Housing Successor Agency
MEETING DATE: 9/27/2017
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Purchase Agreement First Amendment and Performance Agreement for Downtown Mixed Use Project
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FROM:
Curt Watts, Economic Development Director
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Staff recommends the City Council, as the Housing Successor Agency, authorize the City Manager to execute a First Amendment to Purchase and Sale and Escrow Instructions Agreement between the City as the Housing Successor Agency and Cathedral Canyon Development LLC; and authorize the City Manager to execute the Performance Agreement between the City as the Housing Successor Agency, Cathedral Canyon Development LLC and the City Urban Revitalization Corporation.
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BACKGROUND:
On April 26, 2017 the Housing Successor Agency of the Former Redevelopment Agency of the City of Cathedral City ("City") approved a Purchase and Sale and Escrow Instructions Agreement ("Purchase Agreement") with Cathedral Canyon Development LLC ("CCD") for the future sale of an approximate two-acre site located at the southeast corner of East Palm Canyon Drive and West Buddy Rogers Avenue. Effective the same date, CCD entered into a separate purchase agreement with the City Urban Revitalization Corporation ("CURC") to purchase approximately three acres of vacant land adjacent to the two-acre site. The two Purchase Agreements contain terms of the property sales related to purchase price, deposits, due diligence period, conditions to close of escrow, deadlines for close of escrow and completion of project construction, brokerage commissions and various representations and warranties by the respective parties. The Purchase Agreements also each require that the parties negotiate and execute a tri-party Performance Agreement, as a pre-condition to the Close of Escrow for the combined 5-acre site, to provide among other things (a) a description of the proposed project to be developed upon the Property (subject to the City's entitlement proces...
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