TO: CRA Board of Commissioners
FROM: Christine Tibbs, Assistant Director
THROUGH: Renée A. Jadusingh, Esq., Executive Director
DATE: January 24, 2023
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700 WEST ATLANTIC AVENUE TENANTS
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Recommended Action:
Recommendation
Approve the following:
1) Authorize CRA Staff to issue a written notice to vacate by August 31, 2023, to tenants and licensees occupying or utilizing the 700 West Atlantic Avenue property; and
2) A Second Amendment to the Emanuel Jackson Sr. Project, Inc. Revocable License Agreement (“Agreement”), dated April 1, 2022, to amend the termination date of the Agreement to August 31, 2023; and
3) Authorize the CRA’s Chair, Executive Director and legal counsel to execute any and all related documents to facilitate the above action(s).
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Background:
On November 17, 2022, the CRA Board approved and authorized CRA staff to issue a sixty (60) days written notice to vacate to tenants and licensees occupying the 700 West Atlantic Avenue Property (“Property”) after the issuance of the City of Delray Beach’s (“City”) demolition permit and approved a First Amendment to the Emanuel Jackson Sr. Project, Inc. Revocable License Agreement (“Agreement”) to extend the termination date from December 31, 2022, to terminate the Agreement sixty (60) days after the issuance of the City’s demolition permit for the Property.
Since that time, CRA staff has finalized the Interlocal Agreement with the Solid Waste Authority (“SWA”) for the 2023 SWA Blighted and Distressed Property Clean-Up and Beautification Grant. The $108,000 in Grant funds will be used to demolish the Property and adjacent parking lot and carries a December 31, 2023, deadline.
Additionally, CRA staff has begun preparing all the items that need to be submitted to the City to obtain the demolition permit. Part of the submittal requirements include an Asbestos Affidavit that has been reviewed by the Palm Beach County Health Department, a completed Florida Department of Environme...
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