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.. . . Page 1 of2 Leeseberg, Chris From: Josh Krsnak [jkrsnak@hempelproperties.~om] Sent: Tuesday, January 09,2007 12:02 PM To: Leese berg , Chris Cc: Jon Hempel Subject: Elk Ridge Center Attachments: Aldi Elevations 09Jan07.pdf; Aldi Rendering 09Jan07.jpg; aldi trellis 9Jan07.jpg Hi Chris, Thank you for your sending your comments to us last Friday regarding the specialty grocery store at our Elk Ridge Center development. We took your comments to heart and have made several revisions to address your recommendations found on Page 7 of your memorandum. Attached you will find the revised drawings. The following are changes we made based upon your recommendations: Item 5 - we reverted the main entrance back to a design similar to our 11/29/06 submittal. We lowered the roof, decreased the amount of efis, added the ornamental wood brackets and even added additional wood elements within the gambles to give a more northern feel. The rendering displays this best. Item 6 - On the other three corners of the building, we added standing seam hip roof structures. Over the past weekend, we redrew the building with gables on each of the three corners. However, the gables caused the building corners to look out of scale - they simply were too high. The gables caused the building to look like it had large towers on each corner. Consequently, we decided to add these hip roof structures. The hip roof structures provide a break in the parapet walls as well as create a sense of stability for the building. Item 7 - We focused heavily on the east elevation as this elevation will face the rest of the shopping as well as the general public. The wooden trellis now stands on free standing stone columns. This element will be covered in vines as depicted in Section AS, figure B of the design guidelines. In addition we added planters on each side of the trellis as well as benches on each side. This will provide more greenery to the site and invite pedestrian traffic to sit and stay longer. This concept of benches and planters will be carried on further as the attached, adjacent buildings are constructed in the near future. Item 8 - We reintroduced fabric awnings to the building to provide most interesting, varied materials to the project. Item 9 - Please see Item 7. Item 10 - Please see Item 5. Item 11- Spandrel glass was reintroduced on the north and west facade as requested. The two most western windows on the north elevation were left as aluminum frames with black efis as a proposed cost saving compromise since the exterior wall will become an interior wall in the near future. This aluminum frame/black efis detail has been done on several projects throughout the city, most currently on a senior housing project in plan Blaine. As mentioned on Friday, we would really like to move this along through the planning commission tonight. Tabling it would cause additional duress to an already challenging project. After nearly two years of searching and three months of negotiating, we are nearing completion of a deal with a restaurant user for this site. The restaurant user is a national brand and would be a great addition to the center. Unfortunately, the restaurant is waiting to see what happens to the grocery store prior to moving forward. Consequently, our hands are really tied at this point. Please strongly consider what needs to be done so thatwe can continue forward with this project. Thanks for your continued assistance. Sincerely, Josh Krsnak 1/9/2007