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Okay, it's 4:00.

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we're going back into work session. Do a call to order? Executive session ended at 3:45.

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we have discussed and received a presentation from michael beatty regarding entrada.

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come on down.

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maybe not. Good afternoon, michael beatty. 1800 valley view, suite 322 farmers ranch.

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nice to be here again. Hopefully, this will be a positive update. I have some, to me, it's pretty exciting news.

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start with two restaurants and I've put leases in front of both of them.

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they're real operators. Third party, totally independent. One of them is hugo's invitados.

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he has, I think, three locations now. Had lunch there, the menu with spectacular.

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and the other one is 1845 by marty b's. Excellent. So I have met both on site several times.

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I presented them with a real lease. We have a handshake agreement on terms. It's very straightforward and everybody is on the same playing field.

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like the leases are equal between them. So I know both those restaurants.

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that's outstanding. They love the patio. We got to get that connection made to 114.

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we're working on that. But yeah, I'm ecstatic. I couldn't have asked for two other two better regional draw opportunities.

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people will drive for those menus and they'll come back for the experience. And so you have your catering hall, right?

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the  reception hall and the and the chapel are under contract to sell.

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as to keith walters, we haven't closed yet, the lenders going back and forth. We're at the title company waiting to close.

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and he's got his ceos in hand. So they're already pre marketing that say.

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and then how many other pads do you have left for restaurants in that section there?

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well, I've got let me go to the slide, jumped ahead a little bit.

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I was just excited about that. So that's great news. Mike, I walked everything over there.

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are you a little concerned that there's like nothing secured and there's kids toys and
Stuff inside the property?

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do you think we should secure it up? Every single building. The kids toys inside there?

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yeah. Like a pogo stick and a bicycle.

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yeah. Start locking everything. Yeah. I mean, I just don't want vandalism when we're this close to the finish line,
Hopefully.

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yes, sir. Thank you. Of course. And sorry I missed it. When were these restaurants coming?

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there they are, they'll have to do their plans and get through the permitting process.

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I would probably think six months from now we could be meeting over there instead of
Here.

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awesome. Because it's  pretty straightforward. The shelves themselves are empty.

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like I let the dirt out in the middle slab. So it's a really quick turn as far as construction goes.

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and layout wise, I mean both these guys know what they're doing. They're just repeating the same concepts. So they should be here real quick.

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and one was who goes in? The other was 8040. 1845, 1845 by marty b's.

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and one was hugo's, right? Yes, hugo's invitados.

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[inaudible] mike, maybe it's a dumb question.

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I know marty bryant. He's a nice guy, wonderful guy, great operator. But is his one up in bartonville is it also called 1845 or is it different concept?

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this is the one in flower mound on lakeside. Ok, ok, thank you very much for the clarification.

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yeah, I know that one. I know marty b as well. And the coffee shop spectacular.

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yeah, but it's just first class, so see you guys again. Congratulations. Congratulations.

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hopefully. Get them here. Get them up and see who wants to come behind him.

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one of the conversations and again, we preface this 60 days ago, I didn't know anything
About restaurants.

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I didn't want to know anything about restaurants. My job was to deliver cold, dark shelves and hand them over to finish out.

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and I've had to learn a whole lot about restaurants real quick. One concern that we have and that I've talked to marty and mark holm, the owner, at
Hugo's, is if we open up all 30,000 square feet at once, we're going to cannibalize sales.

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and it's going to be really hard for them to staff up as well. So what I'm probably going to do to get them up and running in that one building, they're
Both in the same building, the one closest to the reception hall and then the second

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building I'll probably white box and do executive office or something like that as a
Whole and give them a couple of years.

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and then my conversion out of that space is really cheap. Mike, don't you think we waited over ten years to get sales tax revenue?

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well, I've got a better part of the presentation for that. I just don't want to shoot myself in the foot.

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I agree. But we've been walking through the desert looking for some water of sales tax
Revenue.

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thank you. I've been looking for food and the food. I'm good on that. But if I have another qualified operator that's going to have some skin
In the game with me, then yes, sir.

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I'll be happy to move forward. I just don't want it to be somebody's kitchen concept that they dreamed up and then
They're going to know.

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we agree and we probably want to vote for it. But but think about like the three restaurants where bob's our bob's and the mexican
Restaurant.

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I feel like they help each other because if one of them is too busy, you walk over to the
Pizza joint or or the other one, there's actually four restaurants there.

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so getting given to by themselves, I don't know if that's an advantage.

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you know, that's just my thought. And also, we're we're we're worried about sales tax revenue.

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yes, sir. I mean, we are I'm working with the same brokers. We're still actively trying to lease them.

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just that's something that's come up in the discussions like, hey, 28,000 square feet at
Once.

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that's a lot of restaurants. So. You work?

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you didn't like me today. Oh, there we go. So this was just an outline.

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the very thing I wanted to go through this evening. Retail corner on the second floor.

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there's a sketch to do. Five condo units on the second floor. I'd like to talk about that staff that asked me to come and present it and see if you
Would be interested in allowing that.

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it would be an sup. The repository we had, our pre con, we were already moving dirt.

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contract signed that should have a sky crane here before thanksgiving.

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so that will be our first sky crane and then trotter. 114 connection, we're trying to get the tri county box still moved.

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as soon as we get a release, we'll start building it, even if I have to run up to that
Box and wait, I just want to get started.

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wedding chapel and reception hall. They got their ceos closing this week with walters hospitality and then the hotel on
Block b with walter's.

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that's part of the closing with him as well. So we'll have that site just next to the parking garage facing the water.

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he wants to do 135 room hotel there. I still don't know which flag.

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and then mike hope with the office site on the harbor. And he's been working to schedule a meeting with the mayor to talk about what they want to
Do there with kdc, like 200,000 square feet.

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so those are things that we've already talked about and the new things for tonight.

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there's an opportunity to look at phase two and try to in a different light.

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we have great highway frontage now. We have a frontage road that was just put in and the remaining land along the highway
Would be very, very visible because of the height changes, right where the big retaining

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wall is. And we put together a potential layout.

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I'm not you know, I'm not saying yes or no either way. But the idea would be this is an alternative.

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it addresses your sales tax concerns because this is prime highway frontage. Now, I drew it at 310 feet deep off of the most inside easement, like where we could
Actually build a park.

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and I think it flows really well. Like you'll see the connection back to phase one.

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if we go pursue real retail tenants, they're going to surface part.

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nobody can afford to do a parking garage for retail as a standalone site, and there might
Be some pushback on some of the architectural controls that we have in place in

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entrada, but that would be a decision for you all to make. I'm supportive either way, you just tell me which way to run and I'll run.

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and then I also have the property behind us, corelogic that's under contract. Now I have to close by year end.

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and part of the consideration for looking at phase two in a different light will be to
Move some of that residential over to this property.

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and then we can keep the big parking lot that we have here to support the plaza. And that opens up the plaza for a lot of uses that we really couldn't do before, which
Would include another hotel.

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and the reason I say that becomes our go ahead is most limited service hotels, even if
They're really, really nice, can't afford a parking garage, especially as a

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standalone suburban site because that's what this would be. But I now have 350 something parking spaces right across the street.

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we'll do a pedestrian hawk like protected walkway back and forth. And I have really strong interest in that site now from real hotel users.

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so you've already put your the deposit down for the corelogic, right? Yes. And so basically we have the current setup is we have townhomes facing the highway
Right now and we want to move that entitlement to the

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corelogic land and utilize the highway for retail and restaurant.

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and so by doing that's the way the site should have been planned from the beginning.

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but we for ten years we didn't do that. I don't know. And so I think it's a really good idea.

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I mean, I think it's a fantastic use of what this town should be.

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I think we all agree that residential on 114 will drag down the per square foot of
Everything else, and it also having restaurants will drive

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the word I keep talking about sales tax revenue, so we kind of went twice on that change
Up.

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okay, great. But if we're we're talking about putting restaurants, just going to your
Previous point about the fact you can't have too much restaurant square footage at any one

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time, is this going to delay the rollout? Not on our side. I mean, if we if you like the concept that we present six months
Engineering, a year development, those will be up and running before you have any

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potential competition along 114 over here. So it's for me, it's just I've got two buildings ready to go.

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and how quickly do we fill them up with the restaurant? I like I said, if we get real operator and real interest and have skin in the game, I'll
Sign it up all day long.

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I just don't want to. And you mentioned the funky door is interested [inaudible]. Yes. That's a really neat little restaurant.

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and love it. And one other thing on marty bryant. He has opened, I believe, 58 restaurants successfully and zero losers.

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he was with cotton patch for a long time. He was on an entrepreneur program that I was a part of.

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a lot of respect for the guy. Yes, sir. So how big is the corelogic property?

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it's 22 acres total and about seven acres is that parking lot and the rest is up the
Hill.

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there's a little bit of protected waterway through the site and basically they dumped the
Rcp, left it open and carted at the other end and that became waters of the us.

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so we're working around that. So the original [inaudible] is like 85, 85, and how many acres are left to develop out,
Would you say?

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well, phase two would be 13 to the 85, so that would take that out of the number.

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and then everything else is developed like all the streets, water, sewer, drainage are in
Place today for phase one of that land.

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what we're doing differently is I'm selling off lots to individuals by the homebuilders
So that we can get the residential pace built up and then the commercial.

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we're starting to carve that up a lot quicker than we have been. Like the hotel side on the gas pad I met with, but nothing signed up herself.

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signed up done. And we made it be done on the flat for that.

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I just don't have the flag yet. But my deal.. Is it laquinta?. No, it's not, my partnership with mr.

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walters, he has, like two years to get the hotel going and up and running.

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like, he can't just sit there. We have a timeline because I'm putting the land. So what's the contractual relationship with you there?

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he's a co developer, you sold the land too? No, I take the land and I subordinated to a partnership with mr.

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walters. He's bringing the construction on, and this lets me count the jobs on my eb five
Side because I have land at risk with him.

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but he has two years to develop it or.. Or reverts back to me. So it's not a guaranteed development, I guess what I'm saying and like going back to like
The restaurants, like your handshake agreements but nothing signed.

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well I would signed loi on both with hugo's and when I met with marty on site, I was
Like, look, I'm listening to lease I have with marc cone, same lease.

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I didn't even change any names up here. You know, the terms are the same and he was very excited by.

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can I ask you some I mean, I spent a lot of time walking the property and it looks
Beautiful and it looks it looks amazing.

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it's going to be great. Once this filled up, the thing that kind of confused me because I
Have a lot of real estate I like.

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I googled the address. It didn't say is for rent or for lease. There was no signage in the windows.

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like, I don't know how someone would know. It's not on loopnet. I don't know how someone would know.

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loopnet is the de facto commercial property site. I don't know how anyone would know if they were searching south lake, roanoke.

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how would they even know that we have this available? That's one of the changes that we're working through.

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I've got to price some of those pads and actually put them out to market. Previously we had had interest and we sat down with the plat and we figure out exactly
Where they want it to be.

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that's a really hard way to sell real estate because people don't.. Internets here, maybe we can use it.

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so what type of time commitment would you get? Give us that. Hey, everything that's available for for sale or lease, I'll have it up by
30 days.

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30 days. Thank you very much for that commitment. And I just I think this goes back to my broader point.

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you know, we started with these 85 acres and try to I mean, you're saying only 13 acres
Left at phase two to be developed.

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I would argue more than 13 acres is unsigned to be developed.

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but my bigger point is, but now you're looking to take on the corelogic property another
22 acres.

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okay, I mean, that's kind of my observation, let's say, is we're not quite done with
Entrada and yet

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you're looking to shift residential to a brand new lot. I'm keeping, I'm asking to shift entitlements from..

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no I understand. To another to create the opportunity to help build out the rest of
Entrada faster with that frontage road now in place that's a viable commercial storefront

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retail along 114 whether it's more restaurants strip center whatever comes you know but
That I have I have to have the core logic in

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order to be able to open up that other property. Otherwise we have unused residential units.

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you know, I agree 100%. That's not the best place to go build 52 more spanish villas.

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they'll look really nice up on this hillside behind us. It'll look like in continuation of phase one, when I say that we have developed to me
Develop means water, sewer, streets, drainage, we haven't gone vertical yet on a lot of

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what's over in phase one. We're addressing that by selling the lots off to other builders and other individuals so
That they can come and build at their own pace.

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we're working on the program to have our architect, ralph bush, like his architect and
Record of the project, teach them how to make site plan process with town staff because

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there's still that requirement. They can't just go turn this into plans and do whatever they want. On the commercial and the other land that we have left over the block b is our biggest
Chunk and that was the meeting with fidelity.

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and I've talked to them about corporate housing and supposed to meet with deloitte week
After next.

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and then we still haven't heard back from schwab. Trying to figure out those dates. So I am actively and aggressively pursuing all of my vertical construction opportunities
That we have.

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and the difference is I will partner with the right person, I will sell the right pad to
The right person.

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I'm not trying and we weren't really doing that before. It was just the pace of construction that we had.

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you know, I needed to meet a certain job, count on my eb five loan or they're now the
Lenders saying, all right, figure out what you want to keep and build and then we'll sell

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the rest. And that's the 30 day.. But mike you  understand why we're asking. It's like the kid asking for dessert when his plate is happy or like, why you finish your
Plate first before we give you this other prime piece of real estate to do it.

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so, I mean, that's why we're asking. Yes, sir. That makes sense, right?

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it does. I understand. We're trying to be fair. No, we, I understand the need for sales tax.

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we've got an opportunity with the highway frontage that we didn't have before. That's relatively new in the process.

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and we now have a new council that may be more willing to look at bending the rules so
That we can actually go get the retail customers that will come.

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they will not structure part that.. We're not looking to bend rules, we're looking to do what makes economic sense for
Westlake.

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so so speaking of retail, it seems like retail just went out the window and the concert
Venue went away.

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can you speak to that? Because we talked about housing and we talked about restaurants,
But what do you see on retail?

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I, I think we'll have an opportunity for retail when we get to the phase two layout with
The frontage on 114.

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internally, I'm going to have like on the condo first floor, there will be some retail
Space.

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I don't know if that how strong it's going to be, how successful it's going to be. I'm looking to bring in a retail tenant from part of that other restaurant building.

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we'd be like a small grocery store, that kind of concept, like the one it used to be in
Highland park village.

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something to generate more sales tax here. I don't know if we'll ever be southlake town center that will have hundreds of thousands
Of square feet of retail.

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and the idea would be that we pick and choose the right services that we provide to the
Neighborhood within the development, like the internal stuff, the 114 pad, that's a

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regional site, we should be able to get a good draw for those.

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but that didn't. You can't go buy a 300 foot deep pad site anywhere in westlake right
Now.

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and the second does go on the market with your blessing. I'm sure they'll be off the market by the end of that week.

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I mean, it's just an incredible traffic count, incredible demographics and the
Visibility.

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now the core logic land, I believe ron, we've been trying for years to develop that land, right?

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and I think residential would look well on the corelogic land.

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and I think it would be your point. Increase the square footage of everyone else because those houses by the highway which
They would burn in.

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[inaudible] to 114 and it will always sell at least for less.

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and we don't want to do that. We want to preserve property value. So I think it's a good concept and we have to dot the I's and cross the t's for it.

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but I think it's viable. And plus it opens up and it'll give us potentially the funky door restaurant looks really
Good.

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is that three acres or four acres? I looked at their site. They've asked for three acres here, but I looked at the site in lubbock, it's not that
Big.

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it's like 1.2 acres. So he's probably looking to split it if I was guessing.

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but with once, if you give me the green light tonight, I'll send him the land plan
Tomorrow.

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I have not distributed this land plan beyond engineers and the people in this room.

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and you're saying that green light for to pursue the funky door tenant, that's how the
Conversation started.

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but do you need our permission to move forward with that? I don't want to go represent that we can do frontage paths along 114 in westlake, but I
Don't think that's up for vote tonight.

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it's not up for a vote tonight. Look, no, I'm not asking for. I'm asking for positive direction.

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if it's something that you're open to, then let me go see who I can land on those sites. Jared, what do you think about this?

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as far as the direction question or as far as the funky door concept and having..

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I definitely think it's a good opportunity for council to consider the options, renewed
Options with the service that the service road provides.

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we didn't have these options prior to that service road. Now, this opens up a whole new avenue for for council to consider.

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but be careful how we construe direction because obviously there's process procedures,
Planning and zoning committee and yeah, so this isn't anything

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bypassing or short circuiting the legislative processes that do have to come forward.

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this is just general, a general head nod of a direction for staff and the developer to
Start looking into.

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just start bringing back for all of that legislative process for council and p&z.

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mike, you want to hear from us that you're not wasting your time that we would consider.

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are you looking for. Yes, sir. And again, to jared's point, we're not bypassing anything.

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that's not any of our intentions. No, sir, not at all. This is something that the council would want to see pursued.

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I will pursue it. And then the next steps would be here's potential tenants. And then we go through a development plan amendment, the zoning amendments, the whole
Process.

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I just don't want to put those pads out on the market without at least, like I said, a
Head nod saying ok this is something we are interested in.

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because if I do that and then I come back and I get shot down, know this would be
Contingent upon closing on the corelogic.

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yes, I have to close by year end. By year end. So, I mean, what was the original timing of this phase two?

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I'm not saying way back when, like, is this going to just keep delaying the process
Because we're looking at another potential use and another potential contingent

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acquisition and oh, we'll close. I mean, I'm committed.

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this is a valuable piece of land. And we actually did try to get it under contract about five years ago.

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we just couldn't agree on pricing.

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selfishly, what that parking lot does is it lets me build out the plaza without having to
Build another parking garage.

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and that one that we built already is over budget. Very expensive and the prettiest parking garage in all of texas.

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but we're retail tenants don't care how pretty the garage is they just want to know
Proximity to their front door.

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so nothing, I am not stopped my civil engineer on the 52 lots for phase two ok so that if
You say no then the plans are still there for

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match the original development plan from 2013. We just got this under contract.

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so this we're working through site planning, round out the water to the us, that kind of
Thing.

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now the two won't slow either one of them down.

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they're independent processes. The only thing I'm asking for is if we are going to consider making this switch like move
Some of the 322 over to this property that the

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retail path and I'll we'll get to that in just a second and slide that yes this is what
Y'all want.

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you know this is what you want to see happen next in a [inaudible] slightly, slightly
Unrelated question before the

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assignment is consented to by the town. What? Authority do you currently have to make these decisions and move things forward?

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as far as representing mrw? Yeah, I'm the president, director of mrw.

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but the assignment is not technically been consented to as of yet.

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so [inaudible] the assignment occurred as far as.. My assignment has occurred for the entities?

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yes, sir. Okay. The developer's agreement, I think we were still waiting on the town
Attorney to finish up the documents as far as assigning the actual economic development

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agreement and the regular development agreement. Both of those.

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but those don't change. You're just assigning the documents, right? It's on the agenda for tonight, I assume.

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will you be here later when this is on for questions? Okay. I do have an observation.

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I am also a little hesitant on the fact that we have not yet finished phase one and we
Are looking at phase two.

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and I'm just a little worried that I hope the concentration doesn't go completely onto
Phase two and phase one stays as is

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or doesn't get to what it should be.

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I'm sure your you will try to make sure that phase one has taken over precedence over
Phase two, but some more

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reassurance on that. Okay. Can I get like just to because I don't want to give a head nod on something unless
And until that's that's what I'm going to.

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it's I have a 12 to 14 month lot delivery process and in either development time.

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and that's if we greenlight phase two the way it is today. So by the time those lots of delivered and then you start construction, I'm two years out
Minimum from having a ceo on a house or retail building or whatever gets built over there.

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my advantage in phase one, once we go through and cut out what we're going to keep, what
We're going to sell is those are building permit ready as quick as they can go through the

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town processes. You have the architecture, engineering, everything approved. They can be under construction, hopefully 60 to 90 days if they know what they're doing
On the architecture side are the clients would.

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but on the development timeline I have to be 3 to 5 years out and in my mind all that's
Developed, I'm selling the lots.

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we're going to have 15 other people building houses in entrada now all under the same
Guidelines.

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so they'll look nice. But we're not measuring that pace of construction anymore.

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before I got the green light from the eb five lender that I had on track and met my job
Creation hurdle, that's kind of where we were holding on to more stuff because I needed to

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make sure that I hit that number because without me, if I fail to hit that number, then
I've wasted everybody's time for seven years.

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I have that green light, we've done the updated studies and I know what we're going to
Build and keep, and then I can sell the rest of the land.

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so the pace of phase one entrada is not just to no longer be just on mrw.

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we'll have multiple users. We're talking to a bank site. They want to buy their own office. They'll build their own building the hotel.

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he'll build his own building. The if we're able to do the corporate housing, we'll probably still build those.

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but it will be real general contractor, sky cranes, you know, yellow vest and hardhat
People and get the job done real quick.

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chandrika, I agree with you and I think it's super important that you committed today to
30 days from now, we're going to have posted on loopnet

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or with realtors or whatever. What is 30 days? Within 30 days, we're going to figure out what we're leasing, what we're selling, and
What I'm hearing from you.

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and I just want to make sure confirm it is before it was all on you guys and the city may
Or may not have been that helpful.

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and that's why we're slow. And you feel like, I don't want put words in your mouth. You feel like there's maybe going to be 15 different builders.

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so we have 15 different people that paid money are on the clock with interim money or
Fund money that they got, that the burden is on them.

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so I feel like maybe we've got 15 times more people that are going to be in way bigger
Hurry than we've ever been in the history of the project.

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is that accurate? That is very accurate, yes, sir. I drove through entrada after going to starbucks and came here and I ran into two
Realtors putting up signs and they said, we have already sold two of

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the ten lots that we have already. I stopped both of them and said for me, I mean, I've been here nine years.

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like, that's exciting, to me, that's progress. Yes, sir. That is..

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it felt like a monopoly that had no incentive to finish before.

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and it sounds like we're going to democracy with 15 folks that have their money involved
To get to the finish line.

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hey, I got 15 more people pulling the cart now. Mike, do you think it's possible when you come in front of the council to give us some
Type of visual map to show us what's being done and the next level?

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fantastic. And also a timeline. I think seeing that progression each time they come would be very helpful.

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I do not have a timeline tonight. Okay.

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the pdf didn't work.

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next slide, please. So those are the two restaurant buildings, restaurant a and bcd.

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bcd is where hugo's and 1845 are going and then the pedestrian bridge in the middle.

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next slide, I'm sorry. Can you say that again. Restaurant bcd on the right, it's for hugo's in 1845.

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so there'll be two restaurants in that spot. Yes, sir. They completely filled that building.

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thank you. And the other restaurant that has the sign out.

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palacio's. Palacio's? Yes, that's the reception hall. That's reception hall. So on that previous slide, the restaurant a, is what you're saying
Could go to an office space if

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if I end up doing something to hold the real estate for a couple of years and let the
Other restaurants mature.

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that's what we would do. If I can continue to bring in really good operators that have skin in the game with me,
Then I will continue to do restaurants.

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that's what I don't want to do is force an issue because I have a vacancy and then we get
An operator that may not make it.

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both of the people that we have so far I feel very strong about. They'll do well here very well.

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next slide. So 1845. And then he goes, he has a bigger patio that closest to the chapel.

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and then next slide. This is inside 1845 over at lakeside flower mound.

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just the interior shot. And next slide.

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hugo's, their outdoor patio.

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and we've had discussions with both of them about how we'll shade these patios with the
West face, probably looking to put columns out on the patio edge and then use the big

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sail tarps to kind of make a shape like that. That's not incredibly expensive, but it's something that'll give a shade when we need it.

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next slide. This would be the a discussion or request to look at being able to do five
Condos on the second floor up here next to starbucks

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. Next slide. And that is a permitted use in that area.

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so it's just required sup. But in the original concept that that was a permitted use there at that location, are
They a one or two bedrooms or two bedrooms?

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all two bedrooms, 1100 square feet, two bedrooms, two baths. And they would park the lower level price point we're looking at for that $700 a foot,
750.

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and then we'll get rid of the little land where the photo booth was going to sit on? [inaudible] we sold that land.

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oh, he's supposed to build his own little office there, financial planner.

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so that's the isometric view. Go ahead and submit for the sup and see if there's an opportunity to do that.

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next slide, please. Repository. Next slide. We're under construction.

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they cleared the trees grading. They mobilized for grading today.

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and then about three weeks to move the dirt. And then we'll have the concrete people move in. Now, on the repository itself, that's what goes into what kind of items we can be.

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the first floor is these larger, almost like a man cave suite.

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they're like 30 feet deep and 15 to 18 feet wide. And then you can drive through the first floor of the building in and out, so you can
Have your own little private garage.

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and the first floor, second floor is being set up as an auto club. We're going to call it entrada auto works with the w-e-r-k-s.

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and that would be like a valet parking where you could lease your own space.

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we kind of copying what we saw. It's called the shop down on 114, and that would tie in with the rooftop restaurant.

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and then we added a pool up on top as well. So that would almost be like an auto social club.

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tie the two together, third floor is regular storage. Fourth floor has some larger storage spaces and office suites around the perimeter.

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is this the one you need the crane for? Yes. Scott crane. I'm just excited.

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I mean, that means to me that's real progress just to get a crane, you know, and your
Timeline for that is..

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immediate, I mean, they're under construction now. It's supposed to be concrete, will move in right after grading is done.

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we've got to set the piers for the crane itself and then bring everything else in. Okay. And what kind of restaurant on top?

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well, we make it like a private social club tied in with entrada auto works like a
Membership thing, bar [inaudible], not a really heavy restaurant upstairs, but we already

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have the grease trap in the first floor. So are you retaining ownership of that?

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is that through mrw or another? It's amr. Amr westlake storage?

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okay. That next slide and the 114 connection, we're just trying to get tri-county to move
The duck bank.

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I'll build right up to it if they'll let me just want to get started.

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my next slide. Next slide. This is the hotel, mr. Walters. That's the location.

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that's part of our closing this week. We're contributing that land to our it's a 5149 partnership, so I can count the jobs as a
51% owner, and then he's going to bring the financing to go vertical on the hotel.

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the next slide that's currently out and then the athletic center I'm responsible to
Build.

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that's why it's got my name on it. So I'm going to be named that. And then we're sharing the pool like we're going to split the cost of the pool 50/50.

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so people that join the athletic club have access to the pool. The hotel is going to provide food service and beverage to the pool exclusively, like
It's like another social club.

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the next slide, just the autocad. Next slide, and then a, b and c where we finalized the parking configuration.

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next slide. Structural engineering has been released down to like c, I think it's going
To be 69 units, not 70.

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and then we made all the stores bigger on the first floor. The middle row between the two head end parking spaces will be actually storage units set
Up for each unit as well.

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so you can have your bicycles downstairs, not have to haul them down the elevator. Could we go back to the the facade of the hotel?

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I feel like we blew right past that. Oh, the. We don't have the facade for the hotel yet.

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we have the condo building. I thought I just saw it. And then we go back another one here?

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yes, sir. That's not a hotel? No sir, that's condo a. Ok, thank you. Next slide.

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and then this would be the office opportunity. Mr. Hope and the mayor will meet about thursday afternoon.

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I believe it's confirmed. And they went to bring 200,000 square foot tenant from california to build the
[inaudible] as his contractor.

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so more screens and they know how to get it done quickly.

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and the next slide. Next slide.

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next slide. And this is the layout for phase two.

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next slide. So instead of all the residential that we have before the road comes across
From the lake at the 114

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connection follows the lake edge. And so I have a really good, safe t intersection right where it comes out of the
Roundabout.

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and then that pad depth all the way down, 114 is about 310 feet deep.

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and that's normal commercial pad. It's eight acres, 8.2 acres total.

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it depends on how somebody wants to carve it up. If somebody wants the three acres and what's left over, we have to lay out a site plan
For the commercial and make sure the fire lanes work coming back out.

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I show an extension to the east. I'm leaving that on the site plan.

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I'm hoping that somehow we figure out how to get another connection to the frontage road. I can't count on that.

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[inaudible] to the town. And then somebody's going to have go to austin and convince txdot.

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but we have that in our site plan. If not, there's an opportunity to work with glen starr.

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they have a fire lane that comes right up to the property, close to the property line for
Their parking garages so that we can have life safety coming out of the back of those

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commercial pads. It's not just all relying on our infrastructure for the streets.

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and would there be I'm assuming there's parking on this to that the pad site that you
See.

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I'm assuming that they're going to buy and surface park on each pad. We're not going to be able to suggest, hey, go to that garage or these aren't really
Valet kind of sites.

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okay. That's what I think. Now, if we can work out something with glen starr and you have an off hours parking with
Their garage that's right next door, that that could really help out because then you

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don't have as much surface parking. You still have like a teaser road in front of him, kind of like what we're going to do
Along the restaurant row here, but we could bulk park in there in their existing garage.

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and so when you talk about the surface parking, it's basically the set up here. The parking lots are just outside.

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yes, sir. Right outside, but not garaged. No, they can't.

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I haven't been able to like especially with the hotels, they didn't want to go in the
Garages.

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they couldn't afford the price on the parking spaces here. If we're going to go to market and sell it, try to get as much sales tax as we can.

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I think being able to offer surface parking or go cut the deal with glen starr, that's
Close by.

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something like that will make a big difference because every every square foot of land
That doesn't have to be a parking space can be something that's selling and creating sales

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tax. You know, it's just a parking efficiency issue. We're doing all the detention.

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they don't have any open space requirements and then zoning. It's just how do we figure the parking out that makes the most sense.

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it's, you know, retail has got to be in and out. They're not going to walk across the street.

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if it's a sit down restaurant, then the valets open up and we could get that glenn starr
Garage, you know, work out something with them.

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that's a different discussion. But either way, they'll have to have some more surface parking to make it work.

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excellent. And mike, you mentioned that you thought those lots of sound that way would
Fly off the market.

331
00:39:16,700 --> 00:39:19,690
yes. And are you thinking selling them ground lease? What are you thinking? The financial preference would be the ground lease and selling the
Cap rate.

332
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:29,440
I don't want to become the hindrance and a lot of the people that would be interested in
These are going to own that.

333
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:34,840
that's why I asked. I understand the need to generate the sales tax dollars as well.

334
00:39:39,700 --> 00:39:39,700
we need a bigger picture than just three sites along 114.

335
00:39:44,500 --> 00:39:44,500
so if that's if we have buyers that want to buy the dirt and the dirt.

336
00:39:51,110 --> 00:39:53,780
this is the restaurant we actually met with. He was representing them.

337
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:58,010
it's out in lubbock. That's how the conversation kind of got started. He was asking for three acres.

338
00:39:59,630 --> 00:40:03,410
so you can look on the thing. You can see a three acre line on the site plan. Just give him like the front door.

339
00:40:05,180 --> 00:40:05,180
it would look really cool because he'd be sitting right up on that hill and very, very
Visible about up and down 114.

340
00:40:12,410 --> 00:40:15,520
next time. Interior. The lucky door. Neat.

341
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,530
and next slide. And then the core lot. So this is the property we now have under contract.

342
00:40:26,460 --> 00:40:28,530
it's next slide. We haven't drawn it 49 residential home sites.

343
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:31,920
and then I'm mirroring some of the trees that are already built just to kind of balance
Out that corner.

344
00:40:37,170 --> 00:40:37,170
and then I've got a parking access issue to figure out up there to make it safer.

345
00:40:42,030 --> 00:40:42,030
but the 49 home sites that you see that would be gated, the gates pointing towards the
Parking lot, that is water next to the parking lot as well, would be extending the canal

346
00:40:51,180 --> 00:40:51,180
across, have a dog park down by the office building and then open up for a child care
Center on the corner.

347
00:40:59,220 --> 00:41:00,840
did you go talk to primrose about that? We've been emailing and I've also talked to him about adding it to the board.

348
00:41:04,980 --> 00:41:06,930
he's open to doing that as well. So I've instructed essex to make that happen and that'll get done.

349
00:41:11,340 --> 00:41:11,340
sure. I have a question, mike, on the phase two portion.

350
00:41:17,010 --> 00:41:17,010
on the core logic, the purple colored one, where would the restaurant be?

351
00:41:24,750 --> 00:41:27,210
is that what's going to be on the front end of it? What's the one the restaurants would be out on?

352
00:41:28,980 --> 00:41:28,980
114. It's off map on this slide.

353
00:41:33,090 --> 00:41:36,480
okay. And so what is this purple portion? What would this be?

354
00:41:38,500 --> 00:41:40,410
well, I'm hoping it's blue, but I'm the same. Sorry. Little colored light water.

355
00:41:43,020 --> 00:41:44,820
we're extending the canal water feature. Well, that's just one. That's not any.

356
00:41:47,100 --> 00:41:47,100
just water. And the rest of these are all single family homes.

357
00:41:51,810 --> 00:41:54,030
single family homes, yes. And they would be built under the same design guidelines as in toronto.

358
00:41:58,590 --> 00:41:58,590
the only thing I keep hearing from people is can we look at synthetic clay tile?

359
00:42:03,270 --> 00:42:03,270
because every time a thunderstorm comes through, it's 5000 to go fix all these roofs.

360
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:12,690
and then I also got one gentleman interested in the metal roof. And I said, if you can find me some pictures of where they did it in spain on a 500 year
Old house, then I'll be happy to present on the council, you know.

361
00:42:20,490 --> 00:42:20,490
but I mean, it's we can make if you go back to the lucky door restaurant image, go back
Three.

362
00:42:28,380 --> 00:42:31,740
I think it's three slides and one more. Those are the shed metal roofs.

363
00:42:33,540 --> 00:42:37,410
that's kind of what it would look like. You don't see the metal as a prominent feature. But that's a separate discussion that has a lot of things to be worked out.

364
00:42:44,970 --> 00:42:44,970
and then on the corelogic the 300 and I think it's 350 parking spaces.

365
00:42:50,670 --> 00:42:50,670
are you are you thinking about getting that portion to make it like the high end portion
Of it would be gated gates on the south side or north side facing the parking lot?

366
00:42:59,550 --> 00:42:59,550
jared can we can we get that property or does that be a public access?

367
00:43:03,720 --> 00:43:03,720
it can be gated to maintain it.

368
00:43:07,990 --> 00:43:07,990
yeah. And try to we have to maintain the streets anyway, even though they're publicly
Platted right away.

369
00:43:12,630 --> 00:43:12,630
these would be private, so there wouldn't be any opportunity for the street
Reimbursement.

370
00:43:17,010 --> 00:43:18,930
would they be wider than the normal? Yes, sir. And they're straight down curves as straight as we can make it.

371
00:43:23,220 --> 00:43:25,680
and it come in off a slant. Correct. Yes. And to come in off of salon and primary interest, the gate would be down at
The other end like the in and out is up next to the child care.

372
00:43:37,370 --> 00:43:41,120
okay. Thank you. I see it now. Where's the 114 on this? It's off. I'm sorry.

373
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:44,960
I forgot.

374
00:43:49,230 --> 00:43:49,230
if you go, can we go back three slides for one, four slides more again or

375
00:43:59,460 --> 00:44:01,650
more? Okay. Corelogic is where it says land use legend.

376
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:05,040
that's all the corelogic property to the south and east of entrada, the 114 where the
Commercial potential commercial layout would be, is on the top right hand

377
00:44:14,790 --> 00:44:18,420
side. Got it. Thank you. So where says phase two is? We're talking about the commercial.

378
00:44:20,700 --> 00:44:21,930
yes, sir. Okay. And then corelogic is the land use legend area.

379
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:29,010
and ballpark, what do we eliminate? Razzi that would have backed up to 114.

380
00:44:35,010 --> 00:44:37,050
38 units. And I'm not like, if we go back a couple more to the commercial layout, those are the
There's

381
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:50,640
I still left a couple of the villas in there right now like we're playing with the water
For the if we go the alternate route for phase two, there might be additional commercial

382
00:45:00,060 --> 00:45:02,340
opportunities on the other side of that fire lane. I just wanted to see what that strip looked like first along the highway, because once
You get people in, then you can have a second tier behind it.

383
00:45:09,030 --> 00:45:12,210
but to start with the commercial frontage first. So I'm not saying it could be all 52 houses can move out of there, but 30 of them, 38 no
Matter what.

384
00:45:18,370 --> 00:45:20,190
yeah, right. Because and also the restaurant will act like a sound buffer for that.

385
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:25,860
yes, that's a plus. And restaurant patios, they do they look out over and try to yes.

386
00:45:30,060 --> 00:45:30,060
it would be backing to 140 and the way I envision it if they would back to 114 patios are
Out on the front so we'd have to have a service lane behind them.

387
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:38,440
that's what would be closest to 114 with the dumpsters and all that other stuff would end
Up because they'll be overlooking water too.

388
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:47,640
I have to have that water there somewhere for my attention and it's a fungible shape.

389
00:45:52,830 --> 00:45:54,240
we just know where it comes in from. Nowhere, it's got to go out and anything else we can move around.

390
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:01,890
there's a town hall in there. Are you making one for us? Well, you already have a town hall site.

391
00:46:04,260 --> 00:46:07,830
we'd be happy to be very happy. This site right here as well. It's saved.

392
00:46:09,870 --> 00:46:11,670
some people have got confusing that. That's the town. Do we own the site for the proposed town hall?

393
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:18,720
right. We own that. We own that. We have the deed. So we hope that because because when I was looking through the
Development agreements earlier, it said that the deed simple was actually held by the

394
00:46:27,510 --> 00:46:27,510
developer, not the town, and that we had a right to develop for five years.

395
00:46:31,530 --> 00:46:33,570
but if we didn't develop, we gave up that right. So you own the land?

396
00:46:36,890 --> 00:46:38,670
yeah. The we of a separate deed. The deed proper title over to the deed itself does not contain any language like that.

397
00:46:43,140 --> 00:46:46,740
okay. It was a it was separate from the developer's agreement. We we paid pet fees on that.

398
00:46:48,870 --> 00:46:50,910
yes. No, they were excluded. It the sap it was in this economic program development agreement.

399
00:46:57,210 --> 00:47:00,240
I'm 98% sure there's no bid assessment on that land. I will double check that.

400
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:01,320
but I believe we are paying with one of your developers, if they were interested, need
That land.

401
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:08,910
it would create value to your project. Yeah. Yes, it would. Yes, sir.

402
00:47:10,650 --> 00:47:14,010
how much is it? Point eight, six, seven acre. And so you basically have a 10th of an acre zoned for about 500,000 right now.

403
00:47:20,550 --> 00:47:24,360
so that's a valuable piece of land. It's a very it's waterview two.

404
00:47:26,190 --> 00:47:28,080
right. Water surrounded three sides. Yes. So it's like a $7 million piece of land.

405
00:47:30,810 --> 00:47:32,310
12, 15. And our city has done keep going, keep go do it.

406
00:47:36,930 --> 00:47:36,930
I mean, that site was chosen on purpose because of the preeminent position it would have
Looking for 114.

407
00:47:42,630 --> 00:47:42,630
so it is a a nice piece of dirt.

408
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:50,520
and so did we enter into a separate purchase agreement. It was deeded over as part of consideration for the park I'm sorry for the tree
Remediation fees for entrada in granada.

409
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:02,280
so it's a developer out about a couple of million dollars. When would that have been entered into 16.

410
00:48:06,420 --> 00:48:09,540
yeah. Okay. 15, 16, 15. Okay. Okay.

411
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:15,040
yeah, because I'm just going back to what was signed in april of 2013 and yeah, there was
That was subject to a five year.

412
00:48:21,940 --> 00:48:25,810
yeah. So at the time there was some discussion, there was never any action. But when the developer came forward wanting to take care of his tree mitigation, that he
Had to take care of it again.

413
00:48:35,110 --> 00:48:38,920
it was somewhere around two million. It could have been 1.5. He had asked, would the town entertain exchanging that debt for a piece of property?

414
00:48:45,900 --> 00:48:47,350
and so that's what we did. Okay, so it's worth like 20 million now.

415
00:48:50,590 --> 00:48:52,390
yeah, because that was in 2016. So it should be it's good to hear like that in the minutes.

416
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:04,880
and there was one other item I would like to bring up for consideration as a feature and
Not on anybody's agenda.

417
00:49:10,940 --> 00:49:10,940
but we have there might be an opportunity to open a standalone bar where it's allowed in
The town of westlake, but it's not in the entrada zoning.

418
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:20,840
so the next time we come through with the development plan amendment where they have the
Zoning open, if you would consider giving me the same opportunity just to do a stand alone

419
00:49:29,690 --> 00:49:29,690
bar and not have to try to mix it with the restaurant or the food sales or something like
That.

420
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:37,730
what kind of bar are we talking about? Oh, this would be like dollar dollar beers.

421
00:49:40,340 --> 00:49:42,080
cheap is ideal. No, it would be the parliament concept like that from downtown, because what we would
Want to do in restaurant a, the first building the middle, if you go to the last

422
00:49:52,070 --> 00:49:55,400
slide of the wine bar or just like a wine bar. Yeah, but I just don't I'm asking to not have to cover it with food sales because I can
Put it right there in the middle.

423
00:50:02,060 --> 00:50:03,560
that's what it's already planned for. And the permit sets that are in, but without an adjoining restaurant next door as a
Standalone bar that's treated differently by tabc and it has to be allowed in the zoning.

424
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:12,440
but was that not being consumed by a and c, the two other restaurants?

425
00:50:18,110 --> 00:50:21,080
no. This has always been the concept plan for that building. There's three. Can you go back to the a, b, c restaurant slide?

426
00:50:26,900 --> 00:50:26,900
just so we're clear at the beginning.

427
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:41,040
yeah, very. So the bcd that the building is the one that's completely full.

428
00:50:48,190 --> 00:50:48,190
now he goes in 1845 and restaurant a is that middle c, the three windows with the flat
Roof above them.

429
00:50:54,550 --> 00:50:56,800
okay, that's the space so approximate. But just in, that would be where we would try to do one today.

430
00:51:00,460 --> 00:51:00,460
but I'm asking if there's an opportunity to make that bar use match the rest of the town
Of westlake.

431
00:51:06,460 --> 00:51:08,170
I don't know why we did it differently. Then how does that fit with your office concept as a temporary measure?

432
00:51:11,380 --> 00:51:12,820
no, this would be permanent. That would be. But you'd have office still have that proposal office as if we end up
Holding the real estate if we don't get the other tenants.

433
00:51:21,310 --> 00:51:21,310
but you know if you, if you put in the bar concept is that?

434
00:51:26,730 --> 00:51:28,180
that's permanent understood. But does that prevent you then from continuing to advertise for another restaurant tenant?

435
00:51:33,130 --> 00:51:33,130
not at all. It doesn't it helps that it was planned to always be that anyway between the
Two existing.

436
00:51:38,770 --> 00:51:41,350
but does that not split restaurant a in half? It's already set up to be two different venues with the bar in the middle those are the
Plans you see for a are the ones that we have a permit for.

437
00:51:49,660 --> 00:51:49,660
I can go start those now it's just when hugo's and marty b came they said well we want
This building.

438
00:51:56,920 --> 00:52:00,370
it's like, okay, so let me make sure I understand. So in westlake today you can have a standalone bar, but you can't in entrada proper?

439
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:04,800
ask brian to make sure I understood it correctly, but it's a percentage of alcohol sales.

440
00:52:09,550 --> 00:52:09,550
yeah, and we I think you can do it in westlake, but you can't do it in entrada.

441
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:19,000
so the code of ordinances doesn't allow bars, doesn't allow an establishment to get more
Than 75% of its sales from

442
00:52:28,720 --> 00:52:28,720
liquor. But it does say that in the pd districts that that could be changed.

443
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:37,150
so entrada doesn't have any provision for that. It does allow for a wine bar, but it wouldn't allow for any other type of bar.

444
00:52:43,090 --> 00:52:43,090
thank you. So like unlimited zima.

445
00:52:47,730 --> 00:52:47,730
yeah, but I mean, I'm just asking.

446
00:52:52,470 --> 00:52:52,470
food for thought. You know, if the building breaks up that way, and I have somebody that
Really, really wants to open the bar, but I understand you don't want to put the cat out

447
00:53:01,050 --> 00:53:03,990
of the bag. But are you thinking super high end? Are you thinking, no, it would definitely be no high end speakeasy.

448
00:53:07,590 --> 00:53:07,590
like if it lay out, well, it's like, you know, it'd be like a hidden front door.

449
00:53:13,290 --> 00:53:17,280
like you'd have to know where you're going. Oh, kind of like one of those that are down by deep ellum. There's one like that. Yeah.

450
00:53:18,650 --> 00:53:21,990
yeah, I like that idea. Yeah. Yeah.

451
00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:23,160
it's a different topic, though. Does anyone have any questions?

452
00:53:27,780 --> 00:53:30,510
so, mike, I'm no stranger to real estate. So there are often conflicts of interest in real estate, especially in a small town.

453
00:53:36,540 --> 00:53:38,010
so I have a question. As a major developer in our community, would you partner with us to make sure that there
Is no conflict of interest in your development by either

454
00:53:47,460 --> 00:53:47,460
current or former elected officials or municipal employees?

455
00:53:52,860 --> 00:53:52,860
sure. I'm interested in transparency with these entities that are investing in entrada.

456
00:53:58,620 --> 00:54:00,390
now let me be clear. I am not worried about non-elected officials and non municipally employed staff who might
Be invested in entrada.

457
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:09,000
I just believe it's really important to make sure this is all brought to light so that we
Can have the most valuable and efficient development here in town.

458
00:54:17,490 --> 00:54:20,190
okay. Here to help you any way I can. Okay. Your item is on number 13 on the main agenda.

459
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:25,200
you want to take an end in work session, and we'll start off with your theme, please, and
Then give you a break.

460
00:54:31,590 --> 00:54:34,650
unless you want to go another 2 hours, I'll be great. I'll give you a break and then we can get prep for the 5:00.

461
00:54:37,710 --> 00:54:37,710
so thank you and work session for now and we'll come back at five for the regular order.

462
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:48,180
are you done with your presentation, mike? Yes, that was the last thing.

463
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:53,640
let's do the regular work meeting. It's called to order.

464
00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:59,640
we'll start off with the pledge of allegiance. All right. All right.

465
00:55:32,580 --> 00:55:32,580
all right. Any citizen comments?

466
00:55:38,420 --> 00:55:41,620
no, none. Items of community interest.

467
00:55:46,450 --> 00:55:48,760
mayor. Good evening, council. Good evening, everybody. We have an extremely busy late september and october, so I'm going to bust through this
As quickly as possible because I understand there's a cowboys game

468
00:55:58,510 --> 00:56:02,170
tonight, so a lot of people are going to be trying to race home. So buckle up. Here we go. So let's start off with the first thing this week is stroll westlake's
Neighborhood neighbor's night out.

469
00:56:09,700 --> 00:56:09,700
that's on thursday from 5:30 to 7:30 at the marriott here in westlake academy homecoming
Is friday, september 30th.

470
00:56:17,620 --> 00:56:19,540
our next town council meeting is a little different. It's a week from tonight on october 3rd, beginning at 5:00, the very next day on tuesday,
October 4th, from 8 to 9:30 as a of coffee and conversation with the

471
00:56:29,110 --> 00:56:29,110
mayor. Wednesday, october 5th is world teacher's day.

472
00:56:33,190 --> 00:56:33,190
I'll be sending you guys an email tomorrow with some fun things that we're hoping to do.

473
00:56:37,420 --> 00:56:40,680
and mr. Beatty, I reached out to him as well about some. Oh, yep, yep, yep. So we're we're looking to do a few cool things here, so I'll update
You guys with that so we can honor all of our teachers from around the area.

474
00:56:48,910 --> 00:56:48,910
our next fall concert is october six, which is next thursday.

475
00:56:53,770 --> 00:56:57,220
our first concert was was last thursday, which I'll update you about. So we'll have three this fall.

476
00:56:59,110 --> 00:57:00,430
so that'll be number two. Elevation will be the featured music group there.

477
00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:03,760
we have a fall cleanup saturday, october 8th from 9 to 11 a.m..

478
00:57:07,870 --> 00:57:11,620
and it's going to be right here, right outside of these doors in the parking lot. They're going to have four stations.

479
00:57:12,730 --> 00:57:12,730
they're going to have a hazardous waste, which is called the crud cruiser, electronics,
Recycling, option, document shredding and bulk trash.

480
00:57:22,300 --> 00:57:22,300
you'll need to be a current westlake resident with a license or a water bill to show up.

481
00:57:27,460 --> 00:57:27,460
but it's it's obviously a great opportunity to do a little spring cleaning in the fall.

482
00:57:32,770 --> 00:57:35,920
our planning and zoning meeting is monday, october 10th. We have a metro port chamber luncheon, which I emailed you guys a reminder about that
Today if if I could get all rsvp back by friday so we can go ahead and sign

483
00:57:45,910 --> 00:57:49,630
up for that. That's wednesday, october 12th, from 11 to 1 p.m. At the texas motor speedway.

484
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:51,280
then, of course, one of our larger events of the year is the westlake classic car show.

485
00:57:55,330 --> 00:57:58,360
that's saturday, october 15th, from 11 to 4. That's going to be in a new location again right outside of here.

486
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:01,480
I know jared and emily and troy have been working really hard to put that all together.

487
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:06,760
so that's going to be another exciting, another exciting day on the 15th from 11 to 4.

488
00:58:11,770 --> 00:58:11,770
again, our third concert of the fall was going to be on october 20th from 6:30 to 8
There at windy city, that will be again over at the solana plaza.

489
00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:25,750
then we have monster mash saturday, october 22nd from 5 to 7:30. That's on the westlake academy campus.

490
00:58:27,790 --> 00:58:27,790
but the one was stressed that this this is open to all westlake residents, not just
Westlake academy students and family.

491
00:58:34,450 --> 00:58:36,700
so please come on by for that. We have a few little quick items to mention here.

492
00:58:40,420 --> 00:58:40,420
of course, as you as you guys all recall, last week was blacksmith giving day.

493
00:58:44,740 --> 00:58:47,770
the results are in and they were phenomenal. So, yes, please. A round of applause to the the entire school, the westlake academy
Foundation, shelley, christine, the entire gang, finish number one amongst all schools

494
00:58:57,010 --> 00:58:57,010
with a $1,179,147 in donations.

495
00:59:02,170 --> 00:59:05,260
and that was 419 donations. The second place was 886,000 with 848.

496
00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:11,440
so a little less than half. And just just just ran away with it there.

497
00:59:14,290 --> 00:59:17,650
so congratulations to them. It's it's it's a big deal for them. Thank you to all of you guys for your your time on the council photos and thank you for
Let me know which one the individual shots I'll be sending those out to you if you like to

498
00:59:26,200 --> 00:59:27,820
use them in any way. And also we'll do some of the group shots as well and start publicizing that and use it
And some of our our marketing and literature.

499
00:59:35,740 --> 00:59:37,810
I want to get back to our concert. I mentioned that before we had about 50 people at our first concert last thursday.

500
00:59:42,130 --> 00:59:42,130
I had a nice meeting today with the folks over at the solana plaza.

501
00:59:46,690 --> 00:59:46,690
we're going to we're going to partner with the restaurants and they're going to bring out
Some some food, drinks, that kind of thing to really make it a little more user friendly.

502
00:59:55,750 --> 00:59:55,750
so folks aren't going back and forth into the restaurant and having to choose between
Listening to music or going out to eat.

503
01:00:01,330 --> 01:00:04,090
so we're going to bring the food and drinks to them out there on the plaza. It's going to be a lot of fun. And as we get later into the into the year, the weather is
Going to cool down.

504
01:00:09,310 --> 01:00:09,310
so I urge anybody who wants to come by and it'll be going to be a lot of fun.

505
01:00:13,660 --> 01:00:13,660
so thanks to the band from last last thursday, they were they were excellent.

506
01:00:18,430 --> 01:00:21,400
two quick final notes here. We have a westlake wire going out tomorrow. All the things that I just mentioned are going to be involved in that.

507
01:00:24,850 --> 01:00:24,850
we're also going to include introductions to the new p and z members.

508
01:00:29,530 --> 01:00:33,130
we're going to talk about the entrada update that we just discussed tonight. And of course, october is cybersecurity month.

509
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:35,800
so each week we're going to issue tips to residents and anyone who's interested in some
Cybersecurity information to keep us all safe.

510
01:00:44,320 --> 01:00:44,320
we have. One other event that I'd like to talk about, but for that, we have some special
Guests that I'd like to bring up now who can fill us all in.

511
01:00:55,600 --> 01:00:55,600
good evening, angie. Chelsea and my daughters, caroline and claire, where westlake
Residence at 1610 fair oaks drive over in glen wick farms.

512
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:05,770
and we have a real special event we want to tell you about. So I'm going to start with caroline and then claire.

513
01:01:09,220 --> 01:01:09,220
so we are having our annual blood drive with carter blood care, and this is the flier for
It and it's on saturday, october 29th, from 9 to 4

514
01:01:20,860 --> 01:01:22,210
at the westlake fire department. And we all of our volunteer spots are full, but we still need people to come donate blood.

515
01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:28,750
so you just have to be 16. So we would love if people could come by to donate.

516
01:01:32,020 --> 01:01:32,020
this is important because there's a dire shortage of blood in our community and each
Donation can save up to three lives.

517
01:01:40,480 --> 01:01:43,660
and I want to specifically thank fire chief rich whitten. He always does a great job helping us out and he's always present and gives great tours
Of the brand new.

518
01:01:50,140 --> 01:01:53,140
well, I guess it's not brand new anymore, but the beautiful westlake fire station. And so we want to invite all the public.

519
01:01:55,510 --> 01:01:58,660
we have some fliers with qr codes, so it's real simple. You just scan the qr code to sign up for a time to donate.

520
01:02:02,350 --> 01:02:04,990
it takes 15 minutes of your time. And as claire said, each donation can save up to three lives.

521
01:02:08,230 --> 01:02:08,230
we've maximized the donations every year, so we hope to continue that tradition.

522
01:02:13,240 --> 01:02:15,850
so thank you. Thank you all for doing that. Thank you so much. Appreciate it.

523
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:26,200
john, did you mention homecoming? Oh, you did mention homecoming. So I'm going to mention it again.

524
01:02:27,850 --> 01:02:30,970
so we got three great football teams at westlake academy. Our varsity team is four and one.

525
01:02:32,680 --> 01:02:34,810
they're averaging 56 points a game. Thursday at seven is the jv game excuse me, friday at 530.

526
01:02:39,460 --> 01:02:43,000
it's a junior high game and then 7:00 is the varsity game. So please, everybody come out.

527
01:02:44,380 --> 01:02:47,770
it's a lot of fun. We're trying to make it very special this year. Thank you.

528
01:02:51,280 --> 01:02:51,280
thank you very much. Let's move on to the consent agenda first item.

529
01:02:56,140 --> 01:02:56,140
let's see. We through here consider approval of the joint town council board of trustee
Meetings from the following meetings september 12th, 2022

530
01:03:05,920 --> 01:03:09,040
regular meeting and then item b considered approving. Westlake academy 22-22 approving an amended westlake academy mission statement and the
Issues.

531
01:03:18,100 --> 01:03:22,060
all right. Can I get a motion to approve. Yeah I'll make a motion.

532
01:03:23,410 --> 01:03:25,720
second. I'll second. All in favor. Aye.

533
01:03:27,660 --> 01:03:30,730
aye. All those opposed. No opposed. Motion carries.

534
01:03:34,070 --> 01:03:34,070
right. Reports receive a third quarter town of westlake financial investment report.

535
01:03:44,060 --> 01:03:44,060
any questions about it? [inaudible] is presented for council's consideration.

536
01:03:48,220 --> 01:03:50,860
if you don't have any questions, does anyone have any questions about it? No questions for me?

537
01:03:53,030 --> 01:03:53,030
no. All right, then we go on to regular agenda items.

538
01:03:59,210 --> 01:04:01,790
we're going to jump ahead to 13 to bring up mr. Beatty back up here.

539
01:04:03,390 --> 01:04:03,390
consider approving resolution 22-64, approving the [inaudible] assignments of rights
Covenants, obligations of the economic development program agreement, and the development

540
01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:12,200
and subdivision improvement agreement with maguire partners, solano land, l.p.

541
01:04:16,940 --> 01:04:16,940
to mwr investors llc and authorizing the mayor to approve the assignment on behalf of the
Town and take appropriate action.

542
01:04:25,830 --> 01:04:29,510
jerry, do you have a more briefing associated with this right now? No, sir, I don't.

543
01:04:30,530 --> 01:04:33,650
I mean, that was pretty good if you want to. Mike, want to come back up and we can continue the conversation we had before, which is
Tied to this.

544
01:04:39,260 --> 01:04:43,220
are there any other questions associated with this? I do have a question. What can you give us the ownership of mrw investors?

545
01:04:48,650 --> 01:04:51,230
I own well, currently owned 80%. And then frank   zaccanelli and kyle bass owned the other 20%.

546
01:04:55,520 --> 01:04:55,520
part of the settlement with the previous owner, that's going to change to 70/30.

547
01:05:02,060 --> 01:05:02,060
so 70 will be yours and 30 would be the zaccanelli and bass.

548
01:05:06,380 --> 01:05:06,380
correct. And when did you guys settle?

549
01:05:13,210 --> 01:05:13,210
the rule 11 was back in april, beginning of april.

550
01:05:18,220 --> 01:05:18,220
so did you did you acquire mrw from the ownership interest?

551
01:05:23,080 --> 01:05:23,080
yes, sir. So was mehrdad a prior member of that llc?

552
01:05:28,990 --> 01:05:32,710
yes. He was the 80% owner or wasn't? And the new companies mgb.

553
01:05:34,610 --> 01:05:36,750
mcgde. Man you guys are killing me. And what's that?

554
01:05:39,280 --> 01:05:39,280
that's my five kids name. Michael, caleb, gabrielle, declan and everly, mcgde.

555
01:05:43,940 --> 01:05:43,940
well done.  When did this, when did the actual change in ownership occur?

556
01:05:49,800 --> 01:05:51,460
it's july 31st. July 31st. Okay. And then in terms of the public record, I assume that just so mrw, I think mehrdad
Is still listed as the registered agent in texas.

557
01:06:01,230 --> 01:06:02,710
is that being updated to be updated? Yes, sir. And then same question, because I think losf is the manager and member.

558
01:06:08,830 --> 01:06:11,530
that's the entity that I purchased. Yes. Okay. Understood. So again, in terms of the public record, it just needs to be updated.

559
01:06:14,380 --> 01:06:18,210
yes. Understood. And then is mwr being or mrw being dissolved?

560
01:06:23,290 --> 01:06:23,290
no, that does that still own like the starbucks and all that stuff and under a subsidiary
Entity, it's mm entrada commercial

561
01:06:32,970 --> 01:06:32,970
llc because every time we finish a building I put it into a standalone spe because of the
Construction risk associated with the other projects.

562
01:06:41,550 --> 01:06:44,400
so I've done that with the restaurants, I've done that with the parking garage. It's all the same structure.

563
01:06:46,080 --> 01:06:48,750
it's just carving it up for insurance risks. So you have like 100 companies.

564
01:06:50,250 --> 01:06:53,690
no, no. But you're doing that to firewall the liability? Yes sir. From taking down the other entities.

565
01:06:56,340 --> 01:06:56,340
yes, sir. So once the business is open, that's a completely different risk factor than
The construction site where we're all in.

566
01:07:04,170 --> 01:07:04,170
so mrw owns the major share of and then you have the smaller entities that are
[inaudible] sups.

567
01:07:12,630 --> 01:07:16,590
yeah, that's the special purpose entity just for individual assets. For the individual assets.

568
01:07:18,510 --> 01:07:20,110
but the entire project is owned.. Under mrw. Under mrw. And so did the this legal assignment, I mean, is this

569
01:07:30,450 --> 01:07:32,310
so maybe, jared maybe this is a question for you. So when we're asked to vote on the actual assignment from a legal perspective, you've
Already taken over control of the developer for purposes

570
01:07:42,120 --> 01:07:42,120
of entrada that needs to be consented to by the town, is that correct?

571
01:07:48,270 --> 01:07:51,570
and that's the purpose of this particular vote? Yes, sir. This evening.

572
01:07:52,860 --> 01:07:54,960
so one of we do have assignment. Don't think of this assignment as just exclusive to entrada.

573
01:08:00,600 --> 01:08:00,600
we had an assignment clause for granada and so even just pure residential developments, we
Will have an assignment clause in there as well.

574
01:08:10,080 --> 01:08:10,080
and a lot of that is to get the developer, the new owner in front of counsel so they can
Look at you and you can look in them in the eyes

575
01:08:19,890 --> 01:08:19,890
and make sure that everything that was promised is going to be delivered.

576
01:08:25,350 --> 01:08:25,350
and so it's just some of that reassurance.

577
01:08:29,490 --> 01:08:29,490
in addition to that, there is the requirements specific to entrada that the developer
Will have to adhere to.

578
01:08:38,730 --> 01:08:38,730
and so part of the assignment approval process would be the developer would be back then
Also assuming the developer agreement

579
01:08:48,000 --> 01:08:48,000
responsibilities and the economic development agreement responsibilities.

580
01:08:52,470 --> 01:08:52,470
so there's also those two pieces that are in there as well, each on their own agreement.

581
01:08:57,120 --> 01:08:58,650
so mike you can see why we're hesitant. I mean, we're trying to work with you, but when an llc like we all have, a lot of us have
Businesses, but to update an llc, you walk into

582
01:09:08,220 --> 01:09:11,310
southlake downstairs and change it up. So the fact that mehrdad's name is still on it and you know, you knew you were coming
Before us for a while.

583
01:09:16,650 --> 01:09:16,650
you know, we got to make sure that the eyes are dotted and t's are crossed because
Ultimately the city of westlake is a town of westlake, is

584
01:09:26,610 --> 01:09:28,920
looking at us to speed this thing up. And if if we don't make sure that everything is tight, then we're all going to have egg on
Our face like the last regime.

585
01:09:36,690 --> 01:09:36,690
yes, sir. I will double check with the attorneys because all the state stuff should have
Been updated on the july 31st.

586
01:09:43,230 --> 01:09:43,230
as of today, llsf, which is a member and the manager of mrw, mehrdad, is listed as the
Registered agent and the manager.

587
01:09:52,620 --> 01:09:55,530
that's public record. That will be fixed tomorrow. So I guess one of my questions is, you know, it's one thing for us to be told that there
Has been an assignment of developer duties and we're approving that

588
01:10:05,490 --> 01:10:05,490
formal assignment, but we've not seen any contract in in amongst the llcs or the entities
To show that a true change in ownership has occurred so.

589
01:10:16,170 --> 01:10:18,690
well. I provided mr. Kilbride that exhibit earlier today.

590
01:10:21,780 --> 01:10:24,240
okay. So you're welcome to review it. Okay. Same question for recital f to the assignment itself.

591
01:10:29,640 --> 01:10:29,640
it says town council of the town finds that the assigning is financially capable of
Meeting the terms and conditions of the development agreement.

592
01:10:37,650 --> 01:10:41,130
and I guess you're going to say the same thing that's been submitted to us. Okay. So we can take a look at that.

593
01:10:45,990 --> 01:10:45,990
I also noticed so it looked like two assignments had occurred back to back in 2014.

594
01:10:51,120 --> 01:10:53,250
were you a part of that at all? The property went under contract to a gentleman named doug hickok marquee development,
And we got to he was buying all 85 acres and it was right before the pid bonds were

595
01:11:03,180 --> 01:11:03,180
sold. So the pid were actually we're still in the process of setting the pid up.

596
01:11:09,210 --> 01:11:09,210
he we funded on a friday is supposed to close on a monday and then he changed his mind
Over the weekend decided not to purchase the property.

597
01:11:16,940 --> 01:11:16,940
that's why we had to revert back to the maguire partners entity.

598
01:11:20,960 --> 01:11:20,960
so a formal assignment of consent had occurred and then it was reversed.

599
01:11:28,370 --> 01:11:28,370
the other thing is, so having obviously the assignment itself is quite a lengthy part of
The it's a public document, obviously, but

600
01:11:38,210 --> 01:11:40,100
part of the agenda. But having gone back and reviewed the prior assignment that occurred in august of 2014,
There are some language differences between the two sets of assignments.

601
01:11:49,070 --> 01:11:49,070
and I think the one I probably had the largest question out was this carve out of
Obligations of you, the new developer, taking over from prior

602
01:11:58,610 --> 01:11:58,610
developer and generally the assignee, acknowledgment says that the assignee, which is
Effectively your controlled entity in this case, will assume

603
01:12:08,600 --> 01:12:08,600
and acknowledges all of the rules, regulations and requirements as specified in the
Development agreements, which is obviously one of the key documents you're taking over,

604
01:12:18,320 --> 01:12:18,320
accepts and assumes the rights covenants and obligations of the development agreements
And assumes all of assignors, covenants and obligations as if the assignee, you had been

605
01:12:27,170 --> 01:12:29,480
an original party to the development agreement. So that encompasses both the developer's agreement and the economic development agreement.

606
01:12:33,650 --> 01:12:33,650
and there's this carve out that says, provided however, that assignees assumption extends
Only to the obligations, covenant rules, regulations and requirements first accruing from

607
01:12:42,620 --> 01:12:42,620
and after, but not prior to the date hereof.

608
01:12:46,700 --> 01:12:46,700
and so I guess my question or concern would be why is there a carve out to having an
Obligation to perform certain duties that were expected of the developer

609
01:12:56,600 --> 01:12:58,970
prior to the date of this agreement? We prepared a template based off the other assignments, and that language was either
Already in there or was added by the town attorney.

610
01:13:07,430 --> 01:13:08,990
I don't think that came from our side. I'll have to double check, but I specifically did not ask for that carve out.

611
01:13:13,940 --> 01:13:17,930
I don't know. I know exactly what the obligations are. I was here in the first agreement was done.

612
01:13:19,580 --> 01:13:19,580
yeah. And like, as I said, I've got the prior assignment right here and there just and
There are other deviations.

613
01:13:27,470 --> 01:13:27,470
I mean, we can go through more details, but I would propose that maybe just because
There's also additional information to consider, maybe we just table this item.

614
01:13:37,010 --> 01:13:37,010
I would second that with david because I would also like to see the contract that if
There is a contract, please, I did not find that in our packet.

615
01:13:44,660 --> 01:13:47,000
if you can provide it to us, that'd be great. I appreciate that.

616
01:13:48,710 --> 01:13:48,710
sure. Or what are your thoughts on this right now based on the the questions that council
Member quint raised,

617
01:13:58,430 --> 01:13:58,430
this is an opportunity for council to kind of rereview this.

618
01:14:04,460 --> 01:14:04,460
it also presents an opportunity for the developer to get the economic development
Agreement and developer's agreement prepared for

619
01:14:14,390 --> 01:14:14,390
signatures that can be considered at a later council meeting.

620
01:14:20,330 --> 01:14:20,330
and being that it's a the same agreement, we should be able to get that back in front of
Council within the next 45 days, if that's something.

621
01:14:29,810 --> 01:14:29,810
so are you saying conditionally approved on contingent upon the economic agreement?

622
01:14:34,950 --> 01:14:37,640
are you saying table it until the economic agreement? Well, I'm saying if it was just waiting for those agreements to be executed, we could
Just approve this condition upon getting those executed.

623
01:14:46,940 --> 01:14:46,940
however, with council

624
01:14:56,510 --> 01:14:57,830
I'm not doing that. So I would say that getting the developer's agreement, economic development agreement,
Getting those revised, we would not be able to get everything done prior to next

625
01:15:07,700 --> 01:15:10,730
monday's meeting in time for posting. So I would propose that we would push out to at least the next october council meeting,
Which is the 25th, 24th.

626
01:15:20,000 --> 01:15:22,710
so on the 24th, we bring the issue forth. On the 24th, yeah, we could like we want to help you, but we just kind of make sure I
Understand, you know, there's too much history.

627
01:15:29,210 --> 01:15:29,210
I'll be texting. That isn't good that we got to make sure that you're doing it right.

628
01:15:34,070 --> 01:15:34,070
we see everything right, and we make the best decision for the town of westlake.

629
01:15:39,230 --> 01:15:41,530
I fully understand it's not a problem. So that the outstanding views for this or the economic agreement for the 24th is that it
Is?

630
01:15:46,830 --> 01:15:46,830
developer agreement, economic development agreement, and then obviously getting on the
Losf and getting mehrdad's name removed from that.

631
01:15:56,420 --> 01:15:59,870
and so that.. And from mrw.. And from mrw to the registered agent. So what we need, what we will need to happen is we will need to table this to october
24th is what we will do.

632
01:16:09,170 --> 01:16:09,170
sure. So well, the motion will be tabled.

633
01:16:14,240 --> 01:16:17,240
we'll need a second vote. Right. Are there any more questions right now since he's here?

634
01:16:20,930 --> 01:16:20,930
no, I would just my only last observation would probably be bringing this assignment in
Conformity with the prior assignment, which reads better and is more complete.

635
01:16:30,470 --> 01:16:33,260
and then probably having stan confirmed that he's happy with its form. Sure. Okay. Then I thought he was the final.

636
01:16:37,290 --> 01:16:39,680
stan did review this. He did review this, but obviously he didn't review the mehrdad's name still tied to
Everything.

637
01:16:46,040 --> 01:16:46,040
and so we will make sure that that's reviewed as well.

638
01:16:51,430 --> 01:16:53,530
are there any other questions? I did say table postpone.

639
01:16:55,690 --> 01:16:59,230
amy corrected me. Postpone until october 24th. Okay. Can I get a motion to postpone this to october 24th?

640
01:17:03,160 --> 01:17:06,040
I will make a motion to table to postpone. I second.. Until october 24.

641
01:17:07,300 --> 01:17:09,270
all in favor. Aye. All oppose. Motion carries.

642
01:17:12,430 --> 01:17:14,200
thank you. Thank you. Thanks for being here. Let's go to item

643
01:17:24,040 --> 01:17:24,040
number eight presentation discussion regarding the public arts competition.

644
01:17:28,540 --> 01:17:28,540
robyn. Good evening.

645
01:17:37,880 --> 01:17:40,150
I'm robyn mccaffrey. So I'm here to talk tonight about public art.

646
01:17:42,940 --> 01:17:42,940
and put your hands out. So putting a hand out one of our donor brochures where we show
The donors to if you'd like to participate.

647
01:17:56,330 --> 01:17:58,790
which one advances? One of the right. The right. The right.

648
01:18:03,260 --> 01:18:05,540
got it. Okay. Well, the westlake public art program to start off with westlake is always saw itself as
And has distinguished itself

649
01:18:15,080 --> 01:18:15,080
as a unique place within the growing fabric of dallas, texas.

650
01:18:20,930 --> 01:18:24,920
it has been said that westlake as nobody's suburb. I've heard that before, and that seems to be the way westlake is indeed growing and
Developing.

651
01:18:33,500 --> 01:18:33,500
so westlake seeks in its public art projects that are filled with sculptural gestures and
At the very founding when solana was built and you can see

652
01:18:43,430 --> 01:18:43,430
from the photographs and the slide, it was basically a mega sculpture.

653
01:18:49,490 --> 01:18:51,890
all kinds of sculptural gestures. So to interact with the land and the building and the water all worked together to create
This fabric of interest.

654
01:18:59,060 --> 01:18:59,060
it was seeking a form, giving impact of art over the ornamentation, of augmenting the
Public way, of seeking art that will have a form giving impact on

655
01:19:09,050 --> 01:19:09,050
the growth of the city and the art sensibility.

656
01:19:13,070 --> 01:19:13,070
seemingly because of the start with solana and other things, that art is ingrained in the
Sensibilities of the community.

657
01:19:24,560 --> 01:19:24,560
education, design and art seem to be the leading distinctions of westlake.

658
01:19:31,760 --> 01:19:31,760
so we did the comp plan back in 2015, and as an adjunct to that complaint, we embarked
Upon a public art plan with citizen participation.

659
01:19:41,750 --> 01:19:41,750
many of the citizens that participated not also participated in the comp plan.

660
01:19:47,030 --> 01:19:50,360
and two things were clear from that those those work sessions. One is that the citizens identified they want to talk about the purpose of art in
Westlake, not talk about what's good art or what's bad art.

661
01:19:58,400 --> 01:20:02,050
what do we want art to do in westlake? The citizens also called for.

662
01:20:03,770 --> 01:20:03,770
we don't want to just be westlake out here, you know, hiring someone to go buy some I
Call [inaudible] to chitchat from a dealer.

663
01:20:11,150 --> 01:20:11,150
but we want to really get involved in true art and we want to establish a relationship
With the larger arts community so that we and the rest

664
01:20:21,080 --> 01:20:21,080
of the arts community of the metroplex are in agreement on what constitutes worthy public
Art for the town of westlake.

665
01:20:29,330 --> 01:20:29,330
and the reason this is important is because westlake, you can see by this diagram, you
Know, it maintains the submarket distinction.

666
01:20:38,270 --> 01:20:38,270
keller, down the road, not very far is high price points in.

667
01:20:43,640 --> 01:20:43,640
keller are $1,000,000 or more less than the price points in westlake.

668
01:20:48,650 --> 01:20:48,650
so the spatial sort of isolation that westlake has historically enjoyed has allowed the
Identification of a submarket pretty much bounded within

669
01:20:58,880 --> 01:20:58,880
westlake. But as the encroaching communities inch ever closer to westlake, that spatial
Separation that establishes a submarket is a little bit

670
01:21:08,630 --> 01:21:11,120
murkier, harder to define. So one of the things that the comp plan sought to do was to reinforce that submarket
Distinction.

671
01:21:20,330 --> 01:21:20,330
and the way that was done was through high quality design and construction.

672
01:21:24,470 --> 01:21:24,470
and for that, we have the building quality manual and other things that the staff has put
Together.

673
01:21:31,640 --> 01:21:31,640
specialty office and retail such as entrada.

674
01:21:38,060 --> 01:21:38,060
preservation. Preservation not only of buildings but of the landmark landforms which the
Comp plan calls for.

675
01:21:44,900 --> 01:21:44,900
open space and parks, public art and education.

676
01:21:49,580 --> 01:21:49,580
so these things all sort of reinforce the submarket that is westlake these things that
Are only accessible to and enjoyed by and for the use of the

677
01:21:59,150 --> 01:21:59,150
citizens of westlake in that way is a measure of value protection, which was another sort
Of mission of the complaint.

678
01:22:10,630 --> 01:22:10,630
so how to approach that then to make this public art a distinctive program that will be
Viewed by the metroplex in general as a program that's one

679
01:22:20,590 --> 01:22:20,590
of a kind and is truly worthy of distinction.

680
01:22:24,730 --> 01:22:24,730
so what we did is we formed a partnership with the art institutions of the community.

681
01:22:31,630 --> 01:22:31,630
for example, the dallas museum of art, the amon carter, the grace museum, also leading
Galleries, the barrie whistler gallery, the chris waller gallery and

682
01:22:41,560 --> 01:22:41,560
others. And so you can see in one side is the town of westlake, and then the other side
You see institutions that have joined us in

683
01:22:51,460 --> 01:22:53,350
this public art program. And and, by the way, as I'll show you in a minute, became members of the selection
Committee in our competition.

684
01:22:59,530 --> 01:22:59,530
and so they this is kind of fulfilling a historic role that government has played in
History, where government has been a patron working with the artists and the art

685
01:23:07,870 --> 01:23:07,870
communities to find and nurture the emergence of great art in texas particularly, it's
Important the edgar b davis

686
01:23:17,620 --> 01:23:17,620
competition in 1927 in san antonio fostered literally the growth of every major art
Institution in the state today the woody, the mcneigh, the dma,

687
01:23:27,910 --> 01:23:27,910
the houston art society, the purple mountain painters in el paso, etc.

688
01:23:32,590 --> 01:23:32,590
it was a catalytic moment for our state that was culturally significant.

689
01:23:37,960 --> 01:23:37,960
and so that same kind of partnership can do the same thing for westlake, giving its art
Program the kind of robustness that that only that partnership could create,

690
01:23:48,100 --> 01:23:48,100
and thereby assuring what it brought to westlake meets a higher standard.

691
01:23:52,930 --> 01:23:52,930
and as timeless as we can make it, and indeed is a masterpiece that will be considered as
Such for years to come.

692
01:24:02,890 --> 01:24:04,810
so that's an example of how this works. This is the graphic is the six is planned for rome, 1500s.

693
01:24:10,810 --> 01:24:10,810
and that boat that shows the fountain boat, that was the boat that was put down by pope
Sixtus plan at the time it was built was on the muddy banks

694
01:24:20,200 --> 01:24:23,380
of the tiber river. There was no rome out there. 200 years later, you see the picture?

695
01:24:25,600 --> 01:24:27,940
the big picture is the spanish steps. So the art in that location influenced and and and gave impetus to the evolution of
Significant public space.

696
01:24:38,360 --> 01:24:41,590
this is what well-placed art and well-intended art can do. So part of our vision was westlake is so large unbuilt.

697
01:24:45,520 --> 01:24:45,520
why can't art and westlake have the same kind of power, further distinguishing westlake
And reinforcing its submarket distinctions, etc.

698
01:24:54,280 --> 01:24:54,280
and so the art art competition became then very focused on how can we accomplish this?

699
01:25:03,250 --> 01:25:03,250
and you can see a street is just a street, but a street that isn't graced by
Enhancements, particularly public art, becomes a public space.

700
01:25:13,760 --> 01:25:13,760
you know, the lineal nature of streets serve a very lineal function.

701
01:25:18,280 --> 01:25:18,280
but you grace that with public art we end up claiming a wider domain, of which the
Movement is only a part.

702
01:25:27,970 --> 01:25:27,970
so we had to put together a competition advisory committee who became the competition
Selection committee, and the following people were on that

703
01:25:37,780 --> 01:25:37,780
committee, russell tether, who was an art advisor for major corporations across the
Country.

704
01:25:46,510 --> 01:25:46,510
chris worley, who owns chris worley gallery down in the design district.

705
01:25:54,580 --> 01:25:54,580
sue canterbury, who was the curator for american art at the dallas museum of fine arts,
And she has a bunch of other distinctions following her name there.

706
01:26:04,510 --> 01:26:04,510
judy deaton, who was chief curator and director of exhibitions for the grace museum in
Abilene.

707
01:26:11,590 --> 01:26:11,590
rebecca lawton, former curator of painting and sculpture for theme and carter.

708
01:26:20,010 --> 01:26:20,010
paloma navarro's, who was currently charles schwab's corporate curator but was with the
San francisco museum prior to that, hired away by schwab

709
01:26:29,940 --> 01:26:29,940
. Myself, I did my service with the national endowments committee for the arts in
Washington, katherine blair, who

710
01:26:39,600 --> 01:26:42,570
was architect advisor on this wall project. Barrie whistler, owner of barrie whistler fine arts.

711
01:26:46,860 --> 01:26:46,860
he has contributed works to many museums in the area.

712
01:26:51,720 --> 01:26:51,720
so we had a pretty robust committee.

713
01:26:58,880 --> 01:27:02,480
I'll get back to you. And so with them, we went through a two year process. These people served without compensation and a virus flew in from san francisco.

714
01:27:08,120 --> 01:27:08,120
we also had not mentioned here because he came in late as.

715
01:27:14,380 --> 01:27:14,380
doris delaforno, who was mit's curator, flew in from from boston.

716
01:27:19,270 --> 01:27:22,180
so they came because they were excited about this program. They believed in what we were trying to do.

717
01:27:24,400 --> 01:27:26,470
they gave their time for two years. We sent out a request for proposal.

718
01:27:30,700 --> 01:27:34,060
we had over 200 recipients. People send in their proposals.

719
01:27:36,670 --> 01:27:36,670
we narrowed that down to a small set of ten, went through about eight months of
Deliberation on a meeting with them and talked to them about, well, if you could move your

720
01:27:45,220 --> 01:27:47,140
concept in this direction. Anyway, the person that won was a guy named michael singer, who I'll get to in a second.

721
01:27:52,990 --> 01:27:52,990
but but we also have been raising money for public art, and we've raised to date about a
Little less than $1.1 million.

722
01:28:02,980 --> 01:28:04,510
and that's pledge contributions. We still have pledge contributions out to about 100,000.

723
01:28:08,260 --> 01:28:08,260
we have anticipated contributions of 250,000.

724
01:28:13,120 --> 01:28:13,120
and then the play patrons, we reserved the space at the end of the funding cycle for the
Citizens of westlake to participate.

725
01:28:23,110 --> 01:28:25,240
and so those would be individual citizens. You can be a blade patron or you can have your name or one of the blades you'll see in a
Minute for $25,000 contribution.

726
01:28:32,440 --> 01:28:35,950
so ten people in westlake can be played patrons. Can we have more, but hopefully get ten.

727
01:28:38,290 --> 01:28:40,570
that would bring us to 1.675. The total budget with maintenance and extra parts and that sort of thing is 1.7.

728
01:28:47,050 --> 01:28:47,050
so we're within if now we're within the reasonable range and I'll show you, we have time
To raise that money and I'll show you that in a second.

729
01:28:55,120 --> 01:28:55,120
michael singer and singer studios was the selected artist.

730
01:28:59,380 --> 01:28:59,380
michael singer has had a one man show at the guggenheim.

731
01:29:03,580 --> 01:29:07,450
he's done the entrance for the athens embassy in greece. He's an international artist.

732
01:29:09,340 --> 01:29:09,340
he's also you may have seen his stuff at the airport and in austin coming out to there.

733
01:29:15,100 --> 01:29:15,100
so he's an international artist whose works many public collections, including the
Australian national gallery, canberra, louisiana museum of art in denmark, art, louisiana,

734
01:29:25,450 --> 01:29:25,450
the guggenheim museum in new york, the museum of modern art in new york and the
Metropolitan museum in new york.

735
01:29:30,670 --> 01:29:32,290
so he's well established. He's exploited the potential for site specific works to shape and define public space.

736
01:29:38,320 --> 01:29:38,320
he was awarded a foundation for art and preservation and embassies commission to install
The sculpture garden at the us embassy in athens and his team has been together for over

737
01:29:48,220 --> 01:29:48,220
20 years and they are currently working on the contract for the city of westlake as they
Work through.

738
01:29:54,520 --> 01:29:56,500
it's a rather sophisticated design. There are a number of very specific engineering issues to be dealt with and so they're
Taking their time making sure they have that right.

739
01:30:04,960 --> 01:30:04,960
one of the one of those issues is the idea of the idea is that you have these 10 to 14
Foot tall blades that would be in the median of sloane boulevard.

740
01:30:14,710 --> 01:30:14,710
and they will sway with the wind, as do the prairie grasses of our area, sway with the
Wind.

741
01:30:21,700 --> 01:30:24,100
so it's one of the. I mentioned earlier that the citizens of westlake in the public meetings talked about the
Purposes of art.

742
01:30:29,590 --> 01:30:29,590
one of the purposes of art that they defined was art that made the invisible of the
Natural environment invisible, that made the intangible, tangible.

743
01:30:39,280 --> 01:30:39,280
and certainly the idea of having a wind and solar driven work of art here accomplishes
That very purpose.

744
01:30:47,470 --> 01:30:51,400
and was one the reasons why this artist was selected. What was interesting about that, the idea was, well, they could be springs at the bottom,
But now they're using a counterbalance system which allows the kinetic sort

745
01:31:01,240 --> 01:31:01,240
of movement to be much more graceful as a counterbalance.

746
01:31:06,700 --> 01:31:09,760
it's more like bending rather than hinging. And so I thought, you know, the artist is he's very attentive.

747
01:31:13,030 --> 01:31:13,030
you know, he picked up on that detail right away and and came up with that.

748
01:31:18,250 --> 01:31:18,250
and that's the artist there holding up a sheet of aluminum that will have piercings
Similar to sort of pollen distributed from from grass.

749
01:31:28,780 --> 01:31:31,840
and the blades are three sided. One side is actually sculpted aluminum.

750
01:31:33,940 --> 01:31:35,140
so it has relief. The other side is pierced because they are dimly illuminated at night.

751
01:31:40,420 --> 01:31:40,420
they glow a little bit at night, as you can see in the bottom picture, so that you have a
Nighttime form and a daytime form activated by the wind.

752
01:31:51,880 --> 01:31:54,100
so where are we in the process of all this? Well, the competition took about two years to kind of get everybody in and to we finished
That and then we started fundraising.

753
01:32:03,880 --> 01:32:07,750
when we got to about 50% fundraising, maybe a little bit more. We went under contract with the artists to begin to further develop his design, and now
We're 60% better than in

754
01:32:17,590 --> 01:32:21,100
funding. So this is where we are. It's going to take from if all were to go now, which is to continue to move forward, take
About 24 months to actually get an installed work done

755
01:32:31,900 --> 01:32:31,900
that can be attributed to the artist works very deliberately and slow.

756
01:32:36,010 --> 01:32:36,010
there are supply chain issues having to do with springs and stuff that we're trying to
Overcome and that will get us out there.

757
01:32:42,860 --> 01:32:45,190
give us this time, though, to raise the balance of the money. Again, we have some pledges and expressions of interest that I have yet to follow up on.

758
01:32:49,810 --> 01:32:52,600
I need to follow up on that. And I believe that we will have the money when the time comes and that will set us up,
Set up the whole program with an inaugural project.

759
01:33:01,420 --> 01:33:01,420
and if the the council so desires and the town so desires, it would be consider a second
Work of art.

760
01:33:09,850 --> 01:33:11,590
and robin, thank you for this. Just a quick question, because most of us are new.

761
01:33:14,830 --> 01:33:18,550
how did all this come about? Did you come to the city and say, hey, I want to do art? Or did someone from the city come to you?

762
01:33:20,470 --> 01:33:22,390
how did all this start? Well, the citizens of westlake, you know, again, we had the comp plan process and the
Complaint process talked a lot about value preservation.

763
01:33:31,390 --> 01:33:31,390
and the group that is I'm sorry, must not ask the question, well, did you come to the
City or did someone from the city contact you?

764
01:33:39,940 --> 01:33:43,390
well, the city, the citizens of westlake articulate the need. The city contacted me because it was an outgrowth of the comp plan process.