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St. Anthony Wage Shopping Center <br />Tenants' Association <br />2902 Pentagon Dr. NE <br />St Anthony Village, IN 55418 <br />SAVShoppingCenter@JiotwQ.cQm <br />November 21, 2006 <br />Merchants Comments on 2008 Comprehensive Plan Update: <br />The Keam. Terrace District <br />As business entrepreneurs, the twenty merchants in the St. Anthony Village Shopping <br />Center have experienced its potential. We have invested our vision, our time, and <br />hundreds of thousands of dollars into building successful businesses that provide valuable <br />and desirable goods and services to the citizens of St. Anthony Village. We know as <br />friends, neighbors and customers many of then and women who make St Anthony <br />Village their home. We care deeply about the City of St. Anthony and its future. <br />For 50 years, the St. Anthony Village Shopping Center has been the "Gateway- to St. <br />Anthony Village." It was the first outdoor shopping center in Minnesota, owned by the <br />Batista family of Cuba, and for many years it served as the vibrant heart of St Anthony <br />Village. <br />Overtime. St Anthony Village has grow and thrived, and new commercial centers have <br />sprang up. But the St. Anthony Village Shopping Center still retains its unique and <br />important place as the Gateway to the City, and as such it deserves to be redeveloped in a <br />careful and considered mamet, incotporating and reftecting the special character of SL <br />Anthony Village. <br />Dairy Queen, Optometrist Dr. Charles Kirk and St. Anthony Automotive Se ice helped <br />establish the St. Anthony Village Shopping Center in 1955. Not long after, Hennepin <br />County Public Library md the Step by Stop Montessori School recognized the unique <br />location of the Shoppiug Center and chose it as the place where they wanted to establish a <br />hub of education, information and enjoyment for the citizens of the City. Seventeen <br />years ago The Jewelers opened in the Shoppmg Center, followed by the popular Great <br />Drapu Restaurant <br />Within the past five years, these longtome merchants have beenjoined byTkness <br />Crossroad (the, only health club in St Anthony Wage, with more thm 1,000 members), <br />the Village Bleod coffee shop, the Tea Source tea shop, Chiropractors of St Antony, <br />Nails ,& Conimnicures, Herb$ & Heating natural products, Corner looks, Super Clips <br />hair salon, Subway sandwich shop, 1YRtilly's aiao parts, El Rey Bakery, and Hannay's <br />goat real Showroom. Tbree yeas ago the He=, epin County Library moved across the <br />parking lot to a newly remodeled, bigger, brighter and more user friendly- space And just <br />this hIL'Ihe Jewelers opened a completely remodeled showroom, and the nevea <br />adfton to the Shopping Center arrived, the Sia -ver Beach tanning salon. <br />28 <br />