Highway 5 Chanhassen to Victoria: Inside Carver County’s Biggest Road Project with Lyndon Robjent

If you drive Highway 5 between Chanhassen and Victoria — or you own property anywhere near that corridor — this is the episode to listen to before construction season shifts into full gear.

Carver County is in the middle of a $116 million Highway 5 overhaul. A 3.5-mile stretch from Highway 41 in Chanhassen to downtown Victoria is going from a two-lane rural road that was already carrying over 20,000 vehicles a day to a divided four-lane highway. Greg Anderson, Carver County REALTOR® since 1985, sat down with Public Works Director and County Highway Engineer Lyndon Colebrook-Robjent to unpack what’s happening, when, and why it matters — both for your daily commute and for the long-term value of real estate in Chaska, Chanhassen, Victoria, Waconia, and the surrounding communities.

They cover what’s already underway on the ground, which roads close in 2026 and what the detour picture looks like, the full Highway 5 closure coming in 2027, the engineering challenge of building a four-lane road through the Lake Minnewashta wetlands, why the trees had to come down in February before any road work started (it involves an endangered bat), the roundabout strategy and why Carver County keeps building them, and the connection between this level of infrastructure investment and where Carver County real estate is headed.

Lyndon also makes a point that transportation investment and land use go hand in hand. When you build the infrastructure right, the communities around it get stronger. Victoria is proving that right now.

Public open house: Wednesday, March 25th, 5–7 p.m., University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, 3675 Arboretum Drive, Chaska. If you live near this corridor, go.

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