City officials support the project and urged Copeland to explore buying it.
Eagan is the seventh suburb that Copeland has eyed to house her controversial children's facility, called Gift of Mary, which would be a cluster of 20 cottages (5,000-sf family homes, each housing 10 children and staffed by a married couple trained at Omaha, NE-based Boys Town), a community center and a K-12 school.
However, she still has more obstacles, including an effort in the Minnesota Legislature to put a two-year moratorium on building orphanages. Critics argue that children belong with families, not in institutions.
Copeland needs to draft a formal application for the city council, as well as have water testing done and other work needed to prepare the application. The Eagan plan commission could hear the proposal this spring.
David Engleson of the Cuningham Group Architecture PA is the project architect and project manager for Gift of Mary.
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