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• 2 <br />1 Four Proposals Accepted for Phase III Kenzie Terrace Redevelopment <br />2 Proiect <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 <br />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 and 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 />