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Show Mid-Sized Store Now Part of Downtown Flan Business interest in the 5 00 South and 500 complex has picked up since its approval. Co & tion on a family-style restaurant should begi since owners plan to be open by fall. i I I By GARY R. BLODGETT Clipper News Editor BOUNTIFUL -- A revised site plan for the proposed 500 South 500 West commer-i commer-i rial development and an update on prop-i prop-i osed downtown renovation were outlined to j the Bountiful Redevelopment Agency I Board of Directors last Wednesday night. ! THE DOWNTOWN renovation proposal now includes a "middle-sized" department ' store planned for the northeast corner of ! Main and Center Street, according to Randy I Sant, city RDA director. He told the board that the proposed department de-partment store would be between 30,000 and 35,000 square feet and would be a good anchor for the downtown renovation and expansion. HE SAID he could not devulge the name of the store at this time but that "it is a Utah-based store that has shown considerable consider-able interest in recent weeks of locating in downtown Bountiful." Scott Kjar, of SKB Development Corpor-- Corpor-- ation, developers for the proposed 500 (Hi because of lack of financinp f facility. l (jii ENTRANCETOthe 12-acreco- t be off 500 South near Carr. ira pany. Carr Printing, however cated next fall by the Re,K f;l Agency. i1 Before construction can bet; u drainage problems must be correr culvert of 500 South and sqo V realignment of a channel on He Cc site, Mr. Sant explained. UP1 ALSO, NEGOTIATIONS,.;, pleted between the developers i i'i Department of Transportation on' fer of land from DOT to the dt,. " exchange for property in west fr where storage sheds, office space; facilities will be located. Mr. Kjar said it will cost t $350,000 to $450,000 to reloca: "much more than we expected." deed to the former DOT propers the complex site) must be clear! construction can begin. RDA BOARD Chairman Dean St South 500 West complex, told the RDA board that "things are moving ahead with the revised site plan and construction could begin late spring or early summer." HE SAID the family-style restaurant will probably be the first building to be constructed con-structed because owners want to be operational opera-tional by early fall. Construction will also begin this year on one of two large office buildings, a credit union, bank and thrift and loan company. HE SAID the restaurant will be scaled down slightly at the request of the owner but will be a family-style restaurant. The - theatre planned for the complex will prob- ably include four sections with a different movie in each section. r Mr. Kjar noted, however, that the proposed prop-osed sports mall probably will not be built he and Mr. iant attended a redew seminar sponsored by Housing n; Development in Washington, D.C they learned that millions and t dollars are being spent national) : munities undertaking redevelops n jects. c "We found that cities arebeccc. pro-business and including merclii: development planning," he said. that we are on the right track wife velopment plans." MR. SANT said mostciueswhitl: s cessful in redevelopment did not?. 11 struction until eight to 12 years a.' liminary planning began. . " ''"It may seem like Bountiful fc' ' ' redevelopment a long time without ' struction, but our time is no lot; . most other cities," said Mr. Sail J b |