Vadnais Heights has a wide range of housing: executive housing, starter homes, attached residences and an active-senior living community. The City provides its citizens equal parts of prosperity, serenity, and comfort; well-maintained parks and a growing network of trails offer recreational enjoyment. Citizens and businesses are provided quality services at reasonable costs. Vadnais Heights’ property tax rate is one of the lowest in the metro area, and a fire insurance rating of class 3 indicates the City delivers quality service at a fair cost. Vadnais Heights offers a complete array of municipal services, including: utilities, animal control, law enforcement( through a contract with the Ramsey County Sheriff’ s Department), fire, emergency medical and rescue services, and Allina Hospitals and Clinics ambulance services.
Vadnais Heights is part of two highlyrated school districts— White Bear Lake District 624 and Mounds View District 621. Additionally, the Agricultural and Food Sciences Academy( AFSA), a public charter high school, is located in the City. Century College, the largest community college in Minnesota, is conveniently located nearly three miles away in White Bear Lake.
The City’ s commercial tax base is robust. Its business sector is corporate headquarters for H. B. Fuller, Short Elliott Hendrickson( SEH), IC System, and Knowlan’ s( Festival Foods) Grocery Stores. Target, Walmart and eight auto dealerships have also“ set up shop” within the City of Vadnais Heights. Additionally, the City also has a growing retail-service sector composed of shops, restaurants and other amenities, such as Fresh Thyme Farmer’ s Market, Pet
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Supplies Plus, Noodles & Company, Kwik Trip, Punch Pizza, Starbucks and St. Paul Farmers’ Market.
In a 2016 Community Survey, a solid 97 % of residents rate the quality of life as either“ excellent” or“ good;” but, the 37 % rating it as“ excellent” is well above the median for suburbs within the Metropolitan Area. Residents seem satisfied, enthusiastically so, with their lives in the City.
In August 2010, the City opened the state-of-the-art North Service Center; it houses a public works garage, fire station and a 10,000-square-foot community facility named Vadnais Heights Commons. The award-winning Commons is well utilized for community events, including PJs with Santa, Lions
Waffle Breakfasts and Heritage Days. Also, it serves as an elegant venue for private weddings, graduation parties, birthday parties and other family or business functions... for residents and non-residents alike.
Vadnais Sports Center also opened in 2010; it features two NHL regulationsize hockey rinks, a 100,000-square-foot sports dome and seating for nearly 2,000 fans. A wide range of ice and turf programs and activities are offered through community programming partners. Vadnais Sports Center – owned and operated by Ramsey County Parks & Recreation – is home to the White Bear Lake Girls’ and Boys’ hockey teams and the Mounds View Boys’ hockey team.
The City is home to a variety of restaurants and hotels – Fairfield Inn, Country Inn and Suites and Holiday Inn – and offers easy access to the Twin Cities and Minneapolis / St. Paul airport. Vadnais Heights has long been a great place to live and has evolved into“ a destination.”
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