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BY JIM BROEDE residential to shopping 0 t 11 e r opponents in It's due to open in Sep- missioners) seem so an-
Staff Writer center. eluded commissioners tember 1974. solvable. Yet the one
Maplewood's planning The planning commis- William Howard, Rich "I don't see why we across the street is eight
Rich-
commission• has voted sion majority said the and Barrett and Lor can 't accommodate a times bigger and it's off
S 3 to recommend condi- rezone should be ap raine Fischer. smaller facility across and winging."
tfonal rezoning that Droved, provided public Backing the rezone, in the s t r e e t," Singer Preliminary p I a n s
would open the door for utility and street prob- a d d i t i o n to Batman, Stated. g submitted by Parkhill
a proposed shopping lems can be resolved. were Chairman Lyman "We should see what i n c 1 u d e an L-shaped
center at the northeast Village engineer Bob- Coombs, Roger Singer, happens with this new building that would con
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of White Bear by D. Collier indicated Ed Kishel and Don Dis- monster (the diversified tam a 60,000-square-foot
and Lydia Avenues. there appear to be rea- selkamp, center► before we add to department store, a 40,-
The issue will be con- sonable solutions to the Commissioner' Singer the picture," Barrett 000-square-foot food
sidered at a public hear- problems' said the Maplewood Pla- cautioned.- - store and additional re
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council
before the village p The commission,. •in •its za Shopping Center Howard agreed with tail stores t o t a 1 1 i n g
council Jan.25.
Maplewood P 1 a z a, first vote, was split 4-4 would tie in well with a Barrett, stating: "I 'd 18,000 square feet.
on the issue. sprawling and already like to see the village ab- Other separate build-
Inc., 8030 S. Cedar Ave., But after further dis- approved $30-million di- sorb the shock (of the di- ings would contain a
Minneapolis, seeks per- cussion, a second vote versified shopping cen- versified center) before savings and loan, a res-
m i s s i o n to erect the was taken and commis- ter virtually across the it goes ahead with this taurant and an auto ser-
174,000-square-foot shop- s i o n e r Larry Batman street — at the north- one." v i c e. and accessories
ping center on a 16-acre did an about-face. He op- west corner of White David Parkhill, a business, based on the
tract. . posed the rezone origi- Bear and Beam Ave- spokesman for Maple- plans.
But first the company Hall} nues. wood Plaza, comment- All of the structures
needs a change in zone, ed: "It seems a little would be inter-connect-
from the present farm odd. Here we are talking ed by enclosed walk-
of a project only 15 per ways.
cent the size of the one Provisions also have
across the street. Our been made for 1,155 off-
problems (to some corn- street parking spaces.