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(Mayor’s Corner is a regular feature where Carver County mayors share updates, insights, and messages with their communities. Carver Mayor Courtney Johnson is providing this week’s edition.)
Summer is flying by, but there’s no shortage of activity in Carver! Here are my updates for August:
New commercial development
You may have noticed fencing went up late last month around the future site of Les Schwab, an automotive services and tire center, that will be located in Carver Commons, just north of HomeTown Bank. Services Les Schwab provides include tires, brakes, wheels, alignments, batteries and more. This building will be just under 11,000 square feet and will bring nine new jobs to Carver.
Industrial development
United Properties is planning to build two 189,000 square foot industrial build-to-suit user spaces at the corner of Jonathan Carver Parkway and Levi Griffin Road, not far from Fleet Farm and Lakeview Industries. The end users have not yet been identified, but we are anticipating this will bring an estimated 100+ jobs to the City of Carver. The property has been annexed into the City and construction should start sometime next year.
Lock your doors
Last month there were some incidents of trespassing and theft from unlocked vehicles. These crimes of opportunity are very easily prevented – lock your doors, remove anything you don’t want to part with and keep the outdoor house lights on.
Mosquitoes are back
It took a little longer than in previous years, but mosquitoes have returned. Carver is part of the Metropolitan Mosquito Control District (MMCD), which has been protecting residents from mosquitoes, black flies and ticks since 1958. To report excessive mosquitoes, you can call the MMCD at 651-645-9149, email mmcdmosq@mmcd.org or use the “submit a tip” feature of their website at MMCD.org.
Congratulations
Carver on the Minnesota was recently awarded a $10,000 Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage Grant from the Minnesota Historical Society to support the launch of the “Carver Stories” oral history project. This community-driven initiative will collect and preserve personal accounts of how two of Carver’s most significant natural disasters — the 1965 Minnesota River flood and the 1985 fire that destroyed the Riverside Ballroom — impacted the lives of residents and helped shape the identity of the community.
As always, if you have any questions, comments or concerns about something from this newsletter or anything that’s going on in our community, please don’t hesitate to reach out. Stay connected, be informed and get involved!
Mayor Courtney Johnson
CJohnson@CityOfCarver.com
Cell: 612.702.7703
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