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Focus Area: <br />Rice Street and Demont - Terrace <br />Heights Mobile Home Park <br />The City’s objective for Terrace <br />Heights is to retain the current land <br />use, consisting of approximately 130 <br />dwelling units. Redevelopment for <br />multiple family housing would not be <br />favored. <br />If redevelopment were to be <br />considered by the property owners, the <br />City would expect to accommodate <br />office park uses, in an effort to <br />facilitate a portion of the forecast <br />employment growth in the community. <br />However, it is not the City’s objective <br />to seek redevelopment of the property, <br />given its long-term provision of <br />affordable housing. <br />For the corner of Rice Street and <br />Demont, a similar land use <br />consideration is shown, with the <br />expectation that if redevelopment is to <br />occur, the ultimate re-use would be office, with some retail or hospitality uses. The current land <br />use (including those uses on both the north and south sides of Demont, is a mix of bar, <br />restaurant, and retail/commercial services. <br />The sketch provided in support of this Focus Area illustrates office uses totaling up to 160,000 <br />square feet of commercial office space on the mobile home park 11 acres, with an additional <br />40,000 square feet of office/retail at each of the corners of Demont and Rice. Total employment, <br />if developed at these densities, would be expected to reach 1,000 employees. <br />Because of the frontage on Rice Street, a minor arterial, and the area’s proximity to MN Trunk <br />Highway 36, the area is viewed as a commercial land use, rather than residential, and a candidate <br />to hold some of the significant employment forecast by the Metropolitan Council for Little <br />Canada over the 2040 planning horizon. <br />As suggested, however, the City is not seeking redevelopment of these properties, and is likely to <br />consider redevelopment proposals only when such proposals are consistent with the illustrated <br />land uses, and represent a considerable high-end office project, comparable in impact and quality <br />to the Abbott (formerly St. Jude Medical) facilities just east and south of the subject property.