Politics & Government
Ordinance to Approve Deer Creek Center TIF Plan Back on Council Agenda
Council members will wait to come to an agreement on the plan before final approval.
An ordinance to approve a for Maplewood's Deer Creek Center was introduced to Maplewood City Council at Tuesday night's meeting.
The $27 million plan, which includes a request for an $8.5 million TIF from the city, was proposed last December by Summit Development Group, who owns the property.
The money would pay for new landscaping, updated signs and improved parking lots and sidewalks at the nearly vacant strip mall, which has been designated as a .
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By law an ordinance for approval must be introduced to city council and put on the agenda within 90 days after a public hearing is held on a project like this, but council members tabled it at the meeting and won't be making a decision any time soon.
City Manager Marty Corcoran said nothing will be decided until the city comes to a mutual agreement with Summit on the plan.
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After the meeting, Corcoran said he hopes to see some movement on the project around the first of May, but also said it's a possibility that the project won't happen at all.
An old TIF from a previous development attempt will be collapsed at some point, but that doesn't need to happen before the new one is approved. When that is collapsed, the MRH school district could get a "couple hundred thousand," Corcoran said, calling it a guess. Other taxing districts, including the city of Maplewood, will get a share of that too.
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