City council will address East 11th Street extension cautiously
Guided by the cost of development, the absence of a developer ready to go and plenty of land suitable for commercial-industrial uses, the Glencoe City Council is taking a measured approach to the potential extension of East 11th Street to expand its business park on the east side of the city.
During a workshop Monday afternoon, April 8, the council discussed the proposed extension of East 11th Street toward Diamond Avenue through ag land on the north side of Highway 212 owned by the Gruenhagen family. The family is apparently not in a dramatic hurry to sell land for commercial development, said Dan Ehrke, Glencoe’s assistant city administrator.
The potential hefty price tag for developing land -- significant grading, street work, extending a looped water system to the area, sanitary sewer and storm water also gives the council pause. The city would ultimately assess the improvements back to a developer. The city is also waiting for McLeod County to determine what it will do with Diamond Avenue in the wake of MnDOT’s plans for a three-quarters intersection at the junction of County Road 1 and Highway 212.
(For the complete story, see the April 10 print edition of The Chronicle.)