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Okay, we're going to change up a little bit. First, we're just welcome, everybody here. And so we're just having a look at the minutes. Do we have a motion that proves the minutes or the fractions on them? Okay, so I'm very with the motion. Any second? Second, thank you. All in favor? Okay, so I'm going to introduce a couple of guests. We have here. We've had them on before, but we had a retail.

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strategy. It's a company that we contract with to go to the patient and help

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to find retail companies to come here. They have a site visit. We can have

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going to turn the time over to Brooke and John. So thank you Brian and hello the morning everybody.

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We were just in pace in the last week and really quick if I shared my screen does everybody have

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ability to see that or. Yes. Okay. It's just a very quick kind of abbreviated. Um, so as Brian

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So yes, we recently entered into a partnership.

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It is a three year engagement.

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of your economic development team,

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specifically for retail recruitment.

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So the slide we're looking at right now

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is a little bit of what that partnership life cycle looks like. So we are currently in

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this discovery and data analysis space. So as soon as we engage we ran some data demographics

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from different retailers in Payson. And what this allows us to do is to really view the market

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as retailers see it. So a lot of retailers don't look at Payson as specifically as the city boundary.

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They look at it more of the custom trade area. They want to know who's coming, who's spending

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money in Payson. So we run all this data analysis. We're looking at the demographics as well,

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because when we're talking to these retailers, they each kind of have their own secret sauce of

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what they know what works for them in terms of population household income. You know, some of them

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are even as detailed as we need this percentage of the population to be 14 and under. That's more for

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some of the experiential tripling parks, that type of thing.

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and then we met with five different property owners,

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which is actually helpful, very beneficial for us,

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because property is what really moves the real estate,

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or the real estate is what moves these retailers to expand.

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they might be very interested in expanding in Utah,

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but until they have a site that's their criteria,

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they'll just kind of sit on it.

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getting to talk to them kind of about the history of their property. Having that direct

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line communication with them will be very beneficial for us as we kick off that active

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engagement and active recruitment. And so following our market visit last week, we're

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set to schedule the formal retail strategy presentation. And then that officially kicks off active

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recruitment. And then active recruitment. We are calling these retailers, emailing these retailers

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on behalf of the city of Payson. We're reaching out to property owners. We're talking to the city,

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regarding timelines. We know there's a lot of exciting stuff coming up in Payson in the next

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couple years, so making sure we're informed of those timelines regarding any utilities,

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anything like that that will help us when we're talking to these retailers. And that also involves

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conference representation. So that's ICSC Las Vegas which was in May in the

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spring and then actually next week we're going to ICC Western in San Diego and

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that is kind of the premier show for retailers that are specifically looking to

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expand in the Western region and so and

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so kind of we say National Retail

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He'll take it from 18 to 36 months.

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trying to tee up those conversations

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that may or may not have happened otherwise

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every step of the way.

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and this is a timeline slide and we really just include this. I always joke that John

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Mark could do an entire, you know, college level class just on this single slide alone,

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but this is just a case study of typically how long it takes a retail deal to do.

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I will caveat this is just a case study. We've seen this take six months if, you know,

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when party city declared bankruptcy some retailers were able to really take advantage of those

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existing retail spaces and power centers and they were in in six months and then we've seen

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this take up to six years for a single-dutch grows which has a very small prototype build out.

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So it really depends on the deal, the financials, the performance, economic factors, everything.

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that the circles that are highlighted in green are really where we can step in and influence

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these decisions and help kind of the conversation, talking to the real estate director, as they're

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identifying markets, keep pacing in front of them, you know, once they've decided, yes,

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we're looking in and around you talk, give them sites and pacing, connecting with developers,

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that type of thing is really where we have a hand in it. And so, and this is just a quick example.

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this is all the national retail in Payson and we're able to run mobile tracking data from any

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of these national retailers and what that mobile tracking data allows us to do is create this

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key map. So as you can see this is where shoppers and that was specifically from the Walmart.

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So anything that's highlighted is where shoppers are coming to shop at the Payson Walmart.

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So, when we were creating that custom trade area to talk to these retailers, we'll pick

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a couple different nodes of retail, and it helps grow the city boundary.

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So, you're looking at a bigger area than just Paisen city proper.

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discovery phase, and then we're getting ready for the ICSE Western Show next week and looking

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to schedule that retail strategy presentation, but Brian was very, very beneficial to our team,

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getting property owners last week able to actually talk to them one-on-one,

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a nice, warm interest, so when we call them, they know who we are and kind of that we're working with

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Yeah, and just really quick, you know, kind of just some brief takeaways from our visit

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and some property owners and those sorts of things, you know, I like to think of markets

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and deals and timelines as, you know, low-hanging fruit and kind of how and how when and how things

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can be taken down and deals could happen and those sorts of things. So great, great,

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too, or great drive. Thank you all again for for driving us around and just for all the insights

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and time that y'all provided last week. I think that, you know, the lowest-hanging fruit, so to say,

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the quickest sites that are currently under development are about to be under development are along

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800 south down there in the existing retail corridor and that makes a lot of sense. Most retailers

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want to be around other retailers. They really value co-tenancy, they really value existing traffic,

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existing traffic draws, those existing anchors such as Walmart. So I think in the newer term,

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I love what's going on on 800 South, particularly on the West South, the freeway.

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So I love what's going on there, Red Bridge Station, we know already has a site plan, they're

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starting to market it.

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So that's really valuable and then knowing that we have already retailers interested and

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willing property owners on the on the east side of the roundabout there. It's kind of south of

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Wendy's like I said is really valuable and really helpful. So I think that's kind of the lowest

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hanging fruit and again that's just because there is existing retail and obviously turf farm way

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kind of going around there beside Walmart with the upcoming hotel project as well as pets that

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they are already starting to lease. Those are properties that already have site plans, already

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have some infrastructure in place or kind of ready to go. But of course, you know, as we continue

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discussing, continue driving. Oh, and I got to say the, what did y'all call it? The pit or the

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garage? The broth or now? The broth, like, grotto. Yep. So down there, you know, as we know,

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lows is going just over to the east of that. So again, experience developer, you know, great, good

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a good, super solid property, the ability to get pilot signage removed that wall there.

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It's very valuable and I could see, you know, that's, again, low hanging fruit.

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Where could a junior anchor shopping center go?

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co-tenancy and all of those sorts of things.

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there's plenty of opportunities certainly with the new interchange coming

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but as well as the, you know, Southern Farms development.

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I mean, there's so much going on up there and I think that those are a little bit longer

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term and that's not a bad thing that just allows us to get early, start having conversations

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early, put these on people's radars earlier, I think until how does this start moving, both

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on the new interchange as well as other farms that's going to be, you know, just a little bit

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longer-winded, longer term planning, discussions, interests, those sorts of things, but again, that's

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necessarily a bad thing. It's very exciting. I'll say my mind is blown at the

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amount of growth, the amount of homes coming. And again, just thank you again for those

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conversations that were teed up for us last week because there's just wonderful players,

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people that are experienced, willing, able, and ready to start investing and continue investing

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in pace. And so, the fact that we have something more, you know, nearer term, ready to start

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marketing site plans are made for commercial padded out, et cetera, and then we also have

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longer term bigger projects to start kind of master planning and including in our discussions

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with retailers. It's just very, very good to have both options. Some retailers can take longer.

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I've worked on a Chick-fil-A deal in Washington State for over four years now and they haven't even

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closed on a property yet. And so, you know, those types of discussions, those types of retailers,

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but also working on a tropical smoothie deal that's about to close and we've been working

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So, again, this is an example of how things can go faster, go slower, so just the ability

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to have different different types of properties.

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Some existing retail corridors, existing interchanges with high traffic, as well as literally a brand-new interchanges is huge and just provide so many options and so many different ways to plug people in and have conversations with people. But again, just blown away at the amount of investment, the amount of people, the willingness, the friendliness. We're really grateful again for those conversations that were scheduled for us last week and really excited to continue working.

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So that's that's my quick synopsis. Happy to share any more thoughts or answer any questions, but that's just kind of a quick synopsis of last week.

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Great. Thanks, John, Brooke. They're pleasant to work with. They're great people. So we're really excited about how retail strategy. Do you have any questions for them while we got them online?

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I have one. I know 800 South is a really desirable area and all the places that you pointed out. I'm curious what your thoughts are for the other side of basin. So we have.

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How far does it go? Is it down to the new parkway? I don't know what's called.

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It's not quite too low for a mountain, right?

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Yeah, it's not quite too low for a mountain, right?

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It's just past summer.

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So I know there's that new exit.

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That's working on.

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It's going to be nice.

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A couple years going to be over there.

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So there could be some opportunities on that side.

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Not full support like you guys.

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There was something like that.

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part of the brain. I was curious if you had any thoughts on the other side of

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pacing if there was anything came to mind during your visit. Yeah yeah and I'm

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glad you brought that up. I didn't just I didn't bring that up just for the sake

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of time but definitely my biggest focus is going to be the new connector row

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that connects Arrowhead Trail up to. What was pacing Parkway? So the pacing Parkway

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kind of connector I think that is certainly going to be a really big part of

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just that entire side, especially with the new homes coming up.

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So, yeah, drove over there, I really like it.

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It's very green right now.

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I think most retail that we're going to be talking to,

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we're going to be focused around the interchange first

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and then it will grow down.

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That's just my opinion, but definitely we'll include that

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in discussions and seeing where things could go.

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versus the things that are in the shorter term next year,

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next year or so, but we drove over there, we drove up and down to our head

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trail, saw where Pacin Parkway is going to connect up to the new interchange. So I

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think my thoughts are you know plenty of opportunities and it's a very strong

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growing market but I think it's mostly going to be focused around Pacin Parkway,

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which we'll hook up into the new interchange.

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So our main focus is on national retail. We do have the ability to

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to reach out to and recruit to some downtown areas,

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but we do have another branch of the company

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so we will, you know, in discussing the market,

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we'll be happy to share opportunities

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with national retail for downtown.

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We love downtown, that's where,

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that's where Brooke and I go in the evenings for dinner

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or for breakfast or whatever that may be.

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But our main focus is on national retail,

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So we will be, you know, discussing sharing any opportunities were applicable and we will happily, you know, send any retailers or any businesses downtown that we discussed with, but personally, it's really, really nice. I love we love exploring down there.

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I was going to say we really impressed with downtown pay sign. It was very can tell, but some work in to aesthetically when you pull up very, very cute and gritty.

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But just from a retail standpoint, the national retailers that we're talking to have a little

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bit different requirements than what would be a typical downtown site, whether that's

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parking.

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Because most downtowns you've just got parking on Main Street in each restaurant has designated

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3 to 5 parking spots where your national retailers are going to want at least 40 or 50 parking

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spots.

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So kind of the John Marx point like as we're talking to these retailers and things come up, we'll definitely highlight opportunities near downtown if applicable, but our primary focus is going to be that national retail.

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But if there's any if there's any sites or properties that are vacant that that is, you know, needed to be highlighted to us, we can work on some, you know, smaller level type retail, but our main focus is on the national side.

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other questions?

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For John Brook?

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A great thanks so much for hopping on, and if you want to just listen to what we have

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to say about other things, economic development based on your happy stay on, but you can

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leave it if you'd like to also, so thank you very much.

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Yeah, thank you.

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Thank you, Brian.

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Thank you all.

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We will jump off.

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We have another commitment, but thank you all very much for your time.

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Thank you.

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Y'all a good one.

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Okay, next thing on the agenda is our golf event, which is coming up October 1st to

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do it.

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But soon, we still have quite a few slots left.

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We have done really well with the local people or businesses that want to be part of it,

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paid us money.

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We're doing really well this year, but we still need quite a few of those that we're trying

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to recruit to come to Bates and like brokers that bring people or things like that. So if you

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know of anybody, let us know and we can reach out to them or you can reach out to us and say,

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is this a good fit? Then we can say yes or no and you can then reach out to them. But if I've

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played through the available one and we want to use it to the one's use force to recruit businesses

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is become the face and you should network with Brook and John, is that it?

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They might have suggestions of people in the event ages to attend.

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Yeah, that's good.

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They do know about this thing.

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Next year, they're going to plan their visit around there and per call to you, Daniel.

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And we do have two helicopters this year, but one's a bigger helicopter, so we'll build

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I think we're more people too.

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So it isn't the tank with the air conditioning of the cage.

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It's in the bucket.

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I think we have out of the lake right now.

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It's through the two.

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It's a one.

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It's a one.

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We're all too adventurous.

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I think it's like it's not figure out what that loud noise was outside my window.

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What was the screen?

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Okay, next thing is, we have a new business

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that we've been to a place that's called Sending For.

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They purchased the plunder building,

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and I called it a plunder building

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in front of one on the other day,

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and they said, no, it's a Sending Corp building,

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so it's no longer the plunder building.

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Anyway, just a little bit about Sending Corp.

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They're a national company, they're out,

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they had courses free to build.

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They started out with doing security all over the world, so they still do security.

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It's been advanced, not as big.

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And so that's still the security for data centers, things like that.

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But one of the big things now is doing security, like building type of modular buildings,

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or you can put stuff in it where it can't be penetrated by like modern stuff.

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So that's one of the big things now and they're doing a prototype of a different type of that for

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the military if they got like four weeks to get it done and if they get that they think

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they can get that done to get a contract and they do that and they need 150,000 square

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foot building and they said hey we'd like to have a prep right here and pace them. So we're

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looking at that and then they also want the reasons they came to pace and bought the new

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core building is that EmTech. I really like having EmTech there. So we took my tour of EmTech

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yesterday and they have lost the need for developers. And so it's just a nice thing to have EmTech

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here. I like the business resource center. They thought for some prototyping they got built

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use that. So now it's an exciting business. They have 1700 employees. They figure they're going to have

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100 employees in this, send quarter building and, you know, if they do the 150,000 square foot

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manufacturing place, they'll have another, you know, 150 employees. So it's going to be great,

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great business. Another thing they do have, too, is they're putting a consortium of, and they

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brought this one. We have a kind of open house. They bring, they're putting consortium

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all these different companies that are military to contract with the government. And so they're

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trying to put this like networking group together. They had like a hundred and fifty companies that

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are in that and they want to go at 300. So just for having a hotel and when they brought these people

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and would have been great. And that should help us maybe working now with some of these people

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who are working with them. Maybe we can track some of those businesses to base into.

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One person I talked to used to be the acting and showing

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chiefs of staff for military in Washington under the first Trump administration. It wasn't very long

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like three months or something, but he worked with a drone company and lost weight against

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my approach to him. I said, you know, I always thought that drones up a company. They're

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going to be a big thing and I may work past the point where we're going with drones, but I said,

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I'd like to see drone headquarters, like a whole bunch of different companies being drone headquarters

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He said, I thought of that idea, so somebody needs to do that, and I just haven't put together, so I'm going to reach out to him and say, hey, we do something like that.

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We can be known for some type of advanced manufacturing here. So, anyway, just a lot of contacts there is going to be a fun company to have here in patients.

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All of these employees that they will have, or they fight on the economic scale at anything

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level, or are they, where's the wage scale on?

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I don't know exactly, but one thing I didn't find out is most of them have to have security

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clearance.

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So they're probably a little higher on the wage scale.

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When we met when we first came in out of five, the owner of the company, he was really

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attracted to Jason because of availability of housing and stuff like that for his employees

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so they can be closer and things like that so I think they're paying the wage that at least

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is livable. If they have to have security plans there, I would hope so. I'd live in a Maryland

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even if you had one of the easiest jobs to get it was still fair and hard to get right like a janitor

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that one of the cleared spots just takes a year and a half to get cleared and so they make

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really good money.

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Now I was talking to the source of the CFO and he said he's a partner with the atom was

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the one that toured the intact and he said that they already have people looking at basing

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the move to here it's like they live in an evil mountain or something like that.

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So just say the headquarters is still in the Springville or they started far as I know I don't

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I don't know if they're going to have this,

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be their headquarters or not.

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When I talk to, when I talk to Adam being,

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the intent is that their spring bill office

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is just going to be mostly warehousing

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and they're moving their headquarters, yeah.

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So right now, officially, they're still on, I don't know.

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And they do have a manufacturing place in Colorado,

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but the hit this contract is going to be too small,

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so that's why they've been looking

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at coming here to manufacture.

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So great opportunity.

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I'm glad they found this anyway.

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Any other questions on Centaur?

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No, there it is.

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What was that employee?

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I mean, how many employees have you been here?

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Can I ask him?

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Yeah, he said about 100 will be moving in right away into the Centaur building, and if they

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do manufacture it would be like another 50.

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And if one of the points he says, yeah, we get some restaurants, they're going to be

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looking for food.

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Yeah, tapas.

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So did I have Mexico?

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Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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That's all you do.

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I had nothing.

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He tried to eat my rocks.

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Well, innovation center, well,

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then I'm interested in coming.

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I get too much.

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Well, David Rowley, you know,

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there'll be higher in the rum or innovation center.

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It's a fantastic job.

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the need on vacations miss we otherwise would have income report but I had it right up to

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now so I'll give you a few highlights what's going on he was there really we can and you weren't

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I know that I so right now all private offices are rented out we have five of them

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and then we have eight dedicated desk space the people can run out just the desk space

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and we have seven of those rented out which is very interesting because as I run around

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different innovations in business resource centers. They said that they can, they were

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take and get in rather than that it can work spot.

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Because they said they just weren't attractive. We've already filled seven or eight. So that's really interesting to what I was hearing seen. They did hire in turn to assist them with the daily operations, because they was really busy. Besides bringing people and showing them around with all equipment, they're thinking, yes, he's had lots of business of he's helping, helping them grow and be successful. So I'm mentored.

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We

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have different classes that are going on in the class next week.

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It's called operations 101, I think.

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And also the podcaster and Big Bite is quite a bit.

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Anyway, it's just really exciting what's going on there.

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We really need more room for this.

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so they make places or ways that we can expand and really help this grow in

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hopefully in time this just helps pace and grow and have some of these started

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businesses growing to like Rock Mountain 8.2.V. or our beefy packaging and grow

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from the garage into a large business here in the face and you know one of the

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business those nine hours in there is already ran into like massive

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land. Any questions on the innovation center? Yeah, I've been there. Y'all

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to go. Not a question about that, but we were talking to you about this in

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any electric vehicle. There's only one in the electric charging place in

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pace, right? And that's down by the innovation center. Is that even a fast

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It's a class two or whatever they call it.

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Yeah, so I've been,

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wouldn't it be nice to have an interest and be the only one?

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I mean, with the popularity,

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the increased popularity of electric cars wouldn't it be nice to have one of those someplace strategically located?

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It would.

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One of the problems is the capacity right now is pretty.

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We don't have a lot of capacity to install one of those.

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We've looked at it several times, the electric supercharger type.

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When you say we looked at it, they're like a partner asking, because I know Walmart's

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been aggressively building out its own fleet of chargers now, they've kind of broken off

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this deal they have with the electrified America.

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And so, like up in the Salt Lake Valley, almost every Walmart's going to have huge section

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of chargers now.

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I was wondering, well, how come peace is not doing it?

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And I thought, oh, this might be some kind of city electricity

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when there's something I don't know.

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And that's the reality of it.

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So when we get a new power plant online,

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but right now, in the summer, we just

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barely made it through the summer.

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People demand that they have big charging stations

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and they're charging in the bay.

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When they are air-conditioned, it's going

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to be really challenging.

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I just think it's a strange other issue.

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And I don't think there's a stupid trigger

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here between Spanish Quark and Bieber. Spanish Quark is one of us. Is there one in the

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finance? So as far as economic development, that's a great point. We need to be looking

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with our power companies to see what we do that way again. Private enterprise do it, not

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trying to ask. It's expensive itself. We didn't look at doing something down to it.

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It's

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I mean, if you may have a few down found people from charge and stay downtown and you know

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up and meet up around, so even if you had the class two downtown, which don't take a substantial

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infrastructure cost, that would actually draw people there, because those are used while

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people are shopping, they use them all the time, you know.

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That's a lot. That's probably a quarter.

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Across from science, but across from central bank.

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Oh, yeah.

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We can give some of these on that one jellyworm talk about that one.

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We, um, was that we were able to get a ground through Mountland Association of Governments to hire consultant team to help us do some side funny work and some architecture.

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and range for three trigger sites in downtown Basin.

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So we'll work with Tony at 400 North Main Street.

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Look at doing more of a farmer's market

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in that location.

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And then we're keen with large risotto

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who owns that property at 200 North Main Street.

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And then also looking at the city on building

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in downtown the Utah Tricks building.

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So we're hoping that through those efforts

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that will give us some more direction

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on reinvesting in downtown.

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And we have some great partners

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for the business owner. So we're hoping that some buildings are built or come out of that,

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I mean, I'm not really excited about it. So I mean, whether or not we can look on that site

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in order to see, we could have some electrical there for some EV stations. I mean, I could definitely

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be part of the conversation. Did anyone, oh sorry, back back to their point, although a lot of people

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with stations where they can usually go by the way.

443
00:35:36,910 --> 00:35:39,990
So people are just sitting outside their cars

444
00:35:39,990 --> 00:35:42,630
and being able to keep them on with drives

445
00:35:42,990 --> 00:35:46,610
to keep the place somewhere where...

446
00:35:46,610 --> 00:35:48,930
Is it some businesses while your car's charging on it?

447
00:35:48,950 --> 00:35:52,230
Yeah, it definitely is more convenient

448
00:35:52,230 --> 00:35:56,030
to have something nearby, a charger in my experience.

449
00:35:56,370 --> 00:35:58,890
I've been playing with it

450
00:35:58,890 --> 00:36:04,350
fall over the western area here. If there's something that you can go to, well, charges,

451
00:36:05,190 --> 00:36:09,210
don't get food, go buy something. It's actually very convenient.

452
00:36:09,610 --> 00:36:13,990
Can I, but then we actually just roadtripped over Labor Day in the evening to Denver.

453
00:36:14,870 --> 00:36:19,970
And because there's not an EV at every exit plan, EV charger at every exit, you have to kind of choose

454
00:36:19,970 --> 00:36:24,710
where you're going to stop, which means we're putting pop into where we're going to go.

455
00:36:24,710 --> 00:36:33,470
And so we stopped at places that had good lunch places and or Walmart and things like that and I'm sure about everyone.

456
00:36:33,970 --> 00:36:38,330
People who need those fast chargers are mostly road sugar, right, because they're very home.

457
00:36:39,890 --> 00:36:50,070
And then lastly, I've seen some places even I think not around this area, but like California and the east coast, even in the east coast, where it's not sunny.

458
00:36:50,870 --> 00:37:08,790
when they've had electric city capacity issues someone with a lot of money has come into like they cover the whole parking lot with solar panels and they do batteries because the cost of batteries is still a big investment upfront but someone like Walmart could do it.

459
00:37:08,910 --> 00:37:12,810
So if they ever came asking instead of saying, hey, we don't have any capacity.

460
00:37:12,810 --> 00:37:13,490
that you should say.

461
00:37:13,930 --> 00:37:16,170
It's telling, but in the meantime,

462
00:37:16,510 --> 00:37:17,950
you could do this with battery.

463
00:37:17,950 --> 00:37:19,410
It was not through my time.

464
00:37:20,530 --> 00:37:23,250
So you're saying the city does have a capacity

465
00:37:23,250 --> 00:37:26,610
to put to many, or do you think you saw it here?

466
00:37:27,050 --> 00:37:31,110
No, not supercharger capacity, but also distribution.

467
00:37:31,890 --> 00:37:35,070
So we have to upgrade some of our distribution lines,

468
00:37:35,310 --> 00:37:37,930
like we need some additional substations and things like that,

469
00:37:38,270 --> 00:37:40,710
in order to stabilize the grid a little bit more

470
00:37:40,710 --> 00:37:45,450
work to allow that to have in all of the areas of our city.

471
00:37:45,690 --> 00:37:49,490
So when is your Sean is working on that all the time, big time.

472
00:37:49,710 --> 00:37:49,790
Yeah.

473
00:37:50,210 --> 00:37:53,050
I mean, you're going to get a new substation now by our station.

474
00:37:53,390 --> 00:37:55,290
So that will help that.

475
00:37:55,290 --> 00:37:57,170
Yeah, it's not that we need three more.

476
00:37:57,370 --> 00:37:57,690
I know.

477
00:37:57,910 --> 00:37:58,970
But that will help.

478
00:37:59,350 --> 00:37:59,930
Yeah, I don't know.

479
00:38:00,390 --> 00:38:02,090
We see more.

480
00:38:02,450 --> 00:38:03,610
And it's very expensive.

481
00:38:03,970 --> 00:38:05,150
Those stations are not cheap.

482
00:38:06,430 --> 00:38:06,870
They're.

483
00:38:06,870 --> 00:38:12,370
I'm sure there are a lot. It's two or a million. Yeah, four to five million, or a 15.

484
00:38:19,310 --> 00:38:22,730
Should ask you and the Transformers are two to three years.

485
00:38:24,070 --> 00:38:28,290
And all of it, some of the other I know because we're building one right now.

486
00:38:28,590 --> 00:38:33,090
So the equipment's out because there's like high demand across the country and you're just

487
00:38:33,090 --> 00:38:34,650
It's not waiting in line five.

488
00:38:35,430 --> 00:38:36,130
Ever since COVID.

489
00:38:37,190 --> 00:38:39,230
Some of that is the case.

490
00:38:39,430 --> 00:38:40,550
Some of it is just,

491
00:38:41,450 --> 00:38:43,230
there's, yeah, it's a long line

492
00:38:43,230 --> 00:38:44,930
and it just takes a while.

493
00:38:45,630 --> 00:38:45,730
Yeah.

494
00:38:46,370 --> 00:38:48,310
I'm sure data centers come in too.

495
00:38:48,430 --> 00:38:49,430
They get the data centers.

496
00:38:49,610 --> 00:38:51,070
They get priority over everything.

497
00:38:51,370 --> 00:38:51,590
They buy data.

498
00:38:56,310 --> 00:38:56,770
Okay.

499
00:38:57,450 --> 00:38:59,230
Let's do some committee reports.

500
00:39:00,790 --> 00:39:09,320
So we are talking about the development event, how about the state plan?

501
00:39:09,900 --> 00:39:17,880
Oh, we've been several times as a committee, and we refine our goals and processes to be better.

502
00:39:18,500 --> 00:39:23,880
And we've gone through about a half of the plan to execute those goals.

503
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:26,080
We're going to meet in this afternoon, right, Jill?

504
00:39:26,420 --> 00:39:26,680
Yes.

505
00:39:31,660 --> 00:39:36,580
And hopefully get through the rest of those where we can come back and present it to the

506
00:39:36,580 --> 00:39:38,140
entire group.

507
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:40,900
That's the goal.

508
00:39:42,420 --> 00:39:45,580
Hopefully next time you can get it to the network.

509
00:39:48,300 --> 00:39:55,440
And I have been doing some on the website updating some of that for our websites.

510
00:39:55,440 --> 00:40:00,660
So I know how to do that now, and I'm set up to what I can.

511
00:40:00,940 --> 00:40:03,280
So I'm going to keep adding to the website.

512
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:10,000
Business retention, Robert, in a really cool event

513
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:13,560
in July, faced to pace them.

514
00:40:14,420 --> 00:40:19,240
We had a ton of participation from different businesses,

515
00:40:19,620 --> 00:40:20,580
restaurants, mostly.

516
00:40:20,820 --> 00:40:23,420
And in pace in the care, all came and kind of collaborated.

517
00:40:24,820 --> 00:40:30,320
really good networking and stuff, so I'm super happy about it. I've probably had about

518
00:40:30,980 --> 00:40:32,780
40 people there in that very far.

519
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:41,100
It's good. I have something I think about. It's

520
00:40:41,100 --> 00:40:46,800
called custom bid, if what Sam Fagel does. This maybe have something on custom bid, because I've

521
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:52,080
talked to him just sent for that no idea what it was. I don't think any companies do, but

522
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:58,520
Basically, if you need training for your company, they'll do 50% of that cost.

523
00:40:59,380 --> 00:41:05,680
And sometimes, if you have somebody, your company that's an expert out, they can pay your

524
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:12,040
person to train your own people, or they can bring experts in too.

525
00:41:12,340 --> 00:41:17,300
So it's a really good, I don't know a lot of businesses know about customer pit, but it can

526
00:41:17,300 --> 00:41:22,620
work for an old any business or they do have classes that you can tend to if they have

527
00:41:22,620 --> 00:41:28,800
a class on Excel or something like that. Sign up for that.

528
00:41:29,240 --> 00:41:31,180
Those are the company very talented.

529
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:35,420
No, it's end tax. They have government funding to do that from the state.

530
00:41:35,620 --> 00:41:37,600
Kind of like a class.

531
00:41:38,240 --> 00:41:43,160
It can be a class. It can be specific training. I mean, it can be specific for any business.

532
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:50,780
You can get any education, submit a receipt to Custom Fifth and they'll pay a reimbursement.

533
00:41:50,860 --> 00:41:51,460
Oh, okay.

534
00:41:51,540 --> 00:41:56,580
It has to be submitted before you attend the class and that you're going to attend this class.

535
00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:00,640
And then you send them the receipt that you paid for it and then they'll reimburse you.

536
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:03,840
And so they run out of money, so they get funded every year.

537
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:10,860
Yeah, I don't want they to run out of money, they have about 1.2 million dollars a year or

538
00:42:10,860 --> 00:42:13,980
So, well, what happens to percentage

539
00:42:13,980 --> 00:42:16,500
as you get back is that's what it does.

540
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,120
So, besides just going to a class,

541
00:42:19,340 --> 00:42:22,200
you can have like your whole company

542
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:25,780
can be trained in some area that you need trained in.

543
00:42:26,420 --> 00:42:29,720
So, like a company might have a specific training,

544
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,640
they need their, they have welders

545
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:34,500
need to learn a different type of welding,

546
00:42:34,660 --> 00:42:36,420
they can bring somebody in, teach them that.

547
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:38,640
So, all of them are welders or something like that.

548
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:43,520
So what is it? It could be a really beneficial and it works almost every company.

549
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:48,880
And the refund process is easy. It's not going to be implemented because I sent

550
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:54,300
low two-line form and probably doesn't take it two minutes to get your refund.

551
00:42:55,700 --> 00:43:00,740
That's a really good idea. We could have Kelly come and just kind of present all of the information.

552
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:01,680
That'd be cool.

553
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:12,320
So, Mark, we actually talked about the Innovation Center, so our group of different educational

554
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:16,040
organizations went visit at the Innovation Center because they had a role in mentioning

555
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:21,740
he needed help. He took us on a tour, he's been growing really well. He's needing help with

556
00:43:21,740 --> 00:43:27,860
students taking people on tours, helping them with the different things that they do there.

557
00:43:28,460 --> 00:43:32,880
It was interesting, and Jim, you can chime in too, because he was there.

558
00:43:33,900 --> 00:43:38,840
As we toured at McKay, I showed, he's the UV representative, he said they got a business

559
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:47,500
center similar to what's here, but are what we lease space honors cheaper than what they

560
00:43:47,500 --> 00:43:47,760
do.

561
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:53,620
And it had more capacity than it would be to go further if they got there.

562
00:43:53,620 --> 00:44:02,280
So he adds some interest as well as Julian forward with me both and of course we've got

563
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:08,800
an attack already knows about that. So it was just a great opportunity to share with them,

564
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:14,960
get help them understand what their students can do there to help them through internships or

565
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:23,600
projects or whatever they need so that was neat. And then we also got signed up for

566
00:44:23,620 --> 00:44:26,500
or the chamber meeting on the 22nd,

567
00:44:26,620 --> 00:44:30,180
we're gonna present there again to all of the businesses,

568
00:44:31,180 --> 00:44:33,200
and maybe do a little different format.

569
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:35,700
I think what we talked about is,

570
00:44:36,460 --> 00:44:37,440
instead of telling you about ourselves,

571
00:44:37,620 --> 00:44:38,740
we're gonna just start out with,

572
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:44,900
if you had some extra project you never got to share

573
00:44:45,540 --> 00:44:46,660
with us what that might be,

574
00:44:47,140 --> 00:44:49,060
and then we'll do kind of like what we do here

575
00:44:49,060 --> 00:44:51,560
is we have people kind of ideas through their phone

576
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:56,980
them and pop it up between me or the screen and then say we've got the solution for you and

577
00:44:56,980 --> 00:44:59,960
and it's students that we have here who are important as a...

578
00:45:02,260 --> 00:45:12,600
And then share with them a little more about the opportunity center. So that's on the 22nd. Then we're excited to be at the golf tournament again. I think we're at the same place we work the same.

579
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:24,060
We're excited. We're going to be there as well. We'll have giveaways, give cards. Again, I brought that so.

580
00:45:26,100 --> 00:45:31,800
Did I miss anything Jim? Lunch here in the banquet, Paul on the 22nd, 11, 30, the line clock.

581
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:39,480
MIMO School District is sponsoring a lunch and a lot of means is providing food.

582
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:41,660
So come get some wings.

583
00:45:44,690 --> 00:45:50,450
And if anybody is coming, I need you to email me or register so you can count.

584
00:45:56,760 --> 00:46:01,960
So business recruitment, I'll tell you a little bit that's going on there beside retail strategies,

585
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:08,240
which we've talked about, but we've been working a lot with the inland port.

586
00:46:09,620 --> 00:46:18,340
We have one business that wants to build and pace them, but the infrastructure there is

587
00:46:18,340 --> 00:46:25,800
very expensive. So we have a meme with them this tomorrow, actually, to talk about what made the

588
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:30,180
Inland Port can help them well get infrastructure for the anger on screen.

589
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:40,020
And that's what the whole purpose of the island port is. It's helped us recruit businesses maybe make it cost effective for them to think there. So we're going to look at different strategies for that.

590
00:46:40,660 --> 00:46:44,640
Along with the island port, we part of what the base.

591
00:46:44,640 --> 00:47:02,640
The good thing about the import is we get we get basically 70% of all the property tax that comes in as as it comes as a business expands or builds because yeah, we have a base what your property tax is, but what it goes above that.

592
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:07,340
Now, we get 70% of that. Well, of course, the end of the port, but we can use it in pace.

593
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:12,000
And we have actually seven properties that we're going to trigger this year.

594
00:47:12,540 --> 00:47:17,520
So next year, we'll be getting those perfect taxes that will come into our end of the port account

595
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:24,240
that we can use to recruit businesses or get incentives or help with infrastructure.

596
00:47:24,240 --> 00:47:34,120
So, and we are adding three additional properties to the end of for people asked to be in the end of for all it.

597
00:47:35,420 --> 00:47:36,020
Woodbury.

598
00:47:37,900 --> 00:47:42,020
Both of these both close up and won't property this in this month.

599
00:47:42,820 --> 00:47:44,860
They can send in plans, right?

600
00:47:44,860 --> 00:48:01,280
do the city and I'm looking at some other things there and one of them they're looking at and I don't know what it is but it is a sit down restaurant that I'm talking to so hopefully something happens there.

601
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:08,420
We have another big box that's looking to face them, inductus and landomers,

602
00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:13,720
so lock them up and keep your fingers crossed if we get another big box.

603
00:48:14,700 --> 00:48:16,140
I have a question, Brian.

604
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:20,860
And I'm not saying this to the spirit of John Brook.

605
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:27,260
But that area down there doesn't really have the same research committee

606
00:48:27,260 --> 00:48:31,980
are you doing the same animal analytics down there at that area?

607
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:34,040
Or what are they, how they are?

608
00:48:34,260 --> 00:48:34,580
Yeah.

609
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:38,440
Back, we'd like Woodbury and Meetwood down the maze.

610
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:40,580
They like to do that.

611
00:48:41,020 --> 00:48:44,960
So they can do what they do.

612
00:48:45,860 --> 00:48:48,980
But we have lots of other places that don't have that kind of building.

613
00:48:49,240 --> 00:48:50,940
Especially like Red Bridge.

614
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:55,060
They don't have the capability to really go out

615
00:48:55,060 --> 00:49:02,560
track businesses to their retail, to their services. And so people like that can really help.

616
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:09,940
I know the property just east of 7-11 or south of 7-11. You know, they

617
00:49:11,060 --> 00:49:17,020
want to look old. The other is in California that they can really help them. So,

618
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:23,560
and all the other businesses, even that were fairly big, or like Southern, I don't know if you know

619
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:25,060
They mentioned southern farms.

620
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:28,880
You probably don't know what it is, but at the Benjamin Exit,

621
00:49:29,460 --> 00:49:33,240
this group of investors, about 500 acres,

622
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:35,320
and they want to annex into the basin,

623
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:38,020
there's about 60 acres of retail there,

624
00:49:38,240 --> 00:49:40,060
some industrial, a lot of housing.

625
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:44,740
So they were happy to meet with them.

626
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:47,040
So a lot of these landowners,

627
00:49:47,420 --> 00:49:49,700
the hotel site, were happy to meet with them.

628
00:49:49,860 --> 00:49:50,740
They gave me some help.

629
00:49:50,740 --> 00:50:05,960
So, so they're excited to have that opportunity to help them in the church, ask a lot of questions to, you know, with all land they own around the new interchange they came and they ask a lot of questions how that they can help.

630
00:50:06,220 --> 00:50:11,640
So I think if there is some benefit there, but like you said, yeah, Woodbury, they're going to do the whole thing.

631
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:17,000
Okay, but they can sell, they can recommend it.

632
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:17,320
Oh, yeah.

633
00:50:17,420 --> 00:50:18,180
To work there.

634
00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:18,580
Oh, yeah.

635
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:19,100
For sure.

636
00:50:19,300 --> 00:50:19,540
Yeah.

637
00:50:19,940 --> 00:50:20,040
Yeah.

638
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:24,760
And if they find somebody, we will be set up to work there, you know.

639
00:50:25,300 --> 00:50:26,320
What Mary's not going to say no.

640
00:50:28,460 --> 00:50:29,560
That's a good question.

641
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:30,660
I'm going to see.

642
00:50:33,340 --> 00:50:34,320
As far as business.

643
00:50:34,540 --> 00:50:38,900
Oh, you're just another thing about the business that I'm patient.

644
00:50:38,900 --> 00:50:51,260
So since beginning of the year, we've had 91 new businesses registered in business license and based on it.

645
00:50:52,000 --> 00:51:01,240
49 of those are home occupancy, home business, and 28 were brick and mortar.

646
00:51:03,420 --> 00:51:08,000
So, you can see one reason why we have the innovation center to help these people with home

647
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:12,980
occupations become bigger and some of them will never be out there, but some of them could

648
00:51:12,980 --> 00:51:14,040
have that opportunity.

649
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:22,620
Then, by the closing and these lag a little bit because some people don't let us know

650
00:51:22,620 --> 00:51:24,780
anything like that, but it's been only 11.

651
00:51:24,780 --> 00:51:33,040
business clothes and that sinker. So 91 new ones love clothes. So we're adding businesses

652
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:40,780
based on the endos for home-based unit of the clothes ones for four and six for a bigger

653
00:51:40,780 --> 00:51:41,000
group.

654
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:50,340
That's all I had about the business agreement.

655
00:51:54,140 --> 00:51:57,460
Anything, Robert Jill, going on,

656
00:51:58,980 --> 00:52:01,660
you think of other things in the city report?

657
00:52:04,180 --> 00:52:07,900
You should get down to them. Oh, got down. I missed

658
00:52:07,900 --> 00:52:14,600
down to that. That's all right. I just had a question if we're getting a wrap up, but

659
00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:21,000
We're working a lot with the state of the Georgia Transformation Office, just so you're

660
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:32,300
aware of the downtown area, there's grants available, and so there's a business owner

661
00:52:32,300 --> 00:52:40,760
downtown who's in the city, and I say, hey, we need all help on this, we've got to get them

662
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:49,180
in before the 18th, the 5th, I think the fans, I mean, it's limited, but we can help them

663
00:52:49,180 --> 00:52:56,920
for that. But my question was, have they been invited to the government to state the

664
00:52:56,920 --> 00:53:04,220
store that there's none of us? If not, I can write some, I know, there's a couple golfers.

665
00:53:06,100 --> 00:53:11,040
We have not, would that be a good fit to offer in the off-beaten coat?

666
00:53:13,900 --> 00:53:14,600
Kind of.

667
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:19,440
I've been on it for a lot of very cool, and I'm saying, yeah, I'm just, and by the way,

668
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:23,040
I haven't bring a team, but let's look and see where we are next week or so.

669
00:53:23,700 --> 00:53:23,960
Yes.

670
00:53:24,300 --> 00:53:24,400
Yeah.

671
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:29,040
They aren't going to actually bring businesses here, but yeah, they're part of what we're trying to do in the downtown.

672
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:35,900
I won't, I won't invite you yet. I just have a call that I'll put from later on later on later on.

673
00:53:35,900 --> 00:53:39,520
Yeah. Anyway, the other update.

674
00:53:40,060 --> 00:53:42,240
No, we, we,

675
00:53:44,990 --> 00:53:48,450
uh, so I'm trying to recruit volunteers to say.

676
00:53:48,650 --> 00:53:52,230
I know there's some work pillars that you come up with vitality.

677
00:53:52,970 --> 00:53:55,490
Designed organization and promotion.

678
00:53:56,370 --> 00:54:02,530
right now our director, Ronda, is doing great, but we're trying to recruit for that.

679
00:54:02,950 --> 00:54:11,290
We're trying to support others, but that's kind of where we're headed towards right now.

680
00:54:11,290 --> 00:54:20,230
but what is considered down there's it just mainstream or is it no so so I mean you type

681
00:54:20,230 --> 00:54:26,890
it in mainstream is kind of the center and then of course a few blocks so there's

682
00:54:26,890 --> 00:54:37,330
residences there's businesses but it goes this way and that way out and I'm happy to bring in

683
00:54:37,330 --> 00:54:41,950
And that that that we gave to the State Historic Preservation Office.

684
00:54:42,330 --> 00:54:45,410
But I mean, and I was shown in downtown.

685
00:54:45,870 --> 00:54:51,550
I was curious, you know, yeah, what's your Azure tool at the East 100?

686
00:54:52,070 --> 00:54:53,830
Yeah, I'm pretty sure you are.

687
00:54:54,370 --> 00:54:59,070
The reason I asked is, I know I've got a buddy who works for downtown Provo.

688
00:54:59,450 --> 00:55:04,550
And they got some grants to do huge murals paid for those.

689
00:55:04,550 --> 00:55:07,710
And I always thought this time I'd be building would be a great spot for one.

690
00:55:07,970 --> 00:55:09,050
I don't want to get bored.

691
00:55:09,650 --> 00:55:10,710
I probably had an expense.

692
00:55:11,450 --> 00:55:13,030
And I was like, oh, that might be cool.

693
00:55:13,870 --> 00:55:14,770
That's how I was.

694
00:55:14,770 --> 00:55:15,330
It's just an idea.

695
00:55:15,550 --> 00:55:16,870
I had, like, how did you have it?

696
00:55:17,150 --> 00:55:17,330
Yeah.

697
00:55:17,430 --> 00:55:17,550
Yeah.

698
00:55:17,830 --> 00:55:18,970
Let's talk about second effort.

699
00:55:19,590 --> 00:55:19,670
Yeah.

700
00:55:19,910 --> 00:55:26,150
Well, I think one way to do that is for when we did it on the side of the U.S., we got

701
00:55:26,150 --> 00:55:28,590
a little bit of a part for the ramps.

702
00:55:28,810 --> 00:55:30,230
We'll do that so that we can go.

703
00:55:31,190 --> 00:55:37,730
I was mad at something like the Nashville Angelings, not the same thing, but something like that

704
00:55:37,730 --> 00:55:38,910
that drives people in.

705
00:55:39,410 --> 00:55:43,490
Like, hey, let's walk over here a block from downtown and take a picture of kind of whatever

706
00:55:43,490 --> 00:55:44,230
it might be.

707
00:55:45,190 --> 00:55:45,810
Oh, well done.

708
00:55:46,190 --> 00:55:46,590
Yeah.

709
00:55:47,030 --> 00:55:54,050
So when you say that I was in Destin, Florida and my daughter owned us, I don't know, 40 minutes

710
00:55:54,050 --> 00:55:56,890
down the road, we go get a picture in front of the residence wall.

711
00:55:59,330 --> 00:56:04,790
And I had different things around it to do, but the main goal was to get a picture of this.

712
00:56:05,930 --> 00:56:08,250
And I think that's the pace.

713
00:56:09,170 --> 00:56:10,510
Yeah, it's something like that.

714
00:56:10,590 --> 00:56:11,990
I don't know if I could put it on something.

715
00:56:12,950 --> 00:56:14,550
The hunger adventure is out there.

716
00:56:14,890 --> 00:56:15,850
Some of the same recipes.

717
00:56:17,370 --> 00:56:20,110
It's like, well, that's a giant, very good source of food.

718
00:56:20,310 --> 00:56:21,890
Yeah, I'll be coming up here in a few months.

719
00:56:21,890 --> 00:56:27,470
So, and a couple of stores that you have upgraded, look great, the balance house, the salon,

720
00:56:28,050 --> 00:56:35,350
furniture, I mean, I think they have a really great time, and I think just that we are working

721
00:56:35,350 --> 00:56:42,230
on as an ordinance for downtown, is to get the right mix of businesses down there, experience

722
00:56:42,230 --> 00:56:43,070
based businesses.

723
00:56:43,590 --> 00:56:49,810
So we're working on that to be an ordinance for the downtown for now, I don't know.

724
00:56:50,130 --> 00:56:50,630
Okay.

725
00:56:50,630 --> 00:56:52,690
Okay, anything else anybody wants to bring up?

726
00:56:57,240 --> 00:57:02,540
Thank you so much, it's been a great committee.

727
00:57:03,220 --> 00:57:05,240
Very cord, and then we have great committees.

728
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:07,840
So I think we're getting a lot done and pasted,

729
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:09,240
and we're excited about what's happening.

730
00:57:09,540 --> 00:57:14,020
So thanks for all your support and we'll meet again next month

731
00:57:14,020 --> 00:57:17,640
and then we'll find a retreat in January, some of that.

732
00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:20,880
Okay, thank you.

733
00:57:21,560 --> 00:57:22,520
We'll show you the gears.

734
00:57:22,940 --> 00:57:26,160
Well, I learned that the Rock and Tech is a project that actually

735
00:57:26,160 --> 00:57:26,740
is about to be soldered.

736
00:57:27,060 --> 00:57:27,620
Let's go below.

737
00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:29,220
Sure.

738
00:57:29,860 --> 00:57:30,500
I can't.

739
00:57:30,500 --> 00:57:30,620
I can't.

740
00:57:30,620 --> 00:57:30,820
I can't.

741
00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:30,980
I can't.

742
00:57:30,980 --> 00:57:31,220
I can't.

743
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:33,200
I can't.