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MARTIN UU S <br />P.A. <br />Attorneys At Law <br />444 Cedar Street <br />Suite 2050 <br />:St. Paul, MN 55101 <br />Telephone: 651-767-374.0 <br />Facsimile: -651-228-9161 <br />www,martinsquires.com <br />December 12, 2007 <br />A h ii Pa u I AM r U <br />Direct Dial #651- 76 7-3 74Pi <br />City Council <br />City of Roseville <br />2660 Civic Center Drive <br />Roseville, MN 55113-1899 <br />'ikeV,- Dorso Building Company, LLP/OPUS <br />2814 Cleveland Ave., Roseville, MN <br />We represent Dorso Building Company, LLP which owns 10+ acres of land in the <br />northwest quadrant of the Twin Lakes redevelopment area. There is a resolution on the Council <br />agenda for Decefnber 17, 2007 related to our client which we encourage you to adopt.- <br />The Resolution <br />In brief, the Resolution restates what has been the past position of the City, in reiterating <br />that (i) the property is underdeveloped and blig hted-, (10 the pr6perty is located within the Twin <br />Lakes redevelopment distn'ct and (Ili) if the property cannot be acquired through negotiation by a <br />qualified redeveloper, that the City will, to the extent of its authority, use its power of emi-nent <br />domain to do so. <br />The Dorso property has been considered to be a site capable of being redeveloped <br />without extraordinary infrastructure contemplated by the larger Twin Lakes redevelopment plan. <br />It is not plagued by the environmental problems of other tracts 'in the area. For these reasons and <br />-oliers, Rottlund', the General Services Administration (GSA), and now Opus Northwest, LLC <br />have expressed interest in the property. <br />