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CB COMMERCIAL M`C B/Ko L L REAL ESTATE GROUP,INC. INSTITUTIONAL SERVICES COMMERCIAL Management Ser-ices Delivering Solutions Through Local Knowledge Worldwide FOUNDED.1906 May 29, 1998 Mr. Michael Mornson CITY OF ST. ANTHONY 3301 Silver Lake Road St. Anthony, MN 55418 RE: St. Anthony Shopping Center Krause Anderson Petition for Robodyne C.U.P. Dear Mike: We are in receipt of a Notice of Public Hearing for the Conditional Use Permit being requested by Krause Anderson to allow Robodyne Corporation, a "computer research company", to locate in the former Town & Country Grocery building. We adamantly oppose the intended use, as it is not retail and will not attract consumers to the immediate area of the St. Anthony Shopping Center. Since I began.managing the property in 1987, it has always been demanded by the city that all uses at the center had to be commercially compliant or, at a minimum, coincidental to a retail use. At times this has placed a burden on our leasing of the property but we have complied The St. Anthony Shopping Center is entering another chapter in its long history of retail competition. The first occurred with the opening of Apache Plaza. It was then thought the St. Anthony Shopping Center would not be able to survive. We now have the redevelopment of Apache Plaza (most importantly the opening of Cub Foods) and the development of The Quarry with Target, Rainbow Foods and Home Depot as anchors. These played an important role in the closing of Town & Country. Even though Town & Country was a small grocery, it did help generate traffic at the center and was well used by residents in the immediate area. The closing of Town & County has perhaps had a greater impact on the St. Anthony Shopping Center than Apache Plaza and The Quarry. Town & Country has only been closed a few months. If Robodyne's C.U.P. is issued, the towel is quickly being thrown into the ring without exhausting efforts to lease the building for its intended commercial (retail) use. This is not only unfair to the owners of the St. Anthony Shopping Center, but also to the merchants of the St. Anthony Shopping Center who have worked hard to develop their businesses and compete against the retail giants who surround them. IN EXCLUSIVE ALLIANCE wrrH DTZ AND C.Y.LEUNG EXCEEDING CLIENT EXPECTATIONS AROUND THE GLOBE 11ACf V--non C1 MM lM FnPN DD ATO1R MN SY3dd _.