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The Ramsey Town Center was originally envisioned in the Comprehensive Plan process begun in 1998, and has an extensive history of citizen involvement and parmership. The adopted 2001 Comprehensive Plan, as amended in February 2002, showed a mixed-use town center on the project site. In October 2001 more than fifty residents participated in a Town Center workshop facilitated by Calthorpe and Associates. The Metropolitan Council provided funding for this workshop and the overall visioning process. The workshop produced eight unique plans that all included a train station component. In November 2001, residents reviewed two alternative plans and provided comments to the City. In that same month, 61% of the electorate voted to support a mixedmse, town center project a~er residents gathered thousands of signatures in support of a town center development. A seven-member Town Center Task Force was created to provide on- going citizen input into the remainder of the design, review, and approval process. Most recently, a Town Center Review Board was established to add an additional level of expertise to the review and approval process in order ensure that individual buildings and projects meet the Town Center Development Guidelines and the City's overall vision for the Town Center. The Ramsey Town Center project is expected to have a market valuation of $1.1 billion. At build out, the project is expected to generate an additional $4 million in tax capacity annually to the City. In the last two years, the following things occurred in the Ramsey Town Center project. (The potential future transit station for Northstar Rail and other transit services will be located in the core of the The P.A.C.T. Charter School finished construction and opened its doors in September to 560 Ko12 students. The two-story building is 73,000 square feet in size. · 40,000 square feet of corporate offices for N.A.U. Insurance opened up in the Spring of 2005. · The opening of 95,000 square feet of commercial/retail, anchored by a 60,000 square foot Coborn's Grocery Store. A proposed new City Hall/Police Station located adjacent to a potential future rail station began construction with expected completion in September 2006. The City was awarded $2.2 million by the Metropolitan Council for the construction of an 800-stall parking ramp adjacent the new Ramsey City Hall and future transit station. The total cost of the parking ramp is $7.5 million and will be completed in June 2006. Various road improvements were completed in and around the Ramsey Town Center project as part of a comprehensive phased construction partnership between .... ., the City of Ramsey, Anoka County, and Ramsey Town ·, -~ Center LLC. Ramsey Town Center). Ramsey Town Center Cinema - Request for Proposals 2ofll -345-