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Special Session 935, [iinutes June 23, 1969 Page 3 site is the only one they could consider in this area. Councilman Lieberman inquired as to the dollar value of the developed land - what it would be if ~ey bought the land and built on it and also w4~at the dollar volume of annual sales are anticipated to be. ~ir. Sand- berg said their projected volume would, in the department store side of it, run around $10 1/2 million and in the grocery store around $5 million for the first year. Mr. Guidera said they estimate their cost of land and improvements at being somewhere in the vicinity of $3,500,000. Hr. Alfred Nelson, administrative architect for the Dayton Corporation, was the next speaker. Elaborating, t~. Nelsq~descrJ~ed details of the proposed building, its design, etc. referring to large drawings to illustrate his points -- how the building relates to adjacent properties, how it is proposed to screen it and to develop the property. The build- ing will be brick on all four sides; they propose to use Stuart ?Iertz, landscape architect ;o develop the total landscaping in conformance to the requirements of the City - the parking has been kept out toward Olive Boulevard - the exits and entrances would be totally off of Olive. He said traffic studies have been made by competent engineers in the St. Louis area who are also associated with a nationally kn~.m firm of con- sulting traffic engineers and they have been working closely with the Highway Department, and it is his understanding they have come to a reasonable and satisfactory agreement at this time. He said there will be no gas station in connection with this particular store and they will not ask for one. He described the parking lot lighting. In response to a question by l~yor Kaufman as to what volume of traffic will be generated by this establishment, Hr. lielson pointed out that Olive Boulevard would be used not necessarily at the peak hours when traffic is generated on that street, but the off peak hours is when their stores have their peak hours. He said he believes they have seven cars for every 1000 square feet - they proposed 1126 parking spaces - at the peak hour volumes on Olive will be between 1800 and 2000 vehicles per hour - 60 trips per 1000 square feet of shopping area can be ex- pected to be generated, consisting of 30 entering and 30 leaving, per hour. Mr. Nelson answered numerous questions propounded by members of the Council. He said he has been advised by the Highway Department that at some point they have plans for automating the signal at 81st Street and one down the line, but there would be no signals at any of their entrances. This, he said, would tend to give people an opportunity to make left turns into the store; in the traffic study report there are plans for left turn lanes. Answering further inquiries, Mr. Sandberg said as far as truck deliveries are concerned, they would be from about 8:00 A.lf. to 11:30 A.M. - they do not have any night deliveries. The store hours lionday thru Friday would be from 9:30 A.li. to 10:00 P.M. and on Saturday from 9:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. - for all departments. The car service operation was explained. ~. Sandberg said they carry the same merchandise in all stores. The grocery, lessee is Applebaum's Food Markets Inc. of Saint Paul, Minn. Councilman Werner asked whether their company would put up a store if the Council excluded food (grocery items), whereupon lir. Guidera said