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1. Tell Us About Your Primary Products and Services <br />Food <br />Full service beauty salon <br />This business is a very seasonal enterprise that sells Christmas trees and related decorations, and provides a "Farm Experience". A minor part of the business provides backdrops for <br />photography. The background effort and expense to plant, cultivate, shape and harvest the trees is distributed through other times of the year, but essentially all the income comes in <br />between Thanksgiving and Christmas <br />This restaurant provides sit-down meals and take out meals including via a drive - through window. On-line orders are accepted. <br />It experienced a major change in business during the COVID pandemic, their drive-through which was installed 12 years ago became the only possible venue for sales during the State's shut- <br />down of dine-in restaurant business. Sales volume went from 30% drive-thru to 100% drive through with many layoffs of serving staff. <br />The main activities are Day Care, Boarding, Training and and Grooming of mostly dogs. The business is doing well, they are at or near capacity. Main competition is in Woodbury and Oakdale. <br />At one time this was also a veterinarian location with the previous owner, but no longer. There are typically 70 dogs in for day care, and another 20 for boarding. There is a thriving dog <br />training business too. <br />This business is a law firm that does estate planning, mediation, real estate closings, and real estate title work. <br />They have two divisions, one designs, builds and installs commercial recreation equipment such as playgrounds, splash pads, etc. in Minnesota. Customers are mostly municipalities and school <br />districts. The other group is a supplier of portable temporary fencing on a global basis. <br />This insurance agency has been in Lake Elmo for a long time. Their customers are about 50% individuals and 50% commercial. <br />Provide Physical Therapy, yoga and other wellness activities, are a stand-alone business, not a franchisee <br />a real estate sales company that also does staging of homes for sale. They previously had a location in North St. Paul on Seventh St. Since the pandemic they have conducted this business <br />from home and are working to rent out their building, which is just south of the railroad track, on the east side of Lake Elmo Avenue. The back section is being used for a hairdresser. They <br />hope to find a small business like an ice-cream shop, which would set up in the front part of the building, which has a very nice new deck, and use their available parking lot. <br />Platform for people to teach and learn about nature, Community meeting place with pease and respect, Nature Center <br />Auto Repair - the business is running well, more work in Summer than in Winter. They could do a little more business if they could hire another one or two suitable employees. At times they <br />have to schedule work some weeks in advance. The possible work volume is also limited by the number of work spaces available but is not interested in expanding the footprint. <br />2. How many Employees currently work at this location? <br />2FT <br />None-retail stations, not employees <br />3 full-time employees and from 0-40 seasonal employees <br />3 full-time and about 27 part-time employees currently