Star Tribune Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:51:34 GMT
Building Maple Grove's downtown from scratch
A retiring Maple Grove official has been hailed as "a visionary" and "a critical part" of the team that helped the growing suburb come to life with the new-urbanism style of its central district. Bob Waibel has always lived in older, traditional cities, most with older, traditional downtowns. So it was "sort of an accident" that he spent his 31-year career in new and growing suburbs. He spent 24 of those years in Maple Grove, where he worked as a planner and then as the community development director during the time when the city sprouted and grew its own version of a new downtown. As he approaches retirement April 30, he talked about that evolution:
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