Month: September 2016

Carver Crossing officially opened its doors to new families at a recent ribbon-cutting ceremony. Approved by the Carver City Council in March of 2015, Carver Crossing is a sixty-eight unit apartment building dedicated to providing workforce housing opportunities in the community.  The development is located next to Carver Station, a four-hundred stall open-air park and ride facility serviced by SouthWest Transit. (Read more…)  New residents of Carver Crossing will also be neighbors to Carver Elementary, a new kindergarten through 5^th grade elementary school to be completed in the fall of 2017 by Eastern Carver County Schools.

Attending speakers at the ribbon-cutting ceremony included Ron Clark, Owner and Founder, Ron Clark Construction and Design; Mike Webb, Mayor, City of Carver; Adam Duininck, Chair, Metropolitan Council; and Wes Butler, Assistant Commissioner, Minnesota Housing Finance Agency.

Mayor Mike Webb, noted during the ceremony, “The investment and partnerships created as a result of this project will undoubtedly provide additional opportunities for our community for generations.”        

Afterwards, Mayor Webb, upon meeting with new residents of Carver Crossing exclaimed, “Let me be first to welcome you to the City of Carver…welcome home!”  

Carver Crossing was developed by Ron Clark Construction and Design at a cost of approximately $14.5 million. The project was financed in part through the Housing Tax Credit Program of the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency, which requires tenants to have household incomes of no more than 60% of area median income.

The Metropolitan Council also partnered in the project by awarding $1,190,000 in funding through the Livable Communities Demonstration Account, a program designed to connect housing, jobs, civic sites, retail centers and local/regional transportation systems.