http://www.edenprairienews.com/cooperative-living-prairie-106 Comments for "Cooperative living on the prairie" en http://www.edenprairienews.com/cooperative-living-prairie-106 <p>Eden Prairie’s Realife Valley View Cooperative sets open house</p> <p>By Karla Wennerstrom</p> <p>There are 74 senior co-ops in Minnesota. There are 94 in the United States, according to Dennis Johnson, board chairman for the Senior Cooperative Foundation (<a href="http://www.seniorcoops.org" title="www.seniorcoops.org">www.seniorcoops.org</a>), in St. Paul.</p> <p>“The first one started in Edina in 1978,” Johnson said. “We’ve been working for years to expand it.</p> <p>Why so popular in Minnesota?</p> <p>“This is where the developers, the architects, the attorneys and the lenders put these together,” he said, and the state is supportive of the concept.</p> <br class="clear" /><p><a href="http://www.edenprairienews.com/cooperative-living-prairie-106">read more</a></p> http://www.edenprairienews.com/cooperative-living-prairie-106#comments City news Seniors Top Stories Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:00:00 -0500 Karla 7761 at http://www.edenprairienews.com