is day three um good morning everyone and I'm calling the meeting to order for the planning and economic development committee on May 10th and we'll start first just uh approval of the minutes councilmember Lawson I have no revisions and I approve okay great same uh for me it looked really good and so we'll start we only have a couple things on our agenda so we'll start with the Northeast Aurora and aerotropolis development update okay um I'm gonna start off Mindy Parnes and we're going to have a tour there's a couple of Tours today and it's going to be fun I think okay Okay so let me move some stuff around okay so here we are what you're seeing today welcome to aerotropolis what you'll see today is basically we have knitted together all the master plan developments onto one document here and what you're seeing could be the equivalent of a city of 92 000 residents wow so along with millions of square feet of Industrial Development to entitle this development your development review staff has worked for years and the work has been ongoing despite a pandemic and our any economic challenges members of the team are here to answer specifics about specific developments if you have any questions but that is okay so we start off at the new interchange this is aerotropolis Parkway which used to be Harvest um road is and then um it's at I-70 and and Eric tropolis Parkway the designs for this are underway almost 100 complete with the design um of these of the roadway alignment in different sections and you may even see some um construction on The Interchange this year so the alignment goes up traverses the entire aerotropolis district and provides the only direct connection to um the airport um advice from I-70 to the airport and again Arda has been working closely on the designs of all this construction here okay so we're going to start um at the Northwestern part of the area um at the boundary is primarily residentially focused the area that we're going to start off with and outside of the restrictions of the airport overlay so these are just not all of them these are just some of them and um acres and Acres of planned development about 32 000 units of residential plan millions of square feet of industrial and I'll go through a few of them here so we have high point which is one of our first pioneers out in the red as a residential area supports about 425 Acres of residential mixed use and it traverses uh the the Eastern portion but it has up to 900 Acres that will include the industrial component of that and they're planned about 2 700 units um then we have painted Prairie to the south of high point it is um uniquely planned about at 644 Acres mixed-use Community with bearing housing options with varying um parks and open spaces and the soon to be realized uh Town Center what is unique about how painted Prairie started out is they started out with building their Parks first and then the residential came so that was um and they have about 400 units already constructed and more every day then we of course we have across E470 is uh Eric the Aurora Highlands um and it's about 2500 Acres community and which is ultimately support about 12 000 units of residential there are multiple phases planned and again about 400 units have been constructed unless it's a picture of him then we have Green Valley Ranch east which is to the South and it's um it's about 588 acres and it has a it supports a senior community there and they have about 600 units that they've already constructed there so again about 2600 planned units there so then we have Windler which is our newest planned Community it is located where the original Windler Homestead was was per um located it's between the Aurora Highlands and Green Valley Ranch and there's another this includes another 850 acres and again about 5 000 units are planned here okay then we're moving into more of the industrial areas so we have to the north um on still on the east side of E-470 we have um uh mostly industrial planned here but they have enough for about 1200 multi-family units that are going here and again a lot of the site plans have been in and things are underway we have Gaylord Rockies um Gaylord is our number one destination out here and it's along our 64th Avenue Corridor and they have a planned Edition but right now they're working on a new event Pavilion okay then again we have another one of our Pioneers which is uh porteous um they were the first one to grab on this concept of aerotropolis and they work tirelessly to get that connection to the airport it was a heroic effort and it took a long long time to take to get that done but they have many things under construction and operating out here um and they're sort of the first ones that led the Industrial Development in the area Jag Logistics is within Cortez and it has about 250 acres and they are off and running okay uh moving further south okay so this is I-70 and E470 right here um is are more of our I-70 industrial corridor and we have Majestic here it's about 1600 Acres 11 million square feet um has been constructed and uh I mean about 6 million has been constructed they're proposing about 11 million square feet here so this is off I'm running too uh Pro lodges is one of our first ones too they have about 571 acres and they have buildings ranging from 130 000 square feet to a million and about 900 and another million um is under review we have Aurora Commerce Center it's one of our smaller ones and it also has large Warehouse buildings um and it's I think they just submitted their last building for review so that will be complete we have one of our newer one is Stafford Logistics and it's south of I-70 it is one of our newer ones and is located near the I-70 and Piccadilly interchange sitting about on uh 370 Acres with several buildings already operating and others under construction so at this vital intersection of I-70 in E470 um is yet another residential mix Community known as Horizon apt Uptown supporting over 3 000 more residents and up to 3 million square feet of commercial planned here so the district this we just touched on a lot of the more active ones but there are tons more in the pipeline we have a Windler or one Aurora Crossroads Harvest mile transport um King Ranch McBay Sun Empire um the Aurora the Aurora Highlands Technology Energy Center Cross Creek it the it keeps coming and every day we get more I think no matter what entitlement continues to to move forward regardless of whether things are being constructed this is just a glimpse of Port Colorado um that is yet another one this is 7 500 Acres and they're they're moving forward along with the area around Spaceport so um we have members here from the design the development review team to answer any specific questions y'all might have about particular developments but that's basically the update also you're going to see after this your icsc team is going to show an amazing uh video that includes this area so okay so if you have any questions let us know let me know thank you Mindy um yes thank you Mindy um well all I can say the eight years I've been on the council this is to see all of this I it's just in this form you know I knew all these developments were going on but just to kind of see it how you've explained it that's a lot it's it's good things um I'm gonna put on my Transportation concern hat okay I'm I'm we have mac here if you ever well Matt probably knows it's coming um so looking at all this uh what I'm seeing um it's great things what I'm seeing is gridlock what I'm seeing is um not enough people working out in those areas that maybe even be coming from the inner core of the city to out there no really Transportation options um you know and in Green Valley you're actually have a senior community out there as well so I guess for me this is great I just see gridlock I see some just a whole different another part of the a whole new city actually Without Really any transportation uh connections and I know we're doing a lot of the road stuff but just options for workers for yeah you know for people who live out in there in those areas or um so that's my Transportation concern hat that I see with all these great things that are happening and we have the same concerns you know this has been a struggle for us too we've tried to look at all the options but the new TMD the new Transit demand Management Group is going to focus on this and again with our we're gonna have we are going to have a multimodal transportation master plan and this is going to be a shift in the way we've been thinking so we have to look at all options for Transit and it's not gonna it may not be traditional rgd but a lot of shuttles and other kind of options and you know the future is coming and we have to be ready for it yeah I think like with Park and Ride type things from the shuttle to the you know people who work out there they you know maybe they work at the airport maybe there could be a park and ride to that or show today yeah I'm not just talking about RTD because that we know what the strains on that is but um yeah I I just I think this is great but I just I'm just concerned especially a person that lives here and I know some people who are going to be who are moving out into some of these developments they're kind of concerned about just some of that the transit piece the gridlock that's possibly gonna be you know as they're going from home to coming to the city inside the city vice versa so that's always that's always an issue with growing cities I guess but I think if we could be a little bit proactive and which I looks like we are with the um with what we're doing then I guess we could probably catch a lot of this before instead of becoming reactive so right I mean 92 000 people yeah and more possibly if we continue to Annex and do all of that it's going to be more I mean so I think definitely Transit should be number one Forefront kind of in this mix for sure so thank you councilmember Lawson I appreciate that uh uh and and we too are engaged a couple things uh in addition to obviously the um items that Mindy highlighted I appreciate that Mindy are the um uh Colorado Department of Transportation CDOT is embarking on a TDM transportation and management Carter study of the I-70 Carter really picking up in in this general area of of Piccadilly and and uh I-70 and in E470 and extending East uh to actually Deer Trail so they're picking up our Carter as well as Watkins uh and and and really collectively looking at what can be done proactively uh ahead of the arrival of substantial employment concentrations and clusters uh to facilitate TDM strategies as well as Transit strategies uh directly on the Carter we at every opportunity we emphasize to to CDOT you know this Carter is does not have Mustang Service as does I-70 or I well I-70 does to the west and then I-25 North and I-25 South which I know you're familiar with councilmember Lawson with the with The Gap project down to Colorado Springs so um uh that's that's moving forward on that and we will continue to uh uh press both CDOT uh RTD uh the good thing as as we've seen a lot of residential uh development uh employees and a lot of of the uh on the employment side uh uh job sites uh uh moving forward on that uh as those material as those reach more critical uh uh numbers uh for ritd to look at starting service and I'm I'm looking at the family of services that RTD offers from Flex ride to traditional uh uh fixed bus routes uh as well as high frequency let's talk about identifying Carter's in the future high frequency corridors for bus as well as brt we're all familiar with the regional transportation plan now the Denver Regional Council of governments and and we have a number of Carter's course Colfax we're looking at the Carter study on Alameda but we're also looking at these connections 56 64ths uh they have substantial uh East-West continuity and tie back in into the region so we're taking advantage of that and let us not also recognize the the role that uh bike ped uh Trails both on street and off Street play and our transportation master plan will be looking at what are better ways of of providing those bike ped facilities uh adjacent but separate from our streets uh in in the future where we have uh higher growing volumes uh and and speed can be a challenge in terms of to pedestrian and and bicycle users on that so I appreciate that uh uh those observations and and encouragement quite frankly to uh to support us collectively as we move forward on that councilmember Bergen can I just uh just uh just add one more thing so thanks Mac Mac I know about that and as these businesses are coming out that way it may be good to they have employees uh maybe to see if they can actually partner you know with the city on shuttle rides and things like that um you know they have an investment in their employees so I'm sure um you know there may be some options some opportunities there as well with some of the businesses that are coming into that part of town absolutely councilmember Lawson in fact we're starting uh we're about to uh uh to uh tee off uh our our transportation demand management study uh in this area that we receive funding from Denver Regional Council of governments uh on that and that is all about partnership uh netsy Northeast Transportation uh connections uh the uh the TMA TMO that's active in the in the Northeast sector of of of Denver and and moving in towards uh uh the Fitzsimmons area in the I-70 Corridor uh Peoria uh they will be our um our contractor uh and partner moving forward but it is about partnership uh and and about uh serving with Partnerships as well as funding uh sharing on that so on that point um can somebody talk about Arda and the regional infrastructure that they might be working on thank you councilmember Bergen I appreciate that um uh as as we've seen Arda is uh has uh completed actually the final design uh for the I-70 uh aerotropolis uh AKA Harvest uh interchange and the connection up and over Smith Road and the up main line on that uh we've gone through an exhaustive process and and close to the end of identifying just north of the trackage there at that point uh how the connections as as many showed on on the one of the opening Graphics how that uh section of aerotropolis moves diagonally north easterly towards the intersection of 26th Avenue and Powhatan and then how does Aurora the Aurora Highlands Parkway tie in there and and and that area of intersections in there may uh maybe a great separation involved we're getting close uh the final two screened all Turners recommended Alternatives uh is now in review uh within the city uh we'll see a recommendation coming out of that uh in the in the weeks ahead uh and then that will uh establish how that connection how those connections work up to uh 26 in Powhatan Arta right now is uh is going through the design process on Powhatan uh which will be renamed arotropolis Parkway from 26 to 48th Avenue uh on that uh and then the next uh segment would be just north of 48 our diagonal connection uh through the McVeigh property uh section 17 up to the existing Jackson Gap way and 56th Avenue intersection uh there there's a few things we also want to uh establish um we saw Fallen wider's presence on in the area just west of harvest just south of 68th in in that area we want to uh identify what the intersection needs to be there at harvest in 68th and harvest at uh at Jackson Gap but uh that in summary uh they're they're poised to initiate construction at I-70 uh uh and uh in Aurora Park or airtropolis Parkway there's some final details relative to an IGA with CDOT that is is going through the uh being addressed at this point so yeah and I guess um from your perspective I mean you know Arta was we had Surya down Southeast and then we had Arda established um with all this growth in the Northeast so I mean you know I I know people are talking about having to pay the mill levies but in the in the greater scope this really is a collaboration with all these different developers that are part of Arda to make sure that our infrastructure is actually it connects and makes sense um because in the past as you know we've had disjointed infrastructure um waiting on development to happen to make connections and so forth so um your opinion on how how well that's working as a model I I think Arda has absolutely um uh uh come to the table and and the outcome has been what the vision and what the intent has been uh in terms of that because prior we had uh development it wasn't always contiguous uh and sequential uh so we had gaps uh in in the transportation network uh and and and Arda is uh uh in from my perspective has has been effective and successful in moving projects forward so we have that continuity have those continuous connections uh uh moving forward on that great well um council member Lawson you made really good points so we we certainly um you know applaud everybody for their work on on all of this and the transportation is a key component um it's exciting um you know just the I I can't even wrap my head around the number of homes that are gonna are being built and will be built in the future all the industrial I mean we certainly um um have the opportunity to bring you know good businesses here so I know that um I see us or Bob is next to kind of talk about what we're going to do to try to entice some people to come here um any further questions council member Lawson um no questions for me councilmember Bergen okay thank you um the presentation I know it's in our backup is it possible to get it printed um just to have it's really I mean it's pretty exciting or whatever you we can give it any form you need it we can get it okay I'd love to have a copy of that in print sure okay all right thank you so much all right we'll move on to the um icsc conference coming up Bob all right fantastic um so thanks for having us this is a follow-up to the March uh free icse ped presentation where we're going to give you a little more detail and we do have the video to show you so we're going to be previewing the icsc video to show you kind of what we show at our icsc booth um and we're going to give you an overview of what we do who we meet with and what we talk about um then we're going to show the video and then we're going to answer questions at the end of the video so each year those city leaders and staff of Aurora go to icse to market the retail opportunities uh and uh this year we're bringing seven people we're going to be going out on the 21st of May to the 23rd um and this is basically to attract retain and expand retail opportunities within the city um and uh we're going to be showing you some of the marketing and collateral material that we bring to the show that we hand out and or uh have people QR code in order to be able to get the information uh this year staff has worked with the Communications Department to update the video um we have so much going on in the Northeast that our videos have to be updated constantly because if you took a video from two years ago and brought it out there which which we were not planning on doing it would have shown kind of the past we have so much going on that we needed a new video and kudos to the Communications Department that helped us with this with the Julia and Asher and and Julie's team and if Julie wants to give kudos to the team afterwards please do so um who do we meet with at the at icse we meet with basically four different groups we meet with developers that are coming out of the ground with the project we meet with brokers who the developers usually hire to Market their retail opportunities we meet directly with retailers and restaurant operators to to put the two of them together uh and we meet with Center owners which are different than developers and in the past developers used to hang on to their properties forever but now they have a tendency to flip them to these REITs that are Center owners that are act very differently than developers do they're more like asset managers so we have to meet with both sides of the of the equation to understand what how each of them are looking at the world these days so we're already fully booked uh we have meetings every half an hour for the entire conference and we're double booked on many of those half hour meetings the seven people that we're bringing uh include city council persons the acting city manager uh Oda and the four uh people from the retail team uh more specifically what we're trying to do is we're trying to attract retailers to specific areas of the city so as an example trying to attract grocery stores to the Murphy Creek area we're also assisting developers and determining their targeted Market mechs for the mixed-use projects so like in Aurora Highlands where you have retail you have office some light Industrial Services non-profits we try to go and meet with these folks and let them know what's going on in the business because after covet Everything's changed and a lot of these folks are focused on the residential component because retail follows rooftops so we'll wait for the rooftops they focus on the retail sort of after they've got the rooftops rolling so um we are also presenting all of the services and programs that we have to offer to attract the desirable uses that we're trying to get into Aurora and that includes things like demographic the latest demographic information latest traffic counts traffic patterns avoid analysis of where their competitors are and where they're not then we can do a competitive analysis showing exactly how far away their competitors are we can do site and location services uh and we have spdc uh attached to our hip where they can do training and help with potential financing programs um we also uh discuss uh the current area developments uh and assistance programs that we have we don't just focus on the northeast even though that's where a lot of the action is we have a lot of projects elsewhere in the in the city that we're also promoting we also have the wonderful opportunity to directly introduce the uh retail and restaurant operators to the developers and every year this happens where we get these walk-ups that we didn't anticipate being at the show they show up we're fully booked but we have you know we can double book and triple book if we need to and we know when the developers coming in so we could actually tell them and this happened last year where someone came in specifically looking for a specific area and that developer was going to be there a couple hours later and we were able to match the two of them up at the show um and the developers really appreciate that we also get to offer our additional technology that we have that a lot of other cities aren't offering yet which includes the ability to do the site searches for them to ability to get all the demographic information to use things like Placer in order to show them everything you need to know about where their customers are and to do things unique like the photo studio so smaller operators can take photos of all their pictures put them online and can do welcome videos to show them everybody you know what they do in their door okay so a couple of things about icsc um we have well let's talk about the welcome packet first before we get to that part um last year we were asked uh to put out a welcome letter to all of the new retailers that were showing up uh and opening businesses so we we tracked the business licenses and then send out a welcome letter to the people who have recently got a business license um uh we worked with Communications to put this letter together uh back in in March and we have sent out uh 720 of these letters and have gotten some very positive responses uh these were going to just the pure retail sales tax generators there's actually 2 900 licenses in that time but uh a bunch of them are not actually sales tax generators um okay so now let's get to the video so the purpose of this video is to draw people to our booth as they're within sight line of our booth we have one of the most exciting looking booths if you go to icse mostly you see developers with sort of uh AAA uh lawyer looking space or you know everything's uh mahogany and Cherry and glass and gold we are very different We Stand Out uh in a significant way so we have three full-size monitors running this video on a Non-Stop Loop now we don't have sound in music because this is a huge convention and the ambient noise is just too much for you to be running while adding ambient noise to it and then trying to get people to listen to what's being said so what you're going to see is uh no sound and no music in this video because it would just be distracting if we put that in there so now see if we can watch the video Kathy now that choppiness doesn't actually happen when we're showing the video that's because of the way we're showing it right now but that it actually runs smoothly these are the taglines Room to Grow you're going to see five tag lines that we that Communications has helped us put together in order to help Market that was the first one you'll see them coming across each at each section okay foreign foreign um and there's our tagline which we're very excited about um so uh one of the other things I want to mention about icsc is the vision uh that city council had years ago to allow us to go to icse turns out that we broke Trail for a whole lot of other cities this year we're going to see a whole lot of cities from from Colorado there and Adams county is bringing their own boothans go out all little small towns in Adams County to go out and be at their Booth we're opening our booth up to our developers to allow our developers to come sit at our booth and have meetings at our booth we're now in sort of competition with a lot of cities in Colorado to show that we're sort of the leaders at the icsc game and so we're going to be stepping up our game for next year uh possibly looking at a new Booth um but the ICS is really turning out to be where all the cities are going now to attract people uh so we were ahead of the game but they're following us now so anyway so that's the presentation uh any questions uh councilmember Lawson yes thank you I think the video is fantastic and if I was a developer a restaurant or I'd be wanting to be very interested in coming to Aurora I guess my question to you when you guys are there um especially if you're investing into a community I know I'm just I'm not this these any of these individuals but I'm just putting on a a cap that if I was coming to your booth um do you get asked about what are some of the challenges um that Aurora is facing maybe if there's a developer they may ask those type of questions when you're having these meetings and now that you're going to have other cities maybe I don't know you said some of the Cities but maybe Colorado Springs or I don't know who's all going to be there but there's now going to be some some things that maybe people are considering hey um is the quality of life better in Aurora versus this other city um you know development am I going to be able to get a permit faster I I do you get those type of questions um from we asked from at this conference um surprisingly we don't get a lot of those questions it's really a focused conference that last question we have we do get asked a lot about you know how fast is the process of getting through and you'll see in the one of our taglines is the next that we do have an expedited uh a process and Janine could speak to that if you have more questions about that oh no questions on that just kind of do you get some of those as people are talking I know people are like looking at these videos from all cities that are there um just you know I just wonder do people say well what is the landscape you know because a lot of people are coming from a different area so they might have done some research but there's still challenges that are in a lot of these areas you know whether you have the video or not there are things that cities have to deal with so just wondering if those type of questions came up from any of the developers Brokers retailers restaurant nearers anybody who's trying to invest in a city in the city of Aurora so yes I I can mention generally it's a it's sort of uh uh sort of pure business they're there to talk specifically they have very specific questions about that location and traffic counts and the demographics and they don't really ask a lot of those sort of global questions um they do their research before they come and see us they know who we are we're you know are quite known in the area so um I I am you know I know I was prepared for those questions at my first icsc but we generally don't get those um they want to do business with us okay well that's good to know so thank you that's all the questions I had councilmember Bergen thank you um thank you Bob yeah I was going to say same thing if I was walking by and saw that video I'd be like wow like that looks like a great place to live in and and to invest in um so good job on the video um you you mentioned the half hour meetings um so those meetings are both people coming to our booth but then also meetings to other other boots right that's um that's a scheduling uh nightmare for Kathy she's done a great job of giving people time to get because this is not just the central Hall it's the Center Hall it's the South Hall and every year it's getting bigger and so it can take 15 minutes to get to someone else's Booth it used to take half an hour to get to the international booths up on the second floor um but they've kind of uh after code it's got a little smaller now it's getting bigger again so yes we have uh a lot of the big players won't won't travel outside their Booth because they have just like us they have meetings back to back they want us to come to their um Booth but that's why we have seven people going because we need to have at least a few people covering the the counter because people walk up to the counter constantly and trying to get meetings with us or ask questions and and so we have people that go out to meetings we have people that are sitting in our booth four meetings we have uh three meeting spaces one interior conference room and then two kind of spaces so we have three meetings we could triple book if we had to um but yes you'll see on the schedule that it's bright red if you have to travel to another Booth it's imprinted in bright red and it gives you 10 to 15 minutes to get there run um yeah so you get to look at all the other booths too on the way and our booth is in a better location you mentioned oh right I forgot to mention that I'm sorry uh we moved we're always trying to move to into the traffic because the first year they put us over with a bunch of the vendors and so you had people selling like lawn services and like Paving services and that's not where we need to be and so we got moved to right across from the registration the registration area so the registration area is like 200 yards wide it's this huge row and when you you have to come in and get all your registration stuff and when you turn around you're staring at our booth and so and that's inside the show they used to have registration outside the show and then you came into the show now we're literally right there um we are also visible from the other side of the building uh so last year when we walked into the space the entire length of the central Hall you could see our booth because our booth was 10 feet higher than anyone else around us and it just says Aurora so I I remember being blown away when I walked in there and I said I can't believe I can see Aurora from here I can't even recognize who's between us in that Booth but there it is and it's bright and all these other booths are calm and very conservative and we are bright and excited and so um you know I know we designed this booth a few years ago and we're gonna have to make it bigger we changed our colors so we're going to be switching colors but that booth just lights the place up I don't think there's another Booth like it there and that's that's saying a lot and then lastly just um the retailers and restaurants so um obviously Northeast has a huge opportunity for us in in painted Prairie and Windler and all these other developments um but for for other areas of town that are mostly built out but still have needs um for retailers and restaurants um there's still an opportunity for us to to um Market that right oh not just an opportunity that's a lot of the marketing we're doing is existing properties because you can get those deals done now if when you're talking about properties that are coming out of the ground and they're still waiting for a certain amount of rooftops those are a year or two down the road so we have those meetings but those are usually like we'll follow up next here at icse and then we'll tell you about how many rooftops showed up and and so when it's ready to go so they're doing uh sort of preliminary Lois on those kind of stuff where they're just trying to tie up space so their competitors can't get it but they're not locking in those deals just yet um so mostly we are bringing people to the existing properties that we have um and the existing centers that are coming out of the ground Aurora one's a good example of one that's coming out of the ground uh and has commercial um in it almost immediately most of the other ones the commercial follows the residential great fantastic um any other questions councilmember Lawson uh just one more question councilmember Berger so on that point so when you're there like for example different Wards of course you know every ward has their own kind of uniqueness in Aurora I look at you know um do you kind of look at where maybe some of those gaps are in each Ward possibly and just say okay there may be need to be more restaurants in this Ward or more you know retail in this world based on you know the whole dynamic of the ward and I I'm just looking at Ward five because I live there so I'm just saying you know there's some unique restaurants in this world that we could put in I don't have to go to Ward four or so you know Ward six nothing on you councilmember Bergen but you know just I'm just saying that as an example yes so um just want to know do you kind of look at all of the kind of gaps possibly whatever it may be in restaurants retail in all of the wars and then maybe there may be someone there might say hey I kind of like this area this one is fully developed it has a lot of condos and Townhomes for example in this one dense area maybe we could put a restaurant there do you kind of look at that do you do that at this conference as well when you go well um actually you might uh uh we have a gentleman who's uh started here uh Tom Oldenburg and he does an amazing job at finding every possibility as a matter of fact the last time in March you had mentioned a coffee shop yes visited that coffee shop seven times since then we've done a whole uh like a Project based on that coffee shop and all the issues that coffee shops here with so yeah Tom does uh gets into the he could actually tell you which restaurant locations would be the better locations due to the kind of sales that were produced in most places in the past after the before they closed a tremendous amount of information on that stuff so yeah we don't necessarily present that level of detail at icsc but if they if they are if they're asking about specific sites we'll get to that mostly they're coming in saying you know we're coming in from Salt Lake we're going to be opening stores there um tell us what you got uh tell us who should be we tell us the developers we should be meeting with uh and then you know if we have any incentive programs for them we'll bring them up and then they'll come wrap around after they talk to developers and we'll talk about incentives okay thank you thank you that was a great presentation appreciate it and it's only what a couple weeks away yeah and I got three during the presentation I got three people asking for copies of this so we're gonna have to post it as a link we can't email it it's too thick uh so we'll get we'll get back to everybody and show you guys how to get to the video okay fantastic all right well thank you again um and that is it the presentation so we'll move into our uh miscellaneous area for the different reports um I'm looking that it looks like no reports except for small business Elena um are you yep there you are I'm here uh good morning council members Marcia was not able to attend today so I will be providing just a couple short updates um so on April 26th we had the visit of the sba's associate administrator for international trade Mr Gabe Esparza and the purpose of his visit was to understand the issues businesses are having uh with international trade uh we had a Roundtable discussion here at the city of Aurora at the municipal center uh and uh for this event we invited Aurora small business owners who were involved with importing and exporting uh local banks and CDF files as well as the staff from the Colorado SBA the office of Economic Development and international trade oh edit and the new spdc uh state director we had a very robust uh and fruitful discussion and uh he was very happy with the information he was able to to gather from our our meeting on another topic I would like to introduce you to the new associate director for the South Metro svdc our own uh Lori Wilmer who was recently promoted from senior small business consultant uh and uh she has a short update so take it on Lori good morning and thanks for having me um so the second thing that we did on April 27th following that Roundtable discussion we had Mr Esparza ten of ribbon cutting of the new sbdc satellite office in in Castle Rock at the Aurora or at the Arapahoe Community College at the Sturm collaboration campus the ribbon cutting was attended by over 100 clients and VIPs uh and following that event we had a lunch with Mr Esparza where he spoke about the different uh things affecting International Trade the different programs that were available um and we had a lunch that was sponsored by The Independent Bank thank you thank you very much uh any questions um any questions councilmember Lawson um I don't have any thank you I don't have anything to the report are there any other um organizations that needed to give a report that were not on the uh on the agenda as as having one not hearing anyone okay well that is a short um oh you know I have a question and it actually goes back to to Mindy um are you still with us Maybe not maybe Jason can answer are you there Jason I have a question about when you were doing the Northeast um ropolis development update um this came up councilmember Lawson and I were at the aedc meeting yesterday and um Buckley we had a representative from Buckley Air Force Space Force Base talk about um you know their mission and so forth and one of the major challenges was a substation that has to be built and and so it got we kind of went into this whole discussion about power grids and infrastructure and then somebody at our table actually mentioned that Westminster is no longer able to I guess develop because they are lacking um the power grid for infrastructure so I noticed on one of the slides or um on the aerotropolis that you had what was it the uh Excel Mega site is that to expand the power grid I I think it's part of their overall service plan we have uh good relationships with Excel we uh we keep them updated in terms of the development activity we're seeing it's something we check in with our developers uh pretty frequently to see what they're seeing there certainly are times in the past and there probably will be in the future where um given the pace and breadth of development that it can be a um a rate limiting factor for our developers uh for Excel they have some of the same issues that um I think we're seeing across the you know the Spectrum whether it's supply chain issues whether it's Workforce issues uh contractor availability so we we've seen all of that in the past um my most recent reports have been that in general Excel is um uh keeping up uh on on the demands out there I have not heard that it's been um you know kind of a critical issue it's something that certainly our development Community is very aware of but in general what I've heard uh probably over the last six to nine months is that it's something that we're generally staying on top of uh with the development community and with Excel we've got a few folks on that I'm sure will correct me if uh they're having critical issues but it's something we can go back and check with Excel on as well okay and we I mean we regularly communicate with Excel on computer development right we do and as specifically I have to go back and check on um the Buckley I know we've been having discussions with them about a uh a substation uh that they were looking to do actually on uh Buckley right uh so that we were we were working with them he said it had to be literally had to be done by 2027. or they were going to lose the mission okay we will follow up it was right council member Lawson yeah and I mean that is something that we have when we went to DC that we discussed with Congressman Crowe and the deputy secretary at um the Pentagon but um they said that I mean that's going to be crucial if they don't have power to the base um so I definitely hope we're on top of that for sure it is it's something we've had conversations with them in the past on um and Excel as well so but we'll follow up and see if they're having other than knowing it's on the horizon but seeing if they're having specific issues or specific delays that we can help address very good all right thank you um so with that our next meeting is June something let me look at my paper here June 14th at 8 30 and we're um we're still virtual correct I just want to make sure I don't stay home when I'm supposed to be there correct we've discussed August for the next person okay fantastic all right well everyone have a wonderful day bye everybody thank you bye thank you thank you everyone