Roseville, Minnesota

removing environmentally hazardous materials like asbestos and lead contamination from the property. “The other business retention project was for Tareen Dermatology. The business has been in Roseville for some time and has been growing consistently, but it needed new space. Many of Tareen’s clients are ageing and it was important for her to stay in the community. The city was able to provide public finance assistance for the business to build a new, 40,000-square-foot, two-story, medical office building, which allowed the city to retain 60 quality jobs. It was also a site that had contamination issues, and the city was able to contribute financially to clean up that property. “Generally when the city gets involved with providing public finance assistance for a project, there are usually soil contamination issues present, and these projects would likely not happen if not for that assistance. Beyond the expense of contamination removal, projects can be challenged by expensive labor, construction materials, and land costs. Most of these projects are all located in an area in Roseville called Twin Lakes, which historically has been an area dominated by trucking terminals due to Roseville’s geographic location and easy access to I-694, I-35W, and U.S. Highway 36. The historical uses of those truck terminals created contamination issues. At Tareen Dermatology, the City contributed $650,000 of assistance, some of which was earmarked for environmental