Project Bedrock Data Center (Carmen Avenue, Inver Grove Heights)

Project Bedrock — 54,070 sq ft data center building (Major Site Plan, Resolution 2026-209, 5890 Carmen Avenue)

Permitted last observed as of 2026-09-28 · Development consent

Item 7C's request for council action asks the council to adopt a resolution approving a Major Site Plan Review to construct a data center at 5890 Carmen Avenue and to approve the Site Improvement Performance Agreement, as recommended by the Planning Commission after its 7 April 2026 public hearing. The draft resolution identifies the subject property as PID 20-74900-01-010, Lot 1, Block 1, Taylor Addition, zoned I-1 and guided Industrial Office Park, and approves a 54,070 sq ft data-center building subject to four conditions. The attached site development plans are titled 'Project Bedrock, 5842 Carmen Ave E.'; the site improvement agreement names Qlevr, LLC (a Florida limited liability company) as developer constructing the 54,070 sq ft 'Project Bedrock' data center and FIG Ion Timber, LLC as owner of the 13.9-acre parcel. The ALTA/NSPS survey sheet lists T5 Data Centers, LLC among its certification parties without stating a project role. Item 7D proposes the moratorium study plan, which records that the interim ordinance was revised on 14 September 2026 to exclude this 54,070 sq ft Carmen Avenue proposal. evidence

City of Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota · published 2026-09-24

The draft minutes of 12 October 2026 record consent-agenda approval (5-0) of the minutes of the 28 September 2026 meeting and the hiring of a consultant for the data-center moratorium study. The 26 October agenda contains no item on the Carmen Avenue data center (no development contract, permit, appeal or reconsideration). evidence

City of Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota · published 2026-10-22

The city's running update page states that at the 28 September 2026 meeting the City Council approved the major site application for the proposed data center project and began the data-center moratorium study, and that on 12 October it hired a consultant for that study. Earlier recaps record that the project at 5842 Carmen Avenue East was removed from the one-year moratorium by an ordinance read a third time on 14 September 2026, that after site-plan approval the developer needs a development contract and a city building permit, that the residents' EAW petition was found exempt on 27 July 2026, and that the developer had sued the city over the moratorium. evidence

City of Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota · publication date not stated

The city explains that the developer's lawsuit over the moratorium had been served, that the moratorium amendment would exempt only the current data-center application as proposed (a larger or amended application would be denied under the moratorium), that the statutory decision deadline was 4 October 2026, and that the developer receives no city or state financial assistance. evidence

City of Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota · publication date not stated

The EQB Monitor lists 'Inver Grove Heights Data Center' (Inver Grove Heights, Dakota County; process Petition; step Petition exempt from review): on 28 July 2026 EQB received notice from the City of Inver Grove Heights, the responsible governmental unit, that the petition will not be considered under Minn. R. 4410.4600 subp. 2 E. evidence

Minnesota Environmental Quality Board · published 2026-08-04

Companies

• Owner: FIG Ion Timber, LLC (current) evidence