Residential Development
Leonard, Street and Deinard’s Residential Development practice group offers clients a full range of services for all types of housing transactions and litigation. We have considerable experience in a variety of housing areas, such as single-family subdivisions, planned residential communities, condominiums, townhomes, multifamily housing, student housing, affordable housing, marketing and regulatory compliance, bond issues and low-income housing tax credits, mixed-use development, supportive housing, zoning and land-use planning, land assembly and development lending.
Our Experience
Our broad background with a variety of developers and owners allows us to understand the following industry practices that affect our clients’ businesses:
- Single-family subdivisions
- Planned communities
- Townhouses and condominiums
- Affordable housing
- Purchase and sale transactions
- Site assembly and development
- Community-assisted development
- Planning, zoning and land-use regulation
- Brownfields redevelopment
- Tax-deferred exchanges
- Conservation easements
- Limited partnerships, limited liability companies and joint ventures
- Not-for-profit organizations
- Historic rehabilitation
- Title clearance
- Condemnation
- Real estate tax protests
- Contract enforcement litigation
- Construction litigation
- Land-use and zoning litigation
- Title insurance litigation
- Subdivided land sales; securities registrations and compliance
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Clients
Leonard, Street and Deinard has represented the following clients in the area of residential development:
- AIMCO Calhoun LLC (mutli-family and mixed-use developments, including Calhoun Beach Club Apartments, involving restoration of social and athletic club and hotel and new luxury multifamily tower)
- Bigos Investments (apartment acquisition and financing)
- Brighton Development Corp. (office, retail and residential real estate development, including Stone Arch/Washburn Lofts Condominium, North Star Lofts Condominium, Minikahda Cottages Condominium, Marquette Townhomes Condominium, Lourdes Square Condominium, and Townhomes at River Heights Condominium)
- Contractor Property Developers Company (residential and commercial real estate development in Minnesota and Wisconsin, including Liberty on the Lake, Towne Lakes, Evermoor, and Victor Gardens)
- Dayton's Bluff Community Development Company (affordable housing developments, including Homes for Learning (low income housing tax credit development), Otsego Townhomes, and Payne Avenue Townhomes)
- D.R. Horton, Inc.-Minnesota (residential site acquisition, assembly and development and formation of common interest communities in Minnesota and Wisconsin, including Crossroads, Roundstone at Evermoor, St. Clair Bluffs, Middle Creek, Trout Brook Farms, Ramsey Town Center, and Vermillion Springs)
- GrandMarc/Ambling (student housing, including Jefferson Commons and Seven Corners)
- Heritage Renovations, LLC and the Hunt Gregory Group (condominium and mixed-use developments, including River Station and Heritage Landings in downtown Minneapolis including tax increment financed subsidy, environmental matters, joint venture agreement with Fannie Mae American Community Funds)
- Housing and Redevelopment Authority of the City of Saint Paul (land assembly, bond financing, office and housing development and brownfields redevelopment, including West Side Flats and Upper Landing)
- JPI (student housing)
- Lundgren Bros. Construction, Inc. (residential real estate subdivision and development, including Wild Meadows, Vasserman Ridge, Cascades and Lakeside at Oxbow Commons)
- Minnesota Housing Services (affordable housing developments, including Bossen Park Apartments, Geneva Village Apartments, Kentucky Lane Apartments and Manitou Ridge Apartments (all bond financed with 4% low income housing tax credits)
- PAK Properties (mixed-use developments, including Rossmor Building Condominium and Produce Exchange Lofts)
- People Serving People (homeless shelter in downtown Minneapolis, including successfully lobbying for revisions to the Minneapolis zoning map)
- Sherman Associates (mixed-use, condominium, and townhome developments, including City Homes on Park Avenue Condominium, The Dakota on the Park Condominium, Capitol Heights City Homes Condominium, Little Canada Townhomes, Bottineau Commons Condominium, Bottineau West Condominium, Keene Creek Townhomes, and Shoreview Village Townhomes)
- Sherman/Lander Partnership (multi-family residential development, including Uptown Urban Village, involving assistance from Livable Communities Grants, Hennepin County cleanup grants and General Obligation Tax Increment Financing Bonds)
- Wellington Management, Inc. (commercial and multi-family residential development)