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~J <br />FALCON HEIGHTS, MINNESOTA <br />PROGRAM FOR A <br />MULTIFAMILY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT <br />Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 462C, as amended (the "Act"), the City of Falcon <br />Heights, Minnesota (the "Issuer") is authorized to develop and administer programs to finance the <br />acquisition and construction of multifamily housing developments under the circumstances and within <br />the limitations set forth in the Act. Section 46X.07 of the Act provides that such programs for <br />multifamily housing developments may be financed through the issuance of revenue obligations <br />payable exclusively from the revenues of the program or developments. Pursuant to Minnesota <br />Statutes, Section 471.656 and Section 471.59, as amended, the Issuer will enter into a Joint Powers <br />Agreement with the City of Hutchinson ("Hutchinson") in order to preserve "bank qualification" and to <br />provide for the Issuer to issue the Bonds, as hereinafter defined. <br />The Issuer received a proposal from Maplewood Senior Housing, Inc. ("Maplewood"), a Minnesota <br />nonprofit corporation and atax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization, that the Issuer approve a program providing for <br />the design, construction, and equipping of a 50-unit independent senior housing facility (the "Project") located <br />on a 2.53 acre project site at 1015 Century Avenue SW, on the southern edge of Hutchinson. The Project is to <br />be owned by the Pines of Hutchinson, LLC, a Minnesota limited liability company (the "Owner") of which <br />Maplewood is the sole member, and operated by Ecumen Services, Inc., awholly-owned management company <br />• of Ecumen, a Minnesota nonprofit corporation. The management contract shall conform to the management <br />contract rules of the Internal Revenue Service as a "conforming" management contract. The design, <br />construction, and equipping of the Project is to be funded through the issuance of one or more series of up to <br />$5,350,000 in aggregate principal amount of revenue notes, bonds or obligations (the "Bonds"), to be issued by <br />the Issuer, pursuant to the terms of a Loan Agreement between the Issuer and Owner. <br />The Project will be operated as a multifamily residential senior housing rental project. The units in the <br />Project are designed for rental primarily to elderly or handicapped persons. The site is located adjacent to a 42 <br />unit assisted living facility (The Oaks of Hutchinson) owned by Second Century Housing and managed by <br />Ecumen Services, Inc. The Project will consist of a contiguous two-story building. It is slab on grade and <br />contains approximately 51,550 gross square feet of interior area. The building is a wood frame structure with <br />vinyl siding and an asphalt single roof. The facility contains 50 units in the following configuration: <br />Unit Description Number of Units Square Feet/LJnit <br />One Bedroom 10 510 <br />One Bedroom-Handicapped 2 510 <br />Accessible <br />One Bedroom-No Patio/Balcony 8 640 <br />• <br />~3 <br />