Business View Magazine | February 2020

200 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2020 Coming Soon from Sherman Associates ShermanAssociates.com 612.332.3000 transit as opposed to the car; it does have parking underneath the building and some exterior parking, but the ratios were dropped to allow people to really think about whether they need that second or third car and they sign the leases, accordingly, with the idea that the train and bus are options.” “We also have Fridley Station Village, which is now underway,” he adds. “Sherman and Associates is a local developer that is developing 267 units right at the train station. It’s going to be a mix of types – market rate, mixed- income, and senior. It will be designed in a village fashion, right when you get off the train platform.” Another new development is the 135- unit, Ebenezer Senior Housing, now being built on the site of Fridley’s former city hall, which was recently torn down. It will include a mix of independent, assisted, and memory care units, and is expected to be completed by early fall 2020. Meanwhile, at Fridley’s new Civic Campus at Locke Park Pointe, where the city has relocated its police, fire, and public works departments, more residential units are being constructed, as well. Pulte Homes is building 26 patio homes on the south side of the campus and Lennar Homes is building 72 townhomes across the street. The patio homes are designed to attract older residents who want to live in a community where their domiciles are being maintained for them, so that they can even be somewhere else during the cold Minnesota winters, while the townhomes are being built for a mixed-age demographic. The new Civic Campus, itself, was designed to be a gathering place for Fridley’s residents. It has a central water feature (that also serves as a storm pond for the new City Hall, as well as the new townhomes), lighted area fountains, and a half- mile walking loop around it. “We have a small amphitheater for entertainment on that water’s edge, and the plaza above it was designed to be multi-purpose for art fairs, small musical events,