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I center. The center owner representative indicated one of the basic concerns the prospective business representatives had was whether their store would be provided some sort of visibility from Kenzie Terrace 4 which he said was the main reason he was requesting the variance for 5 the tenant directory on the side of the buildings which now contains 6 no indication to the public of what's inside the center. He said with 7 the proposed directory, this business as well as other businesses in the 8 center who chose to be on the directory will have much needed exposure 9 on that side. 10 Mr. DiSanto indicated further that: 11 *the renovation is planned to start this April and he estimates would 12 take at least a month to complete; 13 *this doesn't mean all center tenants would have their new signs up 14 by then because they have to pay for their own signage and many of 15 the smaller stores may have to have more time to get the money to 16 pay for the sign; 17 *in the meantime the owners are proposing they be allowed to put 18 up temporary "good quality" canvas lettering to identify those stores 19 between the time the facia goes up and the tenants order their 20 individual signs; 21 *although he hoped all the tenants would realize the benefit of having the new signage, he was not guaranteeing that, would be the case right away and he pleaded on their behalf for the City to allow such 24 temporary signage. 25 Mr. DiSanto indicated the Eberhardt Manager had already gone around to 26 the 25 tenants in the center with signage packages and designs. He 27 showed as an example the blueprints for the library signage which the 28 owners would be paying for. He indicated Mr. Johnson had already 29 experienced success with some of the larger tenants like Snyders Bros. , 30 Curtis Mathes, Nationwide Sewing Machine, etc. , who they expected to 31 "jump on the bandwagon right away". 32 Chair Wagner told him he had talked to one of the tenants who might be 33 expected to "drag their feet" on signage and found he and many of the 34 others are planning to put up the new signage. 35 There was a discussion of whether the sign band would be wrapped around 36 the end buildings for stores which already had signage on the sides 37 of their buildings, with Mr. DiSanto saying the band might be expanded 38 past the current signage if the tenants lobbied as he expected them to 39 retain those signs. However, he said Cokesbury had not yet volunteered 40 to put up the new signage but he hoped that once they saw the other 41 stores putting up their signs, they would also do so. The center owner 42 assured the Commissioners that he intended to eliminate all existing 43 signage to ' get "a really contemporary look" for the center with the 44 existing blue color band, and new facia and signs being proposed in the • 6