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Item 6C - SPIN Report SPIN MEETING REPORT SPIN Item Number: SPIN2023-01 City Case Number: N/A Project Name: Southlake Marketplace SPIN Neighborhood: 10 Meeting Date: January 10, 2023 Meeting Location: 1400 Main Street, Southlake, TX City Council Chambers Total Attendance: 3 Hosts: Madeline Oujesky Applicant Presenting: Buck Wheeler, Phone: (214) 960-2818, Email: buck@shopcompanies.com City Staff Present: Madeline Oujesky, Assistant to the Director Town Hall Forums can be viewed in their entirety by visiting http://www.cityofsouthlake.com and clicking on “I Want to” and “View” “Video on Demand” – forums are listed under SPIN by meeting date. FORUM SUMMARY: Property Situation: 2603 W. Southlake Blvd. Development Details: • Acquired Southlake Marketplace in April of 2022 with the initiative to redevelop it in a sensitive manner. When originally developed, 25% of the property was required to be green space. There is dead space on the south end of the project combined with green space. We look at this as wasted space. From a pedestrian scale we think there is a lot to be improved on. • Since acquiring the property in April of 2022, we have repainted the shopping center and have signed several new leases. o A vet clinic, an acai bowl and currently working with ATA Martial Arts to relocate within the center. Exciting restaurant concepts interested in leasing space. • Want to increase the time that the public and consumers interact with the property and stay on property. This would help with retail sales which ultimately drives sales tax revenue and ad valorem tax revenue. • Parking and landscape improvements we are proposing. o Head in parking instead of angled parking. o Have trees in the parking lot and oversize landscaping islands and improve the overall feel of the shopping center pedestrian experience. o Have patio areas where there is parking and a fire lane. Drive additional revenue through patio areas as well as activate the shopping center and make it feel much more vibrant. • The area between Starbucks and the Baskin Robbins building would be a freestanding single tenant building with a drive through. o Currently working with a user that is not in the DFW market currently. Has a signed confidentiality with this tenant so unable to share whom the tenant is. Outdoor family-oriented space who believe this is a great location for them. • Income would be able to pay for all these common air improvements and increase the pedestrian experience. Create oversize walkway to increase the desire for pedestrians to walk from storefront to storefront. Have patios facing into each other and have a flex space for kids. • All proposed planned improvements benefit the neighborhood and the center itself. o From a social standpoint, it would add approximately 3500 square feet of outdoor patio seating. o From an environmental standpoint, we would be significantly reducing the heat island and reducing the overall temperature of what the parking lot feels like by softening it with landscape and trees. The addition of the parking lot islands would add approximately 33 net trees which reduces the carbon footprint. o From an economic standpoint we are drawing more tenants and partnering with existing tenants to ensure they are successful in driving revenue and business. Presentation: Questions and Concerns: N/A SPIN Meeting Reports are general observations of SPIN Meetings by City staff and SPIN Representatives. The report is neither verbatim nor official meeting minutes; rather it serves to inform elected and appointed officials, City staff, and the public of the issues and questions raised by residents and the general responses made. Responses as summarized in this report should not be taken as guarantees by the applicant. Interested parties are strongly encouraged to follow the case through the Planning and Zoning Commission and final action by City Council. Southlake Connect Results for the January 10, 2023 SPIN Town Hall Forum