I love what you did to the left one, but my two cents are you see where that center uh the center entrance is? Yep. Match it. Move the glass all the way up. Put the bridge over there and I'd be happy as a clown. That's what I would tell you. Do it. The symmetry of the OCD in me says, "Why? Why do you do that one? The end one and not the center one." The wood grain is a nice touch. It just takes away from the Again, I screen big storage, big

So, with the purchase agreement, a couple of of additional requirements. So, there's I don't know the exact lingo of this. So, the this building is required to have I'm going to call it a larger electrical um ability than a than a typical warehouse or spec speculative warehouse building. Um also within the purchase agreements require that the uh tenants be value added tenants. So if you're bringing in a pallet of 100 widgets, there's something greater than that that's leaving the building that it's being produced with on the site. So it cannot just be a distribution building can be manufacturing with warehousing because as as you said um every manufacturer needs to store their products within the building.

And and maybe this touches on Commissioner Anderson's comment as well, is paying for that extra glass up high doesn't really get you a nickel additional rent, right? Um, but what it does, it's more architecture expressive. It's I think we think that's what the EDA is looking for us to invest in the area.

Okay. Well then let's petition the council at this point to see if they can relinquish control of that to the EDA and these two parcels here.

Um it uh I believe the existing zoning is the RORO. Um the intent is that any development would be reszoned to the mixed use. So the RORO is kind of our it's an existing zoning district a little bit obsolete and so again we have city's preference or desire is to reszone that to the mixed use.

acquiring these properties at the EDA. Is it something that we're going to have to purchase from the city or is it just a transfer of title B?

Do we do we need to officially find out who has that interest? Well, I think that's the dude. To me, that's the first step. Before you manufacture anything, you want to know if it's going to sell.

Yeah. I mean, like, yeah, my personal opinion is I think it should be it's a date and sign. It should be Dayton businesses, Dayton events, not City of Champlain, not Ramsay, you know, but just because they're willing to pay doesn't mean we need to. It should be that's that's why we have a quagmire on our sign ordinance right there.

But I think we need more than a, you know, a kind of a head nod. Yeah, we'd like this. cuz once it's built, we've lost any leverage we have with the businesses to say, would you like to buy into this? It's already there now.

We ain't on the lower side. We are the low side. Yes. Yes. We we were absolutely the lowest guy on the on that total

and personally I was act actually surprised at the presentations especially from Edina. They use LAA funds to help prevent people from buying $500,000 homes so that they could tear them down and build $3 million homes. like really, you know, but that's what they said they did.

So, one of the the things um that I got out of the meeting and this is what Blaine did of trying to focus their um h and what the priorities are. So I have this is what Blaine used and what I'm going to ask the EDA at some point during this meeting is to put a mark on um what are your individual priorities.

I would suggest also considering you know the idea of the the EDA has been focused on the village of thinking okay what can the EDA do to attract um business development within the village that relates to park and recreation um that's going to be more so I'm going to say on the pedestrian experience or the it's not always a pedestrian but um more the aesthetics of like park benches ornamental street lighting, uh the permanent flower pots within the village and probably making it more park-like or more pedestrian like some sort of a cover so that when we have events in town, we can bring commerce to the city uh food truck row, extra power to these things, infrastructure, things like that too. So that that's how I kind of envision this assistance from the EDA.

I'm having a hard time connecting economic development to park features. Mhm. How that draws a business in. I mean, it's it's a nicity. It's an amenity, but is that going to bring anybody here? And I'm that's that's a stretch for me.

I think that's a good approach because I mean again, if it's just a if it's the same type of design and if it's just a flat piece of steel that's cut, you know, that can look nice on a stone base or something. I I don't know. But I'm with absolutely with if you could get all of them for, you know, for a number like a hundred, then I can fully get behind that. I just can't with the 75 of a sign.

The city did receive a $60,000 grant from Henipin County uh or a planning grant uh for the city center. Um, I'm looking for one or two volunteers from the EDA to serve on a task force.

I agree. Um when this was discussed at the council meeting and I made the same point that if we don't get any further on this thing than figuring out where that Dayton Parkway is going, then that would be a success in my mind.

I got one little thing. Um John, and maybe you don't have the answer in our packet. There's a 200 We're purchasing right away for the triangle for 250ome,000. It's 280,000 bucks and it's tagged to the EDA.

I can't get any meaning out of that. Oh, there's like six different colors on there, but I don't know what any of them mean.