Business View Civil Municipal June 2023

104 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 6 traditionally been underdeveloped and has since been marked in its 2040 Comprehensive Plan as an area prime for redevelopment. Conversely, the city has recently made a proclamation to follow the St. Paul Area Association of Realtors’ recommendation to support fair housing. To marry these two issues, Farmington teamed up with an experienced developer, Ebert Construction, to build a 74-unit apartment complex in the historic downtown district. “It’s the first new market rate apartment complex being built in the community in decades, and its being built in a location that will also support our downtown businesses,” Hoyt explains. “The whole project is multifaceted. It supports our businesses by bringing new and additional patrons and foot traffic. It supports our employment base by offering a new housing type so that more employees and people who reside elsewhere can call Farmington home. And it redevelops an underutilized Lynn Gorski