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Appendix F: Competitive Data (cont.) Elk River has frequently competed with Ramsey over the past several Located on Interstate 94 and Highway 101, south of Elk River, Rogers has been on of Elk River's primary current and future Rogers competitors fox economic development opportunities in recent years. With its Interstate Highway access, the northwestern Hennepin County community enjoys ahigh-visibility location. This fast-growing years. Fox example, Elk River recently competed with Ramsey for Classic Acrylics Inc. (a win) and Riverside Manufacturing (a loss). The Anoka County community is served by Highways 10 and 169. Ramsey has five industrial parks with a total of 11 city-owned parcels avaIlable ranging from .88 to 14 acres in size. There axe also several additional privately owned industrial parcels in the community, as well as leasable space of up to 30,942 square feet. The long-awaited Ramsey Town Center mixed-use project (Web site: www.ramseytowncentex com) also fmally got underway last year. The site map includes medical office but no industrial component. Fox more information about the Town Centex project, community has seen stgnificant industrial and commercial development activity in recent years, perhaps most notably the development of the Cabala's destination store, which opened in October 2005. However, Rogers appears to be hampered by a lack of available land for further development. A 6.43- acxe site along Highway 101 and County Road 144 is listed fox $2.8 million. Leasable space is available, including the existing 151,200 square foot Rogers Commerce Center industrial building. Local experts say Rogers won't be much of a factor fox new industrial development unless it annexes additional land from Hessian Township. City Web site: evww.xogexsgovoffice.com The Wright County Economic Development Partnership seems to 1ZttYtti' CDt3N7Y have been concentrating much of its recent efforts on existing businesses. For example, the EDP has been doing Business Retention & Expansion visits (BR&E) to area manufacturers and food processors for the past several months. Fox example, Annandale Foods LLC was visited in February. The goal is to gather information that can support the industry and to enable business owners to get acquainted with multiple contacts at one time. Web site: http•//wwwwrightpaxtncrship oxg E4