5/12/2008
DAVID CLOUSTON

Without a curb cut on Ohio Street, proposed tenants for a 100,000-square-foot office center at the northeast corner of Cloud and Ohio streets would walk away from the project, Salina real estate broker Jeff Maes told city commissioners Monday.
The curb cut received first reading approval Monday, but not before Commissioner Abner Perney’s attempt to reject the proposal died for lack of a second.
The measure is scheduled to come back before the commission for final approval May 19.
Maes’s company, Compro Realty, Salina, is marketing and proposing to develop the office center, which would have about 600 feet of frontage on South Ohio Street between Cloud Street on the south and Claflin Avenue on the north.
Maes said plans are to have at least a portion of the project completed and tenants moving in by the end of the year. At least two tenants he did not name, a retailer and a financial institution, have committed to the project, he told commissioners.


Reporter David Clouston can be reached at 822-1403 or by e-mail at dclouston@salina.com.
For more on city commission action on Monday, read reporter David Clouston's story in Tuesday's Salina Journal.