Bob Kirchner

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  Published on: 10/11/2007    Last Visited: 10/5/2009  

  According to Anoka Community Development Director Bob Kirchner, during Stout's early years with the city he worked on specific projects - Walker Plaza, Federal Cartridge and Hoffman Enclosures.
  
  From 1994 until 1997 he led efforts to develop the Anoka Enterprise Park, which is now home to more than 70 companies employing 2,400 people.
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  This has illustrated the benefits of public-private partnerships for the entire community, said Kirchner.

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  Published on: 10/13/2009    Last Visited: 10/15/2009  

  For instance, Bob Kirchner, Anoka community development director, said Ryan Companies filed an application with the VA on the city's behalf.

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  According to Community Development Director Bob Kirchner, the project includes office space of 20,000 square feet on one or two floors with about 100 parking stalls.
  
  Kirchner said the city was approached by Ryan Companies, a Minnesota-based developer searching for potential sites to develop for a landlord/tenant relationship with the VA.
  
  The result was the identification of three sites in Anoka and a fourth in Coon Rapids that have been submitted to the VA for consideration.
  
  "This would be a taxable property with the clinic as a tenant," Kirchner explained to the Anoka City Council on Monday.
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  "Hopefully we'll hear back that we made the cut on one or two of those sites," said Kirchner about the VA's review process of the submissions.
  
  Councilmember Steve Schmidt said he couldn't imagine a better location than Anoka for the new clinic. He also voiced concern that a lot of attention has already been given to the communities of Elk River and Ramsey, also vying for the site.
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  Kirchner said Rottlund agrees with this site being offered as a potential clinic location.
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  The deadline for proposals was Sept. 15, but according to Kirchner it is not known when the VA will make a decision.
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  Kirchner also noted that West Main Shopping Center owner Heidi Brownlee also submitted a proposal to the VA to have this project located on her property on West Main Street.

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  Published on: 5/9/2008    Last Visited: 5/9/2008  

  "We definitely have a history of fires in this city," said Bob Kirchner, community development director for the city.
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  At the time they were built in the late 1800s, they met the fire code of the time, Kirchner said, but over the course of the next century they have fallen behind standards.
  
  "We have buildings now that are well below fire code and are actually at quite high risk too for fire, particularly if we don't catch it in the beginning," he said.
  
  Already the fire suppression system has paid dividends.
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  Since 1989, the city had been renovating the exteriors of the buildings as part of a commercial rehab program, Kirchner said.The fire sprinklers are just a continuation of that revitalization theme.
  
  "As a community, we've kind of bought into the idea that we have a unique historic niche here," he said.
  
  Kirchner said downtown strives to set itself apart from the big-box stores only a few miles away.
  
  "We're kind of the alter ego to that, the complement to it, and we want to play on that relationship," he said.

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  Published on: 9/19/2007    Last Visited: 10/5/2009  

  The city assessor estimates that the total taxes will increase more than $117,000 per year on the property, reported Robert Kirchner, Anoka's community development director.

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  Published on: 6/3/2005    Last Visited: 7/12/2005  

  "The Northstar project is in final design," said Community Development Director Bob Kirchner.
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  Any agreement with the NCDA, according to Kirchner, could simply be a sale/lease or sale-easement agreement for the platform area and parking areas with retained development rights to construct an urban mixed-use station area subject to NCDA performance standards.
  
  "The city's preferred design concept includes a parking ramp, pedestrian overpass, roadway underpass of the Burlington-Northern Santa Fe line and related property acquisition," Kirchner said.

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  Published on: 3/31/2002    Last Visited: 3/31/2002  

  "Now we're opening that area up and creating public access and views and changing that land use to uses that will appreciate the river -- residential, maybe recreational, commercial, restaurant, things of that nature," said Bob Kirchner, community development director for Anoka."We're getting back to the river."
  
  Anoka has tackled several projects that are bundled into a river-corridor development called "Heart of Anoka."They include a new park at the confluence of the Mississippi and the Rum, a "Heritage Trailway" along the east side of the Rum, a townhouse development called RiversPointe, building facelifts in downtown and a redevelopment of some blighted industrial land just north of downtown for new riverfront commercial buildings.
  
  Kirchner and city Planning Director Carolyn Braun have tapped city funds and private investment to pay for the projects.
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  "The next step up is the historic downtown," which dates from the 1850s, Kirchner said.He's working on a plan for grants and low-interest loans to help downtown businesses make renovations.
  
  The river runs right past downtown, but there isn't even a fancy restaurant looking out on the water.
  
  Kirchner's office in City Hall does look out on the river, and he admits that might not be the best use of the riverfront.It's somewhat surprising, then, that the first project in the redevelopment area north of downtown is another public building: adding a police headquarters to the riverside fire hall that's been there since 1977.
  
  Why use prime riverfront space for government buildings?
  
  "That's a good question," Kirchner said."There was a discussion a couple years ago about City Hall and why we couldn't relocate it and make it more of a commercial site.Right now, the concept is City Hall stays where it is and police will join the fire department and be one unit there."
  
  But if you've ever dreamed of opening a steak house with a view of rushing waters, Kirchner has some land he'd like to sell you.
  
  "There are still opportunities for restaurants just north of City Hall here, which will still be in the heart of downtown and on the river -- right at the dam, as a matter of fact," Kirchner said.
  
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  Published on: 4/1/2002    Last Visited: 4/1/2002  

  "Now we're opening that area up and creating public access and views and changing that land use to uses that will appreciate the river -- residential, maybe recreational, commercial, restaurant, things of that nature," said Bob Kirchner, community development director for Anoka."We're getting back to the river."
  
  Anoka has tackled several projects that are bundled into a river-corridor development called "Heart of Anoka."They include a new park at the confluence of the Mississippi and the Rum, a "Heritage Trailway" along the east side of the Rum, a townhouse development called RiversPointe, building facelifts in downtown and a redevelopment of some blighted industrial land just north of downtown for new riverfront commercial buildings.
  
  Kirchner and city Planning Director Carolyn Braun have tapped city funds and private investment to pay for the projects.
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  "The next step up is the historic downtown," which dates from the 1850s, Kirchner said.He's working on a plan for grants and low-interest loans to help downtown businesses make renovations.
  
  The river runs right past downtown, but there isn't even a fancy restaurant looking out on the water.
  
  Kirchner's office in City Hall does look out on the river, and he admits that might not be the best use of the riverfront.It's somewhat surprising, then, that the first project in the redevelopment area north of downtown is another public building: adding a police headquarters to the riverside fire hall that's been there since 1977.
  
  Why use prime riverfront space for government buildings?
  
  "That's a good question," Kirchner said."There was a discussion a couple years ago about City Hall and why we couldn't relocate it and make it more of a commercial site.Right now, the concept is City Hall stays where it is and police will join the fire department and be one unit there."
  
  But if you've ever dreamed of opening a steak house with a view of rushing waters, Kirchner has some land he'd like to sell you.
  
  "There are still opportunities for restaurants just north of City Hall here, which will still be in the heart of downtown and on the river -- right at the dam, as a matter of fact," Kirchner said.
  
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  Published on: 3/19/2008    Last Visited: 3/21/2008  

  It's a popular concept in larger cities, but "This is a community defining project," said Bob Kirchner, community development director for the city of Anoka.Partnering with Rottlund Homes, has resulted in nearly a 50-50 split of infrastructure and development costs for the city.Currently 18 of the 26 55-plus condos have been sold, with prices ranging from $160,000 to $300,000.

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  Published on: 11/4/2004    Last Visited: 11/6/2004  

  The buildable area of the parcel, excluding 1.61 acres for right of way, .27 acres for a trail easement and 4.07 acres for a scenic easement, adds up to 13.44 acres, bringing the net purchase price per buildable acre to $134,176, according to Anoka Community Development Director Bob Kirchner.
  
  "The price per acre is favorable compared to the appraisal obtained by the city," Kirchner said.
  
  Although the purchase price for all intent and purposes is $1.963 million, he said, the initial purchase cost will be the $1.795 million.An additional payment of up to $168,000 would be made if the resale proceeds from the parcel exceed the initial purchase price price less closing costs, Kirchner said.
  
  The city will also be responsible for paying all the costs for closing, scheduled for Nov. 30, besides not obtaining a clear title to the property without the city first obtaining title insurance and conducting a phase one environmental analysis of the site and possible soil borings.
  
  These were the contingencies the council agreed to, that if a clear title is not possible and if there are any preliminary findings of environmental contamination of the site, the sale would be off.
  
  "It's a price that makes good reasonable sense," Kirchner said, "but on the other hand, it is fair market value."
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  As part of a joint resolution for the parcel, the county has made its intent known not to use the land for any future jail or correctional facility or any licensed residential facilities, Kirchner told the council.

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