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Civic Campus Project Update - January 2026
Chanhassen City CouncilWednesday, January 14, 2026
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[0:00] Hey everyone. It's been a while since
[0:01] we've done one of these construction
[0:02] updates and wanted to check in with you
[0:04] again. Um, as you know, our city hall
[0:06] building opened this fall. That was
[0:08] phase one. Phase two is City Center
[0:10] Park, which is right behind me, which is
[0:12] underway. Phase 2 will transform the
[0:14] former city hall site into a dynamic
[0:16] multi-use park designed for all ages.
[0:18] Planned amenities include a playground,
[0:20] a playable splash fountain, an event
[0:22] plaza, a skate park, pickleball courts,
[0:24] and a park building with restrooms and
[0:26] concessions. Even though there's snow on
[0:28] the ground, there is still work being
[0:30] done this winter. And for that, we're
[0:31] going to now take a tour with our
[0:33] partners over at Krauss Anderson, who
[0:34] will let us know what they've been up
[0:36] to, what's happening now, and what you
[0:38] can expect to see in the months ahead.
[0:40] We're standing at the uh original spot
[0:42] of city hall. So, it has since been
[0:44] demolished, and what we've been starting
[0:46] on is the stage structure, which is
[0:48] right behind you, and then also the uh
[0:51] park pavilion building. And what we've
[0:52] done is kind of tie in the snow melt
[0:54] which is the library the sidewalk
[0:56] between the library and and the new city
[0:58] hall. Uh that's been completed and kind
[1:00] of got everything sighted sight graded
[1:02] and ready for winter.
[1:04] >> Yeah. All of our utilities are in uh the
[1:07] sisterin uh water holding containment
[1:10] system for the irrigation is installed.
[1:12] Pickle ball courts, the skate park, our
[1:14] upper northwest northeast parking lot is
[1:18] complete. Yeah. Now we're just going to
[1:19] work on the pavilion buildings. So, this
[1:21] will be the uh pavilion B building. This
[1:24] is going to kind of facilitate
[1:25] everything as part of the uh playground,
[1:27] the splash pad, some of those sight
[1:29] features that we're going to be putting
[1:30] in come spring. Uh this is going to have
[1:33] community spaces, bathrooms, um a
[1:36] serving kitchen, uh that kind of has
[1:38] that uh window to the outside where
[1:40] people can kind of come up and get their
[1:42] ice cream cones. Once this all thaws out
[1:45] and construction work re begins with
[1:48] abandon, like what will residents kind
[1:50] of notice right away? Like what's your
[1:51] top item once we can really get going in
[1:54] the spring? Uh all of our site work.
[1:56] Like I said, all of our utilities are
[1:57] done, but it's like we still have our
[1:59] piles of uh black dirt, clay that we
[2:02] still have to haul out once we tolerance
[2:04] everything. And yeah, just start sight
[2:06] conquer.