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fiummtttrr &port <br /> r <br /> f <br /> En the Qinmmnnn Qloiuwtt of the Qty of*meth Srnd: <br /> HUMAN RESOURCES AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE <br /> The April 11, 1988 meeting of the Human Resources and <br /> Economic Development Committee was called to order by its <br /> Chairman Councilman Steve Luecke at 4: 00 p.m. in the Council <br /> informal meeting room. <br /> Persons in attendance included Councilmen:. Slavinskas, <br /> Luecke, Niezgodski, Duda, Coleman, Soderberg, Zakrzewski, <br /> and Voorde; Hedy Robinson, Ann Kolata, Jim Wensits, Dave <br /> Behr, John Pfair, and Kathleen Cekanski-Farrand. <br /> Councilman Luecke noted that the purpose of the meeting was <br /> to discuss a proposed tax abatement with representatives of <br /> the Holladay Corporation. <br /> Councilman Luecke also noted that the minutes of last <br /> meeting of the Committee were received and stand approved as <br /> submitted. Mr. Dave Behr and Mr. John Pfair of the Holladay <br /> Corporation then showed preliminary site plans prepared by <br /> Leroy Troyer and Associates of the proposed four story <br /> medical office building to be located on Michigan Street <br /> across from Memorial Hospital. The area in question had the <br /> former Travel Lodge Building on it which has since been <br /> demolished. The representatives also showed a diagram of <br /> the Memorial Skyway Plaza which would be a walk way to the <br /> third story to the hospital building costing approximately <br /> 1/2 million dollars. <br /> Mr. Behr stated that the Holladay Corporation has always <br /> assumed that they would request tax abatement for the <br /> project. He noted that the impact area ends of Marion which <br /> is approximately one block away from the area in question. <br /> He suggested a two square block enlargement of the tax <br /> abatement impact area shown on yellow or a smaller area <br /> lined in red on his diagram. (a copy of said diagram was <br /> not left with the Committee) <br /> Mr. Pfair stated that the project will go ahead whether tax <br /> abatement is granted or not. He believed, however, that not <br /> to grant tax abatement would send a mixed message to <br /> developers. The building in question is 100% speculative <br /> and would be at a rental of $16.50 per square foot. He <br /> noted that a similar project, namely the River Glen building <br /> was built in a similar manner in 1980. He further noted <br /> that the building would be 100% medical office plus a <br /> pharmacy and some shared services but all would be medically <br /> oriented. He further added that fifteen new physicians over <br /> the next three years would be brought into the communities <br />