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Council approves preliminary plat for Nexus Innovation Center redevelopment on former American Family campus
Summary
The Eden Prairie City Council unanimously approved a preliminary plat and authorized staff to prepare a development agreement and issue an early land-alteration permit for the Nexus Innovation Center, a two-building industrial redevelopment that will include H. M. Craig as tenant of the larger building.
The Eden Prairie City Council unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday to divide a 14.35-acre parcel of the former American Family Insurance campus into two lots for the Nexus Innovation Center and authorized staff to prepare a development agreement and issue an early land-alteration permit subject to staff conditions.
The developer, Endeavor Development, requested preliminary plat and site-plan approval to replace an obsolete three-building office campus with two industrial buildings: one about 92,000 square feet that H. M. Craig will occupy in full and a speculative building of about 82,000 square feet. The planning commission recommended approval at its January meeting.
Joe Bergman, representing Endeavor Development, outlined sustainability and tenant-security features planned for the project, including demolition-material recycling, electric-vehicle infrastructure, solar panels on the speculative building, low-VOC materials and participation in Xcel Energy’s EDA program. The larger building will include a fenced, secured parking area specified by the tenant; the developer noted the fence product is a Trex composite panel in a “saddle” color.
Council and staff also discussed utilities: Minnetonka will provide water, sanitary and road connections under a long-standing arrangement. Mr. Getchell, a city staff member, said the current utility arrangement “goes back to a 1977 agreement” under which Minnetonka handles billing and maintenance for the mains serving the parcel.
A council member moved to close the public hearing, adopt the resolution approving a preliminary plat dividing one lot into two lots on 14.35 acres, direct staff to prepare a development agreement incorporating staff and planning commission recommendations and authorize issuance of an early land-alteration permit for Nexus Innovation Center 2 at the request of the developer, subject to the permit conditions. The motion passed unanimously.
Staff will draft a development agreement reflecting council conditions before final plat and site-plan stages; the council authorized an early land-alteration permit to allow initial work to proceed subject to the listed conditions.
