West Savage Real Estate Blog

Savage Alliance & City of Savage Will Meet to Discuss Workforce Housing on June 9

The coalition to fight the proposed Workforce Housing project is meeting on June 9 to have some serious conversations with the City of Savage to determine where the City is at with the project, and to discuss viable alternatives. 

 

The Alliance would like to see as many West Savage residents at the meeting as possible.  Mayor Janet Williams is also a confirmed attendee.  Below is the agenda for the meeting, being kicked-off by Summit Ponds resident Joel Hillyer. 

 

 

 

 

Northwest Savage Alliance-City Hall Meeting

June 9^th, 2010 7:00pm – 8:00

 

 

AGENDA

 

7:00:  Meeting Kick-Off (Joel Hillyer)

 

· Re-cap current situation as we know it and actions taken by the neighborhood (flier distribution, neighborhood meetings, website, etc)

· Purpose of today’s meeting

 

7:05:  Guest Speaker’s (Mayor Williams, Councilmember Jane Victorey, City Administrator Barry Stock and Senior Planner Brian Tucker)

 

· Historical perspective on the land

· Current Situation (where we are at in the process)

· How the process works (steps required by builder, city, etc)

· Timing of process (zoning change application, builder proposals, etc)

· Benefits of WFH concept? (How does the City benefit? How does the builder benefit? Land Owner?)

· Responses to initial concerns as identified by the neighborhoods

· Question and Answer

 

7:35:  Solutions Discussion (ALL)

 

· What do we (neighborhood) want on this land?

§  Whiteboard discussion on options/brainstorming.  Anything is on the table.

· Are the solutions discussed viable?

 

· Thought Starters:

 

§  Senior Living/Assisted Living (similar to Inver Grove Heights Development

§  Bowling Alley

§  Park/Community Pool

§  Restaurants

§  Gander Mountain/Cabela's

§  Movie Theatre

§  Trader Joe’s

§  Technical College/Satellite campus

§  Change to Zone C-3 for medical/office

 

7:55 Meeting close and next steps (ALL)

 

8:00 Adjourn

 

Coalition in Place to Stop Workforce Housing in West Savage

By Sara Huebener

Earlier, I commented on an article I read in the Savage Pacer regarding Workforce Housing.  The project was stated (in the article I commented on) to be for the purpose of helping working professionals to build equity to transition into homeownership, but it left a lot of unanswered questions.  

At the time, I knew little about the project other than what the article expressly stated.  Then, this weekend I read the Community Voices article by Robert Thibodeaux regarding the issue. 

More recently, articles have expressed the need for affordable housing.  Housing has never been as affordable as it is NOW.   Our marketplace is flooded with homes that are affordable to buyers and renters. 

The neighbors of Ridgewood, Summit Ponds, The Vistas of Summit Ponds and The Pointe have started a coalition to get involved to stop the workforce housing.  Information on the coalition can be found here.   The coalition will be best strengthened by one, unified group.   If you feel strongly on this issue, please get involved NOW. 

West Savage Open House Blitz!

Win an iPod Shuffle at our West Savage Open House Blitz on Saturday, February 20 and Sunday, February 21!   Simply attend one of our Open Houses during the Blitz to receive one entry to win. (Attend all the opens, receive an entry for each.)

Use the PRINT icon/button at the top/left of the PDF document below to print the West Savage Open House Blitz calendar.   Dates of the Open Houses will also be published in the Savage Pacer on Saturday, February 21.

The winner will be announced on West Savage Blog on Monday, February 22, 2010 via video.  

Spring market is heating up, and we have some fantastic properties available for sale in West Savage, in a variety of styles and price ranges!  Neighborhoods include Oak Hills, The Pointe, Ridgewood and Hamilton Hills.   If you know anyone looking to move into the area, please share this information with them!  This is a great time to shop the West Savage Market and find a great home!

Reintroducing.....8673 Connelly Place

This home is back on market after undergoing a facelift in the Kitchen, Dinette and Foyer!  

With new cherry-tone floors, it is worth a second look!    If you are looking for a home in the West Savage area, or know of someone else who might be, have them check out this home. 

Competitively priced at $247,700!

VIEW our ONLINE FLYER for 8673 Connelly Place!

Just Listed in West Savage's Ridgewood/Boone Place Neighborhood!

Just Listed in West Savage!  

Cute-as-a-button sun-drenched home in the Ridgewood / Boone Place neighborhood features corner cul de sac lot tucked into the hillside! Hunter Douglas window treatments throughout. Custom bath with solid doors in lower level. The basement is sheetrocked & ready for completion and instant equity.  Private backyard with HUGE patio for entertaining!  NEW boulder walls and landscaping. In-ground sprinklers, security system.

Competitively priced at $249,700. 

For more details or to schedule a showing on this home, please click here.

Our online flyer on this home can be viewed here.

Welcome to Savage's RIDGEWOOD (BOONE PLACE) Neighborhood!

 

Welcome to... www.WestSavageBlog.com!

The Ridgewood (Boone Place) neighborhood features 37 spacious single-family homes built between 1997 and 1999.  The neighborhood lies just east of Boone Avenue and north of County Road 42.  The neighborhood is in the Prior Lake/Savage School District 719.

Weekly Market Activity Report

Compiled with statistics from the Southern Twin Cities Association of REALTORS....

 

The month's supply of total inventory in the Twin Cities housing market fell slightly to 9.5 months for October, which is 3.9 percent below last October. While the downward year-over-year movement is encouraging, we are still far from a balanced market.

Home values continue to experience downward pressure as lender-mediated foreclosure and short sale properties maintain their relatively strong market share. 

The lower price ranges remain a hotbed for activity. For instance, sales under $120,000 have increased 178.0 percent in the last year, jumping to 5,473 sales during the last twelve months compared to 1,969 during the twelve months prior to that.

The big letdown in home sales that many of us have expected following the recent drops in consumer confidence has yet to materialize in the Twin Cities housing market. For the week ending October 25, there were 602 pending sales, up 17.1 percent over the same week last year. Despite the uncertainties swirling in the general economy, home sales continue to post year-over-year increases every week. Lender-mediated sales continue to grow market share, as 51.1 percent of pending sales for the most recent reporting week were foreclosures or short sales, which should mean continued declines in median sales prices.

New listings for the same week were down 2.0 percent from the same week in 2007, and the total number of active homes for sale is down by 9.2 percent year-over-year.

The updated Supply-Demand Ratio of 10.72 for this week's edition of the MAAR Weekly Market Activity Report incidates that there will be approximately 10.72 houses for every buyer during the month of November. This is down 13.9 percent from November 2007's figure of 12.45.

Welcome!

Welcome to the real estate blog for Chad and Sara Huebener!   As we begin our blog, we invite your questions on the local real estate market.