Based on the materials submitted by the applicant, CEPED finds that rehabilitation is not economically viable to put the property to a reasonable use based on a cost estimate for a qualified rehabilitation using the Secretary of the Interior standards for rehabilitation, thereby meeting finding number three.

this property type, especially a terminal grain elevator like the Checkerboard elevator, that is primarily grain storage bins, they are exceptionally difficult to adaptively reuse, and even more difficult to reuse while meeting the Secretary of the Interior standards for rehabilitation. That's what drives the over $1 million per unit uh cost to rehabilitate the structures that you'll see in our application as our cost estimate.

I am very glad that we can preserve the head house, um which is an awesome South Minneapolis landmark that you can see uh pretty much from everywhere. Uh and I'm excited about the next chapter for this long for this large site in the Longfellow neighborhood.

That concrete, when it's imploded, is going to go all over the place. I want to have a reassurance from you folks that every due care and caution, meaning tenting, of our structures will be done so that we don't have the kind of damage that that wave of concussion could cause. And we really don't need all that stuff inside our homes.

I find that these elevators are part of the landscape and tearing them down simply because they are not profitable to me feels like a huge disappointment and disservice to the neighborhood. ... I think that these elevators are the the Roman ruins of the Howe neighborhood and they are a really important historical landmark.

I really encourage the commission to push for adaptive reuse for the market rate portion of the development. Um you have to gauge what's a reasonable cost-benefit and I think that um if these are going to be market rate, the value of inspiring a next generation to become interested in the history of the city that they live in um is is worth a lot. It might be worth that four times the the value.

I'd say over the past 3 years, a dozen of those are from my household particularly. ... We've had people go up to the top, um throw objects off into our backyards. ... If it was taken care of and maintained and had security, keep it, but there's no use for it anymore. Get rid of it, please.

I think one of the one of the difficult things for myself, probably for others, is that there the legislation or the regulations that we work to uh clearly articulate that this project doesn't meet the economic viability criteria. I think that was number three, that uh uh Ms. Kay shared. And therefore, it it doesn't [clears throat] give us a lot of leeway to rule otherwise.

I guess the part that I struggle with most, particularly with this district, is we keep approving demolition, and at some point we got to stop talking about this place as a potential historic district. It's just not going to be. ... to me, it's kind of an all or nothing proposition in that regard, and I don't know how when when we discuss that potential historic district not being one, and not having the same conversation over and over, I guess.

I see the head house as kind of a key part of the mitigation of of this uh resource. Um we we have lost uh resources here. We will probably continue to um but the mitigation, the the remainders um even as small as they are, will be a really important way of interpreting and propagating that history even as the the physical landscape changes