Economic Development Board - Regular Meeting

City assessments. Has anybody got anything to update us on on any of those? Sounds like none. So we'll move on to the next item. We have a couple of, new business items, both of them being, facade grant requests. And, so I'll turn it over to you, I guess, who's presenting on this. Alright. Anna's gonna present these.

Good evening, everyone. Let's see if this works. Yay. Here we go. Okay. So we are bringing you two different facade improvement grant applications today. We are going to start with 130 East Hill. As I mentioned, 130 East Hill, it is an Old Town Keller. This one is an it's an interesting one and that there are two structures on this property. So we're gonna be talking about each of the separate buildings separately so that you fully understand what the different improvements would be to each one.

There's a one story building, and it's occupied by renewed strength family chiropractic and wellness. And then there's a two story building that is occupied by Clint Goin State Farm. The property owners are Neil and Carol Watts, and the applicant is their property manager, Angela Goin. And they are all here if you have any questions for them. Okay. Okay. The total eligible project cost is $17,083, and they requested the full 10,000. And just wanted to show you an aerial view of where it is in Old Town Keller. And then this is the street view where you can see the two structures side by side.

And they

have the same address?

They do. Okay. Mhmm.

They didn't always, and that's, that's one question I have when we get through with the presentation that, I I don't know if the the current ownership has any history on that. But

From what we understand that the mister Kirkwood, the farmer's agent for a long time, he started in the blue building there, and then the lot next to him became available. He built that in 2015 where my office is now and replotted it into one location. It's a little confusing in my opinion, but it's what it is.

Yeah. Well, we'll get to that when we get through it. But I did had did have some questions. Wanted to know if anybody had any history because it's just kind of unusual to to do this. We have a times two.

Yeah. Okay. So this is how the building looks right now. And, again, this is the one that's occupied by the chiropractor's office. Their improvement is they will be replanting grass to improve the overall aesthetic and create a more inviting streetscape.

They're also planning on refreshing the flower beds by laying a decorative rock mulch to help retain soil moisture and reduce maintenance. To further accentuate the landscaping, they plan on strategically placing boulder rocks to complement the building's facade. And I'll show y'all here some pictures in a second. They also plan to address several maintenance issues to the exterior of the building, which will include sanding and coking to smooth out surfaces and seal gaps in the original seventy five year old wood siding. Something that's really interesting that the applicant was telling us is this is the original wood.

So it's 75 year old wood, and it's better and tell me if I'm if I'm misspeaking, but it's better to take care of this wood than to get brand new wood. So That's what told us the middle grade. Yeah. So this is this is the original wood. Rotten or damaged wood elements on the building will be carefully removed and replaced with new weather resistant materials to ensure long term preservation, and then a fresh coat of paint will be applied to the entire facade.

And here is the conceptual rendering. The paint colors are iron ore and extra white. And then here is the grass that will be used, the rocks and the boulders and the rock planters. If you look at that middle picture, what looks like that giant rock is actually a planter. And so they would be putting weather resistant, shade resistant plants themselves later on with paying for that themselves.

But when you see those rocks, those are actually planters. I'd never seen one like that, so I wanna make sure I explain that because that was my first first time seeing that. As I mentioned, the eligible improvements are the landscaping, the exterior painting, which includes pressure washing and priming of the exterior front, sanding, coking, and then siding and trim repair. Before we move on to the next building, do y'all have questions about this one?

So to what extent or from what angles is that visible from the street?

Is the front of the building north facing or east facing? North facing. Okay.

This is in Google Earth if anybody knows. So, if there's no other questions, I did have some questions because it's very unusual for Cetus nine one one to assign a single address to two structures. So any idea of when what what allowed that to take place when they replanted?

Over two years ago, I'm guessing. I I don't know.

Okay. Yourself?

He said, he he was a farmer's agent. He said it was hard to get his security license to change addresses. It was easier to replant it than it was to change his address, and the city approved it. That's what he told us.

Okay. Well, good for us. Is that parking public? It's a driveway that we we have a shed there.

The street is parking. Yes. But we The

the parking spots, like, where the white car is.

Yes. That's all public. So they you can see down that one side right there where that white car is. There the caulking is all falling off, and the wood the the paint is peeling, and that's where the some of that wood rot is down that side and same on the other side.

But there is a driveway down between the two buildings that we employee park in there. How

many employees in the building? Right now, three, but we're hoping to

have, six or seven.

Okay. That's gonna create a parking problem, isn't it?

No. Because we're you we can fit four in just our driveway.

Okay. Then what

time some bank would be working remotely? I can speak

to that space. I am familiar with the owners that own the property, and I do know a little bit of the history as far as I didn't realize that it was considered one because I do know that he was originally in this building with his agency, and then as I built next door, there was a daycare this? Across the street. Across the street. What was in here prior? Has it always been chiropractic? As far as we since we've been involved with it.

Okay. Before that, it was a hair cutting a a barber shop. And right before that, it it was Farmers Barber shop, then the chiropractor in 2020 is what I think. Okay. Whatever. Okay.

The the, structure that's at the end of the driveway, is that still there? Or Structure. Yeah. It looks like there is at the end of the driveway a outbuilding or is that behind us?

Oh, are you talking about in the back?

In the back. Yeah.

Yeah. There's a shutout.

Okay. So is that being utilized? Is it

For a shutout. Yeah. We we take

For storage?

Yeah. Exactly.

Okay. Well, I've got some questions on what we're doing with the, the wood because normally when you get to that point of wood rot, it's it's difficult. But this is a pier and beam, so I don't think there's any wood that's in touch with the ground. Has it been inspected underneath?

When we did the purchase, we had a very well, sir.

Okay. So there there was no signs of of any

I don't recall the issue of the building.

No. And they had I think it was three years ago, they had some issues with the foundation was shifting a little bit. So they had somebody come out and fix all of that. And the structural engineer who got underneath there verified that it it's very stable under there. And So

it's been kept dry and and, no WDIs that are coming up?

That's true.

Okay. And so there there was a mention in the presentation that there was gonna be some trim wood that is removed.

If it's too bad, it should be restored. Short.

Okay. So we're not just patching the the rotted away wood. We're we're gonna be replacing some of that as well?

Well, for appearance and necessity. Yeah.

Okay. Because I I just look at some of this and and, where it's it's peeled back a little bit. It looks like it's been patched a a few times in the past. It looks like the wood is is fine under some of those places. Mhmm. But in others, it looks like it is got dry rock and

and local construction three sixteen act several times, and

they're ready to get going on it. Okay.

And that's all based off of their recommendation and expertise. Okay.

Also, the sprinkler system, I think, for years was pointing straight on that piece that you see right there. It was something that they had replaced, but the sprinkler system was pointing on there. We fixed everything, so no water is hitting the structure.

Yeah. We've we've already done a lot of work considering, not just with someone's request, of course. Is where we learned that there was something.

And, do we have a breakdown on the 17 of what what is for what?

We have it in the application.

Do we have we don't have that in a way we can put it up?

Was, like, in in the email that we received, there was an attachment?

Yeah. I have to we'd to move it. Maybe we can move it in here, and I can find it.

Yeah. It's interesting that in the our our language, it says regular building maintenance such as power washing, window ceiling, and landscape maintenance are ineligible. So we might have break those out. But but the painting and the overall would be

It's actually sanding, not power washing. They can't power wash that. It has to be sanded.

They're they're getting the old paint off too. I think that's what they meant by that.

What what do we say about the part of the landscaping that is covered? Don't we we say something about landscape.

Landscaping is covered under the sun.

But not but not maintenance. So not maintenance. So it's like is the graph,

you know, it's like I don't know.

Not new builds, Must have something in between.

I think this would be a good candidate.

Sorry, one more parking question. Are you open on weekends, either business?

Nope. Well, I don't believe the doctor is either, but we are not. Okay. And we've told many of our neighbors, please use our

parking at night and stuff

like that. We want it to be a vibrant place where people see we're at. We're not on a busy road. With Google, I'm not so worried about that, but I want it to be a nice road, nice neighbors and

stuff like that.

Is there a regular lawn care provider?

I did it on Sunday. You do it? Mhmm. I have availability if you

need it. It's a beautiful building. The building that

The top line of the program says to encourage the rehabilitations of enhancement and restoration of building facades. Sorry.

May?

Just the top line of the program says it's to encourage the rehabilitation enhancement and restoration of building facades of existing businesses for the purpose of stimulating business and commercial activities.

Right. Yeah. There's just

a few stipulations in the Yeah.

Okay. Here's. Wait. Hang on. This is not

This is for the landscaping. So

Do we know how many employees are in, what used to be one twenty six, half of it?

The The doctor's office.

No. The in the insurance. Or is that doctor's office now?

The blue Building is the doctor's office.

I'm not talking about the other one.

The the two story is ours, and that's what we use. Okay. And right now, we have four in here.

Four employees there? Right now. Three in the doctor? Correct. K.

Don't know if they'll work at the same time. I don't.

K. Because it looks to me like there's 11 total parking in front.

Our parking lot usually becomes overflow for construction or other stuff.

Of course, it does. But looks to me like there's 11 parking places that are I think

that's correct.

In front of the this property. And then you say you can get four in the Drive. Is there can you curve around that also?

About one car lift. Yes.

Okay. So Alright.

As far as the itemized list, I do have a question about that because I know that the facade grant is geared more towards the front of the building and obviously anything that you're able to see when driving by. So the the side of the building would make complete sense. Would would it be something that we consider as far as like cost? They still I still feel like they meet that threshold regardless because it was 17,000 for the full scope. But the exterior, would you would you back out part of that cost because of the exterior also being painted? I mean, I'm sorry. The the rear. Exterior rear. Me finish my sentence. Exterior rear.

Yeah. I'm seeing things are excluded. So

Yeah. So, like, would you change, I guess, that they would still

meet the

threshold if it's if they're at 17,000 and that's

This doesn't add up to 17 though.

There's with the landscaping.

Is there two pages?

Yeah. Yeah. If we scroll up. And then you got this one. The landscaping. I think there's another one.

Okay. So you're scrolling too fast for me to ask.

Well, there's another

one. Buffet. So buffet. Three

So, actually, you're saying you took the $33.60 whatever 100 out.

Yeah. So they say it's closer to, like, what?

As you can't. As long as you don't have over 7,000 that's not covered.

Yeah. I think they still meet the threshold for the 10, but I think just to kinda meet closer to how the facade grant breaks out, not including the exterior rear as a part of the cost.

We saw that too. We just did subtracts off the back. Yeah. We didn't know how they'll do that.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I have

a question. If people are in the back at some point because at the doctor's office, they have a lot of events outside. We have a grill out there, and so they'll do yoga out there or meditation or classes, something like that. And we'll be having a a fall festival type thing there too. So is that considered, like, a facade even though it's in the back?

So no. No. It would be on whatever spot facing that from the street view. Okay.

K. Alright. This $15.24 is for it's that's the total, but the what's that total for?

Is that

for landscaping?

This is for the

grass and then some of these supplies right here. So There's 10 items

in here.

Okay. We've got life off of these on the labor. So I think that's what that means. Yeah.

Well, I was gonna ask about that in a way. So the do we still check

I can't remember if we

changed this. Right? Do we still check if bids and supplies or whatever are from Keller vendors?

We checked the contractor. Okay. So they they are using 16 and then themselves as the

Right.

Doing a a pull cut of work.

Okay. We're doing the rock and planting the

grass. Okay.

We use Morgan Electric for the sign, and we use lots of vendors to get us in there. That's not just a machine.

So I do have a question question about that. Because would we would they still be required to use a vendor for the landscaping and not do it themselves even though it's covering their supplies but still having to do because I know through the process, when you do have vendors, you do have to get them notarized and they have to be, like, viable licensed vendors that yeah. That does the work. And then they have to sign off and then notarize to submit for the reimbursement to qualify for the for the reimbursement. So I don't want there to be a discrepancy or an issue. I don't know if that was discussed as far as, like, if you're doing the work yourself and then you're not

We did talk about it because I know you talked with

one of our permanent techs. Correct? She said as far as what she told me and that we would be allowed to do our own work. We're not a business, so we didn't need to apply or do anything, but we could do our work. So I don't know if that was accurate or not. But we just wanna cut down on the cost, not have

to spend so much.

And we can We can throw the rock where we need to and plant the grass.

Yeah. I mean, actually, I think of the differences whether labor's in this or not. I don't think it's in here.

It's not.

Right. So we're not, like, paying them to pay a contractor or to pay themselves. We're just covering materials.

Right. Previous in a previous circumstance, it was it was I I'm just curious if it if it's something we should just look at just to be sure because it was required in the past.

We we modified that at some point. I can't remember when because it wasn't feasible to always require a Keller contractor. But I'm I'm still trying to get to a breakdown here. I can't I can't get to it because, you know, I want to I wanna consider things that are are eligible, But some of this, like a wheelbarrow, that's not a facade improvement. That's a piece of equipment. And I'm but I don't know if that's in the total. I'm seeing a bunch of different totals. So but that's something we can answer.

And this property has received one of the past. I'm sorry? This property has received one.

We're gonna talk about that in a Okay.

Yeah. I'm gonna do

a few slides.

I believe that's allowed. Mhmm.

It is. Yeah.

We just have to make sure it's past the date. Oh, yeah.

K. So? K. There is there

a us to do the math tag, we can do it while we continue with the presentation.

Oh, continue with presentation, and then we can back up to this.

Okay. We can start adding behind the scenes Okay. So moving into the two story building.

Was more than 10,000 just to get it right there.

So Okay. So this one's a little bit more simple. The only improvements for this two story building will be to the flower beds, And their plans are to have rocks, that will be placed in the flower beds, and here are some examples of what they would be using. So the eligible improvement here is just landscaping. And then just wanna let you all know that the improvements for both buildings do meet the UDC guidelines for Old Town Keller.

And then here's some historical context. The one story structure did receive a grant back in 2021 when it was a matching grant when it was owned by Kirkwood Investments. And that's what it looked like before and then after.

We it was a total improvement of, $14.09, and we matched up to 7,500. Is that what we're Yes. $74.92?

Mhmm.

That was before we changed the

lights. Mhmm.

And they have power wash up there. And the three sixteen bed is about the same price as this from March ago. I was thinking about that.

The 17,000, is that for both properties?

Mhmm.

Yes. So we'll get to that in a second. So just to let you all know, because we are deep into August, it is likely that if this were to get approved, it would come out of our f y twenty six budget, which is $35,000. Their grant request is 10,000 just for your consideration. In FY '24, we gave 40,000. So far in FY '25, we actually haven't had any applicants, so we haven't given any of that budget away. And we do have two prospective applicants, both which we'll be discussing today.

Meaning, this one and one other? Mhmm.

Okay. Yeah. So it meets the policy requirements. The anticipated economic impact and increase in taxable value are undetermined. Overall visual improvement, design, and quality of proposed work will be up to your discretion and city council's discretion. The overall project cost for both structures on this property is 17,083, and they are utilizing a killer contractor. And just as a reminder, you have the following options to recommend approval as presented, recommend approval with changes and or conditions, or recommend denial.

We're gonna vote one at a time or go through the other proposal as well first.

I was thinking one at a time.

K. Preferable way to handle it. Does anybody have any other questions, comments? Nobody? So it's just me? And I'm trying to still figure out how we break out that seventeen o eighty three. I do have a concern because if if four years ago, we did $15,000 worth of, it looked like some of the similar type work, what was that too?

I'm guessing they went from the brown building to the blue. And I'm guessing by the looks of the sprinkler that they didn't maintain it well, and that's what the initial build.

I I spoke with the previous owner, he said that the porch is what they did. The porch is new on there. It it says that they power washed and painted and caulked everything, But I asked him at the beginning, did y'all scrape and sand that front part? Because if you look from the front part over to the door, it's sanded. But everything else on the whole building is not, and that's where it's all falling apart.

And he said, it was like that before we moved in. That's what he told me. And so whenever he painted it, he did not cock it or say or he didn't sand it whenever he repainted it. So I'm thinking the majority of what he did was that One section. Porch right there and then just painted it blue. But the cock is falling out. You could see

in Yeah. I saw that in the photos. Okay. Well, that's what my cresp will be is before counsel. We have a a breakdown and and have that spelled out for us.

Okay. Well, counsel's gonna expect a recommendation from us. Anybody have a motion?

I'd like to motion to approve what's condition of that breakout as a condition.

Okay.

Breakout of the, cost, I think, would be

And any recommendation on how any adjustment would be made on that? Stuff. Right? Yeah. Okay.

What was the cost for the two story building? The improvements on that one, or did you just lump it all together?

I I didn't. I haven't.

The ones we submitted was mostly landscape rock. The rock for that one.

$630 for some of the boulders.

That's a nice boulder.

It's a very nice boulder.

It's also a planter.

This one's not.

That one's not. That one was

a it's a huge boulder.

It's just a rock.

The other's a planter. I it's about

I was just quoting Shrek. Sorry. I didn't

It's a Bluetooth speaker. Yeah.

It's about half and half between the two buildings for the rock. It's about twenty five hundred and twenty five hundred.

Okay. By the

time you break it out, they have to get a special crane to set the boulder and the planter at the doctor's office.

So we fold out the 30 to a hundred, twenty five hundred going to the other property kinda helps offset that too.

Yes.

Okay. Well, we have a motion, to approve, with, the stipulation that, breakdown will be provided to counsel and the rear facing be removed. Second. We have a second for that. Any discussion? Amendment? Second with the motion. Okay. All in favor?

Aye. Aye.

Any opposed? Alright. Thank you.

Okay. Now ready for the second one? Mhmm. Alright. These folks are our neighbors, actually. They're across the street from each other. We're gonna be discussing a facade improvement grant for 131 East Hill Street. It is an old town Keller. The property owner and applicant is Justin Sadler, Sadler Accounting PLLC. The total eligible project cost is $15,425, and he is requesting 10,000. As you know, Justin is present here today.

And abstain. Yeah. Recuse her.

Yes. Here goes to

the mall.

We talked about those videos. Here is the aerial view. Here is the street view. So Justin plans to replace the rotted wood in the eaves and around the windows. They also plan to paint the exterior, add handrails to the sidewalk, and do some landscaping.

Here are some pictures. The new paint for windows and trim will be Sherwin Williams eider white, and and then they'll also be painting open air on the ceilings of the porches. But this won't be visible from the street, Justin's just mentioning that he's doing that. And then, Justin, I was kinda hoping you could explain this one a little bit for us.

Sure. So all of the grass has either been ripped up or has died through construction. On the left hand side of the building there where it says ground cover is very shady, and grass had a hard time growing. It created drainage issues around the backside of the property. So we're gonna cover that in a very small grass like looking ground cover that flowers most of the year and attracts bees and butterflies and the pollinators.

And then between that green line in the street will be some native grass and wildflower mix. And then across the front porch, we'll have some other, native plants along there with a drip irrigation system to make sure that that stays healthy. On the other side, kinda in the where the circle is, there's a little crook in the sidewalk that will plant a tree and then do it. The property before you saw the before pictures had a giant cactus out front that it kinda overgrown. And we tried to cut it back and save it, but we just couldn't get it to where we want it.

So we saved as many pieces as we could, and that's gonna go back along that east side of the building there between what's a little porch in the sidewalk. And then the rest of it will be seeded with a native grass that does really well in sun. That whole side gets the sun.

And here's some of those flowers that you're speaking about. And there's a handrail and just the plantings that he's planning on using. So the eligible improvements here are the exterior paint, handrail additions, landscaping, and wood repair. And

nothing being done to the the white building?

No. Okay. It's coming down.

Oh, it is coming down?

Yes. Okay. Before too long.

That sounds real positive.

I've had my hands full.

Okay.

So what's the plan for that area over there?

On that side? Yeah. It's most likely gonna be replatted, and they'll we'll sell or build another small commercial structure there.

Okay. And it was a separate plan at one time.

Yeah. Only Encore thinks it's separate now.

K. No. I saw that it was titled together just like one thirty is titled together. But Yeah.

Okay. They were both residential. So converting the the old house to commercial. And then the old it's an old wood garage that that needs to come down. K.

Is the handrail for stairs or for a ramp? There's one step. Okay.

And because of the sidewalk requirements in Old Town, it's a red brick. And I had trouble even catching it with the eye, so I I wanted to put a small hand roll there just so people know it's a step.

Is there a ramp or a no step entry to the building at all?

Yeah. There's a a sidewalk. So this is that

Is it this one?

Go back one. So this main sidewalk, we replaced with a a slope, and then it slopes down again to the parking lot. Okay. But the sidewalk from the city is a step below. So I've got one step that's all red that just looks like it's hard to catch the eye.

Okay. So improvements meet the UDC guidelines for the Old Town Killer Zoning District. Just like the previous one, this will likely be coming out of the FY twenty six available budget of $35,000. The total grant request is 10,000. And again, additional considerations, 40,000 was awarded in FY twenty four. $0 have been awarded in FY '25 so far. And we have two prospective applicants, the two that we discussed today.

But you're saying it'll come out of FY '26 because it's August 18 and probably that's a realistic timeline. Did anything we awarded in '24 get paid in '25?

It did, but it was a rollover for that one. Correct?

So we have spent money from '25.

We actually I don't believe

that we did. I think it was rolled over from the previous year's budget. It's my understanding.

I'm looking at it confirm.

It sounds like we do. We overspent. We didn't award any in FY '25, but we would have been paying on some of the FY '24 awards.

From we actually just have another general budget. Right.

And Exactly.

Yeah. And the budget still remained there for Facade Grant

Right. In

'25. For which this happens every year. This is pretty standard practice that you award one of these this year with the recognition that more than likely it's gonna land the next year. So it's kind of always happening. For '25, our total budget was 65 because we rolled over 30,000 worth of facade grants. To date, we've spent 30,000.

So Okay.

There it is. Okay. Yeah. So

but and, again, this is a pretty pretty normal activity. So you can kind of recognize that more than likely it's unless you're doing this early in the year, more than likely, you're gonna see this the next year.

So is there a rollover for '25 to '26?

We've not discussed that yet. Okay. No. So No. Depends on depends on how many incentives. So and we can also you know, we've talked about this. Use some of the other economic development funding to cover that as well. So we've had that flexibility. Or if needed, we can do a budget amendment if this becomes a issue where we're we can't absorb the the change.

So Yeah. We did that in '23 or '24

or both. I think we've had some flexibility. Yeah.

So Okay.

So there were no new grant just to there were no new grants in

in '25.

Right. Yeah. We didn't award any for '25.

Mhmm. What's the breakout of the cost? Was there was that provided? I didn't see it. Like, the breakdown?

Okay. It's in the application. So it is not up here on the screen, but we do have it on the application. So we can pull it up if you if you guys would like to take a look at it.

What was the total?

$15.15 $4.25.

$15.04 25. And we're seeking 10? Yes,

Are you hiring

Are you paying

for their insurance?

Or someone that's doing the work? Or are you doing

So it's all under the the general that's doing the remodel

Oh, okay.

For us. And but they're based here in Killer.

Because it's rendering.

Do you have regular landscaping surface? Yes.

Though most of this is gonna be low maintenance, so it's not like a weekly mow and blow. It it'll be more like monthly check ins, quarterly adjustment.

Okay. But that's not included

in here? No.

There's no fencing. Right? It's just all gonna be open?

Correct. There

was a

fence. Yeah.

But we Put that fence.

Kinda push it down.

And so that's where you're gonna

have I saw that. I was like, it's like just how are doing with that fence? Yeah.

That's where you're gonna have all the wildflowers and everything on

the Yeah.

Left side? So instead of breaking up the backyard, it'll go all the way to the back of the property from the street. Nice.

It's a very well loved building. The building. Right? It's historic.

It's a Texas stone. It is. Yeah.

We've folks have been coming out of the woodwork.

Yes.

And we hope to be done really soon and be able to invite everybody to come in and see it

That's great.

Up close.

Since it is all landscaping, I see in here that there's an ongoing landscape maintenance agreement. So you're all good with that.

Yeah. That was signed as part of the application suite.

But I think that but that the expense isn't in here.

No. It's just the it's agreement to keep it up. Yeah. Okay.

K.

Any questions?

Any other questions?

Comments? None?

I'll make a motion to approve.

I second.

K. We have a motion to approve and a second. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Alright. So next item is, an economic update.

Alright. So we had six

new businesses that opened in July. They are the first studio with Energy Productions at 540 Keller Parkway, Suite 400, B Well Primary Care at 601 South Main Street, Suite 200. Faucet Systems at 900 Katy Road, Unit 320. Integrity Designs at 8801 Davids Boulevard. Tater Top Boutique at 121 Ruth Snow Drive, and J. Ruth's Keller Academy Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at 1500 North Main Street. So far through July I apologize. I think that's after June. I might have had typo there. We've had 72 COs so far through the July.

And then I'm sure some of these you've heard about, but I just wanna make sure everybody is aware. Gurutobi Bistro is gonna be opening up at 110 Lamar Street where two brothers used to be. I actually went and visited their Flower Mound location, and they are a wonderful family. Really excited about it. Really great breakfast breakfast food, food, really really all all day day food, teas, coffee. It's just a really, really neat addition to Old Town. Italian table finally opened up. Yay. Oh, a French toast.

Mhmm.

Actually, when I had dinner

there Friday night, it was really good. It's at 1520 North Main Street, so please pay them a visit and tell your friends. Also, the market at this stage, this is also at center stage at 1320 North Main Street. This is a combination convenience store slash dry cleaners.

It's a different combination. Well, it's for messy people.

So it's great for me. Like, it's very useful.

It's a it's

a pretty cool setup. Once you go in there, you're gonna be like, oh, that's really interesting. They should be opening this week. So excited about that.

You may wanna finish on that one. They're not actually dry cleaning on-site. It's like a pickup service.

Yeah. But most are anywhere.

So Yeah.

Just just so because I that probably doesn't sound like it fits well, but that's what it is. It's like a pickup service. It's not the full drive

thing off. Gotcha.

It's It's pretty cool.

It's a

part of Yeah. Thank you, sir. We're gonna stop the shop. Yes. As far as incentivize projects, flex has started applying for building permits. And I'm sure you all have heard that patient opened up on August 8. They are going through their soft opening period right now, and they will have a grand opening in October. And I'm sure we will be sending out invitations to all of you. Restaurant week wrapped up August 3. Thank you to everyone who participated and supported the local businesses.

It felt like a like a success from our standpoint. We're still serving the restaurants, getting their sales status, so we should hopefully have more information to y'all about how that went in the next few weeks. Open rewards is still open, and I really hope that you've all downloaded the app and you're submitting your receipts and telling all your friends. So far, we have 253 users. The economic impact so far has been almost $15,000, and we've distributed from our budgeted amount a thousand dollars.

So but that keeps going until September 8. So it's not too late to submit receipts and ask people to download the app. And very easy. Just take a picture, submit it, and you get your your cash back. Something that I was kinda looking at, Melanie and I have access to a dashboard for open rewards.

And as we hoped, most of the participants have been Keller residents, but we've also seen people from Fort Worth, NRH, Bedford Bedford, and Denton County. And there's some really random out of state ones too, but all are welcome as soon as they're coming to Cal Air. And just as a reminder, on August 4, we opened open rewards to the remaining list that we had. So the first week, it was just the restaurant week participating restaurants. And starting August 4, we opened it up to all restaurants, local businesses, only kinda leaving out well, really anybody that produces sales tax was included other than, like, the big box stores and grocery stores.

And just a reminder, each person can earn up to a $100 in cash back. And even if maybe you didn't submit all your receipts by September 8, as long as you submit them by September 30, you will get your cash back. And we just ask that you keep spreading the word. And that's all I got. Do have any questions?

We've also eaten at Italian table and Cajun. Definitely encourage you guys to check them out.

One cool thing I saw with Cajun is the short YouTube videos that they did sort of promoting the business that came up in my feed. I think that would just be a great thing to encourage different businesses to do around here more often and things that was just to give us a real sense of who they were, what their business was about. And I it was short. It was sweet. It was just what it needed

to be. Is that the one we're doing or

is that

a different one?

Oh. Yeah.

Are you did they do their own or are you talking about Foodie Friday?

Foodie Friday.

It's great. Yeah. Yeah. This is ping pong.

We will tell we will

tell Randy and Rachel that you enjoyed it.

Yeah. Yeah.

That was great. Came up in my feed and I was like, oh, this is really nice. Know what it's like and can't wait to get in there.

Something that I actually don't have on this list, but just as an FYI, Soho, an Italian over there taking over at the former FNG, they are set to open, not official, official, but trying between the twenty fifth or the twenty sixth. So we'll send you all an email when it's official, but it's coming. And so it should be in the next few weeks. They got their CO. So they're just now just training the staff, and then, hopefully, we can all go visit them. Awesome. Mhmm.

Alright. Anything else? Thanks everybody for being here. Entertain a motion to adjourn.

Motion. Second.

We're adjourned.