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To: Thoinas Paschke Roseville City Planning From: Mike Herstine Big City Tavern and Banquet Center 2801 Snelling Avenue, Roseville, MN 55113 651-287-9100 Re: Use of space report in regards to adding Oops live comedy theatre Our intent at Big City Tavern and Banquet Center is to allow Oops Theatre to use one of our banquet rooms for their performances which will primarily occur on Friday and Saturday evenings. Other days or evenings may be sold as well based on deinand. There will be 4 different shows per annual season with performances approximately 40 weeks per year. Big City will provide all food and beverage service in the normal course of our existing business. Oops theatre will sell their tickets and perform interactive comedy theatre siinilar to the inanner that they have performed in North Saint Paul since 1999. We believe that this is a�-eat opportunity to bring another element of family entertainment to Roseville. Their style of fun theatre does attract tour groups so there is an added potential of additional business for local shopping and hotel room rents. The Oops Theatre performances will take place in our largest banquet room called the Twin Cities Room. The events will run from about 6:00 until about 10:30pm. The time from 6:OOpm until 8:OOpm is used for drinks and dinner with the actual show starting at 8:OOpm and lasting approximately 2 hours. Oops is an interactive comedy performance. Featuring a small stage, small cast and everyone gets into the act meaning the servers dress and act the part of a show character although they are not technically in the play. (See attached statement form Oops). The Twin Cites room that the Theatre will be occupying has historically been booked with banquets about 30-40% of the available Friday and Saturday nights. When we have used this large room it very often has been used for large wedding parties of up to 200 people creating huge swings in business and parking needs from one evening to the next. Having Oops perfonn on an ongoing basis will level out our business by creating more consistency in our volume and parking needs. Typical wedding guests arrive 2 per car, typical business meeting guests arrive 1-2 per car while typical Oops theatre guests arrive 4 per car and an average of 25% of their theatre guests arrive by bus. Buses will be instructed to park at the far end of the Edina parking lot. Just by the nature of having theatre versus banquets our parking needs should drop by half or more for that room. The estimated capacity for seating during Oops perfonnances is approximately 100 people. This is about half of the current capacity of the Twin Cities rooin. The portable stage/performance area will be set on the side of the room and extend outward toward the center. All seating to the sides and behind columns will be eliininated which reduces the seating by about half (see diagram). Our busiest days for banquets are Thursdays and Tuesdays because most of our events are with corporate clients. When we do book either the Skyboxes or the smaller room downstairs (Roseville Room) on a Friday or Saturday night it is generally for a grooms