Economic Development Committee - Regular Meeting

Small business. So we can absolutely support on that. We just, you know, can't just go in and buy something unless somebody finds a piggy bank full of money. Yeah. Yeah. But that's absolutely something the community can do. Right? That's they just need to organize it.

Thank you. So thank you. Well, wrapped up there. I'm super super pressing.

Just just two quick questions. I wanna dovetail off of that. One one of the if the community wants to use the space, they would need to negotiate with Kroger in order to sublease anything within that location.

Correct. Correct. And there's yes. And there has been some inquiries on that. I don't wanna speak obviously for Kroger, but it just as a parallel example, there is, you know, insurance issues. Right? And that's generally the barrier is that there's insurance issues on, you know, what if someone trips on the site or, you know, there's an accident site or what whatever. So that is, you know, something if the community is interested that they should also just be cognizant that they're it's not just, like, you know, using a friend's backyard. It's like you have to actually have but, I mean, that's absolutely available to the public to negotiate with Kroger on that.

Great. And then for the the long term lease, do we know how long that lease is, or is that something kept under, perhaps?

I know for sure it's twenty it was twenty five years that they started, and then they were four years into it. So right now, that's whatever. '21. 2021. Yeah. Well, that was 2026. So maybe it's, like, twenty twenty years now. So but, again, that's, you know, the prerogative of the actual property owner if after that they would whatever they wanna do.

And then final question was is I I it's my understanding that the gas station is slated for demolition. Is that correct? Is the medical building also going to be? Because that's been empty for much longer.

That's been under discussion. Again, I don't wanna confirm a 100%, but that is definitely under discussion with them. I think they spend a lot of time and money on on trying to keep it clean. So that yeah. Absolutely.

It looks like it's. Yeah. And then just that I appreciate the ongoing conversations with them, and I have got drive by side very regularly, and I even go through the parking lot. Mhmm. And it has looked very clean. I'm really satisfied, happy where we're at. Obviously, it helps them market the site as well. So I think, you know, leaning into the sub area planning is gonna be really important. And I think any business have could have a lot of great potential opportunity at this location. It's a really good location for for something. So we'd like to see it happen sooner than later.

Yeah. It's it's it's a little complicated, but like I said, we are definitely dovetailing onto the sub area planning, some of the sales materials, and and we really will be making more proactive efforts, moving forward.

K. Thank you. I miss it. Thank you. So with that, we will close out that informational briefing and move up to topics for upcoming meetings. I would like to call an AMLA meeting committee liaison for topics for upcoming meeting with my understanding that we have zero slated so far. But please Anything anything to add, miss? We're waiting for your election, Sharon. Okay. We're waiting for this.

Great. Hopefully, we'll know by Monday tomorrow, and if we do, then at least in January 27 agenda. But if not, that would. Perfect. Julie noted for myself, that I shared to get together and, make sure that we're helping set those agenda items.

If folks have agenda items you're interested in hearing or seeing, please let me or Anna know. We're working with Tanya to make sure that we get sort of a road map of what we want the year to look like, and, we'll present that at some juncture. And, we usually go over it here in the in the committee agendas for the next couple of meetings. So any anything top of mind, send it our way. There's a lot of things that are required of our committee, like interviews for different CBCs and, regular quarterly updates on different things, but, we also have some flexibility to add some topics of our own interest.

So, with that said that. Yeah. Yeah. We I'll always get a bonus for you. So good Tuesdays. Great. With that, are there any other items of interest for anyone?

If we if we have some ideas, should we save them now?

No. Send them to me. Okay. Thank you.

So you can make efficient.

Yeah. And then we'll get them all all slated in, and we'll I guess my thought is we'll parking lot then even if it's not slated for a date. Sure. So I want I do want all of the ideas so that we have we know what what folks are interested in. No bad ideas. Ideas could end up in another kind of teaching, so I don't wanna be mindful of that. Mhmm. Great. Anything else? So with no other items of interest, I will ask for the final motion.

Move the adjourned. Second.

All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Good. We are adjourned.