Malt-O-Meal's Lakeville Expansion Hits Snag
The 2.5-acre parcel the company wants to use has an easement that prevents anything from being built on it.
Malt-O-Meal is looking to expand its Lakeville technology center located in the Fairfield Business Campus with a new office and parking area. The Northfield-based cereal maker wants to build a 36,000 square-foot, two-story office building, and a parking area, within the 4.5 acres of land purchased last year from New Morning Windows that is just east of its current building. However, the proposed area, which is a nondescript parcel of prairie-like grass land, located at 20802 Kensington Blvd., is restricted by a conservation easement, approved in 1995, intended to preserve the area in its current state. Unless the City Council vacates the easement, nothing can be built there. The potential development also caught the attention of …
