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S Lund Industries(left)was the first ten-
'" .,:. ant in the Anoka industrial park.Com-
> munity Development Director Bob
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stormwater pond in the park.
Anoka ` .
Enterprise tt. Y,
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finds success
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Free land = develo ment boomp
—by Jessica Gross—
,When traditional marketing tracks to County Road 116, area were heightened by the fact "Nothing Anoka is doing is ille-
didn't work, the city of paving the way for development that the city did not have a specif- gal, immoral or fattening. The
Anoka decided to encour- in the northern 280 acres of the is development plan or any com- payback in Anoka is actually
age business development by park. petitive marketing strategies in more than most cities are getting,
handing out free land. Despite improved access, place. because they are providing the
It worked. development was slow in coming "We did not have a product that land and making it easy for corn-
Within a year, only 85 of 230 to this area,says Anoka Commu- was packaged and ready,"Kirch- panies to do business here," he
open acres in the city's industrial nity Development Director Bob ner says.Anoka began"an inten- says. The longest tax increment
park were available for develop- Kirchner."There was a perception sive planning process" for the financing (TIF)paybacj agree-
ment, and some of those sites that it was not an attractive park in early 1994."We laid it out ment in the park is five years,
were under negotiation.By offer- place,"he explains."There were based on consumer interest and compared to 10 to 20 for other
ing 3.5 square feet of free land for a lot of trucks parked over there, on the market, and on the city's cities.
every square foot of construction, and some old railroad ties were own objectives," Kirchner "The comparison is a loss for
the city transformed Anoka Enter- stored outside,and there is an old explains.Anoka took out options two to five years vs.a loss forev-
prise Park from nearly vacant sand and gravel operation that is on the land from the various own- er," Stout says, in reference to
industrial land to a successful not in business any more." ers, and developed the free land businesses that leave the area or
business park. In January 1994, the Anoka idea. the state, often because of high
The 380-acre park sits in the City Council rejected requests to Is the city selling its soul for property taxes. In fact, the city
northwestern section of town, rezone the park from light indus- development by giving away convinced several businesses that
north and west of Highway 10. trial to residential,and decided to land?Hardly,says Gary Stout,an were looking at Wisconsin and
About 100 acres are located commit itself to the development economic development consultant Dakota sites to remain in Min-
between Highway 10 and the of Anoka Enterprise Park. based in Salt Lake City. Stout's nesota.
Burlington Northern Railroad "The next step was to determine company,Public-Private Ventures "Anoka did a few things that
tracks; this area is mostly devel- why developers were not interest- Inc.,was hired by the city in late were very simple,but not a lot of
oped. In 1988,Thurston Avenue ed in the property,"Kirchner says. 1993 to assist in the development cities are doing them," Stout
was extended north across the Negative perceptions of the of the business park.
IIIPage 4■November 1995■Minnesota Industrial Properties
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