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v. and a special permit for a non-conforming building. The board had reduced the sign variance from 240 square feet to 200 square feet for area. Since there was no July 19th Council meeting and because they had met most of the requests, the Planuing Commission referred them directly to the Architectural Board and then on to B.Z.D. He explained that Best Buy will be using several of the existing vacancies, and will be constructing a 10,000 square foot addition in the rear. He introduced Mr. Fiala, architect for Best Buy, who explained they were remodeling a 46,000 square foot area, the frontage will be 240 feet and it will be about 171 feet, 6 inches deep. The building will be roughly from the edge of MC Sporting Goods to the edge of the existing Hallmark Store. He presented a composite view of the front elevations and a photograph of the rear of the development. He noted that the Marshall's store was the most dominant visually, and explained that because Best Buy will be the largest tenant and because of Planuing Commission's request, they are keeping the Best Buy store to approximately the same height as the Marshall's store, only about 1 or 2 feet higher, but visually they will be about the same. Constructing the building between two existing tenants presented a problem and they also re-evaluated the existing materials and have upgraded them so that they would be similar to those on Plaza North. They will be using a Bowerston face brick #645 which is used on Plaza North, the two towers are tubular steel, everything on the Best Buy portion will be masonry or matching the tubular steel with a synthetic stucco.on the upper portions. The split face block will be above the brick and will match the brick on Plaza North, but they do need to find a color of brick in between the two bricks shown. The darker stucco is a sandalwood beige #1 with the lighter one Amarillo white which will match the existing and they vvill be adding modules of china white which will project from the building in areas similar to the mirrored squares that are now on the plaza and give the illusion of the mirrors without being a mirror. The, colors will approxiinate the colors on Plaza South, the patina green on the metal roofing will match that on Plaza North and the aecent band on Plaza north is the same red as the aluininum store front shown on this plan. Mr. Papandreas explained that the intent was to create an elevation that would be compatible to the existing Plaza South architectural character, but is sensitive to, and compatible, to Plaza North's recent renovation. Eventually they intend to market these as the same unit and this change will probably be indicative to °what they will be doing at Plaza South in the future. Mr. Fia1a explained that they had to close up the two flanks adjacent to the existing tenants by using architectural pre-cast 10 foot wide insulated panels that are fabricated off site and erected on site to minimi?e risk to the other tenant units. He presented samples of this material which will be in gray tones to match the rear of the plaza which currently has a 6 foot dark gray band with a lighter gray above it. They will use a precast concrete on the lower 6 feet with lime stone chips, and the top is a sand blasted surface so that it has some texture with a seam separating the two finishes. Mr. Papandreas presented an aerial view of the rear of Plaza South and explained that the addition would bump out to the same setback line that Gentry's loading dock now has, squaring off the back and pushing all the service to the north, as far away from the condominiums as possible (about 350 feet away from the closest corner). They had to relocated the existing MC Sporting Goods truck dock. He advised Mr. Zergott that they would try to renovate the rest of Plaza South including the removal of the murors in the future, if they removed the mirrors at this time, there would be damage to the bu.ilding, so that must be done along with a renovation. Mr. Gould, president of Biskind Development, advised that this renovation would probably be done in about two years. Mr. Papandreas stated that structurally it would be difficult to renovate, since the structure is built right out to the plane. Where as the structure at Plaza North is built to the store front and the 2