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COMMISSI NER'S REGULAR MEETING Friday, arch 17, 1978 FLOOR DISCUSSIONS (Mr.lBrademas continues): for of t ther for I wo are Bank prop on t dime 100 stan cert and we w for the the pres the in a coul that as 5 have to t squa cent woul a sm do t Thes iden all draw gara pro pi has that say when that the property was received. I have contacted the owners of the remainder he land and they have indicated the same thing to me; so I don't think s are any particular problems present. At the same time, the proposal the "hole" across the street, is certainly of some magnitude, and what ild propose to do is give some support to that. Essentially, what we )roposing here is the old American Bank Building and the new American Building, and the new building that is built in back of it. We are using to construct approximately 20,000 square feet of commercial space ie ground floor. For those of you who have difficulty in visualizing isions, I will tell you that we have 125,000 square feet of space at the ;enter. What I am talking about here is not of great magnitude from the ipoint of diminishing the proposal for the Century Mall. We would Only not be draining off the type of shops that would go into the mall, iot those that would be going into the "hole" development. Essentially, )uld propose to build a series of small shops that would initially be :he relocation resources to take care of the businesses, that are in )resent mall area, such as Mrs. Berg and Mrs. Hawley, who want to stay in downtown area, but do not find any suitable relocation resources at the ?nt time. If we can get started with this in the spring we could have >uilding up within a year. We just built one, in terms of magnitude, )out a years time, at the 100 Center, and there is no reason why we I not do this building in about the same amount of time. We are proposing these shops range anywhere from as small as 500 square feet to as large ,000 square feet. I do not stand before you today and tell you that I any kind of commitment from McDonalds, but I have had an opportunity ilk with McDonalds, and they have indicated that they need about 5,000 °e feet, and they are very much interested in having a store in the ,al area of the community. Some of the other types of uses that we i want to put in here (points to drawings) would possibly include even ill burger dairy, a 7- eleven type store,etc. What we are proposing to ien is to stack on top of the commercial seven stores of housing. individual units (one- bedroom units for the elderly) would be almost J cal to what we have just completed at the 100 Center; and I invite )f you to come there and have a look at them. (Directs everyone to ng) ..... Novi what you will see here is that we have shown the parking le, and we have done that because it is an important part of the sal. In the past, the parking garage located here at Main and Colfax ►een under utilized. At the same time the majority of the types of shops we have proposed to put in this location are not the kind that people :hey are going downtown to visit. They are going to go to those shops they are downtown doing other kinds of errands; so I am suggesting to a great extent these would not be on their own major traffic generators. 10