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I KEN I I i I ! I I I I I I I I I I Sylvia Frolik Zoning Administrator City of Ramsey ~ 15153 Nowthen Blvd. NW Ramsey, MN 5530 Re: Letter of Introduction March 17, 1995 Fear Ms. Frolik: Please allow this letter to introduce the applicant for site plan approval ~uvern McGrand, the owner and principal officer of the Kenko Corporation (Kenko). Kenko was started by Mr. McGrand some 20 years ~go as a Minnesota subcontractor with one piece of e- quipment. Toda~ Kenko is a National prime contractor which still maintains its iprincipal offices in. Blaine, Minnesota. Today the majority of ou~ contract work is out state, however, we still per- form the majority of our administrative functions in our Minnesota offices. In this regard, we have out grown our Blaine offices and this has cause~ us to look at several communities for office expan- sion, which investigation brought us to your community a month ago. We have presently come full circle back to your City due to a sound business community, location, an accommodating attitude of staff such as yourself and Jim Gromberg, and recommendations provided from other businesses in the area. As noted our Minnesota operations consist mostly of administra- tive support f~r the National markets, which operations employ ap- proximately twelve individuals. We also perform maintenance on e- quipment in nee~ of repairs that can not be performed in the field, hence the requirement for a maintenance facility. Our maintenance staff varies de~endlng upon the season from four in the winter time to two or three in the summer time. We recognized that this facility will b~ the subject of scrutiny by the planning Commission for purposes o~ esthetics, in this regard we have attempted to in- corporate the r~commendations of staff into our site plan. Kenko has ialso choose the City of Ramsey due to its desire to open markets in Canada. Under the NAFTA agreement we believe that we can access !the Canadian market through the Red River Valley trading corridQr, therefore, our undertaking in the City is based upon a long te~m business plan. At this juncture we hope that the City will perceive ~ur move with the same positive expectation Kenko has in th~s relocation. CORPORATE OFFICE - 1~.94 - 91st Avenue N.E. - Mpls., Minnesota 55449 - (612) 786-6510 - Fax (612) 786-6602 SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION ~ 16415 Addison Road, Suite 308 - Dallas, Texas 75248 - (214) 931-9494 - Fax (214) 931-5474 WESTERN DIVISION - l~st Office Box 831 - Calimesa, California 92320 - (714) 795-2568 - Fax (714) 795-1840