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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council <br />Monday, March 20, 2023 <br />Page 18 <br />Mr. Arndt stated, I have something. I wanted to see if there was anything with Progressive. I have <br />a lot of family members and friends who work there. They don't know when they will come back <br />or if they are coming back. I was just wondering if there was any feedback from the overlay or <br />anything with additional businesses that have been cultivated or the prospects of businesses <br />coming into the Village at all, if there are any updates or anything of that nature. <br />Mr. Marquart stated, thank you Mr. Arndt. I currently have two projects. I can't discuss them <br />quite yet. They are both on Beta Drive. They will be taking advantage of the overlay zoning that <br />passed a year ago hopefully in the Spring, perhaps early Summer I will be coming back to you <br />folks for perhaps one maybe two incentive agreements as well. Both of these projects would take <br />advantage of the zoning and bring additional employees on to Beta. <br />In terms of sizeable, I don't know what we could really consider sizeable employers. Both of <br />these, one would retain on the order of about 140 employees and bring 8-10 new per year. The <br />second one I am waiting on some numbers back from the company. It should be on the order of <br />about 20 employees so again not the same scale obviously as Progressive but there are a very few <br />of those out there. We are doing the best we can to attract who we can. Part of that is the zoning <br />overlay. We have a very finite amount of commercial real estate available so it's fairly difficult <br />to land those big fish but we are doing the best we can. <br />Mr. Arndt stated, I appreciate your efforts Mr. Marquart. Thank you. <br />Mr. Marquart stated, thank you. <br />Council President Schutt stated, I don't know if we will ever get another big fish like Progressive, <br />but we will take all of the little fish we can get. Any other matters to come before Council this <br />evening? <br />Mr. Williams asked, any updates on conversations with Progressive? <br />Council President Schutt stated, at this point in time I don't have any other updates. <br />Mayor Bodnar stated, I think we are about due for a meeting. We usually meet at least quarterly <br />with a representative from Progressive. In between meetings we have not heard any positive news <br />or really any news at all. <br />Mr. Williams stated, thank you. <br />Council President Schutt stated, I'll just chime in on one last thing on that. Earlier, Progressive <br />announced selling 4 buildings and then announced selling the other 5 buildings on Alpha Drive. <br />Those employees then would be deployed over to Campus 1 and 2 which are both in Mayfield <br />Village. Although they are not required to come into the office at this time, whenever they come <br />back to the office, their home will be in Mayfield Village so that's a win for us in that regard since <br />