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FROMMER"S AWARDS LAKEVILLE, MINN. TOP 10 PLACES TO RAISE A FAMILY
Lakeville-based "Spirit of Brandtjen Farm™" Offers Families Modern-day Living Conveniences while Preserving Family Values
Lakeville, Minn. - Frommer's, the leading travel guide experts, recently ranked Lakeville, Minn., as one of its "best of the best" in its new 2006 travel guide called Best Places to Raise Your Family: The Top 100 Affordable Communities in the U.S., by Peter Sander and Bert Sperling. Top cities were selected based on affordability, school systems, health and safety, family activity options and population profile.
The Lakeville award recognition comes just in time to showcase the new Spirit of Brandtjen Farm housing and commercial development. Spirit is a new $1 billion community in northeast Lakeville and will include 2,109 homes and 150,000 square feet of commercial space on 594 acres, yet, fully one-third of the site is preserved as a public park, open space and water amenity. Log on to www.homesofspirit.com for more information.
Other top 10 cities named in the book include: Louisville, Colo.; Gaithersburg, Md.; Roswell, Ga.; Flower Mound, Texas; Fort Collins, Colo.; Cary, N.C.; Sugar Land, Texas; Columbia, Md.; and Noblesville, Ind.
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Tradition Development LLC: Spirit of Brandtjen Farm
Tradition Development is a Minnesota-based company established in 1999 by a "sister" company of century-old Enebak Construction of Northfield, Minn., one of the most respected and experienced excavation contractors in the Upper Midwest. Tradition Development specializes in all phases of successful completion of land projects including site location, acquisition through construction, and finance. For more information, visit www.traditiondevelopment.com.