10/12/2026
Wanamingo was a stop on the 7th Annual SE MN Together housing bus tour on Wednesday October 7th. The Wanamingo stop of the tour included presentations by Dan McPherson of Edina Realty, Justin Stotts of SEMMCHRA, and Michael Boulton of the City of Wanamingo. The highlights of the tour featured Smal Cities Development Program (SCDP), Prairie Ridge Estates development, and Emerald Valley development. SCDP is a federal program administered by MN DEED and processed by SEMMCHRA on behalf of Wanamingo that has helped with grants for housing rehabilitation around the community. There are grant opportunities available at https://www.semmchra.org/auto-draft/. The bulk of the tour centered around the successes of Prairie Ridge Estates and Emerald Valley housing developments over the past decade. The City has worked with developers to jumpstart the developments that were started prior to the 2007 housing crash. The City has worked with developers towards replats, additional park space and opportunities, zoning changes, native landscaping plans, and installation of additional infrastructure that have contributed to the success. Since 2016 there have been eighty-two (82) new homes constructed in Wanamingo, with most of those in the Prairie Ridge Estates and Emerald Valley developments. There are still roughly fifty (50) developed/buildable lots, platted lots targeted for future infrastructure improvements, and numerous land opportunities for developments available in Wanamaingo that will aid in future development opportunities.