The Eagan City Council has approved an expansion plan for Diffley Marketplace that includes adding a full-service restaurant and a 9,424-square-foot multi-tenant building to the retail complex.
The existing two-building retail center was built in 2008 and has been owned by an entity of Oakbrook, Ill.-based Inland Real Estate Corp. since 2010. Anchored by a Cub Foods, the center's other tenants include an Anytime Fitness and a Dunn Bros. coffee shop.
The new restaurant and retail building will be constructed on two adjacent parcels and will be designed to look like the existing center.
Rick Plessner, an Inland vice president, told the council that potential tenants for the new retail building include a day-care center, a dental office, an orthodontic clinic and a frozen yogurt shop.
Earlier plans for that parcel called for a bank or financial institution, while previous plans for the other parcel were for a fast-food restaurant with a drive-through window.
Plessner said Inland now would like to have a sit-down restaurant with outdoor seating and possibly on-sale liquor. He said his firm is in discussions with a restaurant operator, which he declined to identify.
Strong building year in Lakeville
Residential construction dominated building activity in Lakeville last year, fueling a sharp rise in the value of building permits to almost $130 million compared with about $88 million in 2011.
