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Background Over the past 20 years, the City of Roseville has worked to facilitate land use change within the Twin Lakes Re- development Area. The vision for this area has evolved from a business park in 1988 to a mixed-use area that includes a variety of office, service, and residential uses today. Through the development of a master plan and creation of design guidelines, this area is planned to become a desirable working and living environment with physical connectivity and visual cohesiveness. Located at an interchange of Interstate 35W, Twin Lakes has excellent access to the regional marketplace. How- ever, due to the area's blighted condition, it has been dif- ficult for interested developers to secure tenants for new buildings or financing projects. Two key impediments to development within this area are the known environ- mental contamination and the lack of adequate public infrastructure. Extensive environmental assessment activities have taken place within the Twin Lakes Redevelopment Area. Initi- ated by both the City and the private sector, these studies have identified widespread petroleum-related contamina- tion and areas of hazardous substances. These findings were not surprising as trucking-related uses predominat- ed this area for forty years. Unfortunately, these studies have not resulted in parties initiating cleanup of this area. Brownfields redevelopment is a paradox in that generally cleanup will not occur without development and devel- opment cannot occur without cleanup. To eliminate this barrier, the City would like to initiate the environmental cleanup in this area. When the Twin Lakes area was initially developed, an in- ternal network of roads was not constructed. The trucking operations accessed the regional roadway network via drives directly onto the county road system. To redevelop this area into the mixed-use area as planned, an internal roadway system is needed to allow internal circulation. Twin Lakes Parkway and Mount Ridge Road will form the east-west and north-south spines for this new road network. These streets are being designed as complete streets to promote safe walking and bicycling and to decrease the reliance on the automobile in the area. Redevelopment of the Twin Lakes Area is an extremely important project for Roseville. Without the City taking a leadership role in the environmental cleanup and the construction of needed public improvements, redevel- opment opportunities within Twin Lakes will continue to languish. The City has received $528,000 from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Attachment A _ _-__ _- � - �- __ _ -_� _ � -� -� � �_ ` �=� �, --- _ _ - _ = �. _ _ --� - —~'�� -- � 4 � 3. _ -� -��- _ � � __.._ , _ �- � _ � �� _ _ � �_ - � _� � � � � _� � � � �' � �� ►�� _�� _ �'`_ _ �= � F..�:: — -�j = - �`� - —: _-� ° . -� b E � `��_ � � ��i � - _�- -��= .� . - - : - -Yr.r:.�.� ��s-• �? y.� � �� -�- _ �-,�- .,,� ��`� �� , .t ` - . _ � _- - � z� `_, � 3 � ... n . 'ii�. .�j." vrc � "�� ``'� a� � . = . . il� .� �_ '4� � . �` _S^.�_.,� �� `al '47� �a � i � �. �� `� '�°_ -�;. � s�f= - ,..� , �l, •�� `' � ,�' �-� .,a l:�":.-. �+c� � '''J `� 7i �' ;A . s �:i ."� . ,,� ` .� •;. _ -t��'-�': -� ;:�. '�� � `. . �' �_ ia�i �.�� 4 �+ � _ {V �_ The Twin Lakes Redevelopment Area is located within the Interstate 35W corridor and is only 6 miles to downtown Min- neapolis and the University of Minnesota West Bank Campus. The East Bank Campus of the University is 2 miles from this site and downtown St. Paul is 10 miles. Due to the proximity to both downtowns and university campuses, it is one of the prime redevelopment opportunities within the Twin Cities Metropoli- tan Area. Development to assist with the implementation of the ini- tial phase of infrastructure construction; however, this is only a small fraction of the $31 million required to create a "development-ready" site. The groundwork has been laid... The City is ready and has the capacity to bring this to com- pletion. The City would like to break ground on Twin Lakes Parkway by July 1, 2009. Actions that have been taken to bring this project to a start include: ✓ Twin Lakes Parkway is included the Comprehensive Plan as an important transportation corridor ✓ Right-of-way officially mapped forTwin Lakes Park- way ✓ State environmental review and mitigation plan completed ✓ Roadway contamination investigation underway ✓ Roadway design underway with 90-percent plans expected to be completed by the end of February ✓ Right-of-way appraisals underway ✓ Land acquisition set to begin Twin Lakes Redevelopment Project 1 City of Roseville