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v "-, Historic Arby's, McDonald's in Roseville due for overhaul UNDa\ OWEN Sf"" WRITER T _0 l.admark Roseville fut. food restaurants are doe for ::1:r overhauls this SUD'lmef as awncnJ convert them to tfJe lat&st compaay prototypes. The fO-year-old McDonald's restal1l'aat at 207' N. SneJHug Ave. - the first Mcl)ou!d's III. ~IfI-.oQ - will be demolished aacf replaced with a larger bu11d- 1Dg that Includes aa indoor play area. Two stares _"Ray, the a5--year- old Arb". restaunmt at 2105 N, SaeIUDg Ave, - tbe sixth in MlueBota - win be replaced with aD AlbTllSbarro -restaurant. In the ease of Arby's" however, the past - 1D the form of the stare's on,iDal c:owtloy-bat-sbaped stp, - threateD5 to staad ill the way of proJ!1!S!L Tbe franclUsee, Franchise Associates. has a sent1meuul attachment to the sfgn aDd wants to keep It. worhe:re'. only about a half dOteD of those left," said DOD, KenDedy. the eO.Q\pany's vtee prestdent of admfDlstrat.lon. But the RosevUle PlaDrlil11 Contmfssloa on Wedaesday said the 27.foot~tal1 .i,D. - 1 feet taller and 50 pen:eat II.rpr than the current dty sip ordinance allows - bu to go. Iteonedy told the commission the project mIgM not go forward 'i'itboat tile ., and h showed photos of other vintage Arb,'s sips outside Dew restaurants 1D Minneapolis and Sl Paul, But si:c of the severa comrni!ldnners stood firm. &ayiDg they "don't want to OpeD ~ floOdgates to other pleas tor ueeptioos to tbe new ordi. nance. McDonald.s plans. which. hay! yet to come before the com.mfs~ lion, also must comply with the ordiDance. commission CbalrmaD Jteftb W"zetecki noted. lteDDedy said his firm will bave to "rediscuss" the matter based em the com-- misslon.s recommen- dation. The Ro,seviUe ~t,J mate the ultimate dec!s10D. on tbe ArbY.s sign - and the rest. ot tb: propos- al T b c restaaraDts, both on North SDelllng AveaDe across the street from aarMar MalL. are loUd per- formers 1D nled of upd1tlnf, spobsmen said this week.. The McDonald's store was opened fA 1957 by Patricia XalversoD. the eompaoy.s first female fraDchisee. and was rebullt in 1977, said Craig &rues. regf~ al tGDstruc:tion manager for McDonald's. The current fran. ddsee is Steve Halverson. Patrlcla Halverson's stepsoo.. The store's teehl:lo1ogy was "good 20 lean ago." Barnes said, SCHEDULE \VOlt( on the McDonald's In RDSeVlIIe will begfn In Aprft and be CDQ1pfeted ra about 75 daJS. McDoDsr.r. win he dosed during construction, The updated Alby's/Sbarto .tare would open III Juno, but the restaurant win lJefYe ...ear. .u but . few weeks durin, lI:onstructlon. But th. DeW store - nearly cae- third larger than the old - will have 5tate-of~the.art equipment and an improved drtve-tJiroUgh. n -rn. seat 130 people. AD outdoor play area will be removed and replaeed with the indoor play apace. The '-!Dished restaurant will laok much ute the Mc:DoDald'S at Highwa, 96 and Interstate 35E ia White Bear Township, B:uues said Work will begin fD April and "ill be completed 10 about 75 days, he said. The restauraut will be dosed during CODStI'UetIo11. The Arby'S store will rema1D open aU but a few weeks of the project because the new store 'ril be bunt aD a different portia of the tot. Kem1edy said. Tbe restaurant will expand by about 700 square feat to aeco~ modate a Sbarro's servin, area. The new store. which will seat 120, wilt open .In June. Franchise Associates and R08evlUe city staff bad Vtorked out aD agreement by whicb the restaurant would keep tbe old Arby's sign but reduce the sUe ot sips on the boHdin, itle11 to comply with the ordlllance. "We tried tD play the middle fI"OW1d." CommlJlUty Development Director DemUs WeJscb &:tid. But Wletecki, who UVeI Deat another new Arby', with a nc-, smaller sign GO Rlee Street, was unsympathetic. The sign ordi- nance, which took nearly two yean to write and approve, Is Ineant to improve ROlev1Ue's esthetic laDdscape, be said. Be said he doubts the lraDCb'~ would kJU the project, _ but, "U they don't (bu1ld) they don'l It's happened before.;" NORTH METRO BRIEFING ~