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From the City of Burlington:
Mayor Miro Weinberger and CityPlace Partners provide an update on the start of construction at the site of the former mall. On November 2, Mayor Weinberger and CityPlace Partners signed the Second Amended and Restated Development Agreement (ARDA 2.0) as approved by the Burlington City Council, and on November 9 the Department of Public Works approved the Building Permit, allowing construction to commence.
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A
Thank
you
for
coming
out
this
morning.
It's
this
is
a
big
day
for
first
time,
in
more
than
four
years,
this
construction
activity
is
moving
forward
again
on
this
site
and
with
it
the
hopes
that
the
community
has
had
for
hundreds
of
new
homes
for
dozens
of
new
jobs
and
and
new
retail
around
this
block
and
reconnecting
streets
that
have
been
lost
since
urban
renewal
in
the
1960s
and
towards
the
creation
of
strengthening
the
city
financially
in
the
school
district,
with
a
vast
new
tax
revenues
flowing
to
the
city
and
the
state.
A
We
thought
we
should
come
out
and
and
and
just
familiarize
all
you
with
with
with
how
this
is
moving
forward,
and
why
don't
you
want
to
walk
people
through
David
on
the
on
the
map
here
and
then
after
we
do
we'll
talk
a
little
bit
and
then
we
can
walk
around
the
site
a
little
bit
and
you
can
get
other
so
just
perspectives
on
it.
So.
B
B
This
Northwest
piece
of
the
north
building,
then
the
rest
of
the
north
building
will
be
market
rate
units
and
then
there's
a
standalone
building.
That's
going
in
over
here.
There's
a
new
road
will
be
passing
right
through
here
right
past,
that
sheet
piling
St,
Paul
Street
and
where
that
hole
is
right,
there
that'll
be
the
the
lowest
level.
B
They
can
coordinate
the
use
of
that
room
through
the
cedo
office
and
they'll,
be
a
small
balcony
at
that
level
and
then,
at
the
top
floor
of
the
south
building
there'll
be
a
public
observation
area
as
well
as
a
restaurant,
and
that's
on
the
top
of
this.
The
south
building,
also
the
white
building
had
kind
of
distincts
the
two.
This
is
masonry
brick,
and
this
is
a
limestone
building,
so
nothing's
changed
much
since
it
got
permitted
we're
still
going
with
it.
It's
427
or
so
units
we're
working
out.
B
The
final
floor
plans
right
now,
but
the
square
footage
and
the
size
of
the
project
has
stayed
the
same.
The
affordable
units
will
be
85
or
86
units
over
in
the
Northwest
building
and
then
there's
going
to
be
about
270
or
so
in
the
rest
of
the
north
building
and
70
or
80
in
the
south.
Building,
it's
going
to
be
a
four
car,
a
400
car
parking
garage
and
the
tour
of
this.
B
It's
like
there's
a
big
donut
of
buildings
and
then
the
donut
hole
in
the
middle
is
the
parking
area
and
we're
standing
we're
probably
standing
halfway
through
we're
six
feet
above
I'd,
say
the
lowest
level
right
here,
right,
maybe
eight
feet
and
then
there'll
be
a
level
that
you
access,
driving
off
of
Saint,
Paul,
Street
or
off
Pine
Street
at
grade.
You
pull
right
into
the
parking
level
and
then
it'll
be
one
above
that
so
three
levels
of
parking,
200
or
so
spaces
below
grade
then
100
or
so
on.
Each
level.
A
And
what
makes
this
a
public
public
private
partnership
in
in
many
ways
of
course,
is
just
to
orient.
People
is,
of
course,
on
that
side
of
the
site,
St,
Paul
Street,
will
be
reconnected
and
on
that
side
of
the
site,
Pine
Street
will
be
reconnected
partially,
underneath
the
100
Bank
Bank
building,
we
know
those
streets
will
get
built.
The
what
we
hope
and
are
working
towards
is
a
combination
of
this
partnership
and
the
Tiff
funds
that
are
created
by
that
plus
additional
Federal
funding
that
we're
now
pretty
cautiously
optimistic.
A
So
for
members
of
the
media,
who
you
know
what's
happened
in
the
last
I
guess
a
little
over,
it
was
having
fun.
Well
when
was
was
when
was
the
the
special
meeting
to
approve
the
development
agreement
was
two
weeks.
It
was
two
weeks
ago
yesterday,
right
or
today.
Actually
it
was
it
two
did
we
do
it
on
Tuesday
all
right
so
in
in
those
two
weeks.
A
What's
happened
is
that
all
the
documents
were
executed.
There
were
a
number
of
steps
that
had
to
happen
after
the
agreement
was
signed
before
the
building
permit
could
be
released.
The
city
you
know
significantly.
These
three
men
have
all
given
personal
guarantees
that
the
podium
which
they're
starting
construction
on
now,
which
is
Dave
just
described,
that
that
will
be
completed
and
with
the
completion
of
all
all
of
that
work.
The
city
issued
last
week
the
building
permit
and
that's
why
there's.
C
D
A
A
As
our
lawyer
said,
the
other
night,
we
may
well
good
chance
that
they're
going
to
need
to
be
further
changes
to
the
development
agreement
and
to
go
back
in
and
need
to
be
talking
to
the
Council
on
the
public
again
what
Jinx
is
well,
but
what
I
know
where
I
was
going
with?
That
is
that
the
city
now
has
the
right
Partners
to
make
it
through.
Whatever
challenges
lie
ahead.
These
three
individuals
and
the
companies
they
represent
are
some
of
the
best
Builders
we
have
in
Vermont
they've.
They
have
shown
again
again.
A
They
know
how
to
get
projects
done.
They've
shown
that
here,
since
they
took
control
of
the
site
just
over
seven
months
ago
and
I,
am
very
grateful
to
be
working
with
with
the
three
of
you
as
we
as
we
head
down
this
really
critical
direction.
For
this,
the
City
of
Burlington
I
still
I've,
always
believed
in
this
project.
This
is
what
we
need
to
make
our
downtown,
healthy
and
and
vibrant
decades
into
the
future.
I,
don't
regret
for
a
moment
any
of
the
decisions
that
that
took
us
in
this
direction,
I'm
grateful.
A
B
B
We
all
put
our
heads
together,
we
overcome
it,
I
mean
we
had
a
lot
of
interface
with
the
mayor's
office,
the
cedo
office,
the
Department
of
Public
Works,
working
through
all
these
details
on
streets
and
how
things
are
going
to
run
the
storm,
water
and
and
rights
of
way
and
encumbrances,
and
it's
been
seven
months
of
a
lot
of
meetings
and
we
get
a
to-do
list
and
we
break
it
up,
and
we
just
pick
it
apart
and
get
it
done
and
that's
the
way
this
Project's
going
to
keep
moving
on.
So
thank
you
guys.
Thank.
C
E
B
C
On
the
south
building
alone,
we're
starting
an
excavation
today,
but
we've
got
a
solid
couple
weeks
before
we
can
start
concrete,
but
we're
hoping
to
get
concrete
start
December,
1st
and
we'll
be
working
right
through
the
winter
and
hopes
to
have
the
podium
slab
complete
in
May
on
the
Southeast
and
we'll
work
around
the
CHT
building.
As
we
go
as
well.
F
B
We've
got
that
worked
out
for
a
final
completion
date
of
November
of
2025
and
that's
when
you'll
see
like
the
roads.
Finally
getting
finished
so
again,
work
depending
on
which
way
we
work
around
it's
site
worked
and
concrete
work,
and
then
the
steel
goes
up
and
then
the
building
gets
closed
in
the
roof
gets
put
on
it.
When
that
happens,
then
we'll
start
focusing
on
because
we're
going
to
use
this
area
in
the
middle.
B
All
right
well
and
the
exterior
panels
and
setting
Windows
and
all
that
work
one.
That's
finally
buttoned
up
we'll
take
the
cranes
away
and
not
for
long
and
then
start
on
the
garage
piece,
which
is
the
infill
piece
and
once
that's
all
done
then
it'll
free
up
the
roads,
we're
gonna,
have
a
crane
in
the
middle
of
St
Paul
Street
we'll
have
a
crane
over
in
the
future
Pine
Street
to
work.
The
site
I
mean
the
site's
big.
B
Our
engineer
completed
the
foundation
plans
right
now
and
then
the
middle
of
January,
the
structural
steel
plans
will
be
completed
and
we'll
turn
those
over
to
the
city
for
review
and
then
we'll
we'll
do
shop,
drawings
and
and
all
the
stuff
that
has
to
make
it
happen
in
some
Factory
and
then
that'll
show
up
we'll
get
a
permit
to
put
that
up
in
the
spring
and
then
by
then
the
architectural
have
caught
up
with
all
of
the
detailing
and
we'll
have
the
final
set
of
plans.
That'll,
be
you
know
all
the
detail.
B
Things
were
just
slow
and,
and
the
commitment
wasn't
made
to
getting
those
drawings
done
so
now
we're
doing
that
we're
catching
up,
but
we're
playing
catch-up
right
now,
so
The,
Architects
and
Engineers
are
working
like
crazy.
We
have
weekly
meetings
with
them
and
we
get
progress,
sets
as
we
go,
but
nothing
completed.
Yet
to
the
point
where
I
mean
we
changed
us,
we're
thinking
we're
changing
the
stairwell
over
in
this
building,
based
on
some
some
excavation
and
and
showering
details.
B
Is
not
changing,
but
that's
that's
the
easy
part:
that's
the
windows
and
brick
and
stuff,
it's
all
all
how
the
The
Columns
and
the
chases
and
the
ductwork
and
the
piping
and
all
that
stuff.
That's
inside
that
nobody
sees
that's
where
they
spend
a
lot
of
time.
Coordinating
and
that's
that's
taking
a
lot
of
time.
I
mean
there's,
imagine,
there's
400
and
120
houses
here,
so
everybody's
got
to
figure
out
all
the
systems
and
we're
working
on
it
and
we're
making
good
progress.
It's
just
take
some
time.
B
That's
a
good
question
not
for
the
entire
project
right
now,
but
we
we
do
have
commitments
on
getting
going
on.
The
south
building.
Cht
is
working
through
their
process
right
now
on
funding
their
piece
of
it
and
then
we're
in
talks
with
some
potential
co-development
Partners
on
the
rest
of
the
north
building.
A
Dan
I
want
to
be
clear
that
you
know
that's
not
news
like
we
in
that.
We
talked
about
this
explicitly
with
the
council
and
the
public
before
taking
a
step
moving
forward,
but
these
guys
have
guaranteed
is
that
the
podium
is
going
to
get
done.
They
put
personally
they're
putting
themselves
behind
that
and
they
have
the
resources
to
to
get
that
first,
very
substantial
kind
of
essentially
Foundation
to
the
whole
project
moving.
A
B
A
Another
thing
that
happens
early
on
I,
don't
think
these
got
kind
of
highlighted
yes
down
and
looks
in
on.
What's
going
on
here,
you'll
see
a
bunch
of
digging
on
on
this
side
of
the
site
and
over
by
the
building
where
some
of
the
storm
water
infrastructure
has
been
being
put
in,
and
a
lot
of
work
gets
done,
underneath
the
streets
that
that
are,
that
will
be
public
infrastructure
infrastructure
that
both
serves
this
project
as
well
as
infrastructure.
A
That
is
good
for
the
broader
City,
and
so
that's
also
goes
to
why
the
council
approved
I,
supported
the
council
to
prove
this
changed
the
development,
the
agreement
that
allowed
this
work
to
go
forward
and
start
right
now
for
for
the
podium,
knowing
getting
back
to
the
point
before
that
that
these
guys
are
still
in
a
variety
of
ways.
Working
on
the
financing.
That's
going
to
be
necessary
to
to
go
vertical.
C
What
is
this
piece
of
construction?
We
actually
have
to
do
as
a
storm
tank
which
will
serve
serve
the
local
roads
in
Bank
Street.
That's
the
first
piece
we
really
have
to
do
over
here
before,
because
it's
lower
than
the
building
of
the
south
building.
So
we've
got
to
incorporate
a
lot
of
that
initial
storm
work
to
the
infrastructure
and
the
road
at
the
same
time.
So
it'll
be
a
lot
happening
on
the
ground.
You
won't
see.
D
B
A
While
this
is
actually
an
often
misunderstood
point,
so
while
we
got
the
the
entire
kind
of
media
core
assembled
here,
just
something
often
people
get
confused
about,
they
say
Moreau.
How
can
you
be
building
new
homes
when
we
have
issues
with
with
with
our
sewer
capacity?
And
we
we
have
these
events
where
there's
overflows
going
into
the
lake?
We
don't
have
to
fix
that
before
we
build
anything
new.
A
What
a
lot
of
people
don't
understand
is
it's
actually,
every
time
we
build
in
Burlington
a
new
building
to
Modern
standards,
we're
almost
always
making
the
storm
water
and
sewer
system
function
better
than
they
do
previously,
because
these
these
buildings
meet
such
higher
standards
than
the
way
anything
that
was
built
before
so
prior
when
the
mall
was
sitting
here,
and
there
was
rain
on
this
site
immediately,
100
of
the
rain
immediately
went
right
into
the
store.
The
combined
storm
water
sewer
system
contributed
to
this
big
surge
of
water
going
into
this
system
all
at
once.
A
What
will
happen
now
is
that
water
that
falls
during
the
storm
will
be
retained
on
the
site
in
these
huge
tanks
and
then
slowly
released
over
time,
and
that
dramatically
reduces
the
storm
surge
in
terms
of
what
this
site
contributes
to
it.
So
it
it's.
This
actually
will
make
it
less
likely
that
these
negative
events
that
we
see
with
these
combined
to
our
overflows
happen.
B
It'll
retain
it
and
then
slowly
evaporate,
there's
a
elaborate
drainage
system
and
it's
on
the
top
of
the
south
building
and
then
a
good
portion
of
the
parking
garage
there's
a
section
of
green
roof
that
just
helps
cut
back
on
the
amount
of
storm
water
that
hits
the
city
system
once
it
is
released
and
there's
there's
three
of
those
tanks:
hey
Scott.
How.
B
D
F
On
the
housing
piece
is
obviously
like.
Housing
is
a
very
acute
right
regularly
in
the
county.
Do
you
have
a
sense
on
when
some
of
the
units
might
be
coming
online?
Do
you
think
this?
We
had
a
press
conference
here
a
few
weeks
ago.
That
kind
of
this
project
was
going
to
be
a
big
deal
for
the
the
Housing
Development
here
in
the
state
and
the
county.
So
when
can
we
start
to
expect
to
see
those.
B
Maybe
six
months
later
on
the
south
building
and
this
building
we
anticipate,
would
be
finished
up
in
the
summer
of
2025..
The
new
road
is
part
of
the
negotiations
with
the
city
after
the
lawsuit.
When
Brookfield
went
away,
we
agreed
to
give
the
land
to
the
city
for
the
the
two
streets.
So
there's
a
60
foot
right
away.
That's
right
off
the
building
the
Macy's
building
out
60
feet,
which
brings
us
to
about
the
middle
of
this
last
Bay
of
100
Bank
Street
building.
B
B
It's
part
of
our
development.
We've
got
an
area
over
in
this
corner
for
indoor
bike,
storage
and
lockers
and
showers,
as
well
as
like
a
little
repair
shop.
If
somebody
has
to
change
a
tire
or
whatever,
and
then
our
loading
dock
for
the
south
building
wraps
right
around
the
corner
of
the
100
Bank
Street
building
right
where
the
excavator
is
right
now
and
goes
back
out
to
Bank,
Street
and
then
retail
picks
up
and
goes
to
the
corner
of
Saint
Paul
and
chugs
right
up.
St
Paul
Street.
B
B
A
B
Right
along
the
side,
so
right
on
this
line
at
the
end
of
that
shoot
piling.
Basically
it's
coming
this
way
about
130
feet.
There's
gonna
be
a
gap
in
between
the
buildings
of
about
60
feet
from
the
100
Main
Street
Building
to
the
edge
of
our
new
building.
Although
the
parking
garage
will
fill
in
one
one
or
two
levels
above
grade
in
between
there,
so
this
will.
This
will
read
like
four-story
building
coming
off
of
that
building,
sir.
B
D
A
B
When
you're
doing
working
on
the
exterior
building,
the
exterior
walls
to
putting
in
all
the
windows
and
then
whole
different
crew
comes
in
when
you
start
doing
your
framing
on
the
inside
again,
depending
on
how
how
it
flows
with
the
different
funding
sources
for
CHT
us,
and
so
it's
going
to
be
different
levels
of
construction
going
on
and
then
it'll
start
waning
off
when
the
south
building
gets
done
and
that
same
kind
of
crew
will
follow
through.
So
it.
C
C
C
Fact,
every
major
foundation
in
the
City
of
Burlington
in
the
last
20
years
has
been
done.
The
concrete's
been
which
we've
done,
the
concrete
most
cases
was
done
in
the
winter,
the
exception
of
the
courthouse.
So
it's
what
we
do
and
we
know
what
we
got
to
do
and
it's
just
all
about
protecting
heat
and
protecting
concrete.
But
you
don't
has
no
effect
on
quality
and
keeps
the
team
busy.
A
B
B
A
We
appreciate
that
it's
something
that
the
city
in
talking
with
you
know
the
business
Community
has
been
incredibly
supportive.
This
project
always
has
at
the
same
time,
people
are
aware
that
there'd
be
a
lot
of
you
know.
Projects
of
this
size
there'd
be
the
potential
for
disruption
and
and
want
to
make
sure
that
there
was
good
coordination
and
communication
and
another
way
we
appreciate
the
partnership
is
that
these
guys
agreed
in
the
development
agreement
to
to
do
what
they've
just
described
and
are
making
good
on
it,
and
we.
A
Let's
talk,
there
will
be
a
people
who've
been
covering
this
for
years
may
remember.
There
was
talk
at
one
point
that
there
was
going
to
be
months
of
pile
driving
at
the
beginning
and
there
will
be
a
little
bit
of
sheet
pile
being
driven.
Is
that
right?
It's
got
in
the
next
few
weeks
here.
So
it
will
be
a.
C
Little
bit
for
shoring
and
supportive
excavation,
but
initially
when
this
was
a
14-story
building,
it
required
piles
that
were
75
feet
deep
around
the
whole
site
and
the
footings
poured
on
top
of
them,
but
with
the
new
design,
with
our
nine
to
ten
stores
does
not
require
that
to
spread
footing.
So
we
minimized
all
that
vibration,
problems
that
for
potential
buildings
and
residents
and
citizens
so
and
noise.
It
should
be
a
pretty
clean
operation.
B
C
F
B
Building
we're
valuing
some
proposals.
There's
you
know
once
once
we
got
control
of
the
site
and
decided
we
were
going
to
be
moving
ahead.
A
lot
of
interest
came
from
other
developers
that
maybe
had
looked
at
it
when
cynics
was
contemplating
selling
it
at
one
point,
and
that's
that's
how
we
ended
up.
He
was
saying
all
right,
guys,
I
think
we're
going
to
sell
the
site
and
we
said
well,
we
want
to
buy
it
so,
but
he
had
a
broker
out
there.
B
Marketing
the
whole
project
as
a
you
know
for
sale,
permit
ready,
and
we
just
said
you
know:
we've
we've
been
involved.
We
worked
too
hard
to
just
sell
it
off
to
somebody
else,
and
so
we
worked
out
a
deal
with
Don
and
ended
up
buying
this
we're
still
Partners
in
the
two
other
buildings
with
with
Devonwood.
B
We
wanted
to
get
going
and
that's
it's.
You
know
a
smaller
piece.
That's
probably
the
big
picture
is
probably
60
or
70
million
dollars.
It's
not
small,
but
small
enough
that
you
felt
we
could
handle
it
up
and
skid
the
ball
along.
That's
what
this
whole
project
seemed
to
need
that
and
and
so
kind
of
lift
the
fuse.
So.
C
Got
it
like
I,
said
mentioned
before
we
got
a
couple
weeks
of
excavation
on
the
south
building
and
working
around
that
tank,
but
we
expect
to
be
pouring
concrete
first
of
December
and
we'll
be
working
all
winter
and
hope
to
finish
up
the
south
building,
Podium,
probably
mid-may
June
and
we'll
keep
working
around
the
CHT.
So
we'll
we'll
have
multiple
Crews
working
as
we
go
over
the
South
and
we'll
be
heading
right
around
this
way.
C
B
You
know
there
will
be
a
fair
amount
of
monthly
leases
to
the
tenants
for
parking
spaces
for
themselves,
but
we're
going
to
have
a
monitoring
system
that,
as
cars,
leave,
we'll
be
able
to
take
in
public
parking
and
we'll
probably
have
a
kiosk
or
some
sort
of
scanning
sign.
But
you
can
park
park
by
your
plate
number
and
similar
to
a
lot
of
the
Lots
around
town,
where
you
can
do
transient
parking,
even
though
spaces
are
committed
to
people
during
the
day
and
we'll
have
a
management
system.
B
That'll
similar
to
the
city
has
where
it'll
monitor
cars
in
and
out
and
then
based
on
some
evaluation
of
the
timing
of
the
day
and
stuff.
The
public
parking
sign
will
go
on
and
it'll
allow
people
in
to
pay
and
monitor
when
they
leave
and
then
kind
of
wean
away
from
that
towards
the
end
of
the
day
when
the
residents
are
coming
back,
so
they
have
their
parking
spaces
when
they
get
here.
B
B
They
range
all
over
I,
don't
know
if
we've
settled
on
it,
I
mean
they're
not
coming
to
market
for
two
years,
so
I
think
you
know
they're
our
their
market
rate
units
and
then
there's
the
affordable
rate
units
and
even
those
numbers
change.
It's
based
on
mean
monthly
income
or
mean
annual
income.
I'm,
not
I'm,
not
sure
the
formula
how
they
determine
it,
then
there's
a
range
of
like
from
60
to
120
percent
on
the
affordables
and
then
the
market
rate.
So
the
market
rates
which
nobody's
got
a
crystal
ball
yet,
but.
D
A
A
You
know
when
the
when
the
city
tore
down
these
six
blocks
and
urban
renewal
and
combined
all
these
streets
gave
up
these
streets
that
never
thought
it
would
be
reversing
that
that
the
thinking
at
the
time
was
that
that
was
a
good
idea,
and
you
know
it's
not
very
often
that
cities
give
up
streets,
it's
rare
to
get
them
back
once
they
do
that
he's
sitting
here.
You
get
a
sense
of
the
complexity
of
kind
of
what
had
to
be
sort
of
sorted
out
to
make
that
possible.
A
The
original
that
office
building
was
built
on
top
of
the
mall
that
was
already
there.
You
can
see
how
some
of
the
structures
still
kind
of
sticking
out,
and
it's
going
to
need
to
be
shaved
off
and
kind
of
tied
into
the
to
the
new
structures.
You
can
see
the
Macy's
building,
never
thought
that
that
was
gonna.
B
Done
I've
talked
with
a
bunch
of
people,
they're
pretty
excited
about
it.
There's
one
local
guy,
his
name's
Bob
Blanchard,
he
runs
runs
one
of
those
Facebook
sites
and
I'm
actually
working
with
him.
We're
gonna
he's,
got
tons
and
tons
of
old
photographs
of
the
whole
neighborhoods
and
we're
trying
to
conceive
some
sort
of
public
art
project
where,
as
you
walk
down,
the
street
there'll
be
pictures
of
the
old
building
that
used
to
be
right
there.