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Presbyterian Homes and Services <br />Meeting with <br />Hamline Shopping Center Tenants <br />May 28, 2008 <br />6:30 p.m. <br />In attendance: 4 tenants in attendance: Aurelia's Pizza (2), Three Stars Sportscards, 1 <br />from Rosevi(le Dental, 4 PHS staff and PHS's architect <br />Valerie Alt, owner representative for Presbyterian Homes and Servrces, introduced <br />herself and Roland Swenson, JSSH Architects. Val shared the history and growth of <br />Presbyterian Homes over the past 6, or so, years and the need to add on to our current <br />Hamline Office Building to accommodate additional staff. Val shared a site plan of <br />current conditions of the Hamline �ffice Building and then turned the meeting over to <br />Roland Swenson. <br />Roland described the site plans in some depth and talked about additional green space <br />around the Hamline Building and the removal of the current Hamline Shopping Sign. <br />He also let tenants know that we will be working with city staff for new signage that <br />comply with city codes and will have more information available later. We also reviewed <br />possible sirnple improvements to the Hamline Shopping Center such as painting the <br />front of the building, possibly changing the signs on the front to be more uniform, roof <br />repairs and minimal parking lot impravements. We did let them know that anything to <br />do with the Hamline Shopping Cenier is not part of this development, but would be done <br />separately and as part of the budget we already have in place. <br />During the presentation the tenants were encouraged to share their thoughts and <br />concerns about the plans and to ask any questions they would like. All their concerns <br />and questions were regarding what, if anything, is happening to the Hamline Shopping <br />Center. The Hamline Shopping Center is not pa�t of this development project, so any <br />improvements or other general upkeep of the Hamline Office Building will be considered <br />separately under our planned budget. <br />Tenants seemed very positive about the project. Aurelio's Pizza, especially, were not <br />concerned about blocked views from Hamline Avenue because they have a good <br />customer base that knows where they are. Also, Aurelio's was excited because when <br />PHS has meetings or events at their offices, Aurelio's gets more customers or food is <br />ordered for pick-up from their restaurant. <br />The rneeting ended at approximately 7:03 p.m. <br />Recorded by: Valerie Alt, Presbyterian Homes <br />� � <br />