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2 - • <br /> '1 Four Proposals Accepted for Phase III' Kenzie .Terrace Redevelopment <br /> 2 Project <br /> 3 Mr. Krier had provided copies of proposals' he had- received and given <br /> 4 only a cursory reading the previous day from the following redevelopers: <br /> 5 *Lang/Nelson <br /> 6 *the= Sherman Boosalis Corporation <br /> 7 *the P.J. Gaughan Corporation <br /> 8 *a coalition comprised of Kraus Anderson Contractors, the Stewart <br /> 9 Corporation and Walker Methodist Residences and Health Services, <br /> 10 Inc. <br /> 11 Redevelopers ' Interviews Rescheduled for August 25th <br /> 12 Because his plane from Denver would not arrive in Minneapolis until <br /> 13 10 : 00 P.M. , August 20th, the Consultant requested the H.R.A. meeting <br /> 14 that night be cancelled and the interviews held instead the 'same evening <br /> 15 as the City Council meeting, August 25th. <br /> 16 It was agreed that within the next week, H.R.A. members should be able <br /> 17 to study the proposals they had been provided and to let the Executive <br /> 18 Director, know their personal preferences for the firms which should be <br /> 19 interviewed. -Based--on that input and- staff ' s recommendation related to <br /> 20 the developers' financial capability to do the project, the interviews <br /> 21 would be rescheduled -as recommended by the H.R.A. Consultant. <br /> 22 H.R.A. Action <br /> 23 Motion by Ranallo, seconded by Makowske to cancel the H.R..A. interviews <br /> � 24 with prospective' Phase III redevelopers scheduled for August -.20th and to <br /> 25 reschedule them for 6: 30 P.M. prior to and also immediately following <br /> . . 26 the regularly scheduled Council meeting August 25 , 1987. <br /> 27 Motion carried unanimously. <br /> 28 Opposition to an All-Senior Project Discussed <br /> 29 Secretary/Treasurer Marks opened the discussion by saying: <br /> 30 -it had been his own concern all along that there might have been too <br /> -. 31 ' much concentration on making this an all-senior project; <br /> 32 -when he an& the- Mayor had met with the .H.U.D. officials to sell them on <br /> 33 funding the' -202 Walker project, those officials had been told the City <br /> 34 ' envisioned a: campus-like arrangement for: the Kenzie Terrace Redevelop- <br /> 35 ment Project which would include a. range- in all ages; <br /> 36 -he sensed - that since that time the H:R.A. . had. been "closing the age <br /> 37 towards the upper end; • <br /> ° 38 '-he concerns that the City might be developing a "senior ghetto" had <br />