Eden Prairie set a preliminary 2025 budget with a 5.8% tax levy increase to fund city services and improve fire department response times.
Author: Mark Weber
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Mark Weber
Mark joined the Eden Prairie News as a reporter in 1979, just five years after its start, and spent the next 34 years in various roles including editor and publisher, as well as general manager of the parent company, Southwest Newspapers. He also published Edible Twin Cities magazine. His encore career was serving the nonprofit Eden Prairie Community Foundation as executive director. Mark is now retired. He and his wife, Roma, have two grown sons and a daughter-in-law, as well as a grandson. They have lived in Eden Prairie since 1984. "I hope the many words I have typed over the years have helped people understand the world around them."
The Eden Prairie City Council is set to review a plan to resize and renovate the Office Depot building, improving landscaping and parking.
Eden Prairie is weighing two budget options for 2025, including a tax levy increase to add firefighters and enhance emergency response times.
Eden Prairie plans to cap cannabis businesses at state minimums, pending further evaluation of zoning regulations and marketplace development.
With the project’s expansion beyond the police department, the architecture firm’s fees have increased, but at a lower rate than the original fee schedule.
Eden Prairie Schools has completed its purchase of a Valley View Road office building formerly owned by United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI), clearing the way for the relocation of the TASSEL Education Center to that location. The 45-year-old, 165,000-square-foot office building at 11840 Valley View Road was purchased for $9.2 million. On June 24, the Eden Prairie School Board ratified the sale and issuance of $13.365 million worth of bonds – technically “certificates of participation” – to pay for the building and the renovations needed to accommodate the TASSEL program. The low bid on the bonds was 5.33 percent, lower…
The off-ramp from Highway 212 to Prairie Center Drive will be closed during this section of the project, scheduled to be completed Aug. 7.
A consultant advises Eden Prairie to increase full-time fire staff and build a new station to improve response times amid rising demand and staffing issues.
Eden Prairie’s new solar garden generates 1.3 million kilowatt-hours annually, advancing carbon neutrality goals and benefiting 125 local residents.
The Eden Prairie City Council will vote on an approximately $1.45 million contract to build new pickleball courts at Miller Park.