[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty a development team has secured approvals for a Redevelopment of the 9 Acre Site of the current Macy's Furniture and Mattress Gallery on France Avenue Enclave companies and lifestyle communities have secured approvals to subdivide the property in into three separate Lots with plans for four new buildings the existing Macy's store will be relocated and the existing building will be raised earlier this month the city council resed the property as a planned unit development and approved the final plot and site plan for the project one of the buildings will be an 11-story condominium building with office space and either a restaurant or retailer on the street level another will be a seven story mixed use building with Apartments the other two will be seven story apartment buildings one of those will also have space for a restaurant each building will include internal parking for residents employees and customers the street level parking stalls would be available to the general public the site plan is arranged with new roadways new sidewalks and new Landscaping areas that are available to the general public the existing 9 Creek bicycle trail will remain on the southern edge of the property good evening mayor members of the city council if I may I'll jump into this good to be with you again we were told we want the look and feel of the prominade to flow all the way up through the site so it feels like the prominade is actually being expanded into the property and we can see the swooping designs of the Landscaping Islands the large Landscaping Islands now they're bmed but the level of planting and the intensity and complexity of planting here mimics the schedule for the prominade so for the casual user walking in and out of the site the intent is for it to feel like an expansion of the prominade versus private property the development team is working to obtain financing for the project