Critics say Lake Elmo’s anti-growth bias is obvious when you look at what’s happened in neighboring cities. Those neighbors have eagerly welcomed malls, factories, offices. – from the Pioneer Press, Jan. 29, 2012, Lake Elmo: Small, and shrinking To those unfamiliar, Lake Elmo is a quaint, little town east of St. Paul. Lake Elmo provides […]
Residents of Lake Elmo are up in arms over the city council decision to fire city manager Dean Zuleger, and lawn signs are popping up on the streets, photographed Monday, March 16, 2015. (Pioneer Press: Scott Takushi)
Farms + mansions + acre lots = Lake Elmo Back in 2003 I was working as a volunteer radio news reporter for KFAI, a great long-time community radio station on Minneapolis’ West Bank. Much like blogging, it was a fun (if unpaid) job involving many unexpected conversations and encounters with people from all corners of […]
[…] Corridor running eastward along I-94 from downtown Saint Paul overlaid on a map showing population and employment density as well as other transit routes. Last Tuesday, the Lake Elmo city council voted 3–2 to reject further involvement in the Gold Line project, also known as the Gateway Corridor. The service has been planned to run […]
[…] course, there’s tremendous pressure with projects like these, because so much money is at stake; $700M buys you a lot of construction jobs. Barring a fit of Lake Elmo-esque pique, there’s no way that a tiny city like Oak Park Heights would politically block a huge project like that.) Minneapolis, on the other hand, has […]
[…] to severely cut service on express route 294. The Metro Transit line runs weekdays between St. Paul and Stillwater, making stops near 3M, in Oakdale and in Lake Elmo. Currently, the 294 has eight trips going to Stillwater (three in the morning, five in the afternoon) and nine trips going to St. Paul (six in […]
A propos of the Lake Elmo article, here’s a chart of projected job growth along a few of the different Gateway Corridor alignment options from the Met Council’s recent study on the project. As you can see, most of the job growth is projected to take place in Saint Paul, Oakdale, and by the 3M campus […]
North Star Farm, Lake Elmo, MN. March 1, 2018