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Two-Year-Old School Submits $1M State Bonding Request

WOODBURY, MN-The collaborative school needs more construction money after settling a lawsuit with a landowner who had contested the court-ordered price the school paid for the land.

By Jim McCartney | Updated on January 12, 2004

WOODBURY, MN-Officials at Crosswinds Middle School in Woodbury, which has been open for more than two years, will ask Minnesota legislature this session for $1 million in bonding money to pay the rest of the school’s construction bill. The year-round middle school serves 10 school districts, which belong to the East Metro Integration District.

The district obtained a 37-acre parcel of farmland through condemnation, and a court had decided the district should pay the property owners about $3 million. But the owners, the Jordan family, appealed the court’s decision on the purchase price and for damages incurred. After a mediated settlement was reached last fall, the district has agreed to pay an additional $1 million for the property.

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