. In tltls 1984 map of land two different cities." That growth is prompting many re- tail proposals, but Hedga•said the Eagan City Council doesn't "want • whole bunch of shopping centers just son of making it" financially. Too many small marginal centers might discourage "the major' retail center you desire." The Eagan council also is concerned about making retail development conform with its overall plans for the suburb. 1t' recently rejected a 735,000-square-foot, $50 million shopping center, the city's largest so far, that would have included • health club, a discount store and pos- sibly lumber and grocery 'stores. Hedges said the council in rejecting the rezoning request, wanted to fol- low the community's comprehensive plan, which designates other areas for commercial growth. • The discount store in the plan was Target. Ironically, Hedges faces is- sues similar to those once faced by Target's Hite, who was city manager of Eden Prairie from 1968 to 1972. When he was in once, Hite was surprised that a site not designated for immediate development was bought by Homan Development Co. to build Eden Prairie Center. • "I fell that location eventually would -fit the market," Hite said. but "I never thought anyone would pursue that opportunity (so soon). Maybe they were correct, but they paid a pretty price for it" in high vacancy Mel • • The center opened in 1973, and after 14 years, the center's occupancy is about 65 percent, down from a peak of 80 percent, said Greg Maloney, general manager. Empty storefronts are camouflaged by drawings from local elementary school students. Maloney said the mall should re- car.,,nd m aho,,l 7S ncrcent this year. use, the white areas mostly represent indusbfel land, parks and undeveloped land, while the shaded areas Indicate existing residential development and the black areas are the pockets of moat -intense commercial development Eagan's recent refusal to accommo- date the $50 million shopping center suggests that, unlike many earlier bedroom suburbs, it does not need a quick tax far from new story and offices to support demands for mu- nicipal services. Hedges aid that Ea- gan's economic balance has been helped by growth in its industrial park, home of Nonhwest Airline's new headquarters, combined with a trend toward lower residential densi- ty• Neat door, in Inver Grove Heights, City Administrator Robert Schaefer said that his suburb is on the verge of major change but that it, too, has a good tax base and no pressing de- mands by residenu for urban ameni- ties. Yet developers' inquiries had increased noticeably in the last 10 months. Among them was Fine Associates, the Minneapolis firm that wants to build Lafayette Mall. Partner Bob Ellingson said his firm's research found that even if both the Mall of the Americas and the Woodbury Mall were built, northern Dakota County bolds enough buying power to justify the Lafayette Mall, but the number of department stores would be reduced to two insrad of inc proposed three. Ellingson added, however, that de- partment stores do their own market studies and that, in the end, their decisions determine which malls get built. The process that store exec utives go through was described by Hite, whose company still is working to open a Target in Eagan in 1988. "We're rooftop counters," he said. More than that Target anaiyza who lives beneath those rooftops. If resi- dents are relatively young. well-off and well-educated, Target looks hard. Eagan Iits those criteria. In addition, Tarot's Burnsville store, also in Da- kota County, is very successful he said. "As a rule of thumb, you look for one person per square foot (of a store's floor space)," Hite said. For example, a trade area of 100,000 people might support a I00,000•squaro-foot store . In 25 years of Mudding more than 240 stores, Target has closed only four or five, "testimony to the careful selection done initially," be said. In light of that track record, Hite is skeptical about fears of overbuilding in Dakota County aced clsewbae. • "It seems to me I've Hard that word (overbuilding) before," he said. "nut's a retailer, real estate owner, planner kind of concern," not a coo- WOW worry. Although investor might lose money and cities might find their tax -sup' ported subsidies less fruitful than in- tended, not many consumers would be badly served, he said • "You're looking for this balance be- tween fostering competition (and) crating situations damaging to the community that put public invest- ' meat at risk .... The consumer is best served by healthy retailers ... who are forced t0 run their business- es well They can't get lazy." . 'Friday: New retail centers any ckaage Twia Cldan' shopping W. be. • No more obituaries Junior high school students in Lin- coln, Neb., no longer will be asked to write their own obituaries in health class, alter parents complained the optional assignment was too dismal. The assignment will be replaced with one intended to help pupils deal with grief and loss, said Dean Austin, e health consultant to the schools. • I 1 n Woody Hayes dies Woody Hayes, the volatile football coach who led Ohio State to 13 Big Ten championships, died Thurs- day of a heart attack. Page 1D. • There's a movie out called "Hoo- • siers." It's about a small-town high school basketball team from Indiana overcoming all sorts of odds and •winning the state championship. It's the old David -over -Goliath story, and it sends everybody out•of the theater smiling, even though they • know they've just seen a couple of hours of very heavy syrup. This "Hoosiers" stuff came to mind Thursday afternoon while watching - the state high school hockey tourna- ment at the St. Paul Civic Center. Doug Grow ragmasaussamumisangsaimem In recent years there's been consider- able moaning about how the ro- mance has been pummeled out of this cherished Minnesota institution by big suburban schools. And so it was that yesterday afternoon, fans yawned while Burnsville, a giant school of 2,304 students and winner of two successive state tournaments, won its first -round game. And so it was that the yawns turned to cheers New retail deveopment = -y change • buyir Last in a series. By•Dan Wascoe Jr. Staff Writer Trappings of a Victorian Christmas filled Riverplace in' Minneapolis last December to woo holiday shoppers. • The Bandana Square shopping mall in St. Paul's Energy Park staged out- door band concerts last summer. Tarot card analysts and palm readers plied their mystical trade in Minne- apolis' Calhoun Square on Valen- tine's Day. 3i9 Shopping center spree iumsamm "Whatmakes (centers) succeed is a number of little factors affecting their ability to attract people," said Mi- chael Munson, research manager for the Metropolitan Council. Retail de- velopers spend millions on those fac- tors to exploit profitable niches in the Twin Cities market. But the shape of those niches will change if the latest crop of proposed major shopping centers get built. Consumers' buying habits could change, as well. Shoppers from Wisconsin who now drive to the Maplewood Mall might stop instead at the Woodbury Mall • proposed by Cadillac Fairview Ltd. They might not get even that far if they choose instead to shop at the St. Croix Shopping Mali or the Wood- land Lakes Shopping Center, both medium-sized projects in eastern Washington County that are expect- ed to be f nished this year or next. Retailing continued on page 12A • as tiny Warroad (enrottme; won its first -round game. Oh, yes, you could feel it y Minnesotans were thinkin; that romance was returnin state hockey tournament b Warroad and because of G Coleraine (enrollment 432 sotans were hoping this to; could be a real -life "Hoosi But wait a minute here. W written that the nice story, mantic story, has got to be Almanac Friday, March 13,1987 72nd day; 293 to go this ! Sunrise: 8:30. Sunset: 6:• Today's weat Good Luck Part Another Friday the 13th chance of light snow or 11 near 40; low 28 to 32. Business 7-12B Movie Comics 17C Obitu. Corrections 3A TV, R: Crossword 19C Vane: Editorial 16-17A Weal. . Want Ads -1, 12A . Friday/March 13/1987/MlnneapoW Star and Tribune Survey says Twin Citians have penchant for shopping By Dan WascoeJr. • Staff Writer Experts speculate that growth in re- tail space could outstrip potential buying power in the Twin Cities area lea few years. But they're talking •about a market where shopping re- -sembles a sport approaching the level 'of apassion. j`Finr;ty-two percent of adults sur- .ie?•ed by the Minneapolis Star and Tribune's research department in 1985 said they had visited one of 32 major shopping centers, malls or commercial areas in the previous 30 days. In addition, 88 percent report- ed buying something in one of 11 At s listed in the survey. P." research report, prepared for the p.ws Suit the 11-county metropolitan area (yaRed 14th in the nation in popula-' )4oa. However, it ranked ninth in )tenoral merchandise sales, including department store purchases, and 12th • ja•aotal retail sales. One reason for cep�s above -average performance was 141 the Twin Cities' effective buying 4DeQateranked Ilth. -Liie¢tar and Tribune survey found :quit Hennepin County residents were Eyse divided in their shopping hab- •s.jhan residents in the rest of the tiro area. Part of the reason is that . (be) have more to choose from. Ex- pege'for the Maplewood Mall, all of %day's major centers lie west of a jive drawn north and south along nulling Av.; in other words, in the esem half of the metro area. Southdale was mentioned by more Hennepin County adults (30 percent) Fran any other shopping center as a lace they had visited in the previous )0 days. Downtown Minneapolis wasn't far behind, with 26 percent. j2idgedale ranked next with 23 per- en1 and Brookdale with 19 percent. •{SSn'Ramsey County, Rosedale was the ilrongest focus of shopping activity. ii i etailing retailing Forty-seven percent said they had shopped there, followed by Maple- wood (33 percent), the Midway area (26 percent) and downtown St. Paul (22 percent). The dominance of suburban centers was much more evident in the re- maining metro counties. In Anoka County, 63 percent said they had shopped at Northtown. In Dakota County, 58 percent mentioned Burnsville Center. In Washington •County, 56 percent had shopped at Maplewood Mall, just west of the county line in Ramsey County.rc Here asome other findings from the report, which focused on tele- phone interviews with •2,508 adults and follow-up questionnaires with 1,754 of them: • • ■ Ten percent of Ramsey County adults reported shopping in down- town Minneapolis, but just 2 percent of Hennepin County adults said they shopped in downtown St. Paul. ■ The shop -till -you -drop syndrome' is alive and well, judging by those who reported shopping at a number of stores in the previous 30 days. . • ' Example: Among Dayton's shoppers, 84 percent said they also had shopped at Target, while 51 percent mentioned Penney's. Other numbers: Donaldsons, 49 percent; K man, 38 • percent; Sears, 30 percent; Montgom- ery Ward, 19 percent; Holiday dis- count stores, 17 percent; LaBelle's (now under the Best Products name), 13 percent; C.O.M.B., 9 percent, and Banks, 6 percent. • No matter which department, dis- count or liquidation store people shopped at in the previous 30 days, more than 80 percent also bought something at Target during the same period. • . . ■ Among the five biggest department stores, Donaldsons drew the highest proportion of women shoppers, at 64 Continued from page IA' :. County residents who visit thdale, the reigning champion mma9ng suburban Twin Cities centers, tntght detour to the Ghermezian others' Mall of the Americas, pro- 004 for the old Metropolitan Stadi- 11it1: site in' Bloomington. Or they e huld stay even closer to home if the Cafayctte Mall in Inver Grove )4esaltts is built. it's not that Twin Cities residents tack places to dispose of their dispos- $bie income. In the mid-1950s, the area was home to 26 shopping cen- ters; according to the Metropolitan ''Council. By late 1985 the council listed 185, and the number has grown 'ince then, including new satellites of older regional centers, such as Pavil- ion Place just north of Rosedale. ♦. 'Meanwhile, "veteran" malls such as /tohin Center in Robbinsdale and fun Ray Center in St. Paul have teceived major facelifts, and new finds of centers are on the way. Mid- f est Auto Mall Inc., whose partners Include auto dealer Jim Lupient, is building centers in Eagan and Brook- lyn Park that will contain clusters of jtores specializing in auto products Ind services: tires, brakes, body 'pork, heating and cooling systems and the like. Eight more auto malls ire expected to be built in other sub- ether malls, such as Shady Oak Cen- ter in Eden Prairie,•tilt toward busi-; ness' services:- an office supplies store, apackaging service and a print shop, for example. - The heart of niche -marketing is that stores try to offer a blend of location, merchandise, service, price level and style that is distinct from the compe- tition and draws enough shoppers to make a profit. . • "Every store has its own•value offer • - ing," said George Hite, vice president of public and consumer affairs at Target Stores. "Ours has -a strong price component, variety and a trend element." • - • The greater the competition,' the more precise the niche can become. Research by the Minneapolis Star and Tribune in 1985 found that re- cent Dayton's shoppers were slightly likelier to say they tried to keep up with changes in' style and fashion, while clothes shoppers at Donaldson and J.C. Penney were likelier to say they looked for quality or value rath- er than fashion. The spread in the findings is not great, but in a large market it can be significant in poten- tial sales • "Dayton's is evolving into a different kind of strategy" by adopting a high- er fashion profile, Hite said. "It's not all things to all people" as much as it once was The shift "creates opponu- percent. At the other stores, women s shares ranged from 55 to 59 percent. • Dayton's attracted the largest pro- portion of shoppers who were college graduates (39 percent),. professionals or managers (29 percent), never mar- ried (25 percent), 18 to 34 years old (42 percent) and renters (31 percent). Nearly one of five Dayton's shoppers also reported household incomes of at last $50,000, a grater share than among shoppers at Donaldsons, J.C. Penney, Sears or Wards . , • Relatively few stores drew more men than women shoppers, but one of them was Holiday discount stores; 54 percent were men. ■ About two of three TwinCities- adults (66 percent) held a credit or charge card at Dayton's Other cards included Sears (60 percent), Visa (52, percent), Donaldsons (50 • percent), J.C. Penney (49 percent), Wards, (44 percent) MasterCard (35 percent) and American Express (15 percent). .. • Those holding charge cards at a par- ticular store were usually twice as likely as all adults to say they had shopped there as well as at other stores in the past 30 days. For exam- ' plc, 38 percent of all adults said they' had shopped at Dayton's in the past 30 days; 87 percent of Dayton's card- holders said they had shopped there' • in the same period. In that same Dayton's card -holding group, 81 per-' cent also said they had shopped at• Donaldson, compared with 26 per- cent of all adults who had shopped; there. If the preceding numbers don't'ade- quately reflect the popularity of shop - ping in the Twin Cities area, consider • one additional finding from the sur- vey. A greater percentage said they had shopped at Target in the past 30 days (73 percent) than said they had read a Sunday edition of the Star and • Tribune in the past four weeks (70 percent). nines" for other retailers, he said ' What's true for individual stores also • is true for developers trying to build personalities for shoppin - centers. - Location can be at last as important as images, merchandise and prices. Fjor example,• a store that appeals primarily to young, affluent adults • might look to Eden Prairie Center. The 1985 Star and Tribune survey,'- involving 2,508 people in I coun- ties,, found that 22 percent of recent-. shoppers at Eden Prairie Center- re- ported household incomes of at least 550,000, the highest such proportion • of any Twin Cities area center in.the.' survey. By comparison, only4 percent of shoppers at the Hi -Lake Center in • Minneapolis tenoned household in- comes exceeding $50,000, with. 44 • percent reposing incomes under $20,000. . • The age of shoppers varies by cen- ters, as well. At Eden Prairie Center, 19 percent of the shoppers were 18 to 24 years old, the survey found, com- pared with 6 percent at Terrace Mall in Robbinsdale. At Burnsville Cen- ter, only 4 percent of shoppers were . 65 or older, compared with 25 per- cent at the Hub in Richfield, - • • Sometimes entire segments of a met; ropolitan area can be defined panty .Department store profiles The information below is based on a 1985 telephone survey of 2,508 adults in the 11-county Twin Cities market area who said they had been shopping at a department store in the last 30 days. Donald- J.C. Dayton's sone Penney Seen Wards 'Total adult market' 608,800 422,800 497,700 499.600 296,800 Male ' - 42% 36% 41% 45% 43% Female 58 64 59 55 57 18-24 13% 11 % 11% 8% 10% 25-34 • 29 19 25 28 28 35-44 19 23 - 20 24 17 45-54 8 10 11 13 12 55-64' 15 17 16 15 19 65-69 9 11 8 6 6 70+ 6 9 8 6 7 HOuseh011;1 If1COrne,,11_`• .. -' ... " - .=`t. Less than $20,000 22% 23% 23% 21 % 21 % $20,000-29,999 21 21 24 26 32 $30,000-39,999 18 17 20 23 21 640, 000-49.999 15 15 13 13 12 $50,000 or more 19 17 15 12 10 Two -income 49 47 49 50 42 CChouseholds Less than 4% 4% 6% 8% 9% high school High school/G.E.D. 32 34 39 42 48 • Some college 25 28 26 24 21 College graduate 39 34 29 26 22 Marital ai11Wa .� .. r•. • ... Married 61% 64% 68% 68% 67% Never married 25 19 15 13 12 Separated/ • 14 17 17 19 21 widowed/divorced Children' In the- .. . ... No • 64% 66% 58% 52% 53% Yes 36 34 42 48 46 Y.,8 �,,ear,,,, Single family 67 % 72 % 77% 79% 76 -' Multi -family 33 • 28 23 21 22 H01i16OWI19rahlQBtdWa'-'_... ,.,. ... .. --.c Own 65% 70% 75% 78 % 79% • -Rent : 31 26 22 20 t9 '- Live rent-free '. 4 4 3• 2 3• • .' calculated These numbers wars calated by applying an survey results to by maaepohtan . YNWait'Wait population011,801,800. " Ths numbers don't add up to 100% because of rounding, mWCpu r.sponses and nonrppen16s. Source/Minneapolis Star and Tribune. 1985 • by the kinds of stores they patronize . most., In Hennepin County, about three -fourths of the adults surveyed by the Star and Tribune said they had bought merchandise at a Target store in the previous month, making Target the most patronized store. In Washington County, that distinction was held by K mart, where two- thirds of the adults had bought an item; Target was a close second. The figures reflect K man's better repre- sentation in that pan of the metro .area. . • 'To capitalize on demographic shifts and retailing trends, some shopping center managers are signing tenants to short-term leases, giving them more flexibility in keeping their mix of stores up to date. Amid such changing retail patterns, one idea advocated elsewhere has at- tracted little enthusiasm in the Twin Cities: the notion that major malls can succeed with a changing mix of specialty shops but n e- partment store anc Study: Many `safety' drug containers don't w 7ksadelated Preaa ' -Atlanta, Ga. liild-proof packages too often don't Seep youngsters out, says a study of prescription drug poisonings in chil- ilrea Control Centers. The CPSC investigated more than 2,000 of those reports from nine poi- son control centers last February, March. April and May. The study is not a random sample, but shows in - Nearly 70 percent of the continuous - thread, "child -resistant" caps on bot- tles for liquid medicine were ineffec- tive, usually because the medicine had caked on the threads. More than half of the lug -type, "push -and -turn" container caps didn't work because of child -resistant packaging should be strongly encouraged." The CPSC study noted that 17 per- cent of the episodes involved chil- dren accidentally taking grandpar- ents' drugs, and 14 percent of the The concept is advocated by Meret Inc., a consulting and design compa- ny based in Columbus, Ohio. its ex- . ecutives told Forbes magazine that department stores increasingly re-. semble specialty stores anyway and that the draw of the big names has been more assumed than proven re- cently. The firm is recruiting tenants for two new centers near Columbus that will lack department store an- chors and will focus instead on circu- lar nodes of specialty stores. Target's Hite said, "Experience' strongly suggests (a center) has to have some fairly strong draws, stores with a franchise in the marketplace." Thomas Swanstrom, corporate econ- omist for Sears Roebuck & Co., said the idea "sounds doubtful to me" because there's a cost to filling vacan- cies. Long-term anchors ousel much ofthatcost. IT'S SAVIN TII \ PAGE 3B Suit Yourself' Opens STANDING ON the "beach" at Suit Yourself in the Silver Bell shopping center are Brian Hardon and Khris Adkins. The tanning booths are named after the Hawaiian islands and are decorated straw siding. EAGAN -- Fashions this year are helping make an Eagan store look more like summer, accor- ding to Brian Hardon, one of the owners of Suit Yourself, 1979 Sivler Bell Rd. Suit Yourself sells bathing suits and summer sportswear, and also has three ultraviolet sun - tanning booths. It opened about a month ago. Hardon, who also owns a fran- chise on Hawaiian Tan Fastic sun -tanning booths, started the store with Steve Gillaspie of Eagan, originally to sell only bathing suits, but expanded his product selection after the designer sportswear began sell- ing well. "The clothing is doing as well as the swimwear," he said. And so is the tanning business. Since the store has been open, 175 customers have signed up for the Florida look. Hardon said that the straw tan- ning booth decor was an idea that came from Little Hawaii, and that most customers comment on it. The rest of the 700 square -foot shop is bright, due to the fashion trends toward colors, said Har- don, and due to a tropical sunset mural covering one wall. About 50 people per day visit the shop, which Hardon said is a little surprising since Silver Bell Center, where the shop is located, is not fully open. Due to its popularity, Hardon plans to ex- pand his product line from designer sport and swimwear to include gold jewelry, and even mentioned displaying custom- made jeweled roller skates. The store carries about 30 dif- ferent name -brands, has six employees and is open 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and noon till 5 p.m. Sunday. This is the seventh store Har- don has opened nationally, and he has noticed that with the tanning - booths, the stores are about three times busier in the summer than the winter. This is possibly because tanned people do not want to stick out like sore thumbs in the winter, he explained. Even though the store has drawn very good customer response, Hardon added, "We're still in the new stage." PAGE 4B AVaires Take Second In Hawaii Con THE APPLE Valley High School AVaires placed second to Wayzata in a competition in Hawaii and recently won top honors at the Minneapolis Aquatennial Danceline Com- petition. Members are, from the left, front row: Kim Houle, Becky Savageau, Teresa Zachman, Julie Carson, Stacy Allen (captain)q Julie Isakson, Marybeth Vennewitz and .PPLE VALLEY -- The award wi kning AVaires, Apple Valley Ili ;h School's danceline, added an ether prize to its collection r> ently. The 27 girls traveled to H. wail March 28-April 5 to par - tic pate in an invitational contest fo• Minnesota dancelines. ''he AVaires, dancing to "I\ umber One Song in Heaven," ca;)tured the second place trophy. Wayzata High School, th year's Minnesota state champion, placed first and lic Akins Lindbergh was third. Yhe trip to Hawaii was the cu+mination of a year of fund - rasing for the dancers. Total ex- penses for the line were $16,740. Mt nib FHS Plans Jazz Concert FARMINGTON -- The high school music department's spr- ing jazz concert will be Sunday, April 27 at 8 p.m. in the school theater. Performing at the concert will be Jazz Band II, the Chamber Singers and a new band called Jazz Dimension. Jazz Dimension recently spent an afternoon at ASI Productions, a professional recording studio. The group is preparing to record R B P R ren the Jur eve hos sen het the C Michelle Sattler; middle row: D Allen, Colleen Hoy, Amber Well Ferguson and Laura Corbin; back Rosenberg, Molly Kerr, Debbie Gossman, Lisa Killion, Tami Metz AVaires Top Winners APPLE VALLEY --The Apple Valley High School AVaires took top honors at the annual Min- neapolis Aquatennial danceline competition. They placed first in the large school category (over 1600 pupils) and also took first overall. The AVaires also won the Queen of the Lakes Thematic Trophy. This trophy is awarded to that line which best coor- dinates its music Eagan changesrhasten en� of bucolic life By Jack Tubert Staff Writer Lee Groff wistfully recalls the rural Eagan of his childhood. "I used to be able to duck hunt and pheasant hunt right outside my door ... ride my snowmobile or walk down to my duck blinds in the fields behind the house." Now he fears the slower pace of country living is disappearing from Eagan, one of the fastest growing suburbs in the Twin Cities. Groff was one of the leaders of Southwest Eagan Citizen Coalition, a neighborhood group vehemently op- posed to the development of Black - hawk Plaza, a shopping center/hotel at the intersection of Interstate Hwy. 35E and Dakota County Rd. 30, di- rectly across from Groff s rambler home. Earlier this month the city council unanimously approved pre- liminary plans for the project. Now, after a lifetime in Eagan, the 36-year-old Groff says it may be time to move. Looking across Blackhawk Rd. at the pasture that soon will be a sborping center, Groff said, "I think I'm going to start looking for some- thing south of here. Something like the old days, when Eagan had a slower pace." Eagan's country image has been transformed into suburbia — homes, offices and other businesses — as its population explodes. A population in- crease of 12,000 (to 32,000) has been recorded in the past four years, ac- cording to city planner Dale Runkel. He said 1,107 building permits were issued in 1984 and requests are com- ing in "even faster in '85." Mayor Bea Blomquist does not agree that Eagan is expanding too fast. "Eagan is moving very fast, but I don't know how fast is 'too fast'," she said. "Most communities are crying for development." But Blomquist doesn't feel Eagan has lost that country feeling. "Not at all, some areas of the city might be overdeveloped, but look around, it's there," Blomquist said this week. "Like our little brochure says, 'The best of both still — coun- try and city, the best of both.' " Staff Photo by Steve Schluter Lee Groff stood with his children, field across from their home, which City Council Member Theodore Wachter agrees with Blomquist. Whatever the speed of Eagan's growth, he said, "We can handle it. Eagan has been bracing itself for 20 years for this, ever since we heard the freeways '(I-35E and 35W) were coming through." Both said they could sympathize with those who live near the Blackhawk Jasen, 12, and Stacy, 10, in the may become a shopping center. Plaza development, which will in- clude a 28,000-square-foot shopping center, a three-story hotel, two res- taurants, a drive-in bank and a ser- vice station. "There was no way we could deny the (Blackhawk Plaza) plan," said Blomquist. "I absolutely feel for those neigh- bors, but that land has been com- mercially zoned since we were a township," said Wachter. Peter Stalland, an Edina attorney and president of the family -owned development company that will build Blackhawk Plaza, declined to estimate the project's cost or name possible tenants for the project. He did say construction will begin this summer, and he hopes to have the main 233-seat restaurant ready to open Nov. 1. The plaza is expected to open next year. As for the neighborhood displeasure, he said, "It seems absurd to think that the intersection of a freeway (35-E), and one of the busiest county roads (Hwy. 30) would be zoned any- thing but commercial." His presentation to the council in- cluded a state Transportation De- partment traffic study indicating that by the time the center is finished, 60,000 cars daily will be using I-35E, and 19,000 vehicles daily would pass on County Rd. 30. But Kathy King, another opponent, sees the heavy traffic near the resi- dential area as another reason the project should have been denied. Three years ago, King and her hus- band put their life's savings into buy- ing a home in Eagan so they could bring up two young daughters in a peaceful setting. "Now," she said, "I'm scared to death (for my daughters) because of the transient element a hotel brings into a residential area." Wachter pointed out that the city of Eagan still retains some control over the project. "We granted only preliminary ap- proval. If the developer doesn't de- liver what the application calls for, he will not get final approval. That's the handle we have on this," he said. Residents say they have a handle, too — the lever in the voting booth. Groff said he and some neighbors have banded together to work this fall to elect city officials dedicated to more orderly planning and slower growth. e like home. Especially when you're ors Plus provides care services right 'io your address doesn't have to change he most complete medical and dental ing free preventive dental, $2.00 pre- p discount on hearing aids and glasses. rmation, use this coupon, or call us A senior health plan with all the com- .ors Plus is available only in ©1985 Group Health Inc. Minneapolis, MN. 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The Hoffman Development Group, though, will still have to overcome a .recommenda- tion by the city's Planning Commission to reject the plan for a 220,000-square-foot re- tail center that would be anchored by a Tar- get discount store and a Cub Foods store: The council earlier delayed a decision on the shopping center planned for Cliff and Rahn roads. After four. hours ' of testimony and debate Nov. 5, thecouncil sent the con- troversial proiect back to the Advisory Plan- ning Commission to consider a new configu- ration the Hoffman groupoffered for the shopping center! The second•plan; members of the Hoffman family said, eliminates a debate over whether the land needs to be rezoned by moving the location of the shopping center slightly, placing.. it all on land everyone agrees is zoned for commercial uses. The Planning Commission rejected the new configuration by a 4-1 vote last week after some members said they haven't 'had time to evaluate.. it thoroughly. Eagan Planning Director Dale Runkle said the Planning Commission was con- cerned about several things, including traf-.. tic problems at. Cliff and Rahn roads. A con- sultant said traffic would worsen if the shopping center is built. Mike Hoffman, a partner in the Hoffman Group, said he is perplexed by the Planning Commission'sstatement that it hasn't had time to.: review the latest version of the "project. He contends that the city has had that version of the project'for months. "I am really puzzled," Hoffman said. "We're wondering why staff said they didn't have proper time to review this. They've seen both configurations now for six months. We've always shown them both configura= • tions, both layouts, and 'said we can do this either way." • Hoffman said his company has .made an . effort to address everyone's concerns. "We've made many, many revisions in re- gard to the city's recommendations, traffic recommendations and neighborhood recom-' mendations," Hoffman said. -"We've tried real hard to satisfy as many people as possi ble here. We've held up our end of the bar- gain:" .St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch Inver .Grove suspects linked toother robbery Two men arrested as suspects in a Saturday night armed robbery in Inver Grove Heights are suspected in several other incidents, according to an Inver . Grove Heights police spokesman. The robberyoccurred about 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Trail Liquor Store, 9747 S. Robert Trail, police•Lt. Larry Hansch said Monday. Two men armed with pis- tols took an undisclosed amount of cash, he said'. One suspect was arrested at about 2:30 a.m. Sunday after South St. Paul police chased a car: with stolen license plates. The suspect was arrested in the car, but his companion fled on foot after the car was stopped • in Inver Grove Heights. The second suspect was arrested late Sunday at an Inver Grove.Heights residence after officers, who had , been watching the home, obtained a search warrant. Hansch said evidence in the car allegedly linked the _two men to the robbery and to an earlier robbery at MINNESOTA BRIEFING The 'Mursus were shot to death on the front porch of their farm home near New York Mills on June 18. The nesota district. Penny won re-election in 1984 and 1986. Indictment dismissal sought A motion to dismiss a grand_ jury indictment charg- ing former Victory House director'Lyle Tollefson with 16 counts of theft was considered Monday by Ramsey District Judge Bertrand Poritsky. The judge is expected' to rule today on the motion. The action was requested by an attorney for Tollefson, who charged that grand jury proceedingswere im- *proper. Tollefson, 60, of 110'Leech St., founded the home for chronic alcoholics in 1973 and ran it until June 1986. He is accused of using food stamps illegally, inflating the Victory. House budget in order to get higher wel- fare payments from Ramsey County, and taking thou- sands of dollars belonging to Victory House. In May, operation of the 80-bed home at 2300 Wy-. cliff St. was turned over to Catholic Charities. ' lf_04 W ,r,,rl . . ., degree murder in Sta Judge Galen Wilson set ment was set for plea. Smith aske • to represent him Smith is acc ingston-Voorsan Duluth Heights days later in Ha tim's car, author Latimer's St. Paul May Jewish National tion announced. Latimer will in recognition o ership. Disease can't shadow over woman p.10A THISWEEK NEWSPAPERS Volume 8, No. 5 March 30, 1987 Three Sections Section A TH News Real 1 Classi Citysued by developers of Diffley Center By CHRISTY CLAPP A lawsuit was filed March 26 against the city of Eagan calling for rezoning of land that would allow for a Target store and other retail development, which was denied Feb. 3 by the city council. The Bieter Co. vs. the city of Eagan suit also calls for damages in excess of $50,000. The $50 million 35E/Diffley Center project proposed the dis- count store, a health club and a 735,000-square-foot shopping center to be located on 91 acres on the northeast quadrant of Inter- state 35E and Diffley Road. The council voted 4-1 to deny the pro- ject and rezoning, with Council Member Vic Ellison taking the affirmative. The suit alleged that the city "had misled and encouraged Bieter to make the application at substantial cost even though the city had already decided against the project, according to Michael Bress, the plaintiff's attorney. Eagan Mayor Bea Blomquist called the allegation "absolutely false." The suit also charges that the actions by the council were in- verse condemnation, meaning that the property wasn't literally condemned or taken by the city but the effect is as if part of the property was taken, Bress said. And the denial of a comprehen- sive guide plan change, rezoning from agricultural to commercial use, and a preliminary plat was called unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious in the lawsuit, ac- cording to Bress. That wording was dismissed as legal jargon by Blomquist who said, "That's something that's used when they don't have anything else to say." A public hearing for the project was held last November, which divided the community into two groups: those living near the area for the proposed center who strongly and vocally opposed it, and others in the community who supported a project of such magnitude in the city. The meet- ing was continued to Jan. 27 to give city staff a chance to gather more information on the impact of such a project. The Advisory Planning Commission voted 6-1 to recommend denial to the city council. The suit was filed in Dakota County District Court. CKS In the last 60 days, APPLE VALLEY FORD has sold over 200 vehicles to people living in the Burnsville, Apple Valley, Rosemount and Eagan areas. The reason is simple. We have made buying easy! Friendly sales people, no hassles, no gim- micks. We've taken the mystery out of buying a new vehicle. When we have a sale, every sale vehicle is clearly marked with our lowest possible price.* THIS MAIN EVENT SALE IS NO DIF- FERENT! So take a short drive to downtown Apple Volley• You'll appreciate the soles people and this fresh, new way of merchandising new cars. Appraisers will be on duty in order to allow top values for your trade-in. Please bring your title. Finance specialist will be on duty to arrange the lowest possible financing. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO REASON TO WAIT FOR LOWER PRICES - THERE WON'T BE ANY! LAGERS Choose From! Fi 60's 10 To Choose From IN EAGAN _ Pilot Knob Shop Center Denied By Council By JOAN WALDOCK . Staff Writer • EAGAN -- Opponents of a pro- posed Pilot. •Knob community shopping center won. their battle "Tuesday,, June 5. • ; The city council voted to deny an . application from Ken Ap- plebaum to rezone the Pilot Knob Heights planned unit develop- ment t.PUD) from a commercial convenience center to residential townhouse and community•Atop- ping center use: The application • was also to include the north 10 acres of the proposed develop- ment under PUD zoning, a loading dock within 300 feet of a residential area, and preliminary plat and siteplan approval.- All were,denied. The center, explained Howard Dahlgren of Howard Dahlgren and Associates, would be north of • Crestridge Ave. and east of Pilot Knob •Hd., This design• differedb from two previously submitted in 1978, he said: 'The, proposal was for a 73,000 square -foot mall;,with about one • acre.- zoned 1-1.3 for townhouses in the southeast cor- ner and' 120' feet• for the existing •townhouses, in the proposed.mall. 'It 'would• 'eventually include 'a shopping mall with a super- market, bank facility, restaurant and the townhouses. Several 'residents from, the neighborhood expressed their op- position, ,stating that the• center would not fit into a ••residential neighborhood,., would result in Denmark Ave. becoming a very, busy road and the large trucks coming in to unload at the super- market would he•disturbing to the neighborhood. . "The impact of a shopping center that size would be destruc-. live," said Bill -Grantz, 1345 Crestridge Ln. "'This wouldn't be allowed if the original PUD•was followed. It's a residential•area, that shopping center shouldn't be there." Councilman James Smith mov ed,to deny the requests, although he admitted that the plans for the center were better than -some of the others: Smith and —Coun- cilmen Ted Wachter• and Tom' Egan -voted in favor of denial. Mayor .Leo Murphy, and..Couu- cilman 'Mark Parranto voted against denial. "I've seen these developments come in piecemeal." Murphy said. "I,think the overall plan for this'one is fantastic. If we don't take -it, we'll'end up with a mess. The area to the north is zoned tot a community shopping center, ' it's going to ; go some, • day anyway." •• • Wachter pointed out that studies say there should be from 10,000 to 30,000 people to support such a center, and there weren't enough to support this one. Those • people would have preferred, an. office building previously propos- ed, he added. • "We're in the process .of 'developing a comprehensive land use plan," Egan said, "and we're discovering, we may have too much commercially zoned land. This is one case of that. • The council concurred with the advisory planning commission; which voted for denial April 24. The reasons were that no better adaptation: of the physical or esthetic setting of the northerly. 10 acre parcel would be served by use of a PUD .district compared with existing zoning; there was • no determination of financial feasibility; needed and planned officespace would be eliminated; it is inconsistent with the existing PUD "agreement; intensified watershed problems and en- vironmental and ecological pressures on Fish Lake and sur- rounding roads will result in ex- cessive commercial• develop- ment; and is inconsistent with ex- isting planning, zoning :arid, the character of the neighborhood: councilwiththe hospital plans and why one was considered. The Ridges hospital will be an acute, primary care facility with 150 beds projected to open in 1982. It will be a family hospital that will offer medical, surgical. obstetrics, pediatrics, diagnostic services, support services, emer- gency room services and outpa- tient services. Reasons for the hospital. accor- ding to Haskins, are because of the developing suburbs which. (See Hospitals, Page 7A) He commented on the public distrust of government and the opportunity to debate facts. He felt that city business should be discussed only at public, open meetings; and that some members should not get facts before they are given to all members. He asked the city at- torney it it was "legal for two council members to discuss city business outside of the council chambers." Gorgos read Minnesota statute (See Open Meeting, Page 7A) Happiness Prevails . FARMINGTON — Obviously elated at receiving diplomas, 1 joyous feeling of the hundreds of graduates from schools th Prita Pradnya Paramita, a foreign exchange student from In sister for the year, Annette Pelach, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M were popular students at FHS this year. (More graduation ph. Eagan Shopping Center , j Plans Are Approved By JOAN WALDOCK Staff Writer EAGAN -- The plans for a neighborhood shopping center at the northeast corner of Pilot Know Rd. and Co. Rd. 30 were ap- proved by the city council May 2. The developer, Charles James of James Refrigeration, was not granted a special use permit for a self service gas station, however. James is planning to build the center in phases, with the first phase a PDQ grocery store, later adding other offices including re- alty and medical offices to the complex. Originally, James intended to include self-service gas pumps near the store. City ordinance, however, restricts certain zone classifications from operating gas stations unless they offer full service, to meet the needs of the neighborhood residents. I think it's imperative to the neighborhood, a service station would be very useful in the com- munity," said Councilman Ted Wachter. James indicated no interest in operating a complete service sta- tion, so the center apparently will not operate any gasoline sales. "When service is available and we are taking care of the resi- dents, that's fine. But we can't al - ow other service stations to be iven out of business because they can't sell any gas," said Councilman James Smith. The approval of plans listed several conditions to be met, in- cluding the completion of other projects in the complex with five years under the present plan, and the construction of a driveway around the back of the building for patrolling and security purposes. In other action, the council: SET an informal meeting to discuss Pilot Knob Rd. improve- ments for 7 p.m. May 29 at city hall. APPROVED the election re- turns of the May 1 special elec- tion. HIRED JoAnn Marilyn Arbour as a police dispatcher to replace Carolyn Larson. HIRED Tom Schuster as a city tree inspector through Nov. 1, at a salary of $5 per hour. TOOK no action on a request from property owners of Meadowland addition to restrict use of snowmobiles on the Rahn Thomas Trail easement. APPROVED final plats of Southwind addition in Section nine and Wescott Hills south ad- dition in Section 14. APPROVED industrial re- venue bond financing in the amount of $2,500,000 for the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Co. to construct a floor covering warehouse in Eagandale Center Industrial Park. APPROVED $6,210,000 in in- dustrial revenue bond financing for the Coachman Oaks apart- ment complex. VOTED to require develop- ment projects to have street lights on wood poles. ead'garage door (where.shown) rA prefinished interior trim & ,fascia materials - roof-(ouvers, soffit vents .UDED: Labor, foundation and concrete work, • binets, floor covering, paint, brick facing, �g Plumbing, heatingand electrical products n optional extra -cost packages. ; LUMBING, HEATING,' ECTRICAL PACKAGES • t-yourself installation. You get in ,one "package" all necessary components .uctions, for'the basic installation of your ), heating and/or electrical systems: A :tibn of optional convenience and acces- is is alsoavailable. HOMES SAVE ENERGY designed to burn less fuel in winter and i cooling costs in- summer.' These.' • construction features are in - energy con:. t' ES er styles and etter HTED TERS Lakeville 40' 28' t,/Woodgate Residents Oppose Proposed Shopping Center By JUDY STRACHAN Staff Writer EAGAN -- Residents of the Woodgate area of Eagan were out in force Tuesday, April 15 as the city council heard the preliminary plat for Fortune Realty's Safari at Eagan shopp- ing center proposal. The preliminary plat and site plan was for the first phase of a community shopping center in accordance with the planned development (PD) agreement. Byron Watschke of Fortune Real- ty presented the proposal. The center would be located on the eight acres in the southwest cor- ner of Cliff Rd. and Thomas Lake Rd. According to the architect for the project, the mall would in- clude 50 to 75,000 square feet of tenants with servicing from the rear of the buildng. The center would include a drug store at one end and a grocery store at the other end, with spaces for about 21 specialty shops in between. The plan also called for two to three satellite buildings which could house such facilities as financial institutions, day care centers and medical facilities. He noted that the neighborhood philosophy is returning to the suburbs due to the energy crisis and they predict that Cliff, Cedar, and Pilot Knob will be major thoroughfares through Eagan, enhancing their site selection. He also noted that the population of that area could double in the next 10 years and that there are ap- proximately 1,000 new homes go- ing up in the area now. Floyd Forsberg of Woodgate asked if the company was asking for approval of "just this eight acres or the entire 30-acre development?" Forsberg said that at the planning commission meeting, the plan also showed a 10-story office building and a ma- jor hotel. The architect noted that the plans had been altered since the conceptual designs of 1972 and those concepts had been altered since "we don't see that kind of density for the area now. The zoo hasn't exactly produced up to ex- pectations either." Win Scott of Woodgate noted that two weeks ago at the APC meeting, the plan did include a 10-story office building, hotel, and parking. According to Scott, "Woodgate opposes the shopping center because "there already are six shopping centers within a five - mile radius of the area; three more are zoned within a three mile area; Apple Valley also has several planned just south of the area; and local businesses already in existence are concern- ed about saturation." He suggested that re -zoning of that area is in order because "concentrations do not warrant a shopping center of that magnitude in the foreseeable future." He also noted that several residents in that area were not officially notified nor was the homeowners association notified. Council member Mark Parran- to asked city attorney Paul Hauge if the city could re -zone the area and if the city had a PD 0 contract with the developer. Hauge said he believed the city did have a contract but the city could re -zone. "And break the contract?" asked Parranto. Olga Zender said she felt the major concern was that she and the home owners were not notified which is a legal problem. Barbara Barker, who lives directly across the street from the proposed development on Thomas Lake Rd., said that she too was not notifid of any of the hearings. She also noted that if Watschke wanted community support for such a development, he certainly didn't have it. Mary Pat Simmons said that, in her opinion, "the big growth you're predicting won't come due to the high mortgage rates. Peo- ple aren't going to buy houses out here now. They can't afford one in the area if they don't already have it." Sonja Tolefson said that she has been a 20-year resident of the area "and it hasn't developed as rapidly as projected. Your shopp- ing center is in a bad location, you have no community support, and you're setting yourself up for failure." Council member Jim Smith said that the Woodgate and sur- rounding residents had "some valid economical points, but that's not the council's job. I tend to agree with you but we can't use that for determining if this plat is approved or not. They have a con- tract." He then moved to con - (See Woodgate, Page 15A) hearings on the Lac Lavon Park question. Some may argue that such hearings are not necessary, but there is much precedent for such hearings. Previously the Planning Commission has con- sidered and held hearings on: the location of and/or capital expen- sirn . all. the District 197 school board. The election is May 20. Steven Tourek, 2584 Delaware Ave., Sun- fish Lake, is the only office seeker as of Tuesday morning. The three year terms of Charles McDuff and C. Harry Forse Jr., are expiring. Filings close April 29. Pan-O-Prog Is July 6-13 LAKEVILLE -- Pan-O-Prog days will be July 6-13 this year. Non-profit organizations are in- vited to set up concession stands in downtown Lakeville for any part of the celebration. Organizations or individuals other than non-profit are also in- vited, but will be charged $30. To reserve an area, an organization or individual must submit an ap- plication with payment. Place- ment of booths will go according to the order in which applications are received. For more information, call Dr. Jack Harrison at 469-3132. Eagan Planners Agenda EAGAN -- The Advisory Plann- ing Commission will meet Tues- day, April 22 at 7 p.m. at city hall. The tentative agenda of the meeting is as follows: I. 7 p.m. - Roll call and pledge of allegiance. I.UIIIIIIUI11Ly Brochure Planned FARMINGTON--The city coun- cil approved, at the April 7 meeting, the spending of $500 to produce a community brochure. The Chamber of Commerce and local businesses are also funding the project. In other action, the council ap- proved the purchase of a $300 pool -cleaning attachment, and $3435.83 worth of traffic signs. Ordinances regulating city boards and commissions were codified, making them uniform in content and style. The council ap- proved this action. Dist. 797 To Honor Volunteers BURNSVILLE-- Volunteers are being recognized in District 191 the week of April 20 to 26 due to a proclamation of Gov. Al Quie. Several hundred people volunteer in district programs such as Bucket Brigade, Om- nibus, Junior Great Books, Pic- ture People, and curriculum council, the Community Service Advisory Council, along with home room parents, media center volunteers, helping hand programs, CCC's PTC's and various other comittees. "We are deeply grateful to them for their contributions," said Superintendent Robert Tschirki in a press release. Volunteer are honored during recognition teas held in various schools each spring. Subscription Offered For Best 'Tip' A free subscription to the Tribune is being offered each month for the best tip on a story appearing that month. Tips may be given to any staff member at any of the Tribune offices. Names of tip- pers will be held confidential if desired. TRIBUNE HAS 5 OFFICES This is a reminder thot the Tribune has five offices serving the public. Hours ore 8:30 a.m. through 5 p.m. The offices and their locations and days open are: APPLE VALLEY - 15010 Glazier Ave., Valley 42 Building. Vicki Fung, representative. Open Monday through Friday. Tel. 432-4646. BURNSVILLE - Warrior Building, 201 Travelers Trail, Phil Berg, representative. Open Monday through Friday. Tel. 890-2530. FARMINGTON - Main plant, 420 Third Street, downtown Farmington, Linda Hanson, representative. Main office open Monday through Friday. Tel. 463-7884. LAKEVILLE - Gephart Mall, Tom Fischer, representative. Open Mon- days, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Tel. 469-2000. ROSEMOUNT - Office in Ken Rose Shopping Center, Helyn Duff, repre- sentative. Open Monday through Fri- day. Tel. 423-2636. For news stories, subscriptions and ads in ... EAGAN - Call Elisabeth Kennealy, 454-5720 or 454-4047. W6ODGATE •... (Continued 'froni Front Page) tinue the plat for.30 days to check into the notice problem and to ' check the PD agreement. The motion passed unanimously. • In the discussion which follow= ed, Tom Kniefel reminded the council that the residents were asking .,"not only for a scaling down of ' the center, but re- zoning." MayorrBea Blomquist said that "the zoning exists and it's very difficult to deal, with' that, but. we will'research-the.problemstto find - out what we can Council member Tom Egan.. said that "what . we're' talking about here is"a planned develop- ment contract. The developer can. enforce the terms of the contract: The city is committed to the•zon- ing'and the 'contract. Several .Woodgate residents commented that the "fight has justbegun." MYLANTA TABLETS NTA BOTT: or 1 1 9 =tom.. AYOLA MILD CHEDDAR • WESTERN DRESSil SALAD DRESSING FANCY SALMON FREESTONE F'EACI1 TT- PFARS Anther mall: Big draw or Analysts question whether General Growth plan will meet demand or exceed it By ANN MERRILL Fledgling plans for a regional shopping center in Eagan have split retail consult- ants over whether another local mall would pull in new spenders from southern Minnesota or simply drain nearby stores. General Growth Development Inc., a Des Moines, Iowa -based developer of re- -gional shopping centers, is planning to build a mall in Eagan and has purchased options to buy about 50 percent of the land needed for a regional mall, said Jon Bate - sole, company president. Observers esti- mate that would be 60 to 100 acres. If built, the center's location at.U.S. In- terstate 494 and Dodd Road would be less than five miles away from the square -foot Mall Mall of America in Blooming- ton, scheduled to open in 1992, and simi- larly close to Burnsville Center shopping mall. Batesole said the mall is in the early plan- ning stage. "We just don't have any details yet," he said. The center's location in the growing southern end of the metropolitan area would make it attractive to tenants, he said. ,,- St st;,w? Ea : n city officials said several 1 nd- owners control property in the area, which is divided into more than 30 parcels. Gen- eral Growth has not begun any prelimi- nary plat work with the city. Although Dayton Hudson Corp. offi- cials have not made an announcement re- garding the proposed mall, some analysts already are saying that, the retailer's deci- sionabout going into the center could make or break the project. Dayton's has announced it will not be a tenant in the Mall of America. , - "It would be Dayton's counteraction to the Mall of America," said Jeff Nammach- er, a retail specialist in the Bloomington of - (continued on page 21) • SKAMPtrak II for Law Firms — Jul:18, 9-Noon; Jul. 18, 1-4pm the QIVIN ser — Jul. 19, 9-1lam ' i OS/2® and LAN Server Super Demo July 9, 1-4pm; July 10, 11 & 12, 9-Noon or 1-4pm;, July 13, 9-Noon At the IBM Twin Cities Customer Center 100 Washington Square, 6th Floor, Minneapolis • For reservations call (612)341-6444 UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T. EASEL is a registered trademark of Interactive Images, Inc. If you don't find a seminar for your specific needs in the list above, just let us know what kind of solution you're interested in. Write to: The IBM Customer Center, 100 Washington Square, Minneapolis, MN 55401. Solution Desired: Name: Phone: • Company: Title: Address: LIBM is a registered trademark of International Business Maritimes Corporation. ®1990 IBM Corp. =® CBJ7/9/90 sp p LE MALL (continued from page 1) fice of Coldwell Banker Commercial Real Estate Inc. "Whether it is viable is way too early to tell." Dayton's will unveil its new four -level store at Southdale in Edina next month and plans to open its new Rosedale store in fall 1991. It also has begun work on an ex- panded Burnsville store. The physical changes are seen as an at- tempt to shore up sales in the face of Mall of America competition. Ann Barkelew, vice president of corporate public relations for Dayton Hudson, said she could not com- ment on speculation about the Eagan site. Retail consultant Richard Guidera, president of the Guidera Group in Minne- apolis, said that locating a store in Eagan could make sense for the retailer. "It would be a move to outflank the mega -mall. This is hardball; this is competition." Guidera said typical mall tenants such as The Limited and other national apparel retailers would be prime candidates for the center. "That's one of the best sites in the entire market," he said of the Eagan loca- tion. Not only is it in the midst of gro suburbs, but it also has a direct freeway link to Rochester and southern Minne,ota. Norman Brody, president of The Shop- ping Center Group of Minneapolis, said the Eagan plans come as no surprise, given industry talk about regional centers in out- er -ring suburbs. Brody agrees with Guidera that Eagan is a good location, es- pecially when considering all the shoppers in St. Paul and its suburbs, but he said he has concerns about an overabundance of retailers. "Competition is fierce. Would they re- ally be serving a separate market or simply taking away from Burnsville and the Mall of America?" he asked. The keys will be anchor tenants and availability of financing, Brody said. "If you can get financing for it, a developer will build it. Whether it is needed is the $64,000 question." Nammacher said General Growth, the nation's fourth -largest developer of retail properties, probably has pockets deep enough to build the center, but he ques- tioned the wisdom of such a move. "I frankly don't see it. I'm not sure the trade area is there to support it," Namma- cher said, citing nearby retail centers along U.S. Interstate 35E and Cliff and Yankee Doodle roads. If plans for the Eagan mall are scrapped, General Growth could walk away from its options to buy land unscathed, Namma- cher said. Local developers, and those throughout the United States, are finding it tougher these days to secure financing from lenders than in recent years. Shopping -center starts dropped 25 percent nationally dur- ing first-quarter 1990 compared with the same time last year, according to the Inter- national Council of Shopping Centers in New York. According to the Metropolitan Council, 13 new local shopping centers of at least 10,000 square feet were built in 1989, the lowest number since 1985. At the end of the year, the metropolitan area had about 200 centers of at least 10,000 square feet. There are eight regional malls in the met- ropolitan area; they are defined as being 700,000 square feet or larger in size. General Growth Development, a sub- sidiary of General Growth Cos., got its start in 1954, when grocers Martin and Matthew Buck.sbaum decided to build their own shopping center, which opened in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1956. The brothers have developed about 50 malls in the United States and Puerto Rico. General Growth Development's sister company, General Growth Center Cos. Inc., manages malls, including Rosedale, Southdale, Brookdale and Knollwood Mall. It plans to open its new Twin Cities headquarters in St. Louis Park next month, employing about 175 workers. ❑ MOVE fairs at the University of Illinois. Wright for- r�l-•--•, ,. ^•-1.*•iv.ic4ratnr anrt nffinn manaonr fnr facilities. Smit previously worked as a senior consultant for Ackerman & Palumho Inc. a.Mi- ami-based security consulting firm, advising Fortune 500 companies on international secu- rity matters. GOVERNMENT Robert Lee and Andrew Clark have been ap- pointed members of the newly created Advisory Task Force to the Minnesota Transportation Regulation Board. Lee is the managing partner and Clark is a partner in the Regulated Indus- tries Section of Mackall, Crounse & Moore. GRAPHICS JoAnne Nelson Typographers has announced the addition of Gary Hilbert in the new position of type director. Hilbert most recently was cre- ative director at the Arnold Design Group and creative supervisor and senior art director at Campbell-Mithun-Esty. HEALTH CARE airview Ridges Hospital has announced that Dr. John Erickson, a specialist in internal medi- cine, has been named chief of the 590-member medical staff. Erickson will hold his position un- ilJune 1991. Dr. Mchael Belzer has been named medical di- ector of Hennepin ountr Medical Center. Belzer 'as been a mem- ber of the HCMC hema- ology and medical on - logy staff since 1980 and was named associ- e medical director for cademic Affairs last ear. OSPITALITY adisson Hotels Inter- ational has announced he promotion of Dar- in Klockers to vice resident of develop- ment for the southeast region of the United States. Klockers has been with Carlson Cos., he parent company of radisson Hotels, since 187. Most recently, he -ved the Radisson division of the company as .!e president of development by coordinating ministrative activities. Belzer Klockers INSURANCE The American Hardware Insurance Group an- nounced the election of Robert Odegard as chairman of the board of directors. Odegard has served as an American Hardware director since 1963. He is senior vice president of the Univer- sity of Minnesota Foundation and special assis- tant to the president of the university. He has been employed at the university since 1970. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota has re- elected Brian Vergin to his third term as chair- man of the board of trustees. Vergin, senior vice president of Blandin Paper Co., Grand Rapids, has been a public trustee on the board represent- ing Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota's subscribers since 1982. Other metro -area offi- cers and executive committee members are: vice chairman, public — Gary Stern, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis; vice chairman, medical — Dr. Frank Johnson; sec- retary -treasurer — Roland Olson, retired. Two hospital trustees and six public trustees also were elected to serve as members of the board of trust- ees. The hospital corporate members re-elected Terry Finzen, president of Methodist Hospital. Finzen has been a hospital trustee since 1989. Roger Metz, administrator of Community Me- morial Hospital, Winona, was newly elected as a hospital trustee. The public corporate mem- , Minnesota 55024 URSDAY MORNING, .NOVEMBER 13,1980 f=A• e & Hoe y 'Feb. Attgrne ',s at Law'- • 390 ti, i;i eP Ya,iwy, '1 MAIN OFFICE FARMINGTON ___•463-7884 APPLE VALLEY OFFICE 432-4646 LAKEVILLE OFFICE 469-2000 ROSEMOUNT OFFICE 423-2636 'BURNSVILLE .OFFICE • 890-2530 INVER GROVE HEIGHTS OFFICE _457-3816 ' 147240. • NUMBER THIRTY-SEVEN Eagan approves Safari shopping center By JUDY STRACHAN Staff Writer 'EAGAN -- The city . council again considered -the preliminary plat approval for •the Safari, at Eagan shopping 'center at their meeting Wednesday, Nov. 5, and approved the preliminary plat. The council had first heard the preliminary plat proposal at the March 25 meeting, but residents of • the surrounding area, in- chiding the '•Woodgate Home- owners Association, voiced several objections to the plan at that meeting. The residents then contested the validity of the plan- ned unit development zoning of that area in court. Sept. 29, the district court ruled that the city should consider the application by Fortune Realty. The city attorney, Paul ,Hauge, interpreted the . order•\ to mean that the judge said that commer- cial zoning under the Blackhawk Park PUD exists on the 30 acre' parcel and should be considered. The developers of the area told the • council that the shopping center under consideration at this. time wouldconsist of an enclosed 'mall constructed of brick. The building would be. an .• 83,000 square foot one story building with landscaping all the way ,around ;the area. The :developer said that they intend to build a burm and trees that would con- trol visibility into the area.' Barbara Barker of •1:552 Cliff 'Rd., said that she did not want to be labeled•as an "obstructionist,"• and that she understood that development was going to take `place, but wished • that the development' would be -dwellings that would increase ',property values, or a recreational area.or, pool. ,"We already have egress problems from our property,':!' said. 'Barker. "The shopping center would only make things worse. I have a rather unique home across the road from this . center and I hope the council will consider denying the plat for lack of a buffer to the east," she told the council.• The' developer replied that "I, can sympathize with you, but we had this PUD before the first flag in Woodgate was 'put up. You should have checked the zoning before you bought the property• like all good businesses do. We do plan burm screening along Thomas Lake Rd.," he added. "It will be a three to four foot earthen WPM with landscaping of trees' 'and' shrubs on, all borders of the center." Win Scott of. 'the Woodgate Homeowners Association then read a prepared statement to the council voicing the objections the residents of Woodgate have con cerning• the shopping ' center. Scott said 'that he represented a. group of approximately 300 con- cerned citizens and voters who oppose the center. - . Scott again. mentioned that "there 'is no • need for an addi tional shopping center, as this' would be the seventh shopping center within a five mile radius of the proposed Safari at Eagan:" He. also • listed problems •that would he inherent in such to center, such aS "pollution, litter, ' noise, congestion, increased auto and heavy truck traffic, plus. the juvenile' problem' that is sure to follow." . Scott said that "the whole • Thomas Lake Addition, Woodgate, Brittany Estates, Beacon Hill, Ridgecliff, and Clearview area would be severe- ly affected, by your ;approval of this, proposal." He also proposed "a 20 foot high solid wood fence or earthen barricade. to , ensure privacy." Council'member. Jim Smith Moved, to approve the plan,',re- quiring a detailed plan on buffer- ing on all sides before the final plat would be considered.: Smith noted to the residents 'that "we can't -deny the plat on economic ,reasons. They've met the zoning and other planning concerns and. we can't deny, the plat." ' Council member 'Tom Egan concurred; saying that, "the 'city government is not in the business of determining whether a project is economically feasible. That is left up to free enterprise." Smith added that if the council were to deny the plat because the council didn't think they could make it go, economically, the developer would win the case in court.' . • The 'council' approved' the preliminary plat by a 5-0 vote. ELECTION IS TUESDAY, NOV. 18 - .District 194 to vote on $3.58 million bond issue By TIM DORNFELD • Staff Writer LAKEVILLE City 'voters turned down one building project this fall,' but now School District 194 residents will have to decide on a different project. • Tuesday, Nov. 18 is the day that will dictate whether 'the district will have adequate space for its elementary students. "If we don't ' have the facility.by the fall of '82, we're going to have some pro- blems," Superintendent Don McGuire said. • • A week before the bond elec- tion, McGuire was "hopeful" and "cautiously optimistic" about the chances of the school bond pass- ing. Part of that optimism' stems from 43 meetings • with neighborhood • people and organizations thatschool ad- ministrators and board members have had in the past month or so. McGuire estimated that they've reached about 650 people with These meetings. 41__d be located at 175th St. and Ipava Ave. The location is just north and east of Dakota Heights. THE BUILDING. There are 18 classrooms, two kindergarten rooms and an extra classroom • planned for the elementary • school. A sunken gymnasium will allow the lunchroom to be used as a stage. The classrooms will have four demountable walls. They can be changed over a summer to meet any changing needs, such as , smaller 'classes or different numbers' in different ,grade level's. �' COST. The bond election is for $3.58 million. TAXES. There. would be a 4.6 mill tax increase if 'the bond passes. • •.In practical .terms, •a homeowner with an income of $20,000 and a -house 'with an assessed value of . $60,000 would face a '$28 increase in property taxes; a $30,000 income and $80,000 house, an $82.increase; a tit Mn innnn,a and ein Ann i,.....-.- .. - ,.-.— ...-:.�.. w•t-.ice-+++ ^-s ..r �+.. r .... ' ... PAGE 2A Dakota County Tribune, Inc. 4203rd St. • Farmington, Minnesota 147240 . 55024 Co -Publishers Joseph R. Clay — Daniel H. Clay Janet Greenslit, Managing Editor John Swennes, Advertising Manager Entered as second class matter at the post office'at Farmington, Minnesota. Second class postage paid at Farmington, Minnesota. Issued weekly from offices in Farm- ington, Lakeville, Rosemount. Apple Valley and Burnsville. SUBSCRIPTION RATES • • )Payable in Advance) Inside Minnesota • Outside Minnesota .6 Months • $ 8.50 6 Months • $. 9.50 9 Months `-' $10.00 .9 Months $l 1.00 12 Months $12.00 12 Months $13.00 Servicemen Anywhere _ $12.00 one year Main Office and Plant at Farmington - 4637884, Branch Offices Burnsville • Apple Valley Rosemount 890-2530 432-4646 423-2636 Lakeville , 469-2000 . Signed letters to the\editor orewelcomed and will be printed os space permits. We reserve.the/ right to edit'letters and request that they be kept short. Vote for new school- To the editor: On Nov. 18 we will be deciding whether to build a new elemen- tary school in Lakeville. We have heard and read the usual arguments against such a pro- posal since the bond issue was in- itiated. It is not easy to vote yes when it 'costs each of us more money. However, can we afford to vote no? Each day we postpone the construction of a needed school, it costs us thousands of 'dollars because of inflation. Our school district, unlike Boomington, Burnsville or Apple Valley, is a long narrow' district rather than a short, wide "outer Political Pulse We can do it November 7,1980 To the editor: Friends: Thank you all very much for your vote of confidence. rings" as they are. Therefore our growth is more gradual and steady -rather than rapid and short-lived. Because of this varia- tion in shape from most south suburban districts, we can . ex- pect increased enrollment for many more years as the Twin Cities• population' spreads' southward. The school board has worked closely with the ar- chitects to plan a facility which can be converted to non -school purposes should the day arrive when we no longer need it for educating our children. We must work , now to remove children - from the administrative office building. By 1982 we'll have no,. choice since the fire and safety laws will prohibit their presence there. - . • , Vote yes`, on. Nov, 18. It'll be• cheaper in the long run. SANDRA LUEDTKE , 19115 Orchard Tr. Lakeville DAKO'1'A COUNTY'T Two honored by BRAVO JON A: .McSweeney, data processing technician se- • condclass, was honored Friday,' Oct. 31, for his re- cent selection as "Sailor of the Year." He is 'stationed at 'the' Navy Astronautics Group, Detachment Bravo. McSweeney, a native of Osage, IA, reported to the detachment in Aug., 1978. He resides with his wife, Nancy. and daughter, Michelle in Rosemount. Christmas Seal Family letter - coming soon A special Christmas Seal letter will be arriving in the homes of Dakota Countyresidents in early November, according to an an- nouncement by Mildred, Deanovic, president of the Min- nesota Lung Association. ' , This special letter addressed to VA education benefits to expire ROSEMOUNT.-- Certain wives whose husbands are listed as MIAs or were POWs for 90 days or more will lose eligibility for Veterans' Administrative educa- tion benefits if they don't act by Dec. 24, according to'Jim Nash, service officer of American Legion,Post 65. Eligibility for the VA Sur- vivors' and- Dependents' Educa-. Lion program expires 10 years - from the date listing was made. The program, which is also open to children, provides tuition assistance for the spouses and children of veterans who died or suffered total and permanent disability resulting from: their military service. For information on how to app- ly, what type of training qualifies for benefits and eligibility infor- mation on this and other VA pro- grams, contact the nearest VA of- fice. Toll -free numbers are listed in the white pages ,.of the telephone book under "U.S. Government." • . Christie named maintenance • .�..,.,;r,,ocar ?a, ROSEMOUNT — Carlton G. - Blomgren, public works of- ficer ; ,for- Detachment BRAVO, was recently sel- ected "Civilian Employee of the Year." , He was honored at an award ceremony Friday, Oct. 31. Blomgren. `has been , with the detachment since 1965 and is responsible for the maintenance ' of vehicles, buildings and grounds He resides with his;wife Sarah and daughter Nancy; in Rosemount. , Library .meeting :set '' The, Dakota ,County Library Board willhold its regular mon- thly meeting on Thursday, Nov. 20, in the meeting room of .the Hastings Library, 830 Vermillion St. The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. and is open 'to the public.: New •By LEA.GUENTHER •Staff Writer . INVER GROVE 'HEIGHTS In a seven -sided brick 'church atop a,hill, 33 students are.atten- ding the, area's newest Christian day school, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran School. Classes' began there Sept. 8 for: kindergarten through seventh grade students: Thomas -Krueger is the prin- cipal and teaches the' 1:3 students in grades four through seven. Karen Plamann instructs the 20 students through third grade,•in- cluding five.kindergarteners who •attend half days. • Most of the children had been 6A Opinion Readers Write ci t-e"<« Neighbors oppose center To the editor: As residents in an area near the proposed Cub/Target Center we believe the article that ap- peared in the Aug. 19 edition of the Eagan Chronicle was too upbeat and enthusiastic and did not express any of our neighborhood concerns. For example, no mention was made of the elementary school, its park and playground, which are directly across from the pro- posed Super Valu/Cub site. What impact will the semi -trucks and the noise and pollution from the traffic have on the safety and well-being of the children that attend Rahn School or for that matter, the nearby residents. Equally avoided was the fact that the proposed plan shows that the main access to the center would be Rahn Road, and that there would be no entrance from Cliff Road. The heavy traf- fic flow generated by the propos- ed center will soon make Blackhawk and Rahn incapable of handling it. The likelihood of enlarging Rahn Road and exten- ding Beaver Dam Road in the near future seems inevitable. This site cannot be developed as illustrated in the paper without making changes to the Eagan Hills West Planned Development Agreement. Any changes must be in the best in- terst of the health, safety or welfare of the residents of Eagan. We believe the changes that would be necessary to com- plete this development would not be worth the negative impact it would have on our neighborhoods. Tom and Kathy Hamilton Deborah and Donald Ingle Alan and Tari Stordahl 5A 272)/77 Ellao11 says �'�stNEy-S(ft N6 ce lL--6er Council may .reverse decision by S. Maus- Bettenga Vic Ellison believes too many environmental questions remain • unanswered on the. Cliff Lake' Centre project. He put developers on notice Thursday that action by the cur- rent council could be overturned when the new counciltakes of- fice Jan. 1. -".Any action taken -in-the meantime is' done at the developer's own risk," he said after voting in favor of requiring an Environmental Impact State- ment (EIS) on the site. Bea Blomquist, chairing her final meeting as mayor, and councilmembers 'James Smith and Tom Egan voted against re- quiring,anr EIS.. They believed the Environmental Assessment Worksheet (EAW) already com- pleted sufficiently answered en vironmental questions raised by residents and state agencies. Ellison disagreed. "There are Still questions on air. and water quality as well as transportation issues, •he said Monday. "I have full confidence the new council ;will see things different ly," he said. City Attorney Paul Hauge said • he was . unsure what means Ellison would use to overturn Thursday's decision. • • • "There are • ways it can be done through Roberts Rules of Order (the parliamentary pro- cedures that' serve as guidelines for running thecouncil meetings) and city ordinances," Ellison said. "I have thoroughly investigated them," he said. • Blomquist and Smith will be replaced on the council by Ellison and David Gustafson, currently a member of -the Ad- visory. Planning Commission. Ellison's move from coun- cilmember. .to mayor leaves open a two-year seat on the council. . Eleven residents have applied ,ELUSON: To Page 3 "We have this commerce ease ana either It s growing or 1C s shrinking.., Individual business people cannot wrestle with the major issues. That requires the larger organization. Treatment plant has contract Brushing aside a technicality Thursday night, the Apple Valley City Council awarded the contract for construction of a water treatment plant to Lovering Associates Inc., of Minneapolis, whose low bid was $4.33 million. Lovering's bid was lowest of five. Public Works Director John Gretz said he looked forward to a ground -breaking ceremony by mid -January. "It'll take about two weeks to acquire a performance bond," he said, then the ground- breaking. Construction, he said, would begin either before or after the peak water -use months of summer. The 12-million-gallon-capacity water treatment plant will be built on 140th Street between Galaxie Avenue and Johnny Cake Ridge Road. Barking dog ban extended Responding to demands by a growing number of shift workers, Apple Valley City Council amended an ordinance Thursday that expanded its ban on barking dogs to daylight hours. mile the ritv's existine ordi Tax -increment financing has evoked a city vs. county quarrel. Cities like the financing plan because it helps entice develop- ment within their boundaries. Counties don't because it costs them money. Tax -increment financing per- mits cities to sell bonds to im- prove property, thereby making it more desirable for develop- ment. When the property is developed and generates higher taxes, the added revenue is used to pay the bonds. Cities, counties and school districts must wait, sometimes for many years, before they receive increased taxes from the improved proper- ty. In the meantime, the county often has to make improvements to county roads because of in- creased traffic caused by the development. Its expenses for social and human services can increase too. . v • flIs� From Page 1 for the seat. Interviews for his replacement will begin Jan. 7, Ellison said. The four members of the. council, Ted Wachter; Egan, Ellison and Gustafson; will selecta new member' before • the second meeting in January. Representatives of the Bieter Company, whoseproposal for a 735,000 square -foot, shopping, • center at Diffley and Interstate 35E was defeated in February, have said they want to reopen talks with the new council- in January. "If .the Diffley Center • was reconsidered and passed," .. Ellison said, "users of the' Hoff- man property would probably go up to the Diffley site." "I supported Diffley Center a ' year ago. I think it makes a lot of sense, it doesn't impact nearly... as many people," he said. - No Meetings have been scheduled between the city and Bieter Co. - Open house for Smith, Blomquist set An open house honoring outgo- ing Mayor Bea Blomquist and outgoing Councilmember Jim Smith is planned for 5:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Yankee Square. Inn, Yankee Doodle Road and Interstate 35E: Blomquist and Smith, combin- ed; have served Eagan for. 29 years. Blomquist served on the Advisory Planning Commission from 1974 to 1979 and as mayor from 1980 to 1987. Smith served as a charter member of the, City Council from 1973-to.1987. A brief program is planned at 6:15. Anyone wishing to con- tribute a gift may contact Betty . Egan,.452-3957. -, as; Ine ' reportsaid. The health curriculum on'tl e'-,„ elementary level' also needs to be revised to add -.new -material, - Rudolph In other business; the boars'': • Agreed to replace the . re- mainder of the roof at Sioux Trail Elementary. School. Workers are replacing , part of the .roof now, and it has .been recommended that the rest of the roof be replaced to avoid fur- ther damage. - ..• Discussed whether .to issue .variable rate or fixed rate bonds to finance the elementary school to be built. in Savage. -The board agreed -it wishes to see fixed rate . bonds issued. courses locally Metcalf Junior High School. _ Registration will be at the first =class meeting. Call 425-7363 for more information. Classes begin meeting the week of Jan. 4. compete' in contest ' the students' scores based on speed and accuracy. This is the second time the schools have entered the Knowledge Master competition. Academic sponsors Tom Born of Metcalf and Kathy Born of Nicollet described the event as "a challenge that the kids en- joyed and met.". Both schools placed within the top 12 junior high schools in the state. nal convention collaborative bargaining pro- , cess in' Park County -District I in Wyoming, where she served as chief negotiator for four years. She presented a program on the collaborative negotiating pro- cess at a previous AASA na- tional convention, as well. Board delays move decision p.7A THISWEEK NEWSPAPERS Volume 7, No. 46 Jan. 12, 1987 Four Sections Section A THREE SECTIONS News • Sports • General Section Real Estate Section 72 pages Classified Section 1986 — year of local champs p.32A EAGAN (9 Community Newspaper Your Official oath NEWLY ELECTED Dakota County officials were sworn in during the county board's reorgani- zational meeting Jan. 6 by Chief Judge Robert Breunig, left. Those tak- ing oath from left are: Recorder James Dolan; Board Chair Steve Loeding; Commissioner Donald Maher; Sheriff Rod Boyd; Auditor Nor- ma Marsh; Treasurer Tom Novak; and County Attorney Robert Carolan. Photo by Mac McGoon Cities fired up about joint training facility By CHRISTY CLAPP The cities of Apple Valley, Burnsville, Eagan and Lakeville are teaming up to better train their firefighters. The communi- ties are planning to jointly con- struct a fire training facility in Burnsville to be used by all four cities. Apple Valley, Lakeville and, more recently, Eagan, have sign- ed a joint powers agreement for the training facility. The Burns- ville Council has the item on its Jan. 20 meeting agenda. Apple Valley, Eagan and Lake- ville will each pay Burnsville $30,000 for use of the $120,000 facility. It will be built on proper- ty owned by the city of Burnsville and the city will pay grading, sewer, water and other such costs. Burnsville will then be sole owner of the facility, and will also be responsible for operating costs of heat, utilities, cleaning and maintenance. The $30,000 user fee (to be paid in two install- ments) guarantees the other three communities equal access to the facility. Burnsville may rent out the buildings to another party if not reserved by any member cities, and Burnsville will keep the rent, according to the joint powers agreement. The training buildings will be located in River Ridge addition at Cliff and River Ridge roads in Burnsville. The city owns about 50 acres in that area. Neighbor- ing buildings would be the water treatment facility and the Dist- rict 191 Administrative Services Center, according to Burnsville Fire Chief Brian Holzer. The training facility would con- sist of two buildings: a burn building and a training tower. The burn building would be about 12,000 square feet and made of heat -resistant concrete. The departments would actually set the building on fire in order to practice different means of ex- tinguishing. The inner walls would be mobile in order to make mazes for the firefighters to work through. There would be a sprink- ler system and internal drains so the men and women could use water hoses even in winter months, Holzer said. The training tower would be four stories high with approx- imately 400 square feet per floor. No burning will take place in that building, but it will have draining facilities for hose practice. The tower will help to train firefight- ers in working with multistory buildings. Subjects of training will include aerial apparatus, ladder use and access into above - grade windows. The firefighters will also get stairway practice, Holzer said. The city of Burnsville has been working with Windsor Faricy Ar- chitects Inc. since the project's inception late last summer. The firm has planned fire stations and training facilities for other com- munities and will be working with Burnsville in city hall plans and with construction and remodeling of fire stations, the chief said. In researching fire training facilities, Holzer visited several in and out of state. He said the one being planned by the four communities is rather "modest" compared to some of the facilities he saw. "As needs and experiences grow, there may be some deci- sions to expand as necessary. But right now (the facility) serves our basic needs," he said. Area fire departments have been discussing the need for such a facility for many years. He said the city of Burnsville investi- gated building their own facility over a four-year period. But when other communities showed in- terest, the city realized they could have the facility sooner and would get better utilization from other cities, he said. "The relationship between the departments is excellent. We're all involved in a mutual aid agreement also." All four cities' chiefs will form a chiefs' board to oversee the operation and scheduling of the facility. The board will also be establishing rules for the use of the buildings. Holzer said the plan has receiv- ed very strong support from all communities, city councils and fire departments. "It's been very positive." The Eagan Council voted unanimously Jan. 6 to approve the facility and joint powers agreement with the city of Burns- ville. 4 /?�7 TOWN '6ENT134,E FAGAN TOV IT'S HAPPE A MASTER PLANNED DEVELOPMENT OF RETAIL, Eagan Town Centre 170 Acre Retail and Business Development ALLOCATION OF 170 ACRES Commercial Land Already Developed 36 acres Roads, Ponding Areas and Park 29 acres Commercial Land For Future Development 105 acres WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW? - At Eagan Town Centre, the se- cond stage of development is already underway. Zoned for commercial development in 1971, this 170 acre project was planned in 1981 and approved by the City in 1982. In 1985, construction began on Waterview Office Tower and 21/2 miles of roads and utilities to serve the entire development. Today, the development includes the Rainbow Foods Store, Walgreens, Burger King, Taco Bell and the Learning Tree Day Care Center — a total of 36 acres already developed and serving the community. Projected 12 story tower Construction to start 1987 M .+M,! ., -!' *woe Waterview Office Tower Occupied NEW THIS SPRING - In the spring of 1987, yet another group of new businesses will open their doors in Eagan Town Cen- tre. Foremost among these is the innovative new 450,000 square foot, 2 level, enclosed shopping mall, and the twelve story 145,000 square foot glass office tower. (See pages 4 & 5) In addition, this spring marks the opening of a variety of ser- vice businesses and restaurants. Arby's, Pizza Hut and Ken- tucky Fried Chicken will provide new alternatives for quick- JANUARY 12. 1987 THISWEEK VN CENTRE 1vING NOW! RECREATION, HOTEL, OFFICES AND RELATED SERVICES. Hauge, Eide & Keller Professional Bldg. Under Construction Car Care Center 4 acres *Gas *Car Wash *Jiffy Lube *Firestone *Midas *Auto Parts *Glass Repair *Car Cleaning *Transmission Shopping Center Phase II Space for three retail anchors such as Target Marshalls Kmart Pizza Hut Burger King Taco Bell Kentucky Chicken Arby's RAINBOW FOODS WALGREENS B. Elegant Barber Plus & Sun Plus Nails Benson Optical Big Top Wine & Spirits Celebration! Party & Paper Goods The Collection by Margery Fay Dougherty's Restaurant Eagan Floral H & R Block Hunan Gardens Pernella's stop lunching — and for a leisurely elegant lunch with clients or friends, the Hunan Gardens will be available to serve you. The Car Care Center, a new concept in automotive services, is under construction at Pilot Knob and Duckwood Drive: Firestone, Midas Muffler, Jiffy Lube, Auto Parts, Glass Repair, Car Cleaning, Transmission Service and Gasoline and more! Premier Cleaners and Launderers Prestige Travel The Shoe Box Son Rise Books & Gifts Starkman Hallmark T. Rose Country Gifts Town Centre Pets Video Hollywood Style & One Hour Photo Waldeland Jewelry ing, recreation, offices, hotel accommodations and related services. Following the existing Master Plan will insure this development will be built to the highest quality and standards available. Developed by Federcil land Company A RARE OPPORTUNITY - With the approval of this plan in 1982, the City of Eagan created the rare opportunity of a large. concentrated business area which would include retail - Yankee Square Office III • Suite 102 3470 Washington Drive • Eagan, Minnesota 55122 Office: 452-3303 THISWEEK JANUARY 12, 1987 3A AN EXCITING NEW SHOPPING MALL - The new two-story Shopping Mall at Eagan Town Centre offers a wide range of retailers in an atmosphere of delightful elegance. With 375,000 additional square feet of enclosed retail space, the shopping center will include major department stores as well as many small specialty outlets. Convenient escalators assure easy access to both floors. At the center of Eagan Town Centre mall, a skylit atrium fills the space with natural light and provides a focus for com- munity activity. Among generous interior landscaping, the Boy Scouts can set up demonstration booths or the High School Chorus can entertain shoppers with Christmas carols. The flexibility of this space is specifically designed to accom- modate the life of the community. Convenient access is readily available from all directions by way of Interstate 35E, Yankee Doodle Road, Pilot Knob Road and Lexington Avenue. Developed by Federal Land Company Yankee Square Office III • Suite 102 3470 Washington Drive • Eagan. Minnesota 55122 Office: 452-3303 AA JANUARY.j?, 1987 THISWEEK 441(;','"jailk, A NEW WORLD CLASS OFFICE BUILDING - Rising twelve stories, the new Eagan Town Centre Office Tower adds a distinctive profile to the skyline of Eagan. As part of the Town Centre development plan, this new tower establishes an ar- chitectural landmark that further indentifies the center of the community. With a skyway link to the Waterview Office Tower, the new building clearly defines the outlines of a unified business campus. Twelve stories high, with 145,000 square feet of office space, the glistening blue tower will be Dakota County's tallest building. The crystaline volumes of reflective glass become almost transparent in the landscape, mirroring luminous clouds as well as the pond below. Designed by the architectural firm of Walsh Bishop Associates, the tower offers a multitude of choices for poten- tial tenants. From small entrepreneurial businesses to large corporate enterprises, the office plans can accommodate your needs. In addition, office tenants enjoy the elegance of a skylit atrium lobby designed to reinforce an image of sophistication and professionalism. In the connecting skyway to Waterview Office Tower, a full service cafeteria overlooks the central pond and walking trails - a delightful reminder of the quality of life that exemplifies the best of Eagan. 4111M14 --1111111•111.110, THISWEEK JANUARY 12, 1987 .SA opinion • True restitution won't be repaid Where has all the respect gone? We don't respect traffic lights. We don't.respect history: We don't ,respect people's feelings. ' A lot of those statements were heard in the last two weeks after the vandalism of Dakota City.: • .Some people. said' the vandals.. destroyed a repre- sentation of their own heritage: In -other words, they don't respect. themselves: Today's.,youth, and yuppie population may refute all the accusations until they are as white as Janu- ary snow. • • • The elder mentor generation will say the young generation hasn't learned to -respect property and life because they haven't had to work for either one. They haven't had to help build the house they live•in or hoe the crops or milk the cows that feed their stomachs. Some people will argue that toddy's youth- has freely received everything with nothing expected in - return: No thank-yous, no returned favors. Others will say youth view. the world as "dis- posable." When youth are done with something they destroy it or throw it.'Money buys anything or fixes. anything. Some people responded to the vandalism with anger saying, "I hope they_ get caught and have to pay for everything." But money '•t can -buy` back. history: •Money can't buy back volunteer time. Money in restitution to history, time and.property. Muddysquash: • • :. Thevicious vandals were two 14-year-old boys who oughta be out fishing or teasing .girls if they were real boys made out of puppy dog tails. According to Dakota County Lt. Ralph Shingle - decker, the boys showed no remorse during their confession and had no particular gripe against the property owners or caretakers of the. property they damaged,"_. . letters As Farmington Police Chief Stan Whittingham said, "This is beyond boys will be•boys." The boys have been charged with four counts of u burglary .and four counts of aggravated criminal damage to property. On Monday, Jari. 5, the two boys appeared in -court. They should -have been in school- if they were real boys. Now .that we have' caught them; what happens? . Money from their parents•who are legally respons- ible for their children leaves a sour taste in -one's mouth. If the court system determines restitution will be paid by the parents, justice to the two boys is lost. Once again, they have learned . everything is "disposable." If true restitution could be done, the two boys would be required to mend the village and the church with their very hands and feet that destroyed • them. They should have to pick up the glass. They should have to 'work to replace the windows and repair the broken antiques. But the tension of honest restitution is too difficult for our court system to bind to. Perhaps it will have enough guts to require the boys to blister their hands on another project in the county without pay. Another idea is that the first $20,000 each boy earns -will go to pay for damages.. It's sad to think two kids could do almost $50,000 damage in four incidents. And it's hard to have faith and truly believe that time will change them into honest citizens before they are adults. For too often, time only changes the nature of the crime and . not the person.. The excuse that they were drinking is -inexcusable. Not to.mention unlawful at the age of 14. A little time behind the. hammer and putty knife would be more, beneficial -than time behind bars or penned up in a reform school.. DEANNE-KEENS Diffley Road resident against shopping area To, the editor: The subject of this letter is the' proposed shopping center on Diff- ley Road, which includes a Tar- get store and other large retail- ers. The elected officials of this city have a twofold obligation to the city of Eagan involving this deci- sion. Their first obligation is to the residents of the areas involv- ed. Their second is to look ahead and see what is in the best inter- est of the city as far as growth and percentage of .commercial land use (in) the city:It is notan easy task, but I have trust in them and logic will prevail. It is our obligation as residents - to voice our opinion to them and others so the correct decision is made. As a longtime resident ' of Eagan, I would like to take the opportunity to tell the residents - who signed the petition in favor of this shopping center what it could mean to them, both in noise and• in a financial aspect. I live on-Diffley Road and have for 26 years. In the summertime; I have. to shut my front "door in order to hear my television set because of the traffic noise. A''; shopping center of this size" will only increase the traffic problem, which also creates a hazard for . the young children living in the area: Town Centre is where,it. COLLEEN HIPPLER l k;,�'�, t 2*be' rke4 does,;n4; a. '6A `"JANUARY12, 1987 THISWEEK • ' : ti Sri.. • like that. location,.-Kmart surely will.• There are many other possibili- ties . that could happen if this shopping center is allowed to be built on this site. All of Diffley may have to. be upgraded again, -•notjust the proposed•area east of Interstate 35E. Sewer and water changes could also occur. This could mean loss of our service roads we fought so hard to keep and maybe even the homes on both -sides of Diffley. How many homes do you see near Burnsville. Center? Every one of us just paid $1,200 assessments for the exist-. ing.. improvements on Diffley Road. Can you •afford another assessment? Do you want the in- creased traffic on Diffley that this center would bring? If 'you answered 'no' to any of these - questions, then you agree 'that this location - is wrong and (development here) should be stopped. The way to do this, of course, is to call the Eagan plann- ing board, the mayor and the Eagan ' City Council and voice your opinion strongly. Also at- tend the next meeting at city hall regarding this issue .on Jan. 27 and voice your feelings. I. urge you to take the time'to do these things before it's too late! - Community is thanked by Armful coordinators To the editor: On behalf of the Community Action Council's Christmas car-. ing/sharing program, Armful -of Love, we would like to take this opportunity to thank the- thous- ands of residents of Dakota Coun- ty who again supported the pro- gram. • , While the final statistics are not totally tallied, we know you made it possible for more than 780 families, an increase .of 14 per- cent, to be assisted. The weather and another crew of super volun- teers made it possible that every single family had their gifts/food by 5 p.m. •Dec. 24. 'Whether you wrote a check brought in a turkey, sponsored a child or a whole family, donated food items or mittens -- or any of a hundred other nice things that . were done -- you are appreciated. Not only by we who coordinate this 100 percent volunteer pro- gram, but. by the nearly 3,000 recipients. - Also, where would we be with- out all the publicity given us over the years by this• newspaper? Thank you again and we wish you a happy new year. JANET SHICKELL JACKIE VEZZOLI :PAT BEATTY , Coordinators _. Basketball tourney a success To the editor: . The Burnsville High School boys' basketball staff would like to thank the many individuals . who donated their time to make the third annual Braves holiday basketball tournament recognized for their time and ef- fort. Without their support, -the tournament could not have run so . smoothly. BOB SWANHORST a success. JOHN GOGGIN Booster club and ' Lions Club MARK L'IND ` - members should hp -•specifically Coaches .�;1, .F Av,: yea *s` _capitol comment Economic recovery to continue By Bill Frenzel, Third District. • Congressman .Economic recovery, now begin- ning its fifth year, will continue through 1987. Growth in 1987 will continue at , the 1986 rate of about 2.5 percent. or•perhaps a bit more. Dreams of. 5 percent growth remain dreams. Agriculture, oil and basic indust- ries remain as huge gaps in re- covery. Unemployment will re- main around 7 percent. As usual, governmental ac- tions, or inactions, will eventual- ly determine what kind of a. year 1987 will be. Tax reform, already a small 'drag on the economy, will restrict growth, but will not, of itself, cause a downturn. Congress will again seek new revenues to com- bat deficits, but changes in indi- vidual and corporate rates are not expected. . Deficits are still the number: . one problem and the number -one economic risk. Economic fore- casters don't seem to compre- hend how 'badly Congress hood • - winked them on this year's (fiscal year 1987) budget. If there are economic woes in 1987, deficits will be the cause. Con- gress is doing better,, but it has not kicked the habit. ' Deficits are'oneof the causes of the trade deficit; ' too.' It is ex- pected to decrease this year, perhaps by as much as $30 billion, mostly because of _ last .year's changes in exchanges -rates. Pro- gress in the United States' pro- ductivity and ,competitiveness is still disappointing. Trade legislation is expected this year. If it is as protectionist as last year's failed attempts, it could damage all the world's economies, including ours, in future years. However, the con- tents of a' trade bill are by no • means certain at this time. Monetary policy will be man- aged as.in 1986. The 1987 problem is the expiration of the Federal Reservechairman's term. His re- appointment would be considered positive. In brief, 1987 looks from here to be a year much like '1986. We would like more vigor, but we are grateful for the continued, if modest, growth. •- EAGAN' • TFIISWEEK • PUBLISHERS Joseph R:Clay • •Daniel H. Clay • NEWS:EDITOR Christy Clapp • 'SPORTS EDITOR • Pete Temple ADVERTISING MANAGER ' John Swerines CLASSIFIED MANAGER Diane Henningsen . . OFFICE: 1525 E. Highway 13 _ P:o:' Box 1439 Burnsville, Minn.. 55337 894.1111- • royal a By Bruce Orwell ';,Staff Writer - Old=and new: city council mem- ';bgrs in Eagan are ringing in the New .-Year by -Waging ._a . war hi -f Which Roberts Rules of Order are die weapons and the success of a controversial . shopping center _* project is at stake. Last Wednesday three members „Of the councilgatheredfor a spe- f,.cial meeting. There were just two agenda items — approval of the minutes of a previous meeting and a report by Mayor Bea Blomquist Mx,�w ,;,,,:and James Smith on a convention 'they attended. In:, addition, they reconsidered "and again granted preliminary ap= *Oval:- for the' Cliff Lake Gaileria � x -shopping center. The city attorney is: researching whether- the -reconsi- deration precludes the new council that takes office tonight from again reconsidering, and possibly blocking, the controversial shop- ping center project. Council members Vic Ellison, the city's Mayor -elect,' and Ted i.Wachter had opposed the shopping ':center previously, and both- were ;;absent' from the special: meeting. So was city attorney Paul Hauge. But -the. political -atmosphere in -Eagan=-is--such these - days- that-a-- ..-Lcomppeting development firm, ;;which also hopes to land the Target discount store slated for the Cliff Lake complex, guessed correctly that the shopping center would come up and hired a court reporter ;to attend the meeting and prepare a transcript. City officials have been supplied with copies of the L transcript. -. The 266,000-square-foot Cliff Lake_ .Galleria:._proposed -.by- the. Hoffman Development; _Group. of Burnsville and Ryan Construction Co. has been one of . the most talked -about and controversial projects in the city's history. Smith says he asked the council whether . it wanted to -reconsider because "I just wanted to see if there were any second thoughts" on the controversial project. Ellison, - who has opposed the Hoffman group's project, said Smith, Blomquist and council member Tom Egan had something more devious in mind- a parlia- :::mentarymaneuver. that-would:pre-._ ventJEllison - from-' reconsidering - the project when the new city council takes office tonight. "Their secret meeting high jinks have not worked," said ' Ellison, who says that Roberts Rules give him a few options of his own: He will ask the new council to rescind the old- council's last act at to- ,., night's meeting. Hauge said he is! reviewing the parliamentary issues the back -and - forth battle has raised, and will try to sort them out for the council: At - the top of the list of questions is whether the old council could act on a non -agenda item at a special meeting. Partners in the Hoffman Devel- Please see Eagan/3B. Eagan Continued, froni..Pagv:1 B • .. opment. Group.. Pat, and • Greg say they under • stand that- the old uouncil's. actin WM' be interpretedas a politica end run aimed at protecting tin Cliff Lake Gaileria', :project.; . Bu Pat Hoffman said the action , wa: appropriate, especially since Elli• son has said many.itimes that hs wants to reconsider the:plan. :"If I.was.a council -member and heard that,:the new< council was going to start playing. -games with one . of : my .decisions, _then yes, l think. -it's appropriate," - Hoffman said. , - . "The residents, of. Eagan elected . the city council members and may- or for entire terms; and not just to give in when Vic Ellison is elected mayor and declares himself King of Eagan," added Mike Hoffman. Pat Hoffman said Ellison should have attended- the meeting if he was..so concerned about city. busi- ness. "It's too bad he couldn't make he.said. "Hewas at -a -clambake -or something;`i heard. - Ellison said he had a previous commitment.. A transcript of the . Wednesday meeting is available, thanks to the Bieter Co., an .Edina developer that has competed . hard with the Hoff - mans for the right to bring a Tar- get store to Eagan. "Because ofthe past behavior of council members Smith; Egan and Blomquist," said Ron Cornwell, a partner in Bieter-Co,="we were concerned that --they might -stray off the agenda.:And if they strayed off the, agenda, we thought some- one should be there to record it." At the special meeting, the coun- cil trio also approved an agree- ment between -the the Department of Natural Resources and the Hoff- man group dealing with environ- mental concerns that had been raised about the Cliff Lake Galler- ia. City=Adininfstrator Tom Hedges expressed surprise when the item came up because the agreement had not been reviewed by any city staff members, which is normal procedure. • By BRENDA GUDERIAN 'What constitutes• a limited Business and should it be located next to a residential area? •: Those'were :a couple of -ques- tions raised by. the Eagan City Council and members of an upset ,neighborhood Tuesday; Aug. 2- : when itherlroOosed Galaxie Cliff Plaza development was:discus- sed Themdevelopent' would lie south of Cliff Road,. east of I-35E and west of Galaxie Avenue on about 25acres. A large_residen= tial_area is just across G' •" e land is. zoned agricultural, but the .com- - prehensive guide plan designates it for limited business use. Resi- - dentssuggested the council reth- a laxie Avenue. Currently th� ink the comprehensive guide and. • zone the land for residential uses. Two owners of the land, Brad Swenson and William Soules, presented their plans . and indi- - cated some businesses that might • be included, such as an office • building, fast foodand sit-down - restaurants,. a :U.S. Swim: and.. Fitness and a convenience store. During three hours of.address- ,ing the council, area • residents • • • • tels i4 • in the real estate business." in the nancial interest means a 'council c southwest corner of the property,. member should, participate; he I he said he does not want hotels. _went•on, "You electofficials for •This:reference was•later called a ' - their interest in issues — not to P veiled threat' by a resident. win a popularity contest." c ruled the council acted arbitrar- : ily:'To zone against the compre- hensive guide -might mean th city .would haveto' compensat the owners, he said. • The -Value of the land currently is about $3 a foot, or $135,000 an acre; making those 25 acres a $3 and avoid the cost," he said. Council Member Ted Wachter e: : cautionedagainst rushing the e project, saying the effects of the Cub Food and Target stores on traffic will not be known for some time. -The stores are part of the Cliff take Centre project, a 3 major. shopping area being built million investment, city adminis on Cliff Road on the west side of . trator Tom Hedges said. .• Council Member :Torn Egan said a zoning other than the de signated onecould be made if it could be shown there was a mis- take_ in the. guide or if there is a change in the -circumstances. He referred to the history of the par- cel: 'When . the : comprehensive guide was written, the 35E corri- dor was. not designated. After the corridor was decided, it was the only parcel. designated commer- ial east of '35E and south of Cliff. think an argument can be sup- ported to .reconsider use of this roperty. The burden falls on the ity- to support-: those changes. I: trongly urge the developers to ome in with a sincere compro- ise - a mixed or multi- - sidential use on the east with ue limited business on the west de. We_can both avoid a -lawsuit saidthe proposed busines would create an undesir Dint .nro osed�nei� ghb®r ses ' est" she has in the land. • amount of traffic and:safety ced on- cerns for the :neighborhood. City -Planner Dale Runkel outlined the concerns raised by the residents at neighborhood meetings. Those included land use, access to the property; what kind of buff would be placed between the de- yeloprnent and the'residents; the. ' high --intensity; and the overall planned development package. • Swenson spoke to some of those' concerns,.•saying 'a traffic_ engi neer reported .that Galaxie w able to handle -the• -any part of the land, but she was the real estate -representative for a parcel for nine months, during which time she served on planning commission, but ab- stained from voting on . the er project. , "I can see the site from all three levels of my home. I -grew up next to Bill Soules. So of course I'm interested: But I hope you have enough confidence in me to let .me. make up my own •mind • as (about voting)." McCrea said. - proposed de- velopment. He. also said the de- . City 'attorney -Jim Sheldon also velopment - would buffer some; defended McCrea, saying she had noise from the freeway and that no direct financial interest. "Be - he was willing- to drop_ the retail : sides, it doesn't -Mean you can't • businesses:: And even though heserve on the city council if you're has letters of intent from two h nterested m locating Hess A fi McCrea said she never owned E11en:Hanson, 4900.Safari•Pass, Sheldon also cautioned the c suggested that council Member council against arbitrarily zoning • m Pam -McCrea remove herself • the land against' the guide plan, re from discussion and voting on the reminding them of a 19841awsuit--• tr issue because of "financial:inter against the city in a zoning case. si The ,city 'lost because: . oirrt 35E. Hedges read the ordinance out- - lining appropriate uses for Lim- • - ited Business zoning. Included were banks,- funeral homes; of- fices, libraries,. swimming pools, churches, tennis and sports corn- . plexes and health. centers. Alth= ough 'health centers, -tennis and swimming are mentioned in the • Ordinance, Egan and others said . a facility such as U.S. Swim and . Fitness was too high=intensity use for an areanext to a neighbor- hood._ The matter was referred back ' • to the planning commission with• directions to plan• for a buffer be- tween the:residents and the busi- nesses. Swenson said he was will- ing.to cooperate because getting the office space opened bynext spring is important. Merrill Lynch;, which plans, to be •the an- chor tenant of the building, will need the offices by then, he said/ j orp. ALSO, GREAT SELECTION OF RECONDITIONED USED TOYOTAS 1988 2 Wheel & 4 Wheel Drive PICKUPS OVER DEALER INVOICE! TOYOTA OFfr-'. HASTINGS 11111111L.:UGUST 8, 1988 THISWEEK Toyota of Hastings is out to win you over with our GENUINE Toyota parts prices. Compare us!! SUMMER AIC SP'�CIALS 1988 COROLLA $553.65 1988 TERCEL *551.45 1988 CELICA $655.95 1988 CAMRY $619.95 1988 TRUCKS & 4 RUNNERS $495.95 Installation Available OLDER MODELS ALSO AVAILABLE. CALL FOR PRICES. *Please, No Dealers *Expires Aug. 31, 1988 TOYOTA QUALITY WHO COULD ASK FOR ANYTHING MORE., Hours: Thu. 8:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. Mon.- 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Fri. 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Sat. Just 15 miles south of 494 on Highway 61 in Hastings 438-333'' ctyV e fro vC o .. o Fou T_av n e b'on'dR A $750,090 application for in- FN� �` dustrial revenue bonds to' buy supermarket equipment and fix- Eagan�r�� • . � �' tures .'recently was refused by the Eagan City Council. ' The council declined the, pro- bey clerk,ke, city said 'the acouncil has posal,of John Sullivan Jr. of Dia-= ;approved $1.3 million in revenue mond Lake Inc., Minneapolis, for bonds for a proposed. warehouse equipment purchases for a pro- • project \ of Gresser. Inc. 'near posed supermarket to be built at • Yankee Doodle Road and Termi- a • proposed 'shopping center ' nal Drive in 'the,. west central northeast of - Pilot Knob Road part of the city. • and Crestridge Lane in the cen- ter of Eagan. The. council also has. a p Council. members noted they bonds for the million in revenue for • previously approved $5.5 million ' the construction of Safari Mall, a . in revenue bonds for the center, shopping center at Thomas Lake a.projeof Kraus Anderson Co. Road and Cliff Road being devel- In addition; city policy has been oPed by Byron Watschke, who is buildings but not equipment. to 'Utility and street approve bonds for land and associated with Fortune Realty ' J construction is underway, VanO- Meanwhile, Gene VanOver- verbeke said: �;, • tl CHI.' S sn 2®o . As the wind doth blow, the afternoon sun paints a shadow on the winter' snow., Showing that art Ties in nature as well as in galleries, :the eye of Dispatch photog- rapher . Joe Eagan the o of the snovi Cliff Road rig - • K . The late Betty Ranson , of'." Rosemount dreamed of an idea to brighten the lives of others. But a few, years ago cancer stopped her from turning her idea into reality. However, one friend remembered. "It• was always in the' back . of my mind," said LuStoffel last week.::"The idea:gever>1eft me'and it always bothered ,me`that we, never did anything about it:"- n • Mrs:°Stoffel; the mayer of:Hastings recalled'. - .s Mrs.` 020s1 °in..nursing hoi :.,;a ..or ,,the sat Fairness, not filibuster should3� dominate CdyCouncil agenda by S. Maus Bettenga The last two meetings I've at- tended in Eagan City Council chambers have reeked more of filibuster than fairness. First of- fenders, were... members of the Advisory Planning Commission. .1t seemed some •commission members believed brow beating developers is "right and best for Eagan.". -Second offenders were three City Council members who used • • •••the same embarrassing tactics.. They argued with and refused to • acknowlege - facts under the guise that revisions in the preliminary plat for • Cliff Lake Centre were not "right and best for Eagan." • .Both times, there* seemed' to be a concerted effort to make ap- proval of the preliminary plat as difficult as possible for all par ties involved. Planning Commis- sion Chair Tim Pawlenty and Commissioner Gary Graves pro- longed discussion at that level•by asking different versions of the same questions for nearly three hours. • At the council meeting March 1, Mayor Vic Ellison and Coun-. cilmembers David Gustafson • and Ted Wachter used the same technique on. Bill McHaie, representative of center developers Ryan Construction and Hoffman Development Group. Gustafson's distaste for the project -and its developers was obvious. He insisted . the city stand firm and not. make any concessions. He was upset that the curved road running through the shopping center did not match closely the planned development agreement, therefore, should not•be approv- ed. The city's traffic consultant and design engineer had worked with the developer to design "the -• Initial Images by S. Maus Bettenga. • road to meet state aid reim bursement requirements. All• • agreed that.the latest configura= -tion would meet the criteria. Gustafson objected to the road • being laia out different from the original plans. _ Even after repeated assurances from the ci- ty's planner, public works direc- tor, traffic consultant and developer's traffic consultant, Gustafson, who has served two, months on the council, objected. Generally, preliminary plans are drawn with the understan- ding detailswill be worked out in the next phase. Some council members have refused to let this developer work through the standard process. Much more should be required, • they have argued. Criticism of the plans has not been limited to .residents and councilmembers. Opposing developers have also been allow- ed to publicly shoot holes in Cliff Lake Centre plans. ' . The Bieter Company has taken an interest in the Cliff Lake Centre project. At nearly every meeting where the Cliff • Lake Centre has been discussed, a representative of Bieter has at- tended. At the most recent council . meeting, Bieter partners passed notes to a group of residents a: the council discussed. the revi- sions. • Generally, . once coun- cilmembers begin discussing ar issue, no further comment from the public is allowed.. This time however, residents and. Dennis — Klohs, Bieter principle, were -in- vited to the podium' by Ellison as council discussion proceeded The passing of -notes and subsequent invitation . to .speak- -after the council had begun its discussion was unusual. It was also unnecessary. • Residents and developers had - their chance to speak before the project was approved. They should also be given a chance for comment now, but- at the ap- propriate time. Did the -mayor. and coun- cilmembers involved think they - were fooling anyone? It was ob- vious they were out to throw as. many wrenches as possible into the developer's plans. It didn't work. The developer was as cooperative•as any I've seen ap- pear before the council. In fact; the choice of exactly where to locate the Cub Foods store in . proximity to the lake was left to the council. . Councilmember Tom Egan provided balance in the discus- sion, pointing out the council should listen to advice from its planning, engineering 'and legal staff. His pleas were ignored by most councilmembers. Ellison's campaign for mayor included the .promise that everyone who came before the council would get a fair hearing. Judging by the treatment the Cliff Lake Centre developers have received, that isn't happen- ing consistently. . 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Maus Bettenga's March 9 col- umn regarding her opinions on the Advisory Planning Commis- sion and City Council and their handling of the Cliff Lake Cen- tre. - Having attended every Plann- ing •Commission and City -Coun- cil meeting concerning this pro- ject, we feel she unfairly criticiz- ed; the new • Planning Commis- sion memberskand ogthers.'As she puts it;` `:`there=seemed to be a . conicerted-effortto make ap- proval of the preliminary plat as difficult as -possible for all par- ties involved." - Their questions reflect the confusion of. • the new revised' plan, which is understandable? since there have been numerous changes made to_the plan from the original proposal. Even , those who have been following the project havehad difficulty keeping up, and she does need to realize that the new members have not sat through the initial _ meetings and have not had the • opportunity to ask questions previously. Her usage of phrases such as "brow beating," "filibuster" and "using embarrassing tac- tics" are definitely " not adjec- tives we'd- use to describe ,the meetings. For the first time since the onset -of this project, • the new, council . has. been courteous enough • to acknowledge the:residents and. . developers equally. - Many times during these meetings questions arise from the council members' discus-. sion. Mayor Vic Ellison was kind enough to allow residents to. have their questions addressed unlike the previous council did. There have been many times the developer has stood . up with a comment at an- "inappropriate time." Regarding the interest of other developers, the Bieter'Company has every right to attend. these meetings. They are public hear- - ings..One item which Bettenga Readers Write failed to mention Was the presence of other land developers who have attended these meetings also and were allowed to make comments on this proposal and others in Eagan. The paragraph regarding Tom Egan's pleas to the council to listen to advice from the city staff seems ironic:- During the Environmental Assessment Worksheet comment period_last. fall, the staff's recommenda= tions were ignored by Egan and other past members of the coun- cil.. The impression Bettenga-has given us is that the new council . and Ellison are out -to get .the• developersrof the Cliff Lake Cen: tre. We feel what Ellison is doing . is upholding his promise to the residents that everyone will get fair treatment. I It may seem he.and others are scrutinizing the Cliff Lake plans too closely, but this is the largest b commercial development' to go into Eagan.. The council wants what is best for the neighboring residents and most certainly .all residents in Eagan. . . • If Dave Gustafson, Ted Wachter 'and • others. who have been persistent in questioning : - this proposal .had not spoken up; the concesions - made by the 'developers to improve -the plans • would' not. have•been required? Perhaps Bettenga is becoming-: burned out on these three hour long discussions regarding the. - center. As residents we too are. becoming tired of these long ' meetings. But' until the developers can. come in with a plan that is in compliance with. the planned development agree- - ment and 'for the -betterment of the surrounding neighborhoods, we feel it is necessary to attend these meetings and we will con- tinue to do so. Mitzi Miller Tari Stordahl, Eagan 3A KENNETH A. THOMAS, LTD. 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Meeting as.the Physical.Devel- opment Committee Tuesday, March 22, three commissioners voted to recommend to the full board that restricted access be maintained along the eight -acre parcel. The matter will appear on the agenda at the board's meet- ing March 29. The developer, Federal Land Co.,.has said the firm purchased the land based.on information•in .a March , 1987 letter from, the county"engineer: The letter, writ - .ten to a former developer, said an access road would be permitted.. County staff, however-, said the engineer, who had been on the job • only three months, was -not aware of the existing restricted access when he wrote the letter. The er- ror.was discovered before a for- • mal permit was issued, so the plat commission refused the re- quest. Martin Colon, a .principal of Federal Land Co., said later that the ,firm will litigate the issue if the full board refuses the access request. Representatives of the firm will attend Tuesday.'s,meet-, ing, although the full board could vote for denial without any dis .cussion. The developer presented the committee -with a proposal Tues- day for upgrading Cliff Road. to safely allow a "right:in, . right - out" access. James Benshoof, an • independent traffic corisultant, told commissio'ners .that" the existing median could be extend ed and turn lanes constructed to serve the neighboring Mary, Mother of the Church and the shopping center: • Colon said Federal Land Co. would be willing to. pay as much • as $20.000':as.an. assessment for courts, he said, the county will 'have to spend $20,000 to $30,000 for. legal fees and risk losing the "ca'se or paying damages. County Attorney James Back- strom has indicated that the let- ter from -David Everds, county engineer, is -not the equivalent of a permit for a road access. Be- sides, the letter was written to a previous developer, not Federal Land Co. Gary Stevenson, county sur- veyor, said highway plans do not • call for upgrading Cliff Road ,within the next five years. If the access were granted at any time, traffic safety would be compro- mised. He told commissioners that the plat commission had handled the . matter like a request for a vari- ance. "They had to prove hard- ship. But they do have access through Slater's Road, so it's not a hardship," he said. The developer maintains that . _Cliff Road has a number of ac- cesses that create traffic hazards that are more dangerous than the. proposed. access .to Cliff "Road •Shoppes.' Colon said the develop- • er, however, is trying to meet the high safety standards. now re- quired by the county. . Robert Barth, *attorney for Federal Land Co., said he dis= agrees with the county attorney's interpretation . of the county engineer's, letter.- "He made a professional judgment a year ago that a right -in access was ap- propriate," he said. The county board should up- hold the .engineer's decision, he said, unless they could prove con- ditions for allowing an'access had changed. He also.asked that the board attempt to work out a com- promise with the, developer. • E.verds said •he had denied the, access request.,once last{year, and then "gave in" after receiv- ing pressure from the Eagan city staff. If commissioners decided . to allow access, he said, it should allow a "right -in" only: ' Joe Harris, committee chair- man, .made the motion to. recom- the improvements. Widening the mend denial of the request: The road. and building ` turn lanes original plat carried a restricted 'would'create'a much sate`r`traffic ,.'.access,,he'said, and it would be a situation` • "'^• •' : mistake to permit access now. He said he. was'surpriseitby the Russell,„ Streefland and Don commissioners'''1decisi`on.= If the •':? Maher' both supported, the mo' issue must be deciiied'in' the 2, lion. 't} be , at 450 iul. the ind i`. Reardon plugs into cable coordination SKILLS IN television and administration helped Mike Reardon land the job of cable coordinator for the joint Burnsville/Eagan Cable Commission; He begins the job April 4. . , Mike Reardon will be looking at cable communications from a —wider angle when she moves into his new job•as Burnsville/Eagan cable coordinator. Reardon has recently been a cable producer on the Eagan/ Burnsville' system, including '_•, covering the cities' council Meet- • ings and local sports .events: Come April 4,his duties as coor- dinator will'be being a, liaison be - institutional networking with schools and libraries, Hohenstein said. Upcoming discussions' on the future of local' access re- sponsibility also suggested the need for -a full-time coordinator, Hohenstein added. Reardon's background and talents were the answer to the question" of "Who?" He tics a degree in' political science from the University of Minnesota and May Z3,1l88 Cliff Lake moving ahead with final approval granted By BRENDA GUDERIAN A development characterized by its controversy received its final plat approval with little comment. The Cliff Lake Centre project was given its final plat approval at the Eagan City Council meet- ing Monday, May 16, after more than a year of struggle with the city and residents of the area. The project, a joint venture of Hoffman Development Group, Burnsville, and Ryan Construc- tion Co., Bloomington, includes a 263,000-square-foot retail com- plex on 90 acres. A 67,000-square- foot Cub Foods store and a 114,000-square-foot Target store are anchor tenants. Work began Tuesday, May 17 on the site at the corner of Cliff and Rahn roads. Citizens of the area, and others in the city, have protested the shopping center be- cause of the trees, hills and a 10- acre lake on the property. Locat- ing the shopping center there was also considered unfortunate be- cause of an elementary school and park north of the site. Some citizens were in favor of the project, saying Eagan needs the shopping opportunities it can offer. Council Member Tom Egan said Thursday he is relieved to see it over. "I've worked on a pro- ject that was scrutinized as close- ly as this was," he said. "I'm con- fident that if the developers live up to their commitments, they'll have a good project." Although public comment has been the rule rather than the ex- ception, no one spoke at Mon- day's meeting. The only resident comment was a letter addressed to the city from Michelle Swan- son, a leader of neighborhood op- position. Swanson's letter ad- dressed concerns about truck traffic on Rahn and Diffley roads and possible noise from business loudspeakers. During the discussions on the project, Eagan city staff also raised a number of concerns in- cluding traffic, environmental concerns and the possibility that the zoning was not correct for the size of the project. The land has a community shopping center zon- ing; some felt the project needed a regional shopping center desig- nation. It was later determined the zoning was adequate. City council members have been divided over the issue, with former Mayor Bea Blomquist, former Council Member Jim Smith and Egan favoring the pro- ject and then Council Member Vic Ellison and Council Member Ted Wachter opposing the mall. The controversy became part of the council election campaign rhetoric and may have played a major role in Smith's and Blom- quist's removal from office. Elli- son was elected mayor and Dave Gustafson, another opponent of the project, was put on the coun- cil. Another member of the coun- cil, Pam McCrea, who was ap- pointed to the seat vacated by Ellison, has also been seen as be- ing critical of the project. Other developers also became involved in the battle. Federal Land and the Bieter Co. com- mented at public hearings. Fed- eral Land owns land near the Cliff Lake site as well as Town Centre, Eagan's largest commer- cial area. The Bieter Co. owns land on Interstate 35E and Diffley Road. The Bieters are currently suing Eagan over the zoning of that land. The companies raised objections to the environmental aspects of the proposal and Fed- eral Land spoke up about poten- tial access problems on their land. The planned development agreement on the Cliff Lake land was signed in 1979: zoning for the 90 acres was set as Community Shopping Center zoning in 1968. Cliff Road Properties, of which the Hoffmans were a principal, bought about 380 acres in 1967. The northern part of the parcel was zoned for multiple residen- tial. However, the zoning was later changed for single-family housing and development of those houses went on from 1979 to about 1986. "All the development is less dense than we could have devel- oped it," Mike Hoffman said. Residents who moved into these homes were given plat maps showing the commercial zoning. They were also required to sign a statement acknowledging they understood a commercial devel- opment would go in someday, Hoffman said. That someday didn't come as Cliff Lake continued to p.6A LTD T LIMITERS! NT BORN TO BE DRIVEN. SDO E E W/air conditioning - automatic - cruise control - tilt wheel - AM/FM stereo - 55/45 W/air conditic seats - road wheels and more. tilt wheel - AN `60 payments, based on 20% down cosh or trade, plus tax & Ilc 1 I % APR rorS - wire w/c OPEN MEMORIAL DAI L SUCK SOMERSET 2 O. V6, power wds & ks, only 14000 miles. A one owner trade at S' 0,vw IT CHEVROLET CELERRfTY EUROSPORT 4 OR. Auto., air, AMIFM, factory purchase. Silver in color '83 RUK:K SKTNAWK 4 DR. Auto., ?SIC, AM(FM Nicecar, dove grey. *4 RUICK luxury at its finest. the options RWD t 48M miles A J Cliff Lake continued from front soon as the developers had hoped. It has been eight'years since the planned development was signed and it was in 1982 when the first Environmental Assessment Worksheet was completed on the complete 300-acre parcel. City staff and residents felt that the 1982 EAW was for a much small- er shopping center, so another EAW for the mall was completed in 1987. Ellison proposed in Janu- ary,1988\ that .an Environnwn(aI Impact. Statement• also be re- •quired, b'ul an agreement with the Department of Natural Re- sources and a,revised agreement with the DNR a month later re- moved the need for the EIS. . A further setback from - the lake, increased green spaces and preservation of.as many trees as possible were -parts of (he en- vironmental agreements. There were also many (rips to - city council meetings and other boards. 'l'he developers made four trips to the Advisory Plann- ing Conitnission since they first presented their plans in the sum- mer of 1987 and three visits to the Advisory -Parks and Recreation Commission. A 12-acre park dedi- cation is part of the agreement With the city. • Traffic patterns and uses were, also discussed al length by resi: dents, the city and the. Minnesota Department of 'Transportation.. Road. improvements are expect- ed to begin in October. The inter- section of Rahn and Cliff roads will have right and left turn lanes, . along with streetlights. The standards set for the streets _are greater than city standards, meeting state aid road.improvc- ments, •Hoffman said. The devel- opers will he paying all the costs - of improvements, he added. A new street will be part of"the _development. Cliff Lake Drive will act as a collector thorough- fare. The southern part of Hahn . Road leading to Cliff Road will "'1"' off into Cliff Lake Drive, with the southernmost portion of that street being abandoned in front of Hahn Park. Parking spaces for the park will thus be' created. Cliff Lake Drive will ex- tend from f3lackhawk Hoad to Rahn Road. Beaver:Dam Road Will not be extended south to the mall' site, Hoffman said. . The footing and foundation per- mit for Cub Foods was.also grant- ed Monday night. The store hopes to open by November, Pat Hoff- man said. 'Target hopes to open in February. The develtpers hope to have 60 percent of the remain- ing retail spaces leased by the end of the sumnier, adding that . they now have- letters of intent from retailers. who would fill about 28 percent of the mall. The Hoffman brothers have found 'some irony in residents statements. The three, Pat, Mike and Greg Hoffman, live in.lhree of the houses on -Fox -Ridge -Court facing. the mall site: and their family owns four more of the houses, they said. They also said they felt the en- vironmental laws were used in some cases to slow down the pro- • cess. The conditions the developers agreed to will be followed through, the Hoffmans said. "We're committed to do every- thing we said. We always try to take. car(' of the people,'• 1'al Hoffman said.. "We have oar reputation at •stake," Mike Iluffnian said. state Final legislativ initiation; fres The closing of the legislative session is an indication that my freshman status is about over. I have learned a great deal and believe I can return next session with a more clearly defined map of how to accomplish my goals. My intent this first term has been to get to know the key players and to demonstrate my knowledge and, understanding of local government. As a fresh- man, it has been important for me to establish myself as honor- able and dependable, and as a person who does her homework. I am comfortable with the results of these efforts. _ Several "projects will continue during the interim. At my re- quest, ,a committee will meet to address how sentencing guide- lines'affect the sale of drugs-, par- ticularly sales to young people. This. study will respond to con- cerns raised by panelists who appeared before the Chemical Awareness Committee. I also hope to author a bill to .license real' estate appraisers. This much -needed legislation will occur after we have met with the affected parties so. that an equitable bill can be written. I have been appointed to the Af- firmative. Action Subcommittee of the Metropolitan Affairs Com- mittee. This subcommittee is a spin-off from a task force formed during session:, a_ majo Airport noise is a continuing fiscal challenge. The need to resolve policy t this problem extends beyond as det "shoving the noise into someone govern else's community." 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V 566-6254 Brooklyn Center 770-3191 Maplewood 15% off Testing in May DAKOTA..:COUNTY 6A/ MONDAY, MAY 16, 1988 Ewan OK exDeCte� • By Bruce Orwall way, officials of the company :have been probably open in late January or' early. Staff writer • ripped by a neighborhood group, endured February,of 1989. - A two-year struggle over where Eagan's • seemingly - endless public hearings and The shopping center ,.will also , lease first Target store should be built is expect- fended off the persistent opposition of .a about 70,000 square feet of additional ed to end tonight when the city council competitor, the Bieter Co. of Edina.. space .to approximately • 45 other retail considers final approval for a 263,000- • The Cliff. Lake Galleria was• also a big outlets. Hoffman said the attraction of square -foot shopping center on the shore of issue in the bitter mayoral'. campaign :last Target and Cub has drawn a lot of pro Cliff Lake. • fall in which Mayor Vic Ellison, .who, op- spective tenants already; •and he expects City officials and the developers — the . posed the Cliff Lake project, upset'former • the development to have about 60 percent Hoffman Development Group of Burns-. Mayor Bea Blomquist. of its. space leased by the end of the sum- •ville and . Ryan Construction . Co: .— say That battle appears to be over. "As. far mer. - • ' there appear to be no further obstacles to as we can tell, we've got everything ready Hoffman thinks the final •agreement on the Cliff Lake Galleria. ; to go," said Pat Hoffman, -a partner in• the • the project solves one of the problems that The' shopping center would be located at development' firm., dogged it along the way - preserving the Cliff and Rahn roads, near Interstate 35E. With any luck, Hoffman .said; the cen' environment of Cliff Lake,. and especially The road to final approval for the Hoff- ter's first tenant, a Cub Foods store; will the many oak trees that dot the property. man group, has been very rough. Along the be open by Thanksgiving. Target .would Hoffman said more than 100 of the orig- . • f . inal oak trees will remain, and' the devel- oper will 'attempt to transplant some of the younger trees. • Also,more new trees will be planted. The persistent opponents of the plan ap- pearto have thrown •in the; .towel, reluc- tantly. . : . Michelle Swanson, leader of 'the neigh- borhood forces that claimed traffic from, - the shopping center would endanger their children and reduce theirquality of life, said she now puts greater stock in the • adage, "You can't fight city hall." "I'm disappointed;" Swanson said. "I think things got buffaloed through." Swanson said . the neighborhood .opposi- tion was not planning any last-minute ef- ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS DISPATCHL alieria forts to block the project. d • • Even •the Bieter Co., which has posed tough questions' about the Cliff Lake. project at each of the major public hear- ings on, the project, concedes that the bat tle is over. "I fully well expect that they'll ' be under construction Tuesday -morning," - said Dennis Klohs, a partner in,the firm. The' Bieter Co. owns land at. Interstate •35E and Diffley Road; and also had been interested in attracting Target to its devel- opment. But the developer was unable to ; • get the land rezoned when Blomquist was - mayor, and is nowsuing.the city. • Now, Klohs said, his company will just - be patient with -its. land; which it .believes; is growing in value as the city grows.. •Monda i,,May16, 1988 St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch Oklahoma prison inmates continue to hold 3 hostages Associated Press STRINGTOWN, Okla. — About 20 inmates at a me- dium-security state prison held three guards hostage Sunday fora third day, hanging bedsheet banners that called for "White Power" and accused Department of Corrections officials of lying. ' :The inmates, believed armed with crude knives, broke off negotiations with prison officials Sunday af- ternoon and a prison spokeswoman said no resolution was . in . sight., The hostages were thought to be unharmed, she added. `"At this point,- we do not anticipate a resolution time or date," Anita Trammell, spokeswoman for. the • 652-inmate medium -security Mack Alford Correction- al Center, said Sunday. The prison has an operational • capacity of 492: ' ' • . . "We will -be here aslong as it takes to free the —ti�staaes •.safely.: We're ready for them. We're . just briefly to correctional officers through a fence in a remotecorner of the prison. A prison spokesman said the guard appeared .tobe all right, as did the other two guards when they were spotted earlier_ in the day. He did not comment on the brief talks. • Some inmates were seen earlier sweeping up debris in the area where the hostages were being held; Tram-' mell said they were "trying to show good faith." Inmates also hung sheets with messages written on them from the roof of the two-story dormitory where the hostages were held. • • The first sheet said "White Power," while a second sheet hung later referred to the state Department of'44 Corrections and said: "DOC Will Not Respond to De- mands. They Have Lied to You, the Public and Press." Commenting on the first banner, Trammell said, "I feel like the inmates did that for attention. Also, I feel like we have some racists up there." Pioneer honored Hollywood pioneer Hal Roach was awarded an honorary . doctorate during graduation ceremonies at ' Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. - "This university and I were born about the same time," Roach told the gathering of 12,000 Roach - people. Saturday. "I only wish that I could have accomplished as much in the last 96 years as this university has." Roach is best known as the producer of "Our Gang" and - "Laurel and Hardy." He won • Thesis takes off He's 24 years old and his first - novel, which was intended as his master's thesis, has brought a record -breaking $155,000 advance and talk of a possible movie, but Michael Chabon still lives a quiet life and is trying to pretend it didn't happen. Since its release, Chabon's novel, "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh," has hit the best seller list, rights have been sold in13\countries and bids for the paperback rights are in six figures. . Zeppelin soars Led Zeppelin waslogether again with "Whole Latta Love" to help celebrate the .40th birthday of Atlantic Records. A full house heard the Coasters kick off the 11-hour show at Carlisle • sabotaged gr• myself in the past, but I'm too happy with the way I feel now and the way things are going now to sabotage myself ever again." likes of Crosby, Stilts & Nash, Roberta Flack, Wilson Pickett, and Phil Collins and Genesis. No more sabotage Pop star Belinda Carlisle, a co-founder of the now -defunct Go-Go's, says the days of a drug and alcohol habit are past. "I can't see myself slipping back into that lifestyle again," Carlisle said in Chicago where she is in the midst of a solo tour. 1 Neig ibors By. S. Maus Bettenga The developer pleaded, neighbors protested, the City Council listened. For four hours. Finally, plans for the Galaxie Cliff Plaza were sent back to the Advisory Planning Commission. An angry throng of residents who live near the proposed development, bounded by In- terstate 35-E, Cliff Road and Galaxie Avenue, expressed their displeasure Aug. 2 with plans for a U.S. Swim and Fitness, one sit- down and one fast-food restaurant, a convenience store and four office buildings. Current zoning of the property would not allow the fast-food restaurant or fitness center. Neighbors said they wanted more of a buffer between their homes and proposed buildings and parking lots. Brad Swenson of Tri-Land Companies, which owns the pro- perty , said plans had been reworked to put the high use areas along 35-E, away from homes. Heavily landscaped of- fice buildings, used primarily during the day, would provide a reasonable buffer, he told the council. Each of the 22 residents who spoke at the meeting disagreed. Land east and south along Galax- ie had been down -zoned from high density residential to build o pose Galaxie C iff P aza ans McCrea's involvement in sale questioned By S. Maus Bettenga Strife erupted into a heated exchange between Coun- cilmember Pam McCrea and a Safari Estates neighbor at the Aug. 2 City Council meeting. Ellen Hanson wrote a letter to City Attorney Jim Sheldon asking whether McCrea's listing the property as a real estate agent compromised her objectivity as a city council member. She read the letter at the meeting and asked Sheldon for a legal opinion. Several of the approximate- ly 75 residents at the meeting shouted their support and hurled insults at McCrea. Hanson cited McCrea's deposition taken for the Bieter Company's lawsuit against the city in which McCrea said she bought the property now owned by Tri-Land Com- panies. Tri-Land has proposed building offices, restaurants and a fitness center on the southwest corner of Cliff Road and Galaxie Avenue. McCrea said she misspoke during the lengthy, high- pressure deposition. She said she didn't buy the property but received $1,500 in earnest money from Brad Swenson, Tri-Land Companies, for listing the property as a real estate agent. Although she works for the state of Minnesota full time, McCrea said she also holds a real estate licence and has been involved in real estate transactions in Eagan. Before being appointed to the council in January, McCrea served on the Advisory Planning Com- mission. Each time property she was involved with came before the commission, she abstained from voting, she said. She cur- rently has no financial interest in the Galaxie Cliff Plaza pro- perty, she said. Hanson also questioned whether Tri-Land's contribu- tions to Mayor Vic Ellison and Councilmember David Gustafson's election cam- paign funds would affect their objectivity. Sheldon responded that con- tributing to political cam- paign funds doesn't necessari- ly buy a candidate's vote. "If you think it does, I suggest you think again," he said. "In generally reviewing Pam McCrea's situation with the state Attorney General's office, there is no conflict of in- terest, there is no financial in- terest. Once the property is sold, it's sold," he said. McCrea chided Hanson for bringing up the issue, saying "I would hope you would have enough confidence in me to abstain (if there was a con- flict)". single-family homes. Originally, the high density was to be a buf- fer between single-family homes and the commercial land. Also at issue was the roadside business zoning of part of the pro- perty. Swenson said he had let- ters of intent from two motels, Super 8 and Budgetel. Roadside business zoning would allow con- struction of a motel. However, plans presented did not include a motel. Traffic generated by the pro- posed development combined with expected snarls at the Cliff Lake Centre would create pro- blems, residents said. Residents were also concerned that volunteer firefighters be rfble to reach the station south of the development during peak traffic. Increased traffic could also endanger neighborhood children, several speakers said. One resident suggested the city buy the land and develop a park. Councilmember David Gustaf- son asked neighbors if they would be willing to help buy the land, valued at approximately $3.3 million. Some said they would. He urged residents to consider what would be in the best interest of all city taxpayers. Buying the land probably wouldn't be a good idea, he said. The Advisory Planning Com- mission unanimously denied plans for the Galaxie Cliff Plaza after three hours of resident 1 speakers and commission member discussion at its July meeting. Several residents who spoke at the council meeting reminded the council of the commission's action. "The planning commis- sion can recommend all they want, but we're the ones who must make the decisions," Mayor Vic Ellison said. Council members voted unanimously to send the plans back to the planning commission and urged Swenson to find users that would fit the zoning re- quirements of the property. LG11GG11 QUUGU 41151E-lll. 1O But while the Planning Commission apparently supported the idea of the addition, members had some question about the — -- —material to -be used-for-thebuilding. The commission was concerned that the all -metal addition would look unsightly attached to an all -masonry building. Lawyer .cited for bravery An Apple Valley resident was awarded a medal of valor by the Minneapolis Police Department for his part in the apprehension of a suspect in a parking ramp murder. Alan Kildow, 36, an attorney,received the medal from Min- neapolis Police Chief Tony Bouza July 15. It cited his bravery in the face of physical danger. Kildow came upon the body of Carrie Coonrod of Eau Claire, Wis., in the ramp May 27. After determining that nothing could be done for the 19-year-old stabbing victim, Kildow chased a truck leaving the ramp and obtained its license number. That led to the arrest of Thomas R. Schwartz of Eagan, who has been charged with first degree murder. Swiss visit Apple Valley Twenty-five high school students from Switzerland have made the Apple Valley area their home for the past month. The students, who are participants in the "Language for Friendship" program sponsored by the Swiss government, have been staying with area families. They also have been attending American culture and language classes at Apple Valley High School three times a week. Linda Albertson, a local coordinator for the program, said Ap- ple Valley was selected for the project because of the school's previous experience with Language for Friendship, based in Min- neapolis. I-R files for Senate Pat Pariseau, a resident of Dakota County for 28 years, has fil- ed for the Senate District 37 election in November. Pariseau, the Independent -Republican endorsed candidate from Farmington, is vying for the seat held by Darril Wegscheid, DFL-Apple Valley. Wegscheid has announced he will resign ef- fective Jan. 1, 1989. Pariseau has s rued nn the Fa,-►,,;natnn Board of Education. community theater has a good shopping malls, Franz said. The County eyes in -home detention .._ option for repeat DUI offenders By Terrance Mencel Repeat offenders convicted in Dakota County of driving under the influence may soon serve time in their own homes rather than the county jail. A county task force recom- mended using in -home detention as part of a proposed Dakota Alcohol Safety Program aimed at punishing and rehabilitating repeat DUI offenders. County commissioners will vote on the task force's recommendations Aug. 16. Concern about - overcrowding the county jail and not enough community work service pro- mpted commissioners to appoint the staff group June 14. State law, effective Aug. 1, requires all repeat DUI offenders arrested within a five year period serve 30 days in jail or do equivalent community work service. Without sentencing alter- natives the number of repeat DUI offenders in the county jail at any one time would jump from 10 offenders to 50 offenders per day, said David Rooney, Human Services director. Based on 1987 information, about 600 repeat offenders will be con- victed next year. type of sentence imposed. Cur- rently, repeat offenders average 15-days in jail. "We're anticipating at least one-third of the offenders will get the 30 , day jail time," said Rooney, costing the 'county $313,000. If all offenders served 30 days in jail the cost would tri- ple. Offenders eligible for the pro- posed in -home detention would be screened to ensure they meet community safety criteria. A random urine analysis would be conducted to monitor the of- fender's chemical use. The 'electronic surveillance devices would alert a control center of any detainee who left his or her property. Details on what county officials would do in that situation are not finished. Approving DSAP would save the county about $400,000, accor- ding to preliminary cost estimates. In -home detention would cost the county $9 a day New law for each offender. County of- ficials view in -home detention as a privilege and would bill of- fenders one-fourth of the cost, said John Rowe, Court Services director. One sentencing program does not work for every repeat of- fender, said Lt. Dick Roberts, of the county sheriff's department. ,Each convicted offender would be assigned a sentencing plan and given a chemical dependency assessment. Com- munity work service could be us- ed in addition to jail and in -home detention. Offenders would do such things as clean river banks and organize recyclables. Repeat offenders also have their driver's license revoked 90 days, or one year if they refuse to take the alcohol breath test when arrested. Charged -with a gross misdemeanor, they can be punished up to one year in jail and fined $3,000. - requires taking license plates A new Minnesota law took ef- administrative review by the fect Aug. 1 to provide for sur- commissioner of public safety, render to the court of license who may issue special plates if plates for vehicles driven by (1) a member of the violator's anyone whose driving privileges household has a valid driver's are suspended, revoked or license; (2) the violator or • f Eagan, Continued from Page 1 B sory Planning Commission voted 7= , council in the weeks to come. Residents, say they . have noticed 0 against the project last week' af- One property, directly across the the upswing in activity, and many ter hearing from a large group of street from the Target store, is claim they .would not have • pur- upset neighbors. - Ellison, though, said the city council has little choice but to ap- prove the project. The owner has paid taxes based on its commercial value, and roads were built with office and retail uses in mind. The council can upzone a property, but it can't downzone and take away from a property's value. "Unfortunately, the planning commission gave the neighborhood false hope," Ellison said. "We have an excellent (planning commis- • • sion). But this is the first time they've been confronted by an. an-, ence. gry, hostile crowd. It's very easy to .. • But the Federal Land property is want to please a group- of. angry currently designated for residen- people who are screaming at you." ' ' tial uses in _the city',s ;guide plan. Other developers are expected 'Any business .development would to put similar issues before the. require a zoning change. • chased homes nearby had/they,be- lieved the area was going to be- come a magnet for. commercial development. "Please don't increase the city's tax base at the expense of the tax- payers,". Said • Mary Winchester, one' neighbor who testified Tues- day. The Galaxie Cliff Plaza is just one of the projects springing up in the Target store's shadow/ The land, on the southeast corner of the freeway; and Cliff Road, is now zoned for *agriculture. But • the city's comprehensive guide • plan says the long-term use should be a limited business development. Despite that, the Eagan Advi- •being eyed for a Pier One Imports shop and other retail uses. But that 135,000-square-foot development may not fit into the "roadside busi- ness" classification that is in place for the land. And the Federal Land Company is talking about developing. 20 acres at the northwest corner' of Cliff and Rahn roads into a yet -to - be -defined commercial area. Mar- tin Colon, a Federal Land partner, said the area is now much more at- tractive because of Target's pres- blockage' of the Eus- he middle. ears' sole outside atmosphere.. le throat, and in the mit easy adjustment re changes. eyond the gum chew- Iwing, the yawning help most air descen- ried a decongestant? iseudoephedrine ' (Su- )efore descent. If you.. s plugging up, close h your nose and force ur lungs. - Lit lad GM kg MI 7717 S, O, n O2 V. E, n W :alsco.e PAR SCORE 70-80 by JUDD .. • FOUR RACK TOTAL- ' • TIME LIMIT: 20 MIN DIRECTIONS:'Rearrange each row of letters to form a 2- to 7-letter word. To total points of your words, use'scoring directions to right of each row. 7-letter words get 50-point bonus. "Blanks" used as any letter have no point value. All Judd's words can be found in The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary. JUDD'S SOLUTION ON PAGE 6B. .e.4-ae © 1988, United Feature Syndicate. Inc. RACK 3 - RACK 4 [ everything but food cards, cutlery, books and maga- zines; lightbulb' center, cleaning supplies, paper products, panty- hose carousel, records and tapes, toys, beer mugs, ceiling fans, ency- clopedias, candles, stationery and tennis' shoes,. there's no money or space in my cart for food. ' Stopping off at a fast-food store on the way home from the grocery _ -a.F_..a 6ne hnnmmzt ennh ' dumplings before heading backto, our empty, lonely, meaningless ex- istence?" '"We can eat when we get home," he, says. "We got a whole wagon full of food." "Not unless you're going to eat a hundred pounds of'seed, oil for the lamps, lye for the soap, 15 yards of gingham, 50'pounds' of flour and a naw,carIAlp T tnlri vnn ahnnt' aanar- with the ace and play a low heart to the queen, which wins the trick. You now lead a low spade to tl:ace, but what . you do next.. doesn't; miat„er, because. as the cards 1•ie; yod'must eventually go down.at-least one. If you .try to establish, the hearts, you find yourself short one entry .to. .dummy to cash them. If you go after spades instead, you .find you can't score more than two tricks in that suit; •and if you go after diamonds, you run into the same dead end.'Yet. • the fact is that the contract is,ice-cold from the start — and it doesn't matter how the opposing cards are divided. All you have to do is lead the king of hearts from dummy at trick,two! It may seem. unduly extravagant =to waste the king and queen of hearts on one trick, but this is a luxury you can easily afford because it guarantees at least ten tricks. So, regardless of how much it runs against the grain to lead the king of hearts at trick two, it is the only way to insure the contract. In the: actual deal, East wins • • DAKOTA COUNTY .ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS DISPATCH gan development. plans have neighbors f fuming: ty council considering revised proposal for controversial Galaxie Cliff Plaza • By Bruce Orwell Staff Writer . t Eagan officials - are considering new plans for a controversial de- velopment' that is . part of 'a hot commercial corridor near Cliff Lake, where the city's largest shopping center will open later this year.. - But . many. residents of the area have become aggravated over the sudden growth, which results from the city's decision to callow con- struction of .a shopping center, with a Target store at Cliff Lake.: The • neighbors say they are finding out too late that the Target;store is spawning other commercial Bevel-• opments. The. proposed 25-acre Galaxie Cliff Plaza at Cliff and Galaxie roads would include .a series of two-story office buildings and res- taurants. The city council Tuesday asked the Eagan Advisory Plan- ' ning Commission to' look at the new plan, which eliminates from the project a convenience store and • a U.S. Swim and Fitness health • club. That. wasn't enough to mollify. a vocal crowd that turned out Tues- day night to protest the develop- ment, Mayor Vic Ellison said Wednesday the group was "the. most abrasive and uncontrolled crowd I've seen in my three years on the council."" About 60 residents who live. nearby told the council that they don't believe the continuing com- mercial growth in the area is right. Many suggested that -the land be zoned for residential use, which they believe' would be more con- sistent with their neighborhood. The crowd frequently interrupt- ed the developer, Brad Swenson of Tri-Land Cos., with quick remarks questioning his ability and inten- tions. And they sometimes derided Ellison when he ` tried to regain control of the meeting. , Council members . argued that the city's comprehensive .guide plan clearly allows business uses for the land, and they refused to alter that. Ellison has indicated the project, in some form, will proba- bly win approval in the long run.. Galaxie Cliff Plaza isn't the only commercial project to spring up recently near Cliff Road and Inter- state 35E. There has been an in- tense effort .• to develop .the area since the city. council's May deci- sion allowing a Burnsville develop- er to build a Target discount store. and Cub Foods outlet near Cliff Lake. • ' The Target project was ex- tremely controversial, and it took " the Hoffman Development Group • more than two years to gently guide it to approval. But now that . the shopping center is under way, other developers are racing to del velop the land nearby. - • • "With- Target and Cub . Foods coming in,'.' said Pat Hoffman, a partner in the Hoffman Group, "we. seem to have lit a fire in the area. Please see Eagan/3B 2B F St. Paul Pioneer,Press Dispatch MINNESOTA BRIEFING tr Thursday, 'Aug.?4, 1988`_ v- Man- charged in assault of woman in St. Paul Charges of attempted second-degree murder were filed Wednesday in Ramsey County District Court against a 26-year-old Minneapolis man suspected of repeatedly stabbing a St. Paul woman. 'Anthony Slaughter was charged in connection with an attack on a 37-year-old woman about 2:10 'a.m. Monday at 2040 Grand Ave. She suffered multiple stab wounds. 1 Police, who reported that Slaughter "surrendered Tuesday, said the incident apparently was a domestic dispute. The woman was in critical condition Wednes- day at St: Paul -Ramsey Medical Center. Man pleads 'guilty in stabbing A' Woodbury man accused of attacking a service station attendant with a knife pleaded guilty Wednes- day in Ramsey County District Court to a charge of second-degree assault. Frank Anthony Fabio Jr., 20, admitted the count before Judge E. Thomas Brennan, who scheduled sen- tencing. Sept. 28._ 'guilty to a count of driving with a blood -alcohol read- ing of more than 0.10. _ . . According to police, Peterson was driving south on Hamline Avenue 'in St. Paul on May 26 when his car swerved across the center line. near Midway Parkway and struck a bus carrying 40. Murray Junior High School students.No students were hospitalized be - ramp of tha arridant Promoters of the scam offer an inaccurate, -out -of-. date information package for $5 to, $100 that describes how to send first-class postage at the lower rate, offi- cials said. ' Information packages cite a section of federal law. .that was eliminated by,the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 as the basis for the 2-cent first-class rate;'offi cials said. • ' Postal officials .ask that postal _customers forward the information packages to their postmaster. Mail carrying less than 25.cents in postage will be returned , to the sender or, delivered . with a charge for • the S amount due, officials said.. Heart fund tops goal . The American Heart Association,. Minnesota Affili- ate topped its 1988, campaign. goal of $2.6 million .by $19,000, Dr. James,Zavoral, president of the Minneso- ta Affiliate, announced Wednesday. • - ' An additional $972,000 from bequests brings the to- tal support from Minnesotans to more than $3.5 mil- lion, he said. The organization is a non-profit, voluntary health group dedicated to reducing premature death arid dis- ability from heart disease through research, commu- • nrrromc o nil arInn,tinn • > t h. • A petition to conduct, a similar referendum at the Bois Forte Reservation was rejected by band officials. UPDATE'• Injured infant leaves hospital An infant who lost two.fingers in her Caesarean sec tion,birth has .left the hospital with, surgeons confident that the reattached, fingers will continue to do well: Eleven -day -old Kristen'Meckle left the North Me- • morial Medical Center in` Robbinsdale with' her mother, Diane, on Tuesday to fly home to Wildrose, . N.D: They will return to the Twin Cities in two weeks - to have the cast on Kristen's'left hand removed. Kristen was rushed, by plane to North Memorial from Trinity Medical Center in Minot, N.D.; .after. a' surgeon accidentally severed most of her index finger ' - and a little more than a third of the middle finger I during delivery. . • A team working under .a surgical microscope spent five hours reconnecting bones and reattaching tendons and no�•,^� �i� •avzc. ty. eiL.L_L4 '..._sue .3//7 /� e .�ag n l c a ans s stu p y on shoppingneeds By Richard Chin Staff Writer Eagan officials have hired an ac- counting firm to tell them how much retail development the city needs and can support now and in the future. The city council on Tuesday se- lected Laventhol & Horwath of Minneapolis to conduct the $27,800 study of retail needs through the year 2010. Mayor Vic Ellison said the study should tell the city whether the land the city has zoned for com- mercial use actually will be devel- oped that way and whether the city will need to designate more or dif- ferent areas in the city for com- mercial development. Ellison said most people in the city agree that the city doesn't have enough commercial develop- ment to serve the shopping needs of the residents. He said the total amount of land the city has set aside in the past for commercial development should be enough for the city. But he said much of the land the city had previously designated for retail development has been used for industrial or housing projects. In the past few years, city offi- cials and developers have been tangled in debate about whether new retail developments should be located in property now zoned for commercial development and whether the council should grant requests from some developers to rezone property in other areas for retail projects. Ellison said he did not think the study would affect or resolve the lawsuits or potential lawsuits the city has with would-be shopping center developers upset by city zoning decisions. Instead, he said the study will be used to give the city a better idea of future development needs. TI in et P Ar Jc to R In cr KI M c e� Fi c Fr d N In et Be Le c B>� T Bloom County by Berke Breathed 57EYE...011, y 5r ve„. S9MEWHERE RBOYE THE CLOW'S-ABOVE 7F/E SKY... HAYIN& 7HEAOYENIURE OF YOUR LIFE.... gLre,, • Steve Roper & Mike Nomad by Matera & Saunders 'THESE AREN'TMy ONLY CLOTHES, SAMMY?.,•I GOT FANCY DUDS IN MY ROOM !. The %�ntaZllfa=Snider-V�•:_�;,>e�_--'---- 5-�-. /ire P ort u..r= lPAA -a Tuesday,. May 17, 1988 Happkg center fin ets One of Eagan's loudest political struggles ended very quietly Mon- day night as a Burnsville developer won final 'approval from the city council to'. build a controversial shopping. center on the shores of Cliff Lake. , The. Cliff Lake.Galleria, located at the intersection of Cliff and Rahn roads in Eagan, will include a Target discount store and Cub Foods. Target, especially, has been sought after by several developers eager to provide the rapidly grow- ing city with retail shopping oppor- tunities.' That pursuit resulted. in a two- year struggle between three devel- opers. The winners Monday night, the Hoffman Development Group of Burnsville and Ryan Construc- tion Co., will give Eagan's 40,000- plus residents their first real op- portunity to shop Eagan. The Cub Foods store should be open by late November, with the Target to follow in January or February '1989, according to Pat Hoffman, a partner in the develop- ment company. The entire shop- ping center will contain about 263,000 square feet of retail space. • The project, which , has been the ' subject of many hours of emotional public testimony, breezed by the Eagan city council unanimously Monday. The project's primary competitors' — . the' .Bieter Co. of Edina and the Federal Land.Co: of Eagan have often testified against the project, but both com- panies stayed away Monday. In addition, a' neighborhood group -led by Michele Swanson only submitted a letter asking .that a 'few of the residents' remaining traffic concerns be addressed. Work' at the -Cliff Lake -site is • scheduled to begin today..: a T• 1 Tuesday, May 17, 1988 . tt. Paul Pioneer i • aoterr 0 steeps ochedull Services for Sister Imelda Walentin taught elementary grades in Minnesota be held at . 4:30 p.m. today at St. Paul's Ave. E., Maplewood. Walentiny was born in Melrose Minn. day at the priory She was 77. "She was an excellent first grade to Sister Joan Schneider. "She enjoyed littl Walentiny took her vows with the Be and taught until 1982, concentrating Schneider,said. One of het -longest positions was teach to 1966 at Immaculate Heart of Mary S post was teaching first grade from Redeemer School in Montgomery, Minn. Walentiny earned a two-year teaching Paul Diocesan College for' teachers in gree in education from the College of St. i 'She is survived by seven brothers an Bernard Walentiny, Clara Reber, Margie Walentiny, a l,of Minneapolis; Alphonse and Barbara '1 heisen, of Cold Spring. Burial will be in the Priory cemetery. �o 0 Jungers Elfrieda Jungers,.a retired St. Paul sc in. the. Shalom.Home of complications of A native of Renville, Minn., Jungers Minnesota for about two years before jo system, according to her sister-in-law, Paul. . ' She said Jungers taught seventh and e low School for 20 years before retiring i years as a teacher. Survivors include a sister, Gertrude Ind.;and several niecesand nephews. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesd. Church, 1935 St° Clair Ave., with burial i tation will be at the church an'hour befor: . Services for Ray W. Skelton, retired d - contractor, will be held at 7:30 p.m. today Bradshaw Funeral Home, 3131 Minneh - with burial Wednesday in Spooner Cemete . Skelton, 69, died Sunday at his summer cancer. He also maintained a home in Burr In. the 1930s, Skelton started hauling asl to his wife, Lavonne, and son, Rolland, of Cliff Road By LEA GUENTHER A decision on an Eagan developer's request for an en- trance driveway on Cliff Road (County Road 32) was tabled by the Dakota County Board of Com- missioners Tuesday, Feb. 23. The driveway for the Cliff Road Shop- pes development will be con- sidered again at the March 15 meeting. The developer, Federal Land Co., requested • a release of restricted access to the eight - acre plat, saying the property had been purchased because a county staff error indicated that an access road would be permit- ted. County staff said restricted ac- cess had been dedicated to Dakota County when the Oak Cliff plat was filed in 1984, so the developer should have been aware of the restriction. Gran- ting a variance would create a Shoppes driveway decision tabled traffic safety hazard and set a precedent. Last week, the physical devel- opment committee discussed the matter and agreed to forward the request to the full board without making a recommendation. Gary Erickson, physical devel- opment director, said the owner of Oak Cliff apparently told Federal Land that a driveway permit had been approved for the original plat. Although the developer's first request for an access road was denied March 6,1987, he said a se- cond request was approved in a March 24, 1987, letter written by David Everds, county engineer. Unfortunately, Erickson said, incomplete information -as fur- nished to the engineer and L,.: ac- cess was not cheeked_before that approval was given. When the er- ror was discovered, the plat com- mission turned down the drive- way request. Gary Stevenson, county sur- veyor, told commissioners last week that the dedicated access was on record when Federal Land purchased the property. However, "It was represented to the highway engineer that there was no restricted access," he said. He said the plat commission is trying to eliminate problems and learn from pervious mistakes. Erickson said Tuesday that the county has not granted any previous "vacation of access" in Eagan. It has allowed access to some properties that did not have access control. "We have the responsibility of providing access if there is no other," he said. Stevenson said the city of Eagan had supported an access off Cliff Road because it had not been aware of the restriction. After the city was informed of the restriction; 1t did not withdraw its support, even though county guidelines do not allow an access to'roads like Cliff Road. Charles Bartholdi, a lawyer representing Federal Land Co., asked the board to approve the release of restricted access to allow the installation of a "right - in only" road. The request was based on two approvals, he said, one given by Everds in the letter and the other by the city of Eagan. He said the property is "very substantial in size," so access is very important to prospedive businesses. If access from Cliff Road is not granted, the onl! ac- cess will be from Slater's Road. A restaurant will be built it the northwest corner of the prolerty only if a Cliff Road access ispro- vided, Bartholdi said. "If not, they won't consider it," he said. "Federal Land Co. woul( like to be treated equally and airly with other landowners it the city," he. said. He pointed out three access roads in Eagan that he said he believed were built in areas where access was restricted. None appeared to be as "well - located" as the Cliff Road Shop- pes road would be. Engineering and safety con- cerns would be diminished, he said, because the developer pro- posed a "right -in" road only. "It may be alleviating traffic pro- blems at the Slater's and Cliff roads intersection," he said. Stevenson said the three access roads mentioned by Bartholdi were not built in areas of restricted access. Erickson said traffic safety would be threatened if the access road were built because vehicles would slow down to make the turn, causing other traffic to slow. Traffic would not be slowed if vehicles turned right on Slater's Road instead. Also, he said, the median bet- ween the left and right lanes on Cliff Road ends in the area where the access road would be placed Even though it would be con- structed as a right turn lane only, some traffic would attempt to make a left turn across the lanes. To extend the median, Erick- son said, the county would have to purchase more right of way and widen Cliff Road. Plans do not call for upgrading the road soon. Commissioner John Voss said he agreed with Bartholdi's state- ment that the property would function better with the access road However, the county al- ready has too many accesses on Cliff Road. Allowing another would "exacerbate the prob- lem," he said. He suggested the developer use the same access as a nearby church. "You could live with that," he said, adding that he had heard the church might agree to a shared access. However, Bartholdi said the developer had talked to the pastor three times and been turn- ed down. After obtaining a map of the area, commissioners held a quiet discussion at the board table with the attorney and county staff. They voted to postpone a decision until March 15. In other action, the board: *Approved the request of the Pine Bend Landfill to allow storage and use of water treat- ment lime sludge for daily and in- termediate cover, if the sludge comes from a tested and approv- ed source. *Approved a plan to select a consulting firm to evaluate the county's data processing ser- vices. *Authorized a request for state and federal funding for retrain- ing and placement programs for 450 workers who will lose their jobs when the Unisys Semi - Conductor plant in Eagan closes July 1. *Approved a final payment to )parkos Construction for remodel- ing of the third floor of the Went- worth Office Center for Human Services Administration and Public Health. Total project cost was $195,568. *Approved a request from the Knights of Columbus to place a truck on county -owned land at County Road 42 and Galaxie Avenue in Apple Valley for the collection of newspapers for recycling. *Approved submission to the MPCA of the prepared corrective action plan for cleanup of the fuel oil spill at the Government Center, along with appropriating additional funds, not to exceed $117,000, from the building fund for cleanup. 1 i Bankcontinued from p.12A individual and local business checking and savings accounts have been established in the past year. Cobb ascribes the bank's pro- sperity, in part, to a favorable economic climate. "This is a hot area," he said. "It's a rapidly growing corridor of the Twin Cities. The bank got lucky with its timing. We picked a marketplace that wasn't being serviced. Apple Valley was on the crossroads between being a small town and becoming a bustling, suburban community." Cobb also said that last year conditions were favorable for home and commercial lending. Mostly, however, Cobb at- tributes the strength of the Valley National's personnel as the in- stitution's lure. He said that half of the staff brought with them a traditional bank background while the other half brought ex - Ridges goes smot Fairview Ridges Hospital, 201 E. Nicollet Blvd., Burnsville, will become a smoke -free facility Monday, Feb. 29, following six months of preparation, education and smoking cessation programs and an interim step that restrict- ed smoking for the past three months. Smoking and smokeless tobac- co will be prohibited throughout the building and on the hospital grounds. The only exception is the Chemical Dependency Unit, which allows patients to smoke following certain restrictions. Fairview Ridges began work- ing toward a smoke -free status last spring when a 15-member task force surveyed hospital pa- BPW to meet at Al Baker's The monthly meeting of the Northern Dakota County Business and Professional Women will be Tuesday, March 1 at Al Baker's Restaurant, Yankee Doodle Road and Washington Drive, Eagan. Brenda Weierke will speak on the basics and history of chiropractic. The meeting and program are open to the public. Social hour starts at 5:30 p.m., dinner at 6:30, with the program following. Cost of the dinner is $9. Reservations arerequired and may be made by calling 451-7594 or 776-4745. Winkel honored by United Way Thomas J. Winkel, Eagan, re- ceived the United Way of St. Paul Area's award for outstanding board member in the area of campaign leadership. The award recognizes community spirit and volunteerism. Winkel has served on the cam- paign cabinet for several years and was the campaign vice chair- man in 1987, leading the Pace- setter campaign. Winkel will be campaign chairman in 1988 and will be responsible for the United Way's fund-raising drive in the fall. Winkel is also involved in other community activities. Winkel is partner in charge at Limmomm.__ the St. Paul office of Arthur .Andersen and Co. perience with savings and loans institutions. "We've also done an unbelievable amount of network- ing and enjoyed a high degree of visibility," he said. "When the product and the pricing are the same, it's the service that makes the difference." Weldon said Valley National expects to expand its operations to Burnsville during the latter par: of 1988. Currently, the ap- plication is being processed, Wedon said. Valley National will be celewating its first year during the veek of March 7-11 with a dai- ly Dien house held during bank- ing lours. Coffee, cookies and juice will be served and door nrivc iv:11 T_ A Family Health Fair Saturday and Sunday, March 19-20 at Burnsville Center • Hvalth Toctir,rt I.,i...,...._L:_ �' +ti Cgto ui s PI! Russell; community development director and city planner. "It looks like he made the changes ... : within the development parameters, Russell nAnd while there have been pockets of op- Op- E7? 1'1 - 4t"'�L z+ vsCrr,; t ts-i- Says, "but my biggest Before the city parts with any public money, however, the development agreement requires Robert Scott Holdings to come up with a $2 million letter of credit. That's ex- pected to happen when the firm receives 0RFC ✓#i' R�+':.e,,-dia3v9 "K; • £ada.° ,f :o,.,,�„ F Kras pu ays other signed'leacra sed retail projects`and'as a recogtntlon of rector. with 2 Plus 2 jewelry, Regis hair salon, Piece po of Pie pizza, Italian Feast restaurant, Gerbers 'the competitiveness of the hotel marmket. Jewelers, Pets and Critters, Bally Amuse- ment, Black's Photo, and Holm and Olson Federal Land gets: pD swap COUNCIL APPROVES a little bit;' explains Martin'Co1on, a Federal Land partner. ; , ' . The planning conunissionirecornmended denial of the comprehensiveguide plan and PD amendments March 24; however, and the planning department's report states"... trad- ing some of the land uses on existing parcels EAGAN. RETAIL PLAN really does not.make sense given the para- E,g't N e ss — S-tic r e , r• c cc.4N meters of this planned development " During a public hearing at the planning Ti he Eagan City Council acted April • commission meeting, Don -Clark, an office 19 to clear the way for a new retail tenant in Federal Land's Town Centre Profes- development by Federal Land Co. despite ob-' s o alBuilding,sed Eagan Ce m Shtely north rye softhe id he jections by the advisory planning commis- sion, city staff and some neighboring users. objected to the plan. Clark said more retail Cen- development in the area would add to already Federal Land wants to develop Eagan Pm square . heavytraffic at the intersection of Denmark tre Shoppes,afoui-building, 69,900 sg foot retail and service development on 7.98 Avenue and Town Centre Drive. He also said acres southeast of the intersection of Den- Federal Land had assured him that he was mark Avenue and Town Centre Drive. The council voted 5-0 to approve a comprehensive land-use guide plan amendment, planned development (PD) amendment, preliminary plat and conditional use permit for the project. Federal Land sought to rearrange zoning designations within its Eagan Heights Com- mercial Park PD, established in 1982, mov- ing proposed retail sites closer to its existing Eagan Town Centre strip retail complex. Officials of the Eagan firm proposed swap- ping 7.98 acres of land zoned CSC (com- munity shopping center) for 6.38- and a 1.6-acre sites zoned LB (limited business). The land zoned CSC was east of Federal 2 Land's 10-story Water View Tower office building; the land zoned LB was west of Water View Tower, closer to the strip center. _ E "In the course of the six years since the PD and move things around Some users of Town Centre Professional Building object to plans for a retail has beenin sometimes in effect, it just makes sense to re - center on the vacant parcel next door, but the Eagan City Council disagrees• evaluate locating in an office park, not a retail area. But the city council disagreed. "We have three corners of retail there now. Why not a fourth corner?" Colon says. Fagan Centre Shoppes will ,consist of a 25,000 square foot Treasure;Island children's furniture store, a 19,000 square foot building anchored by a 5,000 square foot Kid's Kingdom day care center, .and two other buildings of 13,300 square feet and 12,600 square feet. Colon says he has preliminary commitments from an office supply store, a restaurant and a children's dentist. The conditional use permit approved by the council is required to allow the day care center in'a CSC zone. The Treasure Island building will be two stories and the other three buildings will he one story. Construction will be concrete block and stucco. The plans provide for 393 parking spaces. continued on next page Page`10 Minnesota Real Estate Journal May 2, RETAIL CONT. continued from previous page Pope Associates Inc., St. Paul, is the pro - jest architect. Eagan Centre Shoppes will complement Town Centre, Colon says. With the signing of 2,000! square foot lease for a J.C. Penney .catalog.store last week, Colon says Town Centre, is about ' 94 percent leased. Federal ...Land officials recently gained approval for a fneentaading Pizza Hut restaurant, and Col- .on'sa* they are actively pursuing anchor ...teiGiants'for proposed Tbwn Centre.phase two. On-a'related note, Eagan officials say there has been • little recent activity regarding a `1awstit filed against the city Dec. 31 by part= nerships;affiliated with Federal Land. The suit,' filed in Dakota'County District 4 Court; alleges that actions to assess Federal • Landfor'storm water ponding improveinents `and tti'rezone a rival developers' property would I be "arbitrary, .unreasonable and ":Capricious" and "wholly void and without ;,binding effect." The city has filed a counterclaim. .The,suit was filed in anticipation of a Jan. 5 city council decision to settle land -use and assessment lawsuits filed against the city by developer Robert J. O'Neil and his wife, Grace. The O'Neils own land adjacent to Federal Land's Town Centre. Paul Hauge, an Eagan attorney who represents the city, says city officials and O Neil are still working out the details of the January settlement. Federal Land officials fil- ed a motion to intervene in the judgement, the motion was denied and they are appealing, Colon says. A third lawsuit filed the city by the O'Neils, involving condemnation of some of the O'Neils' property, probably won't be settl- ed out of court,Hauge adds. Meanwhile, Hauge says a suit filed against the city by Bieter Co., an entity affiliated with Thorsen Cornwell Klohs Co. (TCK), Edina, has also been inactive recently. The suit, fil- ed in March 1987, alleges the city council acted in an "arbitrary, and capricious" man- ner by voting Feb. 3, 1987, to reject,com- prehonsive plan and zoning changes needed for TCK's proposed 735,000 square foot retail center at Interstate 35E and Diffley Road.' On April 4, the city council agreed to allow TCK to submit a revised plan for a smaller retail center at the site, but Hauge says no pro- posal has yet been received. —Marry t4{4‘ li Major retail center eyed APPLE VALLEY FIRST WITH 1WAL-MART? proposed $12 million. 155,000 square foot strip center in downtown Apple Valley could become a proj- ect of up to $30 million and 400,000 square! feet, the developers say, if they can sign ''a lease with Wa1-Mart Stores Inc. The store would be the first Wal-Mart in MINNESOTA BLUE FLAME' • 3 JECT OF TIE M May 1988 1 the Twin Cities metro area the fifthti Minnesota. • .p While officials of Apple Valley -based PE Development Co. say they are optimiiii about landing Wal-Mart, they emphasize di efforts are still in the early stages. Ply Development is a partnership of Paul Grosz, Robert E. Substad and Gary Adkie ("PRG" stands for Paul, Robert and Gary) The site of the proposed retail center:i southeast of the intersection of Cedar Avenu and County Road 42. Through their PR De velopment Co. , Grosz and Substad han developed several projects in the area, in eluding the Apple Valley Commons oftio campus immediately north of the retail site They also plan to break giound next mond for a $2.2 million, six -screen movie theater. Last summer, PRG Development unveiled the original proposal fora $12 million; 155,000 square foot center on 20 acres. There were plans for food store and department store anchors, along with smaller tenants and three outlot buildings. The developers had planned to break ground last fall and to have the center open by this summer. But the partners were subsequently ap- proached by several possible joint venture developers who believe Wal-Mart would be interested in about 85,000 square feet, Grosz` says, so they have enlarged their plans accor- dingly. The partners are negotiating with( Southport Properties to acquire additional`; land immediately east of their 20 acres. They s' want to buy about 15 acres and to secure op- tions on about 30 acres more, Grosz says. If officials of Bentonville, Ark; -based Wal- Mart commit to the project, the developers' say they will have a good chance of securing a lease; for a 40,000 square foot Lund's food store. - And Grosz says they have "at least". 50,000; square feet to 75,000 square feet of smaller;tenants who would commit if the an- chors come on line. The developers plan to, call the center:i. Commons Market. With a total development .! cost of up to $30 million, Adkins says the sub-1 . regional center could be .Apple Valley's largest,commercial project ever: In addition, PRG Development might sell land at the south end of the site to Jim Lu- pient's Midwest Auto Malls,Inc. for an' automobile supply and service center. Of- ficials of Midwest Auto Malls could not he 71.+5 (- )t'b< f k tA C_re?tq Cliff.Lake._phase_one_ ._ gets final approval Eagan — The Eagan City Council voted May 16 to approve the final plat for the 263,000 square foot Cliff Lake Galleria retail center. The council also approved a footings permit allowing construction of a Cub Foods store, one of the anchors. The center, developed by Ryan Construc- tion Co., Minneapolis, and Hoffman Devel- opment Group, Burnsville, is being devel- oped on about 33 acres northwest of the inter- section of Interstate 35E and Cliff Road in Eagan. Besides Cub Foods, Cliff Lake Galleria 11 will have a Target discount department store and several smaller tenants. Cub Foods is scheduled to open this fall and the other stores next year. in tre. ��i3 dill the IRRRB claims, "breached their fidu- ciary duty" by failing to warn the board that the medical clinic was in trouble. Medical Park Development, according to the IRRRB's lawsuit, is a limited partnership formed in December 1983. General partner is Northland Development Co.; a partner- ship between Theodore J. Harvey and Fred G. Strom. Eighteen limited partners in Medical Park Development are listed, too, including Strom. Twin Cities -based Miller & Schroeder, for its part, says the suit is frivolous. "Our lawyers have advised us that complaint has absolutely no merit," says Paul Ekholm, senior vice president. "And we intend to de- fend ourselves vigorously. "We are frankly surprised," Ekholm says of the suit. "We and Dain Bosworth have been leaders in this business. It's kind of remarkable that anyone would question our integrity." Mary:Alice Brophy,, compliance director for Dahl' Bosworth, "says the firm's.poliey is�• not to comment on pending lawsuits. The at- �.Q:u,f Piorr�,r' lOcA W (GU Legisiatorlooks back on shift from cornfields to mall.- gravel roads, the country . lawyers first ; "When I first started, half was being DERRA O CONNOR srnFFwaITER big issue was helping farmers hold .off farmed. The plans that they laid back On Howard Knutson's Senate office wall hangs a painting of rolling green farm fields, a red barn and a quaint white farmhouse. When Knutson, who lives in Burnsville, was first elected to the Minnesota House:. of Representatives in 1966 from the northern half of Dakota County, that's what much of his district looked like. Vic- torious after a door-to-door campaign that entailed , driving down a great many taxes so they could retain their land. Twenty-four years later at age 61, the Independent -Republican senator is retir- ing from a booming district that includes. Eagan, Burnsville and part of Mendota . Heights. Most of his former farmland dis- trict is now covered with houses, schools, malls and parking lots. Over the years, his district has shifted from country to city, and Knutson has changed right along with it. "It's just a marvelous area," he said. then are now almost filled up. The chal- lenge has been representing that kind.; of community.". For the first several years of his public service, Knutson pushedlegislation to en- able those changes. The potential' was clear for places like Eagan Township, then a scattering of,. farms and houses whose leaders wanted to become, part of the Twin Cities. • "What we really fought for was (the ex- pansion of) Cedar Avenue and Interstate 35E," he said. "We knew if we ever got those two, the area would mushroom, and it did." As a suburban legislator, he tried to put the needs of his district on' a legislative agenda that often appeared to be split be- tween the core cities and outstate Minne-, . sota. The suburbs tended to,drophetween the two major geographical' power bases:: Greater Minnesota leadership looked upon the suburbs as part of.thecity;St Paul and Minneapolis officials sometimes • KKUTSONCONTINUED ON 01. O'CONNOR/Why did school tax increase fail? Y CONTINUED FROM 1 quired:by law for a levy referendum - it's not enough. r ■ The purpose of the levy was the un• - sexiest approach possible to raising mon- ey: The school board didn't say, "Give us money and we'll give your child a better ,education, or increased benefits of some sort." They said, "Give us money and your :..:.child's education won't get worse." ■ All fall, the district put out informa- tion about the accoutrements of Eagan High School. District officials showed off • their "technology school," replete with color teleyisi.n mnnitnrc nnkina nit of tha Eagan elementary school, Pinewood, was likewise a showplace, having among other niceties a kiln in the art room. Somehow voters failed to be convinced that the district is strapped for cash. • By law, the measure had to go on the general election ballot, rather than run as a special election in which only the inter- ested voters — read that "supporters" — would bother to vote. The greater cross section of voters included many who don't have kids in school or any other special reason to vote in favor of the levy. • The plan came from the top down, de- ' cided upon by the school board based on the process afterward; the plan was not a grass -roots plea on the part of moms and dads. • The district maintained that students will suffer as a result of not passing the • levy referendum, but many voters must have doubted that. By comparison, the sit- uation in Minneapolis was considered a crisis, and a levy passed that is supposed to improve the lot of needy children by drastically decreasing class size. In St. Paul, a levy referendum barely missed, and its failure was blamed on an adminis- tration that didn't get parents involved in the levy's conception. Many voters — especially those from have been aware of the 300-some courses offered to high school students or the re- sources directed toward the athletic teams, and perhaps wondered if these, suburban students aren't already a bit too indulged. This was the first time such a levy was tried in District 196. It can't be tried again until the general election next year, at which time voters also could be looking at a bond issue request for more schools. This year was the school board's best shot. They didn't make it and shouldn't try again. Rather, they need to learn to live— within their means and try their best to KNUTSON/As constituency changed, so did senator CONTINUED FROM 1 fought against suburban interests because certain projects were considered to con- �tribute to urban sprawl. Getting permis- ' s-.:sion to. build Fairview Ridges Hospital in Burnsville, for example, took years., In 1997, Knutson announced his deci- • sion to run for governor in the 1978 elec• - :' .tion.' It • was a crowded year, and within, the Independent -Republican party he faced challenges from several big names,. ;including Dave Durenberger and the! eventual winner, Al Quie. He changed his, sights to the attorney general spot, but: ':,'lost to Warren Spannaus. • When Knutson assumed his Senate seat in 1972, the balance of 'power shifted in the Legislature, and from then on, he was in the minority party. Even though he was considered a progressive andconsistently decried the party's right-wing element, which he called "negative," he felt shut out of much of the legislative decision - making. That was one reason he decided to call it quits this year. "How . many, years of frustration can you take being in the minority?" he said. His senate seat has been taken by Inde- pendent -Republican Chuck Halberg, who defeated Deanna Wiener by a margin of ' 21,948 to 19,037 in last week's election. The suburban districts have a personal- ity problem when it comes to getting a voice heard on the state level, Knutson 'said. "It's been an attitude in some ways that said, 'Just leave me alone — I don't need anybody,' "le said. ` Someone who lives in Burnsville, for example, may work in downtown St. Paul and put -his or her volunteer efforts into the St. Paul Winter. Carnival, rather than a suburban event, Knutson said. That per- son feels less stake in what happens in his hometown, he said, than someone who works, lives and volunteers in the same city. Because the suburbs haven't coalesced as a "political power base, therefore, in Knutson's estimation, they get overtaxed and the school districts don't get a fair shake. All in all, though, he sees a bright politi- cal future for the suburbs. Reapportion- ment in the upcoming legislative session will result in ;more suburban seats, he said, and the cities are growing beyond bedroom communities to provide head -of - household jobs. "Up to three or four years ago, it was largely people who worked outside the suburbs," he said. "Now I think people are beginning to take more of an interest be- cause they live and work there. The talent is there to do it, if we can focus the direc- tion of that talent." Brown •ntmumg V uca i n University of Minnesota St. Paul Campus. Call 537-1246 to register. from 5:30 to 11 p.m. Dec. 1 at Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Eagan. Tickets, at $50, cover dinner, entertainment and live and silent auctions. Call 455-1560. 14TH NOVEMBER 1990 WEDNESDAY on SAINT PAUL PIONEER PRESS un• . y at •uth St. Paul Rod and -Gun Club, Concord and Gun Club Road, South St. Paul. Call 297-0661, Ext. 223. EIGHBORS DAKOTA WEST DW SECTION 16 PAGES congestion, not eliminate it. 2 EVENTS IN BRIEF NEIGHBORS OPPORTUNITIES 16 REUNIONS 2 VITAL STATISTICS 4 NEIGHBORS DAKOTA WEST V ■ APPLE VALLEY ■ LAKEVILLE ■ BURNSVILLE ■ ROSEMOUNT ■ EAGAN Both • uildmgs were constra before :schools served hot lunches, and their kitchens were carved from storage areas ,next to gymnasiums. The gyms now dire used for physical education in the morn- ing, set up for lunch at noon, and then tak- en apart again for gym in the afternoon: Roosevelt's main entrance leads direct- ly to its dimly lit gym and visitors some- times walk unexpectedly into ongoing games or activities. One visitor who was hit by a ball sued ithe. district over the experience accord- ing to business manager Roger Buettner stresses that all the proposed repairs are considered essential. The dis- trict avoided adding any extras to its; re- quest, such .as arenas or auditoriums. That echoed the philosophy of task force mem- bers like Beaudoin. "We can only do what is essential," she :said; -"but do it right." Sen. Howard Knutson FO+.,De& �NbS