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Home My WebLink AboutRequest Letter from Mr. Eric MarvinPO Box 2055 Eugene, Oregon 97402 June 6, 2021 Mayor Sean VanGordon 225 5th Street Springfield, Oregon 97477 Re: Glenwood Stadium Development Dear Mayor VanGordon: Thank you for your call on Friday afternoon. I appreciate the attention that city staff and your office have devoted to the Glenwood project. I write today to respectfully request the following from the SEDA Board: 1.Extend to the Marvin family an option to purchase a portion of the SEDA owned land for the purpose of ingress/egress (see highlighted area, Exhibit “A”). Without the ability to control the highlighted area, our capacity to develop the Marvin Property in accordance with the Glenwood Refinement Plan would be severely limited. 2.Agree to a partnership interval through the end of 2021 during which SEDA and the Marvins will work to create a coordinated development plan for the SEDA and Marvin properties. This partnership interval will ensure that the Marvins and SEDA effectively integrate development between the two tracts. As your office is aware, my family has owned for over 20 years approximately 8.5 acres of real property immediately to the east of the SEDA owned tract (the “Marvin Property”). Over the course of our ownership, we have worked with the City of Springfield (“COS”) in its attempts to develop the area in a manner consistent with the Glenwood Refinement Plan. Despite the COS best efforts, a development has not materialized. Over the last several weeks, the Eugene Emeralds organization and my family have commenced substantive discussions to construct a stadium on the Marvin Property. The facility envisioned by the Elmore Sports Group, the entity that has owned the Emeralds since 1986, would function as both the Emeralds home field and an outdoor concert venue. The prospect of working with the Elmore organization to construct a stadium that will keep the Ems in our community is an incredible honor. Further, we take the responsibility of bringing the first vibrant redevelopment to Glenwood with the utmost seriousness. We have a rare opportunity to create a vital, community-oriented project on the Willamette River; it is critical that we get this right. I have made the requests articulated above to ensure that we position ourselves to get this right. Specifically, we must guarantee that (1) traffic flow within the central development is consistent with the refinement plan and (2) SEDA has ample time to tailor its RFQ process to a unique adjacent use: a baseball stadium/concert venue. Additionally, the Emeralds' internal timeline requires that stadium construction commence within 14 months; accordingly, request two provides an additional benefit: sufficient time for the Elmore group and the Marvins to complete feasibility analyses and an agreement for stadium construction. By granting our requests, the SEDA Board will provide to the Emeralds and the Marvins the best opportunity to realize an anchor project of this scale in Glenwood. Further, through its cooperation, SEDA will demonstrate its willingness to allow a vested, private stakeholder the autonomy to complete a significant riverfront development in Glenwood; an ambition that the COS has not achieved in over 20 years. I am very grateful for your willingness to communicate our requests to the SEDA Board; I am happy to answer any questions that the Board might have. Respectfully, Eric Marvin, Member M3 Commercial Real Estate, LLC 1703344200501 LIMITED PTSP 1703344200503 LANE CO Exhibit "A" 1703344100700 KAROTKO LLC 1703344201600 ROTH & ROTH DBA 1703344201700 ROTH & ROTH 1703344201800 ROTH & ROTH 1703344201900 ROTH PAUL M 1703344201400 SHEFCHECK D 1703344201300 WEBER M J 1703344200200 ARTEMENKO 1703344200300 TRACK TOWN HOLDINGS LLC 1703344200400 TRACK TOWN HOLDINGS LLC 1703344101000 GOLDEN EMERALD LLC 1703344100900 GOLDEN EMERALD LLC 1703344101100 FPS INV LLC 1703344100100 TOO BLUE LLC 1703344201000 RAMSEY PROP LTD PTRSHP 1703344200504 RAMSEY PROP LTD 1703344101300 KAROTKO LLC 1703344101800 FPS INV LLC 1703344101500 KAROTKO LLC 1703344100200 4340 LLC 1703344102000 FPS INV LLC 1703344102100 SKILLERN INV LLC 1703344202600 OLDHAM PROPERTIES LLC 1703344202500 GREEN VALLEY ENDEAVORS LLC 1703344202400 GREEN VALLEY ENDEAVORS LLC 1703344202300 GREEN VALLEY ENDEAVORS LLC 1703344202200 GREEN VALLEY ENDEAVORS LLC 1703344202100 ROTH & ROTH DBA 1703344200900 RAMSEY PROPERTIES LTD PTRSHP 1703344201500 ROTH & ROTH LLC 1703344200800 RA IES MSEY PROPERT LTD PTRSHP TL# 0502 RAMSEY 1703344200700 RAMSEY PROPERTIES LTD PTRSHP 1703344200100 ROTH & ROTH LLC 1703344200600 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP 1703344100800 JOHN & CHRISTA BROMBAUGH REV TRUST 1703344101700 FPS INV LLC 1703344100500 KAROTKO LLC 1703344100400 KAROTKO LLC