Aerial view of the Cow Bay shoreline at Vierling Shores in Prior Lake, Minnesota

Vierling Shores on Cow Bay

A 54.7-acre, 107-homesite lakeside community on Cow Bay — shoreline, village and amenity plan taken from raw land to a platted, fully improved development.

Client / partner

310 Designs & Development

Builder

310 Design Build

Civil engineering

Sambatek

Site area

54.7 acres

Homesites

107 platted lots

Preserved wetland & buffer

5.17 acres

Density

2.68 units / acre

Waterfront district

1.65 acres

Availability

55 of 107 homesites remain

Homesites from

$124,000

Status

Now reserving

The read

Cow Bay is a rare piece of Prior Lake shoreline: protected water's edge, oak bluff and enough acreage to support a real neighborhood rather than a handful of lots. The first work was an honest read of what the land could carry — where the wetland buffer had to be held, where grade allowed density, and where the village center belonged.

The approach

DDG partnered with 310 Designs & Development to structure the deal, carry entitlement and plat, and coordinate the amenity program with the municipality. Sambatek engineered the plan around four stormwater parks and 5.17 acres of preserved wetland and buffer. Municipal sewer, water, buried utilities and fiber were resolved to every lot line before a single home design went out.

The outcome

107 platted homesites across three collections — Lakeshore, Bluff & Walkout, and Village — plus a 1.65-acre waterfront commercial district with a lakeside bar, restaurant and boat slips, and a trail network connecting Carriage Hills Pkwy to Rosewood Rd NE. 310 Design Build delivers the homes; the community is now reserving.

Live pricing and lots on vierlingshorescowbay.com

Live availability, lot pricing, the concept plan and the three collections are maintained on the community site. Reservation deposits are refundable and hold a homesite through purchase agreement.

Lakeshore Collection
Sold out · from $1,200,000
Bluff & Walkout Collection
51 available · from $180,000
Village Collection
4 available · from $120,000

Live availability — updated as homesites sell

Project journal

  1. September 2025

    Now reserving

    Vierling Shores on Cow Bay opens reservations across the Bluff & Walkout and Village collections; the Lakeshore Collection is sold out.

Plans & site views

Supplied project plans and site imagery. Conceptual illustrations are not final plats; plans and finishes may vary.

Aerial view of the Cow Bay shoreline and wooded edge of the Vierling Shores site
Cow Bay waterfront with dock and mature tree canopy along the shoreline
Open field at the center of the 54.7-acre Vierling Shores site
Aerial of the farm field and oak bluff that will become the village homesites
Shoreline access point and site drive at Vierling Shores
Existing farmstead and site access road before development
Wide aerial of the Vierling Shores parcel and surrounding Prior Lake neighborhoods
Wetland pond and preserved buffer area within the Vierling Shores site
Oak canopy and open-space corridor across the north end of the site
Aerial context view of the parcel with Prior Lake in the distance
Tree line meeting the Cow Bay water's edge along the Lakeshore Collection

The site in motion

Drone footage of the land — context, access and scale as the project moves toward development.