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Reports of Staff May 20, 2016 Page 3 of 8 deal work. As a result, they are still looking for land to build a new facility or an existing building to refurbish. They would like to stay within 5 miles of their existing site if possible. Central Transport: They are moving to their new location in Blaine in September. Saia will take over the building and remodel it before moving into the building sometime in the Spring 2017. Dell-Comm: Has received a permit to install a new cell tower. Commissioners Freichels will be able to elaborate on this project if needed. MFI Metal Finishers Inc.: They have contacted city staff looking into the possibility of expanding their existing building to another 3,000 sf. They are still contemplating how this would be designed and if they will proceed or not. Mounds View Chiropractic: They have signed a long-term lease in their existing building but will be looking for another space as their lease comes due. Ideally, they would like to own their building and custom design it to fit their specific needs. Albert’s Organics: This space is still vacant. The area has a commercial kitchen and they are looking for a user that would have a need for this use. The available space is about 56,000 sf. Mounds View Square: They still have six vacancies. They have talked about a possib le tap room but would need the city to update their ordinance on this type of use. Jon Sevald, City Planner is working on this ordinance. The ordinance would address brew pubs, tap rooms, micro brews, distilleries, wineries, etc. Silver View Plaza: They will be doing some minor parking lot patching this spring and they are still looking at their options for a new sign along County Road 10. Apple Tree Dental: Coordinator Beeman arranged a verbal agreement between Apple Tree Dental and the Wysong Theater for any additional employees added by the expansion of the dental office to be able to park in the movie theater’s parking lot along the north side of the building or along the walking trail. The new employees will be moving from Coon Rapids to Mounds View this fall. Another parking option is to park along Mounds View Drive. Dr. Helgeson said, “The availability of parking along the north side of the parking lot is terrific news. We just finished a 7 year lease for the space our leadership team is currently using in Coon Rapids and are now on a “month-to-month” extension. We plan to use the projected rent savings when we move out to finance new office equipment for the second floor at our Mounds View Center. That will likely happen late in the Fall or early winter of this