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Arden Hills, Minnesota
Study & planning
Community utility
Approximately 2.5 million square feet
1,460 housing units, along with hotel, grocery, commercial, retail, mixed use, civic, and corporate buildings
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Rice Creek Commons is a 427-acre site that is slated for major residential and commercial redevelopment. The redevelopment focuses on creating a vibrant community that can serve as a national model for sustainable redevelopment. The partners developing the site are prioritizing energy infrastructure that can set the standard for efficient building design and low carbon emissions.
Arden Hills, Minnesota
Study & planning
Community utility
Approximately 2.5 million square feet
1,460 housing units, along with hotel, grocery, commercial, retail, mixed use, civic, and corporate buildings
Download Project Summary
Ever-Green has been a long-standing advisor to this project, as a civic partner, and as a leader of the energy system master planning project team, which also included the Center for Energy and Environment and Burns & McDonnell. Ever-Green continues to provide support to the implementation phase of development.
The redevelopment of the site required an in-depth analysis of policy and implementable energy source and energy conservation methods that are implementable for this site. This analysis resulted in the following key findings: