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City Council Minutes BRUENING, CONTINUED... MAYOR MEIER KAHAN & MARTIN: ME! E R: MARTIN: August 3, 1982 Page 4 led to the press release. Most specifically, Crossroads in Boulder has been historically a very difficult one in terms of planning for Sears. I woul d think the chance.s of Sears making an entry with a retail store in Crossroads are very, very, slim. I can't say they are -im~ossible, but the likelihood of Sears announcing a new store in Crossroads is almost insignificant. We are looking at the Longmont market, we look at that as a separate retail market, and would be planning a smaller store in that area. The plann- ing that we would continue for that neck of the woods does not directly impact what will happen eventally to Louisville-Boulder. There has also been speculation that a Sears store may go into one of the shopping centers in northwest Denver, and I can tell you again, Sears at this time has no plans whatsoever of locating or commit to build in northwest Denver at this time. He thanked council for their time and the opportunity to discuss this with them personally. Stated he is the only one on the board who was originally on the board when this all began in 1978. This has been painful to him after going through all of the planning, special elections, etc. which has transpired. He questioned the lack of major stores, as at one time there were 4 major stores, what happened to them.. .Beall s I Di 11 ards, and whomever else was planned? responded ~y stating that Wilson1s and Bealls do not qualify under the definition of a major dept. store. One being a catalog store, and the other a relative small junior dept. store. Dillard's decided not to come into the area after a few phone calls from governmental officials and other pressures which were exerted. Basically, a major dept. store is called a full line dept. store, Wilson's operates gift merchandise, and Bealls toward soft goods only. Great concern to us. ..certain commitments made for public improvements through annexation agree- ment and amendment, you stated you will reassess these improvements, please clarify that statement. There is a point of critical concern and interest to the community. I want to be very clear and concise, and hope the press is reporting this and get it straight. We have every desire and intention to honor the commitments that we have made to the City and State of Colorado. We want to work our way through these commitments with your engineers and planners to reassess the original plan which