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AROUND A r�rl gym! 11�a t�� TOWN Service � � lime� � Directory City Hall Business Briefs 651-634-5120 (http://www.ci.arden- hills.mn.us) Guidant Expands its Arden Hills Campus Fire(non-emergency) �'!uidant Corp.,located on Hamline Avenue just north of Interstate 694,has purchased the 651-633-2404 �J Arden Hills Technology Center,which is adjacent to its current corporate campus.This Parks&Recreation purchase more than doubles the size of its campus,adding 640,000 square feet of office and 651-634-5120 manufacturing space to its currently-owned 500,000 square-foot building.Approximately 2,200 people work at the Guidant Arden Hills facility. Police(non-emergency) Most of the space in Arden Hills Technology Center,built by Control Data during the 1960s,is 651-484-3366 currently leased to tenants,including Syntegra.Guidant,which had been leasing approximately 20 per- Police&Fire Emergency cent of the building,plans to expand its space in the building as lease contracts expire and its business 911 grows.With the purchase of the Arden Hills Technology Center building and the surrounding 37 acres,Guidant now owns 1. 1 million square feet of office and manufacturing space in Arden Hills. Arden Hills City Hall 4364 West Round Lake Rd. Plans for Walgreen's Halted Arden Hills,MN 55112 The Planning Commission and the City Council had been considering a proposed plan by Regular office hours Walgreen's to build a store at the corner of County Road E and Lexington Avenue on the 8 am.to 4:30 pm.,M-F Holiday Inn property.Holiday Inn had planned to subdivide land and sell the comer section to Walgreen's.Further review of this plan indicates that the original agreement with the City for City Council:Mayor Dennis this site required a certain amount of green space on the corner,which the Walgreen's proposal Probst. Aplik wski, a would not accommodate.Consequently,it does not appear that Walgreen's will pursue its plan to Beverly Aplikowski,David Grant,Gregg Larson,Lois Rem build a store at this location. City Administrator: Joe Lynch Council meetings are held at ma 0 n t v 0 09 0 n 0 M Y. C 0 � City Hall,4364 West Round Lake Road,the second and City sump pump review on-going last Monday of the month at 7:30 p.m.The public is Tn order to make the City's sanitary system run more efficiently,the City inspected residential welcome.Please call the City sump pumps to ensure they are in compliance with proper standards.The inspection process Administrator(651-634-5120) took place last year when the new water meters were being installed. if you have topics for the The City is now reviewing the information gathered and is in the process of contacting those resi- agenda. The meetings are dents whose sump pumps are believed to not be in compliance.If a sump pump is not correctly installed, televised,tape delayed,on it can pump water into the sanitary sewer system which carries water to sewage treatment centers.This Cable Channel 16 on the unnecessarily increases processing costs.Sump pump water,which is primarily rain water,groundwater, following Wednesday at or melted snow,is clean water that can be directly added to the storm water system. 11 a.m.and 7 p.m. Residents who believe they may not be in compliance are asked to contact City Hall to have Arden Hills Communications this issue resolved.The City will schedule a time for the building inspector to come to the resi- Committee:Chairperson Sue dence to check the sump pump system.The City has set an August deadline,after which time Schroeder(651-636-8954), surcharges may be imposed for noncompliance. Elwood Caldwell,Fran Holmes,Mary Nosek.Council Street sweeping and pothole repair •Liaison:Lois Rem.Staff:Joe Lynch,Sheila Stowell. he Public Works Department has been busy cleaning and repairing the streets of Arden Hills T Desktop Publisher:Sharon 1 after our long cold winter.The City's methodology for street sweeping is to start with the Hanzalik. streets nearest the lakes to help keep sand and other accumulated debris from seeping into the Arden Hills Notes is the official lakes.From the lakes,employees fan out and cover all the streets.Along with the sand on the newsletter of the city of Arden streets,the City employees are also working hard to repair the potholes,which are especially Hills,an equal opportunity numerous this year.We are reminded by City Hall that some of the major streets in Arden Hills employer. are not maintained by the City.Lexington Avenue,Highway 96,Snelling Avenue,and New Brighton Road,among others,are maintained by Ramsey County,the government agency to contact for problems with those streets.