The owner of the newly zoned commercial site doesn’t disagree. Warren Israelson bought the 27-acre s

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Rosemount has rezoned an eight-lot, 27-acre site on the northeast corner of County Road 42 and State Highway 3 to spur commercial development east of Highway 3 for the first time. (Staff photo: Bill Klotz)
The council rezoned an eight-lot, 27-acre site on the northeast corner of County Road 42 and State Highway 3 on Nov. 20, which would move commercial development east of Highway 3 for the first time, according to Rosemount Economic Development Director Kim Lindquist.
Another retail broker, Cushman Wakefield/NorthMarq's Jen Helm, said that Rosemount's empty spaces are filling up and building a market for retail. But that expansion may not create enough demand yet to draw key tenants away from established retail districts.
"There has been a ton of housing growth [in Rosemount] in the last few years, but I think national retailers are still going to gravitate to Apple Valley [which borders Rosemount on the west]. That's fleetwood travel trailers where their competitors are and that's where they think they need to be."
The owner of the newly zoned commercial site doesn't disagree. Warren Israelson bought the 27-acre site close to 10 years and he said there was little interest from retail fleetwood travel trailers buyers for most of that time.
But he's hoping that construction of a Country Inn Suites by Carlson hotel on the site — Rosemount's first hotel — will be a catalyst for more developers. fleetwood travel trailers The City Council approved plans for the hotel on Nov. 20.
Lindquist said Harchanko's fleetwood travel trailers plan grew from a market study the city commissioned in 2010. "That showed that the community fleetwood travel trailers wanted fleetwood travel trailers a local hotel to accommodate weddings, school events and reunions," she said.
It also discovered unexpected demand generators fleetwood travel trailers at the Dakota County Technical College, where auto technicians visit for short term training sessions, at several large local trucking companies headquartered in Rosemount, and at the Flint Hills Resources refinery, Lindquist said.
Apollo has built seven hotels during the last several years, all in small upper Midwest cities, according to President David Harchanko. Apollo works with affiliated design and construction companies on each development.
"We've had very good luck with investors and lenders, and it's because we've been able to show that we control this process from beginning to end. We don't give the banks any surprises," Harchanko said.
A second tenant fleetwood travel trailers Israelson is negotiating with is having second thoughts. James Grobe is a principal with C-Store Partners, a Twin Cities developer and convenience store operator that proposed building a SuperAmerica store and filling station along County Road 42.