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6 f Wig; ° zz/ eanaaa 515 Little Canada Road, Little Canada, MN 55117 -1600 (651) 766 -4029 / FAX: (651) 766 -4048 www.d.little-canada.mn.us MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor Blesener and Members of the City Council FROM: Joel Hanson, City Administrator DATE: June 22, 2007 RE: Site Options for Hotel RFP Consideration MAYOR Bill Blesener COUNCIL Rick Montour Barbara Allan John Keis Michael McGraw ADMINISTRATOR Joel R. Hanson Attached are eight sites staff has identified as potential locations for a new hotel pursuant to our goal to "Conduct RFP for Hotel /Motel" (action plan attached). They were selected based on their location and development/redevelopment potential. Each has some pros and cons. The availability of any of them has not been determined. Some other information that may prove useful as move forward with this evaluation is as follows: Staff pulled up County information on existing hotel sites in our immediate area. We identified one in White Bear Lake, two in Maplewood near the mall, two in Shoreview in the vicinity of 694 and Lexington, two in Roseville along Cleveland by I -35 W, and one in Vadnais Heights. Based on this limited data (information on the number of rooms, restaurant size, meeting areas, etc. was not readily available), we learned that of the four properties with restaurants, their average parcel size was 5.32 acres. Of the four without restaurants, their parcel size was 1.92 acres. George Sherman of Sherman Associates was contacted. He has been involved in a number of hotel projects recently and indicated he would be interested in working on one in Little Canada. Some key information he relayed was as follows: a) A hotel will need about 120 rooms. b) Rates are geared to business travelers and would be targeted around the $75 /night range for our market. c) The size of a site needed for a hotel without a restaurant is about two acres. d) The size of a site needed for a hotel with a restaurant is about three acres.