[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty the city is helping a new coffee shop and crepe Bakery open at 44th in France o crepe is working to open at 4408 France Avenue serving buckwheat Savory Crepes sweet Crepes and crepe cakes I moved to Minn and I'm just I'm really passionate about my roots and where I'm from and I'm from Britany France which is the region of France where creps originated um and so when I came to Minnesota I couldn't find a good CP and I thought I need to show these people what it's what it's how it's done and what it tastes like the Housing and Redevelopment Authority recently approved grants to the business and the property owner to make improvements to the space formerly used by Caribou Coffee the front entrance needs to be remodeled in order to create an accessible entrance as part of the project energy efficient storefront glass will also be added the property owner needs to reconstruct the rear parking lot to simplify access into the rear doors of the building both grants will come out of the special projects and Redevelopment capital or spark fund established by state legislation in 2021 to create jobs and attract brick and mortar investment any Dina spark streamlined grants such as these provide up to $24,000 for building shell improvements that create jobs so this grant program is specifically intended to help that small business owner leap over a hurdle that they didn't expect to encounter um almost every small business owner faces that type of hurdle and we're hoping that with this grant we can attract more small businesses to let them locate here expand here and Thrive here oh CR is scheduled to open this summer the rear parking lot project might not be complete until fall