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Dear Mayor David Grant, Councilmembers Emily Rousseau, Brenda Holden, Tina Monson, and Thomas Fabel. We appreciate the opportunity to join today’s working session and discuss with you our vision for the 62- acre Primer Tracer Property. I want to thank David Perrault and Jessica Jagoe for mee�ng with our team and se�ng up this mee�ng. I am Mark Ryan, Bolander CEO, along with Todd Plan�ng, Bolander President, and Tim Gillen, Bolander CFO. We are a viable bidder to the GSA on the Primer Tracer Property. We wanted to discuss our vision with you for the 62 acres. Let me tell you a litle about our company: We were founded in 1924 by Carl Bolander. His son Iver assumed the role of company president in 1941. In 1961, Iver’s son David was president un�l 1994. David’s son Bruce was president from 1994 to 2000. In 2001, Mark Ryan became company president. In 2005 Mark Ryan and Rick O’Gara purchased Carl Bolander & Sons from David and Dorothy Bolander. Todd became president in 2021. We will proudly be celebra�ng 100 years in business in 2024. History with TCAAP, Ramsey County, and Arden Hills In 2013, Bolander along with Wenck Environmental started Work to clean and clear the former Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant. The site was cleaned to residential standards. Following 3 years of demolition, recycling of concrete, asphalt, and metals, the MPCA issued the Certification of Completion on July 12, 2016. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency have removed the site’s soil and surface water from the state and federal Superfund lists. In 2015 / 2016 Bolander worked with the Ramsey County Parks Department to clean up the site for the future trail for the 100 acre trail corridor. In 2022/2023, we worked with the Parks department again to fully demo and restore the building 189 area near county road I for the future recreational center. Site Challenges It will cost millions of dollars to get the site ready for development. As a member of MN Brownfields, we will be pursing grants to assist in the prepara�on on the site. The CERCLA warranty will not cover known environmental issues such as the galbestos siding, asbestos conduc�ve flooring, underground ACM steam condensate, and the treated �mber structures with contact soils. These items will be our largest obstacle in bringing this property to a usable condi�on. With our in�mate knowledge of the types of construc�on used at the TCAAP site and the processes that caused the contamina�on, we are the best suited to develop this property. Bolander has cleaned up hundreds of sites in Minnesota to transform them from blighted to thriving proper�es that have enhanced communi�es. Another challenge is bringing site services to the site. There isn’t readily available water, sanitary, gas or electric services to this site. Bolander has a full-service division that furnishes and installs water, sanitary, and storm water services. The final major challenge that we are working out is what to do with the site to meet the vision of the Arden Hills community as well as the vison of our development group. We have the benefit of working with some of the major developers and contractors in the State of Minnesota. We are currently working with Ryan Companies on the development of the Ford Motor site in St Paul named “Highland Bridge.”