Wyngate Townhomes is a rental housing community designed for "workforce families with qualifying incomes," according to officials with Hartford Group. A total of 50-units will be constructed, separated into two buildings with underground parking stalls for each unit. The three- and four-bedroom townhouses are expected to be available for occupancy in spring of 2006, the company says.

The townhouses are part of Legacy Village, an ambitious mixed-used "new urbanism" development that comprises about 500 housing units, as well as retail and office buildings. Hartford says that the more than 2,000 neighboring customers should provide a strong based for its "Legacy Shops" retail component, as will the 20,000 cars that travel each day on the newly re-constructed County Road D. Legacy Village at Maplewood is located on 81 acres along County Road D on the north and Hazelwood Street just west of Maplewood Mall. The development also will offer two medical office buildings, playing off of its proximity to St. John's Hospital.

Hartford Group said it recently closed on the financing and commenced construction of Wyngate Townhomes in Legacy Village at Maplewood. Funding for the project came from four sources: low-income housing tax credit grants from the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency; fixed-rate mortgage funding from the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Developmen;, and additional loans from Minnesota Housing Finance Agency and the Family Housing Fund.