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Dec. 28, 2018 • Volume 39 • Number 43
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State orders Norwood Inn and Suites to close in Burnsville by John Gessner SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE
The Norwood Inn and Suites, considered by city officials the problem child among Burnsville’s nine hotel properties, has been ordered to close by the Minnesota Department of Health. The department revoked the Norwood’s hotel license after the property failed a Dec. 18 health and safety inspection, said
Mark Peloquin, enforcement coordinator for the department’s food, pools and lodging services section. Under department scrutiny since a routine inspection in May, the 84-room hotel at 12920 Aldrich Ave. S. had in November been given 20 days to fix violations of the state lodging code or lose its license, Peloquin said. Twelve of 13 violations remained on the scheduled
inspection date of Dec. 18, he said Dec. 21. The hotel, owned by Burnsville Hospitality LLC, must close and be emptied, Peloquin said. Officials will return this week to follow up, he said. A reporter’s phone calls to the business went unanswered Monday, Dec. 24. The parking lot was nearly empty, and a small barrier had been placed in front of the guest parking spaces.
The closing removed some long-term renters who called the Norwood home. Peloquin said he’s not sure how many longterm renters there are, but about half the rooms weren’t in service when inspectors visited on Dec. 18. “We understand the plight, and we do understand the time of year that we’re dealing with here as File photo by John Gessner well,” Peloquin said. The Minnesota Department of Health has revoked the See Norwood, 20A license of the Norwood Inn and Suites in Burnsville.
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Skol Eagan:Vikings arrive Vikings move to Eagan in 2018 by Andy Rogers SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE
It’s year the Minnesota Vikings moved to Eagan. Minnesota’s favorite football team opened operations at its new Twin Cities Orthopedics Performance Center within the 200-acre Viking Lakes development in northeastern Eagan, east of Dodd Road and South of I-494, in 2018. The Vikings held training camp for the first time in Eagan last July and August where about 5,000 fans came to Eagan each day to watch their the purple-clad players prepare for the season.
Straddling past and future, Burnsville focuses on development by John Gessner SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE
Straddling its past and future, the city of Burnsville focused on development in 2018 — brainstorming ways to revitalize Burnsville Center, welcoming new apartment proposals after years of rejecting them, adopting new tools to more aggressively court business and eying a landfill-closure plan that could be a winner for both the environment and the tax base. Burnsville also saw File photo by Andy Rogers Fans watched a training-camp session in August at the changes in leadership, including the surprise resVikings’ new headquarters in Eagan. ignation and replacement It took about two years Airlines property. for the Vikings to build its But it wasn’t the only of City Manager Heather new headquarters on the football team to enjoy the Johnston and the flipping of two state House seats See Eagan, 16A former Northwest/Delta
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Burnsville Center got a new indoor play area in 2018, but most of the attention was on the future of the mall and the surrounding County Road 42 retail area. from Republican to Dem- Sun Thisweek. ocrat. Here are some high- Burnsville Center lights of 2018, from the The 41-year-old regionpages of Burnsville-Eagan See Burnsville, 14A
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