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Developer looks to turn former Burnsville garbage dump into sports complex
Updated: July 2, 2025 – 11:11 AM
Published: July 1, 2025 – 4:05 PM
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Burnsville landfill site draws new plan for $45M sports complex
Plans to redevelop a landfill in Burnsville are set to be submitted to the city next week…
Freeway Dump site is environmentally sound
Counterpoint: Sports complex proposal for inactive Freeway Dump site is environmentally sound
We’ve helped transform hundreds of brownfield and Superfund sites, and this is what we see at the Burnsville location.
By Mark Olson, John Lichter, Bryan Murdock and John Hink
May 28, 2025 at 5:29PM
From a dump to a driving range to a destination — if only
Half a century later, the MPCA stands in the way of an exciting redevelopment opportunity in Burnsville.
Fargo Suite Shots ownership group eyes similar development in Twin Cities
Mar 29, 2024 | 12:38 PM
FARGO (KFGO) – The partnership which owns Suite Shots in Fargo is looking to develop a similar complex in the Twin Cities suburb of Burnsville. It would be built on what’s known as Burnsville’s Freeway Dump near I-35W and Cliff Road. There’s a driving range on the site now…. read full article here
Burnsville mayor endorses vision to develop Freeway Dump
The long and complicated history of Burnsville’s Freeway Dump could soon fade into the background as a new vision for its future takes center stage.
The former dump, just northeast of the Interstate-35W and Cliff Road interchange, is home to the Chalet Golf driving range and roughly 30 acres of buried trash dating back to the 1960s.
Burnsville mayor endorses vision to develop Freeway Dump
The long and complicated history of Burnsville’s Freeway Dump could soon fade into the background as a new vision for its future takes center stage.
The former dump, just northeast of the Interstate-35W and Cliff Road interchange, is home to the Chalet Golf driving range and roughly 30 acres of buried trash dating back to the 1960s.
Golf range, pickleball, entertainment facility proposed on dump site
John Gessner: Mar 27, 2024
Golf range, pickleball, entertainment facility proposed on dump site
Would replace 33-year-old driving range next to I-35W
Pickleball, golf entertainment venue might replace former Burnsville landfill
Golf range, pickleball, entertainment facility proposed on dump site
Would replace 33-year-old driving range next to I-35W
Kraemer Mining looks to strike a deal with Freeway Landfill
UPDATED:
BURNSVILLE – Unearthing 6 million cubic yards of waste from inactive landfills isn’t a job for everyone, but Kraemer Mining and Materials wants to make a deal to clean up the Freeway landfill and dump sites.
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Key Burnsville Development Project Takes Next Important Step
Big Hits at the Gateway Submits Official Development Application to the City of Burnsville…
Burnsville, MN (June 20, 2025
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Announcing Big Hits at the Gateway in Burnsville
Golf/Pickleball Multi-Sports Entertainment Complex Proposed for Chalet Golf Driving Range Site…
Burnsville, MN (June 11, 2025)
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