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THE MARKET: <br />We feel that the Mounds View Square Shopping Center location may be an excellent place to <br />locate a Garden City "Flower Mart". This could be an opportunity to serve our customers in the <br />community with a nearby convenient shopping location where they can buy quality plant materials <br />fiom local Twhn Cities growers. We are experienced in this kind of operation and feel that we are <br />doing an excellent service for our customers and our surrounding communities. <br />LOCATION: <br />The "Flower Mart" itself is 84 feet long and 21 feet wide and 12 feet high (1764 Sq Feet) <br />The area needed is typically 154 feet long by 36 feet wide in one end and 36 feet in the other. This <br />size includes the garden center itself and the patio areas connected to the Flower Mart. We will <br />locate in a place that is some distance from the front of the other businesses and out of the main <br />stream of traffic, both pedestrian and vehicular. We want to give the Flower Mart visibility to the <br />public without obstructing the visibility of the other neighboring businesses, and at the same time <br />have good visibility in order to attract customers into the lot. And we choice this location in the <br />parking lot also ( as shown in the site Plan) because is convenience to unload the delivery trucks <br />with out interfere we the Shopping Center daily operations. This is the same spot that linder's <br />Greenhouses uses for many years. <br />TRAFFIC: <br />With regard to vehicle traffic, the "Flower Mart" is placed in the selected location in order to keep <br />any traffic disruption to a minimum. The patio areas at the front, side and back serve to protect the <br />"Flower Mart" fi•orr vehicles and let the drivers see around the garden center. The patio fence is <br />about 4 it high and surrounds the "Flower Mart" on three sides. This design was used at our <br />"Flower Mart" this year and we did not have any problems with vehicle movement. We feel that <br />this is a safe way to deal with vehicles. Placed in this manner, vehicles cannot park adjacent to the <br />"Flower Mart". The circulation of vehicles in the parking lot will not be adversely affected by the <br />"Flower Mart" due to its location in the lot. <br />PARKING: <br />We have designed the "Flower Mart" as we did because we feel that this is the most professional <br />design and uses the available space to its maximum potential. It has been our experience that the <br />traffic and parking in the lots shared by the "Flower Mart" is not affected due to the sharing of <br />customers with our property owner. We bring in many customers but they are easily handled by the <br />size of the lots we occupy. We do not want to create a congestive atmosphere for our customers 1101' <br />any neighboring businesses. <br />The "Flower Mart" generates business activity which varies during the business day with the most <br />activity occurring in late afternoon and evening. There is also business activity occurring on the <br />weekends with the most on Saturdays, Having done this type of operation this year, it would be <br />safe to say that the average amount in the "Flower Mart" at any one time is about five to six <br />customers. The maximum amount of customers may be up to ten. There are certainly times when <br />10 <br />