UPDATED: Eagan Resident Makes 11th-Hour Offer to Purchase, Preserve Parkview

Jeff Varela has submitted what he calls a "credible, seven-digit" offer for the 80-acre golf course, just days before city officials will vote to decide the golf course's fate.

Days before the Eagan City Council is expected to vote on the controversial Parkview Golf Course redevelopment proposal, another buyer has stepped forward with an offer to purchase the property and preserve it as a golf course. Longtime Eagan resident Jeff Varela said on Friday that he has made a "credible, seven-digit offer" for the 80-acre, 18-hole golf course, which is at the center of a hot debate over property use. Varela said he plans to operate a family-run golf course on the property, if the current property owners agree to take his offer. Varela isn't the only one with eyes on the golf course property, which sits near the intersection of Pilot Knob Road and Cliff Road in southern Eagan. Eden Prairie-based developer Hunter Emerson …

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Public Invited to Red Line Rapid Transit Open House

Dakota County officials are looking for ways to encourage development along the route, and want public input from local residents.

Dakota County and a handful of other local agencies, looking for ways to promote development around the soon-to-be-operation Red Line rapid transit route, commissioned a study on the subject last year. Now, the public is invited to listen to and comment on the preliminary results of that development study during an open house event from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 3 at the Dakota County Western Service Center atrium in Apple Valley. Dakota County, Hennepin County, Dakota County Community Development Agency and the cities of Bloomington, Eagan, Apple Valley and Lakeville are conducting the study along the METRO Red Line, which will bring station-to-station bus rapid transit service to Cedar Avenue this summer, according to a news …

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Public Comments Wanted on Proposed Parkview Redevelopment

The public is invited to comment on an amended environmental assessment through March 20, 2013.

Follow Eagan Patch on Twitter | Like us on Facebook | Sign up for our daily newsletter | Blog for us Members of the public will have a chance to comment on an amended environmental assessment for the proposed Dakota Path residential project beginning on Feb. 18. As part of the proposed residential project, developer Hunter Emerson would convert Parkview Golf Course along Cliff Road in Eagan to a 177-unit housing development. Hunter Emerson's controversial plans have been stringently opposed by a neighborhood group, which believes the Dakota Path development would negatively impact quality of life for adjacent neighborhoods. Earlier this month, the Dakota County Platting Commission reviewed the impact of the proposed project on Cliff Road. …

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Council Preview: Lockheed Martin Site Study Returning to the Council

Last year, Eagan officials commissioned a $15,000 study to help them identify a vision for the former Lockheed Martin site, now owned by developer CSM Corporation.

Follow Eagan Patch on Twitter | Like us on Facebook | Sign up for our daily newsletter | Blog for us The Eagan City Council will convene at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday night at City Hall to hold a special meeting. Here's a preview of a selection of agenda items the council is expected to discuss. For a full agenda, click here.

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Death Threat Underscores Controversial Golf Course Redevelopment Meeting

Despite receiving a threatening, handwritten note, the Eagan City Council voted to move forward with a redevelopment proposal regarding Parkview Golf Course.

Follow Eagan Patch on Twitter | Like us on Facebook | Sign up for our daily newsletter The handwritten death threat delivered to the Eagan City Council was as clear as it was chilling. It read: “Any council member voting for developing Parview [sic] will die!! You are all in on it with the develper [sic]!!” The note, signed by the letters “FOPV”, was read aloud by Eagan Mayor Mike Maguire at the start of a public hearing on Tuesday night regarding a controversial redevelopment project planned for the 80-acre Parkview Golf Course in Eagan. To read the note, click here. After reading the note, Maguire issued a stern admonition to the packed house gathered at Eagan City Hall to discuss the proposal, which calls for the conversion of the golf …

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Parkview Redevelopment Proposal Draws Opposition from Friends of Eagan Core Greenway

In a letter to the Eagan City Council, the group asks the city to explore alternatives, rather than allowing a developer to convert the golf course into a residential development.

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Developer Has New Vision for Vacant Gas Station, Car Wash

Oppidan, Inc. plans to demolish a vacant gas station and carwash and build a 7,150-square-foot retail center at the intersection of Rahncliff Road and Rahncliff Court.

A Minnetonka-based developer got the go-ahead from the Eagan City Council on Tuesday night to redevelop a vacant gas station in Eagan and car wash into a 7,150-square-foot retail center. Paul Tucci, the vice president of development with Oppidan said the company hopes to start construction on the site early this summer and complete the project by November of this year. The site is located at the corner of Rahncliff Road and Rahncliff Court off Cliff Road in southern Eagan. On Tuesday, the council voted unanimously to approve the rezoning and a final development plan for the 2.8-acre site. Eagan's Advisory Planning Commission also reviewed the site plans and recommended approval earlier this month. Oppidan's vision for the site includes …

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Anna Schier

11:30 pm on Friday, May 4, 2012

Sounds like a delicious idea, Joe! And it seems like there might be an untapped market for hot dogs in Eagan.   more ›

Retail Redevelopment Plans for Lockheed Martin Site Get Mixed Reception

The owner of the Lockheed Martin site unveiled its plans in front of several dozen area residents and officials at a Wednesday evening meeting in Eagan.

The developers of the Lockheed Martin property unveiled their plans for a 510,000-square-foot retail complex in front of an alternately warm and cold audience on Wednesday night. Several dozen area residents attended CSM Corporation's neighborhood meeting at the Eagan Community Center to get a first look at the company's redevelopment plans for the property. CSM purchased the 47-acre parcel in downtown Eagan following Lockheed Martin's announcement in 2010 that it plans to close its sprawling facility and move many of the jobs at the site to New York and California. The developers plan to begin construction on the proposed complex in April 2013—one month after Lockheed moves out of the facility, and open the retail center in the fall of …

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