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Show High tech building proposed for Lindon The Lindon Redevelopment Agency made several interesting proposals to the Lindon City Council Wednesday night. ' Gene Jacobs, director of the Redevelopment Agency, introduced Kelvin Love who reported that his company proposes to build a high , tech building in Lindon. The building would be located near Locust Avenue and 400 North, The company is also in the process of purchasing (he Verl Christiansen orchard where homes will be built. Love said the high tech building would be a three story structure containing 33,000 square feet. It will use passive solar energy. The building will be very attractive and fine structurally. The area around the building will : be landscaped. Love said that at a later time an additional 20,000 square feel will be added. Several offices will be located in ; the building. It is being proposed by the Mackinnon Development and Management Co. The company would like to begin work on the structure in the near future. Negotiations- are still under way ' for purchase of some of the property. If a problem develops they have an alternate site available. The city council approved the proposal in principle. The owners will meet with the combined Lindon City Council and Planning Commission Com-mission to finalize details next week. The council also approved in principle a proposal to construct a Storehouse Market bordering on Main Street, State Road and Center Street. Other Storehouse Markets are located throughout Utah County. This .will be the first one built north of Orem. The store will be located on a triangular piece of land. The store owners would like to construct a branch bank on the south end of the State St. side of the property. They are trying to interest a bank into taking the site at the present time. This will be the largest of the Storehouse Markets. They store owners would like to have a traffic signal installed at the intersection of Center and State Road as the store will generate a good deal of traffic and easy access on and off of State Road would be helpful. The company also needs good police protection. In order for the store to be built to the needed specifications, the city would need to vaca te about 15 feet of city property on the Center St. side of the building. This would reduce the possible width of tree street from 66 to 51 feet. There would still be a three foot planter strip on the north side of the building and it would still not reach to the area which is now paved). The council expressed some concern about the vacating of the areabut determined that a 5i0-foot road would still be adequate. Parking will be on the south side of the building, the loading docks -wi.'l be on the west, and employee parking will be on the east side of the ' structure. The entire perimeter of the building would be landscaped and visibility at the . intersection of Center and Main St. would be adequate. As with the high tech building proposal, the council and Planning Commission will look into the details of the proposal at a meeting next week. Storehouse Markets would like to have the building finished and ready for use before the Thanksgiving holidays. |