WORKFORCE
Workforce and Businesses
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Total Employment- Q1 2024
• 56,269
Total Residential Units
13,461 Single Family units
5th Annual Economic Development Bus Tour
The Eden Prairie Chamber of Commerce answers burning community question on redevelopment and infill projects.
5,491 townhome-style units( includes condo-townhomes / 600 twin homes)
1,168 apartment-style condo units 132 duplex / triplex units 7,106 multi-family units including senior
242 Co-op units
Cars that pass through each day
• I-494: 115,688 Average Daily Trips( ADT) 2023
• TH212: 56,939 ADT 2023
• TH5: 41.506 ADT 2023
By Joanna Werch Takes JULY 3, 2024
This year’ s Eden Prairie Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Bus Tour began and ended at Fat Pants Brewing Company, 8335 Crystal View Road, in a building that City Economic Development Manager David Lindahl recalled had housed at least three previous restaurants( Chevy’ s, Panino Brothers, and the one no one on the tour could remember) and cited as“ a great example of a reuse of an older building,” noting that Eden Prairie owners Don Anderson and Elizabeth Anderson Schmidt“ did most of the sweat equity themselves” in transforming the space into its current iteration.
An Xfinity store opened in February 2024 in a portion of the building that previously housed Eden Prairie’ s Green Mill restaurant. Submitted photo courtesy of Comcast / Xfinity
Nearby, Lindahl noted, another restaurant property – the previous home of the Eden Prairie branch of Green Mill restaurant – now houses an Xfinity store in about half the space at 8266 Commonwealth Drive.“ The other half, we have not heard yet what’ s happening there,” Lindahl said, noting that the approximately 3,000-square-foot space is large enough that it could host another restaurant.
Since the City of Eden Prairie does not license businesses, Lindahl said, city staff does not always know what’ s happening with specific businesses, unless they need to apply for some type of building
Total commercial / office space in EP( square footage)
• Office: 7,315,983( corporate campuses and office-condo spaces are included)
• Industrial:................ 10,650,726
• Retail / Commercial:... 5,240,818
( includes retail and hotels)
Top Employers In Eden Prairie
Optum................................... 6,500 C. H. Robinson....................... 2,500 Starkey Labs.......................... 2,117 Eden Prairie School District... 1,285 Danfoss.......................... 440 in E. P. Lifetouch................................... 800 MTS Systems Corp.................. 800 Abbott Laboratories................. 617
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