I saw the blue the blue border come up.

Mayor.

I can do that enough coffee.

Good evening and welcome to North Richland Hills Sign Review Board meeting.

It is 852 PM, and I will call the August 11th, 2025 Sign Review Board meeting to order a quorum of the board is present, and the meeting has been posted in accordance with TechSoup Meetings Act of the Texas Government Code.

During the public comments, a public appearance uh card must be completed and presented to the city secretary prior to the start of the sign review board meeting.

No, sir.

Having no one signed up, we'll move on to the next item.

The

action item is approved the minutes from the May 27, 2025 sign review board meeting.

First item on the agenda is to consider the minutes from the May 27th, 2025 sign review board meeting.

Is there any questions?

And then I'll entertain a motion.

Any discussion.

I have read the minutes, so they're good to go.

I'm glad we've read the minutes, because it's important to read minutes.

Very important to read minutes.

This is a this is the property where a proposed poll sign is uh being requested this evening.

And

just a view from the driveway, the property looking a little bit back north.

So Dick Lewis is on the very back part of the property, and this is looking sorely back um kind of east uh towards the Winco Foods.

The

applicant's here this evening to present the item.

Uh we'll follow up with details about the code and recommendations following their comments.

You'll state your name and address for the record, please.

Sir

uh

Brian Goldstein, uh 6405 Pemberton Drive in Dallas.

Uh I am the president of Kingfisher Realty Partners and uh the managing member of shops at Crown Point LLC, um, who's the owners of the property.

Um I wanted to give you a very brief uh background on who we are and just how we got to this point.

Um when I say we, that's my wife and myself.

That's the full of we um we own our properties.

We have a portfolio of various types of properties, different uses.

We pretty much specialize in properties that we find that have upside value um that we come in and whether they're mismanaged, um just various reasons, but that we can we find and a lot of them are in Terrant County, um, different areas, but um we just uh that's kind of what we do.

Um as far as how we got to this property, it was brought to us, I guess the fall of last year, and when I first came out and looked at the property, I to be honest, I did not was not interested at all just because I learned early in my career that a two-story retail property has a lot of challenges.

And uh so I was like, no, uh, told the broker find something different.

Um but as I learned more about the area, I learned more about the property.

Um I very much warmed up to it, and obviously we decide ultimately to move forward.

Um the upside is very uh intriguing there to us as far as I think that there's potential um that has not been realized really, it seems like to us, and you all know better than I do, but the life of that property has had some challenges over the years.

Um the biggest challenge that it has, to be honest, is the signage.

Um I think because of how the property is set up.

Originally it was a very large property, I think you know, 30 plus acres that has two pylon signs.

It's just two pylon signs existing, uh, one on the south side facing 820, and then one on roof snow.

Um the one that on roof snow has been uh divided up over the years so that for the properties that we purchased, which includes 5142 um where Free Holys is, and then the two-story portion at 5198.

Um those both are we'd have to share both of those with these six uh the six panels that are included on that that are still that conveyed with this property.

Um the challenges are that because of the way the buildings are configured because of the two-story uh configuration of the one on the 5198, and then the perpendicular uh orientation of 5142, it makes it very difficult for businesses to thrive in those locations.

And so um I'm sure you guys have seen we put a lot of effort into trying to gentrify that property, and I think it's we've come a long way with it.

I think we're very, very optimistic about it, but I think the more that we've we've really looked into this, and the more the feedback we've gotten, I think it's really really evident that getting this pylon sign approved is gonna be critical um to the success of this property.

I'm a very optimistic person, and I'm not saying that it's you know we wouldn't be successful without it, but I think the trajectory of of the success of this, I think is gonna be much, much, much different with you know with or without this sign.

Um to give you an example, tropical smoothie who's located in the property.

I spoke to that franchisee this morning.

Uh this is a new franchisee that took over from the the original franchisee.

She told me she owns a another tropical smoothie in Terrant County that is bringing in about $20,000 a month in sales.

The one here is bringing in $8,000 a month in sales.

And so she's over the last few weeks conducted a survey of everybody coming in the door and

to

a T, everybody says we didn't even know you were here.

And that suite there has probably the best visibility of any of those in that property because of the frontage on roof snow.

So it's in order for us to fill that second floor, in order for us to have success, kind of going back into the property, going east.

I'm confident we are going to be able to fill that building and have uh a successful project.