195-Unit Senior Home Near Hospital Gets Edina Council's Preliminary Approval

The Edina City Council approved the preliminary plans and rezonings necessary for the construction of a five-story senior housing project near Fairview Southdale Hospital.

The 195-unit senior facility, which would be built at the intersection of France Avenue and 65th Street, packs a smaller footprint than the developers’ previous plan for the site, a 100,000 square-foot medical office building.

At 83 units per acre, the senior housing facility would become the densest residential building in Edina. Mount Properties and Aurora Investments, the joint developers of the property, plan to build 111 units of senior assisted and independent living; 66 units of traditional care/skilled nursing and memory care beds; and 18 care suites, where short-term, post-surgery patients could stay.          

“This is the right corner for this, it’s attached to the hospital, it’s good use,” council member Ann Swenson said.

In response to planning commission feedback, the developers reduced the senior home’s footprint by 15,000 square feet, added more trees to screen for noise, increased affordable housing to about ten percent of the total units and extended a green roof.