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~;, ~'J1' Lakes proiect ready for Part Deux BUSINESS PARK WOULD CREATE 6,000 JOB$ Drive west along County Road C in Roseville, past Snelling Avenue, and you will see a curious landscape on your right. Truck terminals with dozens of parked trailers are interspersed with brand-new office buildings and a two-story medical center paneled in gleaming blue glass. /: Welcome to the first 15 years of the Twin I. Lakes transformation. ! Late last month, the Roseville City I Council approved the final amendment to a k plan for the redevelopment of the remain- ing 170 acres in Twin Lakes Corporate Center, a 275-acre, L-shaped parcel with its southwest comer at Cleveland Avenue and County Road C. ''This will be a two-decade project," says Dennis Welsch, Roseville's community development director. "That may sound far- reaching, but the first 100 or so acres took 15 years." In the mid-1980s, the city decided to clean up the brownfields and build a busi- ness park. Ryan Coso US Inc. began devel- oping the property in 1990 and has com- pleted four office/showroom buildings and a medical center totaling 322,000 square feet and housing 1,150 jobs. The next stage Roseville's plans riff on the current themes. City officials envision an upscale business park with multilevel office build- ings along Cleveland Avenue and nestled behind the current office/showroom space. Service retail - hotel, fitness center, restaurants, etc. - would occupy the prime comer at Cleveland Avenue and County Road C. Twin Lakes eventually would create PHOTOS COURTESY OF CITY OF ROSEVILLE The first phase of the 27S-acre Twin lakes Corporate Center, at Cleveland Avenue and County Road C in Roseville, was developed over a lS-year period. 6,000 jobs and comprise 3 million square feet of development. At the bend in the L-shaped parcel is the base of Langton Lake, and the city would like to see a housing and office mix around the lake and the inside perimeter of the property. The site eventually could contain 400 to 600 housing units, with a density of 10 to 24 units per acre, "Truck terminals are not the most effi- cient use of this land," says Cathy Capone Bennett, Roseville's economic develop- ment specialist. Beginning in the late 194Os, transporta- tion companies took advantage of the high- way access in Roseville and built more than a dozen truck terminals. Snelling Avenue and Highway 36 were two-lane roads and Highway 65 ran where Interstate 35W is now. "In the 1950s, this was cutting-edge," Welsch says. "But now it's time to go from a pioneer land use to a refined and sophis- ticated land use:' For the short term, the site still makes a great site for a truck terminal, says Bob Hagen, who owns a 7-acre parcel at 2785 N. Fairview Ave. He expects to sell the land for development eventually, but in the meantime he is taking advantage of his prime location. "I was told in 1988 there would be a road going through here and it is still not here," he says. "I've learned not to get too excited about these things." Cash for cleanup Years of pumping fuel, cleaning truck