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New plan for Viking Lakes: No second hotel, city of Eagan gets use of plaza Sustainability guidelines are cut, but Eagan gets more access to the plaza.  May 9, 2021 — 8:07pm Text size Copy shortlink: The updated plan for development at Viking Lakes, the area around the Minnesota Vikings' headquarters and practice facilities, nixes a second hotel, cuts out sustainability guidelines and adds four days for the city of Eagan to hold events on the plaza area. The new plan will guide about five years of construction by MV Ventures, the...

SANDISFIELD — David Hubbard once had to drive his backhoe down Dodd Road to bring his wife home because her truck got stuck in the mud. Hubbard says the roads aren’t casting off water before the dirt turns to mud. He says the ditches aren’t deep enough and that laying gravel and grading isn’t doing the trick. “It’s like trying to empty the ocean with a teaspoon,” he said. “It will not fix it, and it is a waste of money and it is dangerous.” Several weeks ago, a UPS driver couldn’t get up the same road.

Minnesota OSHA is investigating a workplace incident that claimed the life of an 18-year-old construction worker in Eagan last week. Aaron M. Welle of Holdingsford, Minnesota, died at a Minneapolis hospital Friday, two days after suffering an electrical shock while working on an apartment project at the intersection of Dodd Road and Interstate 494. The 250-unit project is part of the Viking Lakes development. A police spokesman said the victim “stepped in a puddle with an electrical cord,” according to media reports. A 911 caller reported that the worker wasn’t breathing and was unconsc...

Worker shocked on Minnesota Vikings apartment job site dies 2 days later Paul Walsh, Star Tribune The worker shocked by electricity while on an Eagan apartment construction site associated with the Minnesota Vikings has died. Aaron M. Welle, 18, died Friday at M Health Fairview in Minneapolis, two days after the incident Wednesday afternoon outside a building at the Viking Lakes residential construction project in the 700 block of Vikings Parkway. Welle, of Holdingford, Minn., was working at the time for J-Berd Mechanical, a subcontractor from Sauk Rapids, Minn., according to ...

Police ID worker on Minnesota Vikings apartment job site badly hurt from electrical shock Eagan police spokesman Aaron Machtemes said "the guy stepped in a puddle with an electrical cord."  March 3, 2021 — 2:43pm Text size Copy shortlink: Police on Thursday identified the construction worker who was shocked and seriously injured while holding an electrical cord and stepping in water on an apartment construction site associated with the Minnesota Vikings in Eagan. The incident occurred about 1:45 p.m. Wednesday just outside a buil...