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Civic Campus Update: July 2025
Chanhassen City CouncilMonday, July 21, 2025
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[0:00] [Music]
[0:10] Happy summer everybody. It's been a
[0:11] while since we've checked in with you,
[0:13] but as you can tell from the building
[0:14] behind me, we've made a lot of progress
[0:16] on our new civic campus building. We
[0:17] can't wait to welcome you into it later
[0:19] this fall. First, we're going to give
[0:21] you an update on phase two, which will
[0:22] be completed summer of 2026. and then
[0:25] we'll take you inside this building to
[0:27] show you what's been done and what's
[0:28] going to continue to be done over these
[0:30] next few weeks and months. So, if you
[0:31] walked around city hall lately, you
[0:33] noticed that there's a lot of fencing, a
[0:35] lot of routes that are no longer open to
[0:37] the public. That's because phase two of
[0:39] the Civic Campus project is slowly
[0:41] getting underway. Um, tell us a little
[0:43] bit about what's happening on this stage
[0:44] of the project.
[0:45] So, right now, we've mobilized the
[0:47] fencing to the the uh north side of the
[0:50] project. This is really going to start
[0:51] to to kick off that pavilion building,
[0:55] the stage structure, and really that
[0:56] park aspect of this project with all of
[0:58] the site work and sidewalks and
[1:01] obviously the the fencing we we put up
[1:03] to create a safe spot for everyone and
[1:05] uh working towards that part of the
[1:07] project, wrapping up city hall.
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[1:28] So, I think the last time we were here
[1:29] was about 2 months ago. Um, so what's
[1:32] happened on the exterior of the building
[1:33] since then? the exterior of the
[1:35] building, the glass and glazing, the
[1:36] storefront and curve walls have been
[1:38] going in. Uh basically wrapping around
[1:40] the building, hit heading around the uh
[1:42] west side there. And then uh the
[1:44] background here, you can see that
[1:45] they're kind of pouring the the entrance
[1:47] to the uh parking garage. Uh they just
[1:50] poured the trench drain in. Uh it does
[1:51] have snow melt in it, so it's been a
[1:53] pretty big pretty big task so far to get
[1:56] done this spring through this summer.
[1:59] Couple of exterior highlights coming up
[2:02] will be uh the solar panels and the
[2:04] clock winds will be in August. The clock
[2:07] will be at the end of this month. Uh
[2:08] starting the 28th they'll be putting the
[2:10] scaffolding up to put in the uh clock.
[2:13] So uh as a community you'll see that
[2:15] starting here at the end of this month.
[2:17] So this side this side the brick is
[2:19] brick and stone have all been washed. Uh
[2:21] we still got a couple of metal panels we
[2:23] got to put in and obviously some of the
[2:25] entrances, but uh this side as far as
[2:28] the finishes, they're pretty much
[2:29] complete. So then you can see the glass
[2:31] is starting to go in and and pretty much
[2:33] wrapping up. They've got one last frame
[2:34] to complete on the glass for the council
[2:36] chambers and then it'll just be wrapping
[2:39] the rest of the building with the metal
[2:40] panels.
[2:41] All right, we're inside now. What's
[2:42] happened recently in here and what are
[2:44] you guys going to be working on in the
[2:46] coming weeks and months? So, what we've
[2:48] gone through recently is we we've
[2:50] started the finishes. Uh behind me, you
[2:52] can see the ceiling grid is is gone in
[2:55] the upper ceiling grid. We've been
[2:56] putting in the specially slat one
[2:58] ceiling. It's a wood grain kind of uh
[3:00] ceiling ceiling grid or ceiling tile. Uh
[3:03] startup has happened for all the
[3:05] mechanical equipment. The feature stair
[3:07] has gone in. We're putting the railings
[3:09] on. Uh and then it's just the the rest
[3:11] of the finishes. This is one of the
[3:14] highlights of the building, our new
[3:15] council chambers where members of the
[3:17] public will come and obviously it's
[3:18] where our city council meetings will be
[3:20] held. What have you guys accomplished
[3:22] here recently and what's left to do? So,
[3:24] recently all the stone work has gone in.
[3:26] Um the rough ends in the ceiling, all of
[3:29] that has gone in and right now they're
[3:31] working on putting all the track in for
[3:33] the slat one ceilings. It's kind of like
[3:35] a specialty ceiling that's going to
[3:37] really make this place pop. Um, coming
[3:40] up next, we'll get the dies put in, wood
[3:42] paneling going along that wall. Um, all
[3:44] of that will go in and basically work
[3:47] our way out of this room. We're here in
[3:49] the senior center, one of the new
[3:50] buildings. Amazing highlights. We can't
[3:52] wait to welcome our 55 plus community
[3:54] here um in this space. What's still left
[3:57] to do? What can we look forward to the
[3:58] next month or so? Well, the fellas are
[4:00] going to be working on the ceiling. Uh,
[4:02] same thing as kind of that main area,
[4:04] the slat one ceiling. It's a feature
[4:06] finish. it it's going to look really
[4:08] beautiful. Um the fireplace is all ready
[4:11] to go. We've just got to put in a couple
[4:13] more finishes there and and really it's
[4:15] just going to be some returns and and
[4:17] carpet.
[4:32] Heat. Heat.
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