Ramsey Co. buys Arden Hills site

Author:: BMTN Staff
Publish date:: Nov 27, 2012

The Ramsey County Board on Tuesday approved the purchase of the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant site, a 430-acre block of federal land considered the largest tract of undeveloped space in the Twin Cities and Minnesota's largest Superfund sites, the Star Tribune reports.

The board approved a joint development agreement with Arden Hills to acquire and prepare the site for $30 million, the newspaper reports. The ultimate goal is to prepare the land for sale to a developer and get it on county tax rolls.

The plan to purchase the land along Interstate 35W in Arden Hills has been in the works for years, and was propelled by a failed proposal to build a new Vikings stadium there.

The site has been the subject of much development speculation. One proposal was a plan to build a NASCAR track there.

The site still needs some environmental clean-up, perhaps as much as $22 million, MPR reports.

Remediation projects have been conducted there since 1987.

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Minnesota Motorsports Development Group is eying the site of the old Twin Cities Army ammunition plant in Arden Hills. KARE 11 reports the motor sports consortium wants to build a state-of-the-art Motorsports Country Club, which would include a course for road racing and a place to train drivers of emergency vehicles.

The deal is nearly done to bring the Minnesota Vikings to downtown Minneapolis, leaving the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant in Arden Hills still looking for a cleanup and development plan. "It was a perfect match but it didn't happen. But we're not going to worry about it. We're just going to move forward," Ramsey County Commissioner Tony Bennett told KARE 11.

Ramsey County Commissioner Tony Bennett will not advance to the November general election after 16 years in office. Bennett championed the controversial effort to build a new Minnesota Vikings stadium in Arden Hills. The longtime incumbent came in third behind two of his challengers -- Blake Huffman and Frank Mabley. Former Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher came in fourth.

Ramsey County leaders hope to collect 15,000 signatures to force a referendum vote in November on whether to publicly fund a proposed Arden Hills stadium. The ad hoc group says the effort is in response to elected officials ignoring their constituents and kowtowing to Vikings ownership.

The Minnesota Vikings' stadium debate has become one of the most contentious and crucial issues in Minnesota. Many feel the longer it takes for a deal to get done, the less likely it will be in Arden Hills.