Land for sale including farms, ranches, timberland, mountain, lake & country homes.
 | |||||
| |||||
Land Resources / News / Minnesota
Watershed district snaps up cheap land to gain control over landscape
Source: Joplin Globe, by Jennifer Bjorhus
Mark Ten Eyck eyes the grounds of the Minnehaha Terrace apartments in Hopkins, Minn., but does not see what most landlords see - a stream of rent checks. He sees a poorly designed private lot with too much lawn stretching straight to the edge of a badly ignored creek. October 07, 2010 "This is basically a drainage ditch," Ten Eyck said of the lawn. And so the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District, Ten Eyck's employer, bought the 24-unit apartment complex for $1.4 million in September. It's going to demolish the buildings, rip up the parking lot and extend a nearby city park down to Minnehaha Creek. A relocation company will help move the tenants.
Read the complete article from Joplin Globe » |
