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Agenda: Edina - 72nd & France TIF District - Early Dec. 2024

Edina City CouncilSunday, March 16, 2025
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[Music] the city has created a new tax increment financing or Tiff District to support public improvements tied to the Redevelopment of the 9 acre Macy's Furniture and Mattress Gallery site on France Avenue Enclave companies and lifestyle communities secured approvals earlier this fall for the project which will include four new buildings the existing store will relocate and the existing building will be raised one of the new buildings will be an 11-story condominium building with office space and either a restaurant or retailer on the street level another will be a seven-story mixed use building with Apartments the other two will be seven-story apartment buildings one of those will also have space for a restaurant each building will include indoor parking for residents employees and customers the street level parking stalls would be available to the general public the site plan is arranged with new roadways sidewalks and Landscaping areas that will be available to the general public the existing 9M Creek bicycle trail will remain on the southern edge of the property the development team plans to invest nearly 310 million in the project under the Tiff Redevelopment agreements approved by the city council after the new 72nd and France three Tiff District was established the city and Housing and Redevelopment Authority pledged up to nearly 23 million to reimburse a portion of eligible costs using a combination of Tiff and a grant from the city's special projects and Redevelopment capital or spark fund what we be using those Tiff dollars for is to reimburse the developer for a lot of those costs that are really unique to the site that create public benefit and make the project possible so for example raising the existing building cleaning up the property it's an 8 Acre Site that used to be gravel and sand pit so there's really no portion of this building other than what's behind us today that's even buildable so there's a lot of site preparation that has to happen that's millions of dollars and then the final project has a lot of the public space on the exterior as well as public parking on the interior affordable housing units all those things that deliver public benefit cost a lot of money and that's where the Tiff will be spent establishing the Tiff district and approving the Tiff Redevelopment agreements with the developers were the first few of many regulatory and procedural steps in the process approval of each design or construction project to fund public infrastructure projects would be approved by the city council or Housing and Redevelopment Authority