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A larger and more technological Indian Trails Public Library soon will open to the public, as crews put the finishing touches on a $14.4 million construction project that replaced almost everything at the original Wheeling-based library except for steel frames and concrete.

Officials at Indian Trails Public Library, which serves residents in Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Prospect Heights and Wheeling, said the new building is about 60,000 square-feet and features new additions on both floors.

Floor-to-ceiling windows down long sections of the new building should brighten the library for patrons, who also will find more computers and technological features than at the old library, which closed in March 2016, said Executive Director Brian Shepard.

Once the new building opens to the public April 10, patrons also will find 3D printers and an 82-inch touchscreen, along with power plugs and USB ports at each of the new desks, booths and tables.

"All of the major features of the building changed," Shepard said.

Library communications manager Susan Dennison said during a media tour of the new building March 31 that the construction project is set to finish on schedule with most of the new amenities up and running by the April 10 opening date. Some of the technological additions may not be ready until the fall, she said.

But library patrons may also never want to step inside the new building because of a new checkout service.

With the addition of a drive-through window along the north wall of the new Indian Trails Public Library, customers can check items out online or through the phone, and then pick them up and drop them off directly from their cars, officials said.

Library officials also said the redesigned parking lot should be simpler for residents after crews built a separate parking entrance and exit along with 46 new spots.

"There were too many decision points," Shepard said of the old parking layout.

Construction work on the new Indian Trails Public Library began after voters approved a referendum in 2011 that laid out financing for the multi-million-dollar project. Officials at the time said the original library, built in 1981 and expanded in the 1990s, couldn't meet the needs of the 67,000 residents the library district serves.

Along with better natural lighting and some energy-efficient lighting upgrades, the new building also includes eight new study rooms where officials used to place books, DVDs, video games and magazines.

Study rooms will be available in the middle part of the library on both floors, officials said.

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A view of the Hobby Lobby shopping center. A number of structures would be demolished and the parking configuration changed as part of a plan for new commercial buildings and the future addition of two yet to be named restaurants.

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Traffic issues must be addressed before the Cape Girardeau City Council votes on developer Scott Rhodes' request to rezone the Hobby Lobby shopping area, city planner Ryan Shrimplin said Monday.

Rezoning is required before Rhodes can move ahead with his proposed development, Shrimplin said.

The "Shoppes at South Kingshighway" development would be centered around the Hobby Lobby store at the corner of William Street and Kingshighway, according to development documents filed with the city.

For the third time since March 6, the council held a public hearing on the request to rezone property at 201, 205, 207, 211, 213 and 215 S. Kingshighway from highway commercial (C-2) to planned development (PD). No one appeared at the hearing.

Rather than close the hearing, the council continued the hearing as it has done each time. Continuing the hearing allows development issues to be addressed without advertising for a new hearing, Shrimplin said before the council meeting.

A view of the Hobby Lobby shopping center.

Mayor Harry Rediger said the development will be back on the agenda at the April 17 meeting.

The plan proposed by Rhodes Development Co. and South K Inc. includes construction of a new right-in, right-out driveway on William Street, Shrimplin said. Currently, there is no access to the shopping area from William Street.

Rhodes also has suggested removing all three existing South Kingshighway entrances to the shopping area and replacing them with a single, signalized entrance directly across from Good Hope Street, according to the preliminary plan submitted to city staff.

But Shrimplin said both proposals would require approval from the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT).

"MoDOT has some concerns with putting a signal light there," Shrimplin said. State highway officials are concerned the proposed traffic signal would be too close to the existing William Street and Kingshighway signalized intersection, he said.

"That is not something they are open to at this point," Shrimplin said.

In addition, MoDOT has expressed concern about adding a right-turn entrance and exit onto William Street, Shrimplin said.

Shrimplin said city and MoDOT staff will meet with the developer and/or his engineer to review the traffic issues.

"It warrants taking a closer look," he said, adding city officials want to make sure the proposed development would not create additional traffic problems in an already congested area.

The developer recently submitted a traffic analysis, but city staff has not had time to review it, Shrimplin said.

Rhodes has proposed demolishing all the old commercial buildings on the site, except for the Hobby Lobby store. They include Nearly Perfect Shoes, Sherwin Williams Personal Finance, China Town Buffet, and the former Pizza Hut and EZ Express Carwash, Shrimplin said.

Building additions have been proposed on the north and south sides of Hobby Lobby.

The 10,000-square-foot north addition, currently under construction, will be occupied by a Dollar Tree store. Shrimplin said that project could proceed because there was sufficient existing parking for the new store.

Planned-development zoning is needed for the overall site to address parking for the remainder of the proposed development, Shrimplin said.

The south addition would consist of three retail spaces consisting of 18,242 square feet, 10,000 square feet and 5,600 square feet, according to a development plan submitted by Koehler Engineering.

In addition, the plan calls for two restaurants to be built.

As currently envisioned, a 72-seat, 3,900-square-foot restaurant would be built on the northeast corner of the shopping center and an 80-seat, 3,630-square-foot restaurant would be built on the southeast corner. No specific restaurants have been mentioned.

Under a planned development, the Cape Girardeau City Council can allow exceptions to the city code. Rhodes has proposed two exceptions dealing with traffic.

The first calls for reducing the number of parking spaces in the shopping area from 624 to 479, a decrease of 145 spaces, according to the development plan.

The second would allow parking spaces to have a depth of 18 feet rather than the 19-foot minimum required under the city code, Shrimplin wrote in an agenda report to the city council.

In exchange for fewer parking spaces, Rhodes has proposed construction of "landscape islands," Shrimplin said. The islands would "serve to break up the massive expanse of pavement currently in the parking lot," the city planner wrote.

City development staff support the proposed exceptions, Shrimplin said. Even with reduced parking spaces, Shrimplin said he believes the site will have sufficient customer parking for the proposed development.

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Now a year into the renovation, the men behind 10,000 Drops micro distillery who are looking to open the business in the Peterson Arts building inched closer to opening their business in downtown Faribault.

According to co-founder Jake Hvistendahl, 10,000 Drops plans to open its doors sometime in October so the public can sample their rums, whiskeys, brandies and gins in downtown Faribault.

On Monday night, the Planning Commission sat down to tackle one issue with Hvistendahls plan, namely, the lack of permitted use for micro distilleries in Faribaults Central Business District.

In 2013, the city of Faribault amended the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) to allow for microbreweries, which was requested by F-Town Brewing Co., the business adjacent to the future home of 10,000 Drops. The buildings are both owned by Hvistendahls father, David, who spoke to the Planning Commission on Monday.

In 2015, the city added options for liquor licensing for micro distilleries, but did not change the UDO.

Now, with 10,000 Drops opening on the horizon, David Hvistendahl requested that the city add micro distilleries to the zoning text amendment and make micro distilling a permitted use in Faribault.

While Hvistendahl is seeking a permitted use, city staff urged the commissioners to issue a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) instead.

Among the factors the city needs to account for are noise control, odor control, outdoor storage controls, deliveries, loading and a cocktail room size minimum of 10 percent of the gross floor area.

The latter factor was discussed at length on Monday evening and was the cause of some delay with the project. The building contained too much floor space in the current structure to meet fire code requirements. While learning this news was a setback, a silver lining soon emerged.

We are creating some mezzanines so we are up to fire code, said Jake Hvistendahl in an interview before Mondays meeting. The cocktail room is getting a little bigger and we will add a second story mezzanine, which will be opened up for private events. It will cost us some money and create some delays, but it might give us a more usable space and bring something even cooler to Faribault.

Besides the tasting room requirement, the other aspect of the citys proposed zoning text that was questioned by Hvistendahl and his associates was the volume the distillery is allowed to produce annually.

As it is written, the proposed amendment has a cap of only 500 gallons of storage allowed each year, which David Hvistendahl argued was simply not enough.

Basically, they will hit 500 proof gallons at the end of their first month, he said. Thats why storage limits have to be opened up. They want to cask a substantial part of their production. Their business plan allows them to cask a substantial amount of whiskey over three years.

Hvistendahl explained that the team hopes to cask about 50 percent of their production, while bottling, serving and distributing the other 50 percent.

Hvistendahl asked the Planning Commission to instead consider adopting the state statute level of production. Currently, the state of Minnesota allows for 40,000 gallons of annual production, which differs starkly from the proposed restriction of only allowing 500 gallons of storage.

The commission seemed to agree that the state statute makes sense in this scenario.

Lets change the 500 gallons to the state statute, said Commissioner Steve White. I think thats perfectly aligned with this building. If we are going to have this thing be successful, we have to make it so they can make enough product to be successful.

As the meeting concluded, the commissioners amended the zoning text to allow micro distilleries, but chose to continue discussion of awarding 10,000 Drops a CUP until its site plan evolves further.

In the conversation, ideas of an event center in the building and of a possible parking structure were discussed as possible additions to the plan.

For now, Jake Hvistendahl and his co-founders, Rob Kruchoski and Pat Jacobs, are hard at work preparing the building for their distillery to open in October.

Jake Hvistendahl noted that the process working with the city has been easy and finds city hall supportive of the plan. This, he said, allows his team to work toward their vision of what 10,000 Drops could be.

We want to give Faribault a fun place to hang out that feels different than the other cocktail lounges around the Twin Cities, he said. Hopefully its a good place for people to go to sip on some whiskey and rum. Im hoping we can get it all wrapped up in early fall and get it open.

Gunnar Olson covers city government, public safety and business for the Faribault Daily News. Reach him at (507) 333-3128, at golson@faribault.com, or follow him on Twitter @fdnGunnar.

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Start of construction for a new Medical Office Building at Alton Memorial Hospital is just a couple of weeks away.

The new building will connect to the current Medical Office Building B.

The $8 million project will add 41,000 square feet of new office space (on two floors) to the campus. Upon completion, the new space is expected to accommodate offices for pediatrics, primary care, ob/gyn, internal medicine, psychiatry and an outpatient lab. The building is tentatively scheduled to open in early 2018.

A primary goal for our organization is to improve access to care for our patients, AMH President Dave Braasch said. As we continue to recruit new physicians and mid-level providers such as nurse practitioners to the community, we need to ensure there is suitable, well-designed space in which the team can deliver top-notch care to our patients using the new care delivery model.

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