Drive past the corner of I-494 and Bass Lake Road this month and the story you'll hear from most neighbors is about food. Coborn's Market & Table. The Buttered Tin. A chef with three concepts under one roof. That's the version that made the rounds after the grocery store's March opening, and it's not wrong, exactly. It's just not the first thing that happened on this 75-acre site.
The first tenant to actually open its doors at The Boulevard wasn't a restaurant. It was Summit Orthopedics, a 78,000-square-foot clinic with an ambulatory surgery center, physical and hand therapy suites, bracing and orthotics, and its own MRI and CT imaging. It's the largest facility Summit has built to date, and it replaced a much smaller location the practice had run for years at 15700 37th Avenue North. If you've ever driven to Eagan or Woodbury for a specialist appointment, that errand just got a lot shorter.
That sequencing tells you something the press releases didn't say directly: this redevelopment was never built around a restaurant rollout. It was built around getting a handful of infrastructure pieces in place first, and the food story is just the part that photographs well.
The order nobody announced
Here's the pattern as it's actually played out on the former Prudential campus. Medical came first. Grocery came second. Banking and a second wave of housing are arriving now, clustered into a single winter window. The park, which is the one amenity that will most change how nearby homeowners actually use this corner on weekends, comes last.
That's worth sitting with if you live off Northwest Boulevard or west of Zachary Lane and have been watching cranes on this site since the city council approved the project back in March 2024. The sequence isn't random. It's what happens when a developer needs revenue-generating tenants operating before the amenity-heavy, harder-to-finance pieces like a public park and a wetland trail network get built.
What's actually running right now
As of this September, two tenants are open and taking customers.
Summit Orthopedics has been running at 6050 Sycamore Lane North for roughly a year at this point, offering orthopedic urgent care alongside its surgical and imaging services.
Coborn's Market & Table opened March 12, 2026, and it's not a standard grocery store bolted onto a strip center. It's built as a "grocerant," Coborn's own term for a format that blends full grocery shopping with sit-down dining built into the same building. The dining side is split two ways. Minneapolis restaurateur David Fhima runs three concepts packaged together as The Global Table: Basta Pasta, Abuela's Mexican Kitchen, and Brother's Burgers. Alongside that sits The Buttered Tin, founded by Alicia Hinze, a former "Cupcake Wars" champion whose scratch-made bakery and breakfast spot already has locations in northeast Minneapolis and St. Paul. This Plymouth location is her third. There's also a Penny Horse Parlor ice cream counter serving Kemp's, a Minnesota brand, with food-court seating that spills outside in warmer months.
That's the whole list of what's operating today. Everything else on the site is either under construction or still on paper.
The winter cluster
The next wave isn't spread evenly across next year. It's stacking up in a tight window between now and early 2027, and that clustering matters if you're trying to time when this corner will feel finished versus when it will still feel like a construction zone.
| What's coming | Status as of September 2026 | Expected opening |
|---|---|---|
| Belterra apartments | Pre-leasing underway, 207 units | Early January 2027 |
| Chase Bank branch | Under construction | Coming weeks (fall 2026) |
| Fairview Health primary care clinic | 12,000 square feet, under construction | January 2027 |
Belterra is the first of what's planned as four residential buildings on the site, eventually totaling around 800 housing units. The building itself leans into amenities in a way that's unusual for the Plymouth market: a golf simulator, a cold plunge and sauna, a rooftop sky deck and sky lounge, and a speakeasy. Twenty percent of its units are reserved for households earning up to 60 percent of the area median income, a detail that matters because affordability requirements shaped a lot of how this financing came together in the first place. Roers Companies, which is co-developing the site with Scannell Properties, secured a $25.35 million tax increment financing district from the city in early 2025 specifically to support that affordability component.
What's still years out
Not everything on the master plan is close. Three pieces are still genuinely far off, and it's worth being clear-eyed about that if you're picturing this corner as a finished district by next summer.
- Melrose, the second apartment building, is under construction now after Plymouth's city council approved $20 million in revenue bonds for it. Unlike Belterra, Melrose will be 100 percent affordable, with 212 units ranging from one to four bedrooms and six units reserved at the deeper 30 percent area median income threshold. There's no firm opening date attached to it yet.
- A two-tenant retail building pairing a dental office with a Jersey Mike's is under construction but isn't expected to open until 2027.
- The public park, which will eventually include more than 13 acres of green space, a waterfront plaza, and trail connections tying into the wetland at the site's center, is the piece furthest from done. Plymouth's planning department has been designing the park and trail layout, but construction on that portion isn't expected to start until 2027 at the earliest.
Plymouth Senior Planner Shawn Drill has described the underlying opportunity in blunt terms, noting that 75 contiguous acres available for redevelopment inside the metro loop is rare. That scarcity is part of why the timeline stretches as far as it does. This isn't a single building going up on a vacant lot. It's four residential buildings, a grocery-anchored retail core, a medical campus, and a public park all sequenced across a multi-year build-out.
Why the order matters if you live nearby
If you've been waiting for this corner to feel finished, the honest answer is that you're watching the food and medical layer complete while the housing and park layers are still mid-construction. Roers' own development team has said as much in public updates. When leasing opened for Belterra this year, senior development associate Julia Tollefson called it "a really highly amenitized building" and said the team was excited to get leasing started, but even that milestone points to a January 2027 move-in, not something happening this fall.
For a household running errands nearby, what's changed already is real. A weeknight run for groceries, a prescription pickup, and a physical therapy appointment used to mean three separate stops, possibly in three different suburbs. Now two of those three live on the same corner. What hasn't changed yet is the sense of a finished district. That's still twelve to eighteen months out, and the piece most people are actually picturing when they imagine this corner as a gathering spot, the park and its trails, is the very last thing scheduled to arrive.
If you're watching this corner because you're curious about how Plymouth is growing, that's a fine reason on its own. If you're watching it because you're weighing what a corner like this does to daily life in the neighborhoods around it, that's a conversation worth having with someone who tracks these builds as they happen. Denise Sartor follows west metro development at this level of detail because it's the kind of thing that shapes how a neighborhood actually lives, not just how it looks on a map. Let's connect if you want a read on what's happening near your corner of Plymouth.
